How to Perform a Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) Site Migration

 

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 – (0:00)
• Reviewing Microsoft Doc on Migrating data between hierarchies in ConfigMgr – (0:39)
• Lab Overview – (1:22)
• Reviewing the requirements, concepts, and prerequisites for the ConfigMgr Site Migration – (2:09)
  
• Reviewing the objects we plan to migrate from the source site – (5:35)
• What objects can you migrate? – (7:37)
• Configuring the source hierarchy on the destination site – (8:30
• Going over the migmctrl.log – (10:48)
• Configuring the Infrastructure Administrator role on the source site – (11:28)
• Attempting another data gathering on the destination site – (13:12)
• Revisiting the migmctrl.log – (13:29)
• Configuring the Source Site Database Account – (14:01)
• One more attempt at gathering data – (16:47)
• Successful data gather – (17:15)
• Creating a Migration Job – (17:30)
• Reviewing migmctrl.log to view permission errors – (21:12)
• Taking a look at the built-in Infrastructure Administrator security role – (21:42)
• Options for how to fix the permission errors – (22:20)
• Restarting the Migration Job – (23:22)
• Creating another Migration Job – (24:33)
• Deploying application to see what it looks like to also migrate deployments to the destination site – (25:22)
• Running another Data Gather to re-evaluate the source site – (26:15)
• Creating another Migration Job – (27:02)
• Looking at the migmctrl.log after creating the Migration Job – (29:55)
• Reviewing the Object Migration Progress – (30:33)
• Digging into the objects that failed – (31:11)
• Starting the Migration Job again – (35:13)
• Digging into the remaining failed Object – (36:50)
• Let’s talk about the content source location – (39:15)
• Overview of the ConfigMgr Content Source Update Tool – (40:02)
• Wrap-up – (41:41)

Helpful Resources:

• Migrate data – Configuration Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Migration job planning – Configuration Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Migration prerequisites – Configuration Manager | Microsoft Docs
• ConfigMgr Content Source Update Tool 1.0.0 – MSEndpointMgr