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Overview
In this video, we will be covering how to migrate from one ConfigMgr site to another. Specifically, we will look at migrating a ConfigMgr 2103 Site to another 2103 Site. This process is similar if you were migrating from a different version of ConfigMgr (Source Site) to the ConfigMgr Current Branch (Destination Site). All the same concepts would apply to those situations.
Topics in Video
- Introduction β (0:00)
- Reviewing Microsoft Doc on Migrating data between hierarchies in ConfigMgr β (0:39)
- Lab Overview β (1:22)
- Reviewing the requirements, concepts, and prerequisites for the ConfigMgr Site Migration β (2:09)
- Reviewing the objects we plan to migrate from the source site β (5:35)
- What objects can you migrate? β (7:37)
- Configuring the source hierarchy on the destination site β (8:30
- Going over the migmctrl.log β (10:48)
- Configuring the Infrastructure Administrator role on the source site β (11:28)
- Attempting another data gathering on the destination site β (13:12)
- Revisiting the migmctrl.log β (13:29)
- Configuring the Source Site Database Account β (14:01)
- One more attempt at gathering data β (16:47)
- Successful data gather β (17:15)
- Creating a Migration Job β (17:30)
- Reviewing migmctrl.log to view permission errors β (21:12)
- Taking a look at the built-in Infrastructure Administrator security role β (21:42)
- Options for how to fix the permission errors β (22:20)
- Restarting the Migration Job β (23:22)
- Creating another Migration Job β (24:33)
- Deploying application to see what it looks like to also migrate deployments to the destination site β (25:22)
- Running another Data Gather to re-evaluate the source site β (26:15)
- Creating another Migration Job β (27:02)
- Looking at the migmctrl.log after creating the Migration Job β (29:55)
- Reviewing the Object Migration Progress β (30:33)
- Digging into the objects that failed β (31:11)
- Starting the Migration Job again β (35:13)
- Digging into the remaining failed Object β (36:50)
- Letβs talk about the content source location β (39:15)
- Overview of the ConfigMgr Content Source Update Tool β (40:02)
- Wrap-up β (41:41)
Hi Justin, thanks for this, very helpful. I have a couple of questions.
What happens to distributions?
If we migrate Distribution Servers do application and update distributions get migrated?
If we choose to have new DPs for the new site do we have to distribute everything after migration?
Is a backup & restore the best option for PatchMyPC?
Thanks
Hey Phil,
Thanks for reaching out. Would you be migrating the site server, or are you just looking to distribution points?