Profile Migration Tool for Microsoft 365 Business Subscribers
Published Sep 10 2018 10:26 AM 39.3K Views
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We earlier outlined how you can configure the Windows device to be managed by Microsoft 365 Business and access on premises resources by using the Azure AD Joined Device Configuration.

 

One of the aspects to keep in mind while deploying the Azure AD Joined Device Configuration is that When a device Azure AD Joins, it creates a new profile and doesn’t reference any existing profile. In order to help customers deploy Windows Devices with this configuration, Microsoft has partnered with Laplink to provide free access (for a limited time) to the PCmover Profile Migrator (PPM) Tool for Microsoft 365 Business subscribers. The PPM Tool automatically transfers applications, settings, and files between any user profiles on the same PC. To download the tool, please visit aka.ms/profilemig

 

PPM helps set up PCs with Microsoft 365 Business where User profile apps, data, and settings are quickly and easily transferred from the old Local Active Directory (Local AD) users to the new Azure Active Directory (AAD) users.

 

Please note that free access to the Laplink PPM Tool is available until Nov 15th, 2018.  After you use the PPM Tool, please let us know how it worked for you – your feedback is important.

 

Key features of PPM:

  • Supports transfers between any two users on a PC.
  • Ideal to use when migrating data from an old user profile associated with a former domain to a new user profile on a new domain.
  • Free to Microsoft 365 Business users where devices are joined to Azure Active Directory.

For more information on the PPM tool, including videos, tutorials and steps to download, please visit aka.ms/profilemig

17 Comments
Iron Contributor
Will this also work for Microsoft 365 Education users?

Showing my age here...but Small Business Server used the moveuser command to do the same (https://ss64.com/nt/moveuser.html ).  Why not have this ability to move the profile as part of the normal onboarding process when an existing workstation is set up?  The need for this won't end in November.

Microsoft

Hi @Ryan Morash The free access to the Laplink Tool till Nov 15th is for Microsoft 365 Business Subscribers, the tool actually does a license check for Microsoft 365 Business License for it to work. You can definitely contact Laplink directly though and work with them for solution to Microsoft 365 Edu

Iron Contributor
Apparently your site is broken when using Edge (WTF, seriously?). I tried to "like" Susan Bradley's post, but I can't. Fix your site.
Copper Contributor

It would be really helpful if there was a documented protocol for moving profiles from on-prem profiles (either domain or local) to the MS Cloud environment.  Is this documented anywhere?  I'm not wanting to recreate the wheel if it's not needed.  It's unfortunate that a third party software is needed to move a user profile in-between two Microsoft environments.  I have tried Forensit Domain Migration tool, but was unsuccessful.  Thanks for any help!

Brass Contributor

If anyone has a solid way of doing this, I'll definitely make a tool for it.

 

It's crazy MS hasn't made USMT do profile migrations to Azure from the beginning. 

Copper Contributor

I see we can no longer use ppm for free to migrate 365 business profiles.  What is microsoft,s replacement solution?

Copper Contributor

It has been a few weeks - please respond

Brass Contributor

I agree completely that profile migrations to AzureAD ought to be a feature delivered by Microsoft.

But Microsoft has, long ago, decided not to update USMT (User State Migration Tool) so it can detect AzureAD user SID's.

 

I have now received numerous requests (hundreds) to try to make my USMTGUI tool do migrations to AzureAD, so I now have.
As USMT still doesn't support AzureAD, I have therefore built an ©AzureMigrationEngine and implemented it in USMTGUI.

 

You can migrate any profile on the same PC (Workgroup, Domain orAzureAD profile) directly to the new AzureAD profile including all settings.
You can also backup a Win 7, 8 8.1 or Win10 profile from any PC and restore it directly to the new AzureAD profile.

https://ehlertech.com/azure/

 

USMTGUI 10.21.1903 azure.png

Copper Contributor

Friends, please review the following item, please VOTE on this topic so that we can get Microsoft Graph team attention to implement this feature.

https://microsoftgraph.uservoice.com/forums/920506-microsoft-graph-feature-requests/suggestions/3859...

Copper Contributor

Hi all, just a note that PPM is now free until Dec 31, 2020: https://ppm.laplink.com/

 

Copper Contributor

What is Microsoft,s replacement solution for windows 10 Profile Migrator Tool for Microsoft 365 Business subscribers?

Copper Contributor

I'm planning on doing the same thing migrating users from On-prem domain to Azure AD as Azure Joined. Is this https://ppm.laplink.com/ still available to use for that scenario? Is this the best tool still today for this project? Is this only for users with Business Premium Licenses?

 

Thanks! 

Copper Contributor

Yep! It's available for free until Dec 31, 2020. I'm pretty sure it is available for all licences.

 

It worked great for our team, and from my perspective, it's the best tool available.

Brass Contributor

It is not really correct that PCmover Profile Migrator (PPM) Tool is free.
It is "free" for Microsoft 365 Business subscribers but as a Microsoft 365 Business subscriber pays $20 per user per month, it is hardly free.

 - $240,000.00 for a company with 1000 users.. I don't know many businesses having that amount of money lying around.

 

Basically MS just throws your first months payment after Laplink.

 

Also the methology Laplink uses, just re-registering the profile to the AAD user, does not handle the many gigabytes of redundant temp and cache files stored inside a possibly many years old profile. Also account settings, mail, file shares etc., changing when transitioning to AAD isn't handled.

 

 

Copper Contributor

@Thomas_Ehler Are you saying the that basically Microsoft and lap link have a partnership which gives some of our money to them? 

 

Also there are account settings, mail, file shares and other things that don't or possibly wont get transferred over when using this tool? 

Copper Contributor

@Fab_Rod 

 

I found it very frustrating that Laplink being free only is true when you migrate a user on the same PC to Azure and ONLY if you're a Microsoft 365 Business subscriber.

We now use USMTGUI from EhlerTech moving to Azure.

As we are not Microsoft 365 Business subscribers and we replace the PC's when moving to Azure, Laplink would suddenly be a +$30.000 cost over the next year and not something I can get approved.

I find this horrendous! USMTGUI from EhlerTech is $300 for a corporate license. https://ehlertech.com/usmtgui/

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