M365 Roadmap items for Tenant to Tenant migrations
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Sep 17, 2022 6:29 AM

M365 Roadmap items for Tenant to Tenant migrations

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Microsoft offers more and more functions in the standard. So it may not always be expensive extra tools for smaller projects. We have collected the most important links.

Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations

There are several architecture approaches for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other scenarios that might lead you to migrate an existing Microsoft 365 tenant to a new tenant.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft-365-tenant-to-tenant-migrations?view=o365-worldwide

Download the PDF

https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/a/1/ba19dfe7-96e2-4983-8783-4dcff9cebe7b/microsoft-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration.pdf

Cross-Tenant Identity Mapping (preview)

Cross-Tenant Identity Mapping is a feature that can be used during migrations from one Microsoft 365 organization to another (commonly referred to as a cross-tenant migration).
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-identity-mapping?view=o365-worldwide

Microsoft 365 inter-tenant collaboration

Suppose that two organizations, Fabrikam and Contoso, each have a Microsoft 365 for business tenant and they want to work together on several projects; some of which run for a limited time and some of which are ongoing.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft-365-inter-tenant-collaboration?view=o365-worldwide

Microsoft Releasing Cross-Tenant Domain Sharing Preview for Exchange Online

If you are asked to configure shared email domains cross-tenant to support a merger, acquisition, or divestiture, then you might be aware that Microsoft has historically only allowed a domain to be added to one tenant at a time, requiring you to consider a third-party email rewrite service to provide domain sharing.

https://practical365.com/microsoft-releasing-cross-tenant-domain-sharing-preview-for-exchange-online/

How to migrate mailboxes from one Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization to another

This article explains how to migrate mailboxes and service settings from one Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization to another Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization in a business-merger scenario.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/migrate-mailboxes-across-tenants?source=recommendations

Cross-tenant mailbox migration (preview)

Commonly, during mergers or divestitures, you need the ability to move your users' Exchange Online mailboxes into a new tenant.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/cross-tenant-mailbox-migration?source=recommendations&view=o365-worldwide

Tenant to tenant migration Intune

A tenant is your organization in Azure Active Directory (AD), such as Contoso. It includes a dedicated Azure AD service instance that Contoso receives when it gets a Microsoft cloud service, such as Microsoft Intune or Microsoft 365.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/mem/intune/fundamentals