GENERAL AVAILABILITY TODAY

Taking advantage of cloud services doesn’t have to be difficult or a long-phased migration project.  Today we're excited to announce General Availability of the SharePoint Migration Tool, a simple, and fast migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites and file shares to SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365.

GENERAL AVAILABILITY TODAY

Taking advantage of cloud services doesn’t have to be difficult or a long-phased migration project.  Today we're excited to announce General Availability of the SharePoint Migration Tool, a simple, and fast migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites and file shares to SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365.

Based on the learning and experience from Microsoft FastTrack, the SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft  was designed to help you bring your information to the cloud and take advantage of the latest collaboration, intelligence, and security solutions with Office 365.

With a few simple clicks in the intuitive user interface, you can quickly and easily migrate files from file shares, SharePoint sites, or support bulk migrations.

Whether you’re looking to migrate from file shares on-premises to SharePoint or OneDrive or from on-premises versions of SharePoint, the SharePoint Migration Tool supports the smallest of migrations to large scale migrations with support for bulk scenarios.

SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool Updates

In parallel to releasing the SharePoint Migration Tool, we’re also making it easier to ensure your migration is successful by helping you remediate common migration issues before they occur through improvements to the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool.  Improvements in the latest release include:

A Unified Download Package

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• SMAT.exe will determine the version of SharePoint on which it’s installed and run the appropriate tool based on the parameters passed to it. Works on both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.
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New and Updates Assessment Scans

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• New Assessment Scans
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• Custom Permission Levels. Enumerates and reports on all locations that a custom permission level has been created.
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• External Lists – Enumerates and reports on all external lists (BCS connected) in the environment.
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• Changes to existing assessment scans
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• Default filter added to site language to exclude 1033.
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• Default filter added to Customized Pages to exclude anything under _catalogs.
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• Retry logic added to calls to remote resources such as SQL Server. This will help the scans succeed in environments with suspect connectivity. -r switch  added to command line to enable an operator to specify the number of retries. Default is 3.
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Improved Identity Mapping Support

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• Ability to generate a full identity report that provides a comprehensive view of the users and groups that have access to the SharePoint environment and if they were able to be mapped to Azure Active Directory identities.
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• Ability to generate an identity mapping file that can be consumed by SPMT or other tool that can use the SMAT identity mapping format.
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• New identity mapping scans configured in the same scandef.json file as the assessment scans.
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• SharePoint Identity Scanner - Discovers all the users and groups that have access to SharePoint.
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• Active Directory Identity Scanner - If the identities found in SharePoint are Windows accounts, lookup Active Directory information for the users and groups. This data is useful to track down identities that did not have a mapping in Azure Active Directory.
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• Azure Active Directory Identity Scanner - Look up users and groups found in SharePoint in the Azure Active Directory tenant the user logged into. Determine if there is an Exact Match, Partial Match, or No Match.
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• ExactMatch – Windows SID in SharePoint matches the OnPremisesSecurityIdentifier in Azure AD.
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• PartialMatch – Claim value in SharePoint matches UPN or email. Display Name in SharePoint matches Display Name in Azure AD.
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• NoMatch – Unable to find an exact/partial match.
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While the SharePoint Migration Tool and SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool provide support for many migration scenarios, we recognize your needs may differ in scope and complexity.  For more complex migrations, support with adoption and usage, or help planning Microsoft FastTrack includes resources, tools, and experts to make your rollout of Office 365 a success.

To learn more about Microsoft FastTrack visit https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office.  In addition, consider one of Microsoft’s many partners that can help ensure your migration to Office 365 is both seamless and successful.

Getting Started

To get started and download the new SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft visit https://aka.ms/spmt.

To get started and download the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool visit https://aka.ms/smat.

GENERAL AVAILABILITY TODAY

Taking advantage of cloud services doesn’t have to be difficult or a long-phased migration project.  Today we're excited to announce General Availability of the SharePoint Migration Tool, a simple, and fast migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites and file shares to SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365.

Based on the learning and experience from Microsoft FastTrack, the SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft  was designed to help you bring your information to the cloud and take advantage of the latest collaboration, intelligence, and security solutions with Office 365.

With a few simple clicks in the intuitive user interface, you can quickly and easily migrate files from file shares, SharePoint sites, or support bulk migrations.

Whether you’re looking to migrate from file shares on-premises to SharePoint or OneDrive or from on-premises versions of SharePoint, the SharePoint Migration Tool supports the smallest of migrations to large scale migrations with support for bulk scenarios.

SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool Updates

In parallel to releasing the SharePoint Migration Tool, we’re also making it easier to ensure your migration is successful by helping you remediate common migration issues before they occur through improvements to the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool.  Improvements in the latest release include:

A Unified Download Package

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• SMAT.exe will determine the version of SharePoint on which it’s installed and run the appropriate tool based on the parameters passed to it. Works on both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.
\n

New and Updates Assessment Scans

\n
• New Assessment Scans
\n
\n
• Custom Permission Levels. Enumerates and reports on all locations that a custom permission level has been created.
\n
• External Lists – Enumerates and reports on all external lists (BCS connected) in the environment.
\n
\n

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• Changes to existing assessment scans
\n
\n
• Default filter added to site language to exclude 1033.
\n
• Default filter added to Customized Pages to exclude anything under _catalogs.
\n
• Retry logic added to calls to remote resources such as SQL Server. This will help the scans succeed in environments with suspect connectivity. -r switch  added to command line to enable an operator to specify the number of retries. Default is 3.
\n
\n

