Tenant-to-tenant migrations

Tenant-to-tenant migrations that make mergers agile

Merge, restructure, move or ‘split and peel’ your SharePoint and Teams environments with a simple drag and drop. Now supporting Google Drive and Exchange Online migrations.

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Solutions for all tenant-to-tenant migration use cases

Mergers and acquisitions

Leave nothing behind. Customize permissions, clean redundant content, move mailboxes, and merge Microsoft Teams into their new environment.

Centralize administration

Are you consolidating geographic data stores? Merging business divisions from near or far? We help keep the ship running while you finetune your shipmate’s digital workspace.

Reorganize and restructure

Make your same tenant or tenant-to-tenant migration process easy. Split and peel, or split tenants how you want, when, and where you want it.

Streamline your mergers

Business as usual tenant-to-tenant migrations

Keep your organization running smoothly while your IT admin team makes the big moves. No matter the business reason, ShareGate helps ensure no data or permission is left behind while providing flexibility to configure your new tenant.

Merge tenants after a merge and acquisition
Move one tenant to another to centralize your data and information management
Split or demerge tenants for divestitures and re-organizations
Consolidate tenants and assets to reduce costs
Lift and shift after building out a dev environment or testing of your new information architecture

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Smooth moves to Microsoft 365

Inventory your SharePoint environment

Start with our source analysis report. Get an inventory of your source environment, count your sites and collections at a high level. Dig into the details for permissions, usage, customizations, and more before any kind of data migration.

Customize your merged environment

Map permissions, mailboxes, users, or properties, flatten the folder hierarchy, replace illegal characters, and check-in all documents. You're in control of the migration process at a granular or bulk scale.

Migrate while people work

Let your users continue working in the old environment as you complete the migration. Monitor your old tenant with our incremental copy feature. Migrate only what's changed since your last migration event.

Maintain data integrity

Give it a test run and fix any errors before you make the move. Then move your content intact including customer permissions and metadata, workflows, authors and timestamps, web parts, and more.

Get out of Google the ShareGate way

Migrate with confidence from Google Drive – My Drives and shared drives – to OneDrive for Business or SharePoint. Make an impact for your organization with turnkey training to accelerate new user productivity in Microsoft 365.

Leave no team, channel, or chat behind

Keep the whole team talking as you migrate Microsoft Teams along with your SharePoint environment. Choose to move channels, content only, or entire teams in just a few clicks.

My organization grows through acquisitions and, because of that, ShareGate is one of the most important tools in our tool belt. I especially appreciate that the licensing model is very cost effective.

— Jason Vincent

IT Operations Specialist, Altus Group Limited

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Tenant-to-tenant migrations

How to efficiently plan and execute migrations for mergers, acquisitions or a reorganization.

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The Microsoft 365 migration tool built for IT admins

Tour ShareGate’s tenant-to-tenant migration features and learn how you can:

Prepare your source for a snag-free migration and fix potential issues ahead of time, before you move from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another, or multiple tenants.
Move data with minimal disruption on your end users and maximum ROI impact for the organization.
From a variety of sources, move from SharePoint, Google Workspace, Exchange Online, or Microsoft Teams.
Customize content at a granular level or in bulk to suit the new target tenant.

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Tenant-to-tenant migration FAQ

How long does it take to complete a tenant-to-tenant migration?

The amount of time required to complete a tenant-to-tenant migration depends on the source and target as well as the scope of your migration. Throttling can be an issue with tenant-to-tenant migrations and ShareGate has mechanisms in place to avoid being throttled by Microsoft 365. We have tips to help expedite your migration in our curated guide How to Optimize Your Migration Speed When Using ShareGate. And follow these practical best practices in your migration process: migrate during off hours (ShareGate will help you schedule that out!) and make sure your bandwidth is at its strongest during a tenant-to-tenant migration.

How can I automate my tenant-to-tenant migration?

Have you considered using a third-party tool to assist in your migration? A third-party tool like ShareGate’s migration tool can help automate the migration process, save you time and manpower, and help to make sure your move is a successful one.

ShareGate makes it easy to migrate with a simple tool presented with an intuitive UI and drag and drop functionality, by centralizing your reporting to avoid hopping around various admin centers, adding flexibility not available in Microsoft’s SPMT tool, and so many more options that eliminate the need for creating time consuming PowerShell scripts and get the customized results you need.

How can I ensure a seamless tenant-to-tenant migration?

To ensure a seamless tenant to tenant migration, we recommend that you do the following pre-migration steps (and after that on a regular basis):

Manage clutter and archive unnecessary content in Teams
Make sure every team/group has at least one owner
Review external access and sharing links on a regular basis

A tidy environment makes it easier for users to find what they’re looking for, fast. It will also make your life a lot easier when you’re trying to decide which resources to bring with you in the migration. And, by staying on top of group ownership and external sharing links, you’re already one step ahead when it comes to ensuring data security at your destination.

Will our end-users be able to keep on working during the migration process?

Yes! We know that most migrations don’t happen in one big push overnight. You need to let your users keep working in whatever tenant they are accustomed to while you plan and migrate content in batches. Sound like an administration conundrum? Not with ShareGate.

Thanks to incremental migrations in ShareGate, you’ll be able to copy only what’s changed since your initial SharePoint migration. So if users continue to work on documents while you migrate the content around them, ShareGate continues to monitor your source tenant so you can schedule later migrations and bring over changes made since your last migration – including updates made to documents.

Read more: Pro tips to manage your end users during a team migration.

What challenges might organizations face during a tenant-to-tenant migration process?

Tenant-to-tenant migration poses several challenges, a notable one being OneDrive tenant to tenant data migration. This can include potential data loss, maintaining the integrity of the data during transfer, and ensuring file permissions and sharing settings are correctly replicated in the new tenant. Luckily ShareGate gives you business-as-usual tenant to tenant migrations, allowing you visibility from the start of your migration process to the end, and beyond.