ShareGate snapshot - May 2026

In May, we shipped six updates across Protect and Migrate. Protect now automates across more scenarios and gives partners more control from day one. Migrate lays the groundwork for cleaner identity transitions and more resilient local data. Less manual work. Better security. Here's what's new.

ShareGate Protect updates

Automated policies: Streamline workspace management

Managing inactive sites and orphaned groups by hand is nobody's idea of a good time. Protect's automated policies now cover Archive and Delete actions for SharePoint sites, Groups, and OneDrives. You can set them directly from any workspace or OneDrive Insight or manage everything centrally from the new Policies page. All active automations live in one place, visible and easy to adjust. Your environment stays clean. You stay out of the weeds.

Partner workspaces: Reduce setup delays

If you're a partner, you've probably had to wait on customers to set up their ShareGate accounts before getting started. Now, that friction is gone. Partners can now create workspaces directly from ShareGate Home and invite clients as workspace admins, which means faster time-to-value.

Protect assessments become a repeatable, scalable service. And the engagement stays in your hands from the start.

SSO integration: Strengthen security

Managing ShareGate access separately from your identity provider can create blind spots like orphaned access, deprovisioning gaps, or security risks you'd rather not explain in a meeting. Our new SSO integration connects directly to your identity provider (including Entra ID) for a single deprovisioning point.

This is available across all Protect subscriptions and Migrate Enterprise subscriptions. It checks the box for enterprise security requirements, which makes procurement a lot smoother.

ShareGate Migrate updates

Entra ID migration preview updates: The foundation for seamless transitions is more complete

Identity is the first step of any migration. Moving mailboxes and content confidently requires having the full picture first. And now you do. This month's Entra ID preview update adds five capabilities that together make large-scale identity migrations more manageable:

• Manual Identity Mapping. Choose, correct, or override how users match between tenants. This is critical for enterprise accounts, M&A deals, and divestitures where automatic matching falls short.
• Unified Identity Planning View. One place to see and manage every identity before migration starts. The control center that makes everything else possible.

• License Assignment. Destination licenses get assigned as part of the migration itself, so users arrive ready for mailbox migration instead of stuck waiting on it.
• Persistent Identity Mapping. Save the plan and re-run it in waves without starting over. That's the difference between a real project and a manual nightmare.
• Custom Domain Mapping. Define how domains translate between source and destination, unblocking the multi-domain customers whose migrations were stalling at exactly that step.

A lot more in scope. A lot less guesswork.

Flexible encryption: Keep local migration data recoverable

ShareGate's local migration data has always been tied to the machine and user it was created on. That works fine until you're rebuilding a VM, switching machines, or troubleshooting with support.

Flexible Encryption fixes that. The new model decouples local data protection from the machine, so your data stays recoverable across upgrades, infrastructure changes, and environment rebuilds. At launch, you get two options: the existing Windows-based encryption or DPAPI (default, nothing changes if you don't touch it) and a new certificate-based option for environments that need consistency across machines and sessions.

Switch providers by going to Settings → Security → Encryption Provider. Existing data upgrades in the background while the app stays usable. So you can run it now, schedule it for later, or skip it. A local backup is kept either way.

This also stabilizes incremental copy workflows—especially Teams incremental migrationso—that depend on locally persisted session history.

Fewer escalations, fewer surprises. Available across all tiers with no packaging or licensing changes. It's rolling out gradually, and should be available to every by June 5, 2026.

That's May.

More automation, stronger security, and a better foundation for what's coming. Check out the public product roadmap to see what's next.

Until next month, we hope your tenants are secure and your migrations are seamless!

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