Improved Identity Mapping Support

\n
• Ability to generate a full identity report that provides a comprehensive view of the users and groups that have access to the SharePoint environment and if they were able to be mapped to Azure Active Directory identities.
\n
• Ability to generate an identity mapping file that can be consumed by SPMT or other tool that can use the SMAT identity mapping format.
\n
• New identity mapping scans configured in the same scandef.json file as the assessment scans.
\n
\n
• SharePoint Identity Scanner - Discovers all the users and groups that have access to SharePoint.
\n
• Active Directory Identity Scanner - If the identities found in SharePoint are Windows accounts, lookup Active Directory information for the users and groups. This data is useful to track down identities that did not have a mapping in Azure Active Directory.
\n
• Azure Active Directory Identity Scanner - Look up users and groups found in SharePoint in the Azure Active Directory tenant the user logged into. Determine if there is an Exact Match, Partial Match, or No Match.
\n
\n
• ExactMatch – Windows SID in SharePoint matches the OnPremisesSecurityIdentifier in Azure AD.
\n
• PartialMatch – Claim value in SharePoint matches UPN or email. Display Name in SharePoint matches Display Name in Azure AD.
\n
• NoMatch – Unable to find an exact/partial match.
\n
\n
\n

While the SharePoint Migration Tool and SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool provide support for many migration scenarios, we recognize your needs may differ in scope and complexity.  For more complex migrations, support with adoption and usage, or help planning Microsoft FastTrack includes resources, tools, and experts to make your rollout of Office 365 a success.

To learn more about Microsoft FastTrack visit https://fasttrack.microsoft.com/office.  In addition, consider one of Microsoft’s many partners that can help ensure your migration to Office 365 is both seamless and successful.

Getting Started

To get started and download the new SharePoint Migration Tool from Microsoft visit https://aka.ms/spmt.

To get started and download the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool visit https://aka.ms/smat.

GENERAL AVAILABILITY TODAY

Taking advantage of cloud services doesn’t have to be difficult or a long-phased migration project.  Today we're excited to announce General Availability of the SharePoint Migration Tool, a simple, and fast migration solution to help you migrate content from on-premises SharePoint sites and file shares to SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365.

Does SMAT work on scanning SP2016 and SP2019?

Thanks!

Wanted to post this as we had quite an issue with trying to get the SMAT tool on our many TB farm to complete but once we figured it out it ran without issue.  We were getting logon issues but permissions were not the issue.  Turns out, we had a deleted content DB that was still referenced in the DB.  Once we removed the reference using the below cmds our world was back in order.   

\"Failed to run SQL query\"

\"Cannot open database\"

 

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Get-SPDatabase| Where{$_.Exists -eq$false} | ForEach{$_.Delete()}

 

gadgets  can you send me a private message so we can investigate the issue you have with incremental.  only the modified files should get uploaded  ( the tool will still scan all the files but shouldnt upload)   

For the mention about your path problem we are aware that one of the limitation of the tool is to be able to select a sub folder in the UX not just in the CSV option. there is also a uservoice tracking this and we are actively tracking this one.  https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/282887-sharepoint-hybrid-and-migration/suggestions/36503032-support-targetlistrelativepath-in-sharepoint-migra

Simon Bourdages  So the full URL for our teamsite is https://gadgetscomputers.sharepoint.com/sites/Main/Shared%20Documents/General

So if I put in https://gadgetscomputers.sharepoint.com/sites/Main then it shows the Documents folder and will upload directly to that however then the files don't actually show up in the \"files\" tab for the \"Main\" team. However they do show up in the \"Files\" tab on the left hand side. However I can put \"General\" as a sub-folder in a CSV and it uploads to the correct location.

For the incremental, I can confirm that it does NOT do incremental by default as I have run the migration multiple times in a row and each time, it re-uploads the same files and overwrites them. I saw a video on someone using the tool and there was a checkbox for \"Incremental Migration\" in the options but I don't see that option when doing my migration. 

Ideally, I should be able to put our full sharepoint site in there (without /sites/teamName etc...) and it should bring up every team i'm a member of and then allow me to select with library to upload to and sub-folders if they exist, or at least the first sub-folder (general) since this is where the actual files are for that team. 

gadgets  sorry to hear that the tool cant find you team site. can you confirm its an sharepoint online team site that you are admin of? how did you format the url?

For the incremental question you will be happy to hear that the tool actually always perform and incremental migration so all you have to do is point the tool to the source and destination and the tool will only migrate the difference.  you can read more at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/how-to-use-the-sharepoint-migration-tool 

So i'm doing a migration from a on-premise file server to a specific teams site and am using a CSV file to do this, since the regular way won't find my actual team site. Anyway, the option to do an incremental check doesn't seem to be in the tool. Is the incremental check only available when migration FROM sharepoint on-premise and not a standard windows file share? The situation I'm in is that we've partially migrated files using mapped drives and OneDrive sync but both options are not very reliable and have a host of other problems we're running into however we have about 80% migration done so I don't want to migrate everything over again. 

Fokalyva , SP2016 support is on the backlog but no committed date yet. Please add your vote to the UserVoice suggestion at https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/282887-sharepoint-hybrid-and-migration/suggestions/34940332-migrate-sharepoint-2016-to-o365 

Are there any further updates regarding SP 2016 support?

jvinterberg 

Thanks for updating you have created a ticket via email. Sales team confirmed that the process you went through were correct.

Are you a premier customer? if so, then you can use this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/premier. This has a pre-requisite of the user having an Access ID. Access ID enables you to create support cases linked to the customer’s premier contract. For some technologies there are financial implications to creating Premier Cases on Premier Contract.

Helen Huai do get the \"New Service request\" but when i enter \"Sharepoint Migration Tool (SPMT)\" in the need help window that opens on the right, it show me a solution, and the option to open a New service request via phone or mail.
Note: I have opened a request via email.