Overview
Migrating across different Azure DevOps organizations (formerly VSTS) requires careful planning to avoid disruptions. Whether consolidating teams or restructuring projects, managing cross-organization migrations between ADO tenants needs to be seamless to ensure no loss of data or productivity.
OpsHub Migrator for Microsoft Azure DevOps (OM4ADO)co-built with Microsoft provides a zero-downtime, high-fidelity, and non-disruptive migration solution for transferring data across Azure DevOps or Azure DevOps Services organizations or tenants.
With OM4ADO, migrate projects, work items, code, build definitions, test data, and more-while preserving relationships, links, and security settings. It supports custom templates, field mappings, and process configurations, and ensures that migration across Azure DevOps organizations happens smoothly without requiring an empty target organization.
Learn more on how OM4ADO facilitates ADO to ADO migration.
Popular Use Cases
Mergers & acquisitions: During a merger or an acquisition, organizations consolidate multiple Azure DevOps environments into one. This ensures a smooth transition of projects, work items, and source code, while keeping both systems in sync during the entire process.
Team restructuring: When restructuring teams or business units, organizations often need to move projects across different Azure DevOps organizations to better align with the new structure, ensuring consistency and preserving data integrity throughout the migration.
Geographical/regional expansion: To comply with regional data sovereignty or to improve performance, data may need to be migrated across Azure DevOps organizations in different geographic locations. This ensures regulatory compliance and optimizes centralized access to data.
Splitting or merging organizations: Enterprises sometimes need to either split a large Azure DevOps organization into smaller, more manageable ones or merge multiple organizations into a single entity. This enables better scalability and organization, while ensuring data fidelity across migration.
See migration across ADO environments via OM4ADO in action.
Migrate Between Azure DevOps Organizations
With OM4ADO, enterprises can migrate between Azure DevOps organizations or tenants seamlessly. Here's how it works:
Support for data migration across active Azure DevOps environments: Seamlessly move data into Azure DevOps environments already in use, without needing to reset or empty the target organization. Full support for custom templates, field mappings, and process configurations ensure smooth migration.
Quick migration setup: Configure and manage the migration in minutes, not months, with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. This setup is suitable for both technical and non-technical users, enabling centralized management of the migration process.
Zero downtime and no disruption: Keep your teams productive while migrating. OM4ADO ensures that both ADO instances remain in sync until the final cutover. There are no system interruptions, and business continuity is maintained throughout the migration.
Comprehensive data migration: Migrate a wide range of data, including images, attachments, test artifacts, TFVC, iterations, source code, work items, pipelines, dashboards, history, and more. Maintain comments, attachments, hierarchies, links, relationships, etc., with high data fidelity.
Modern DevOps workflows adoption: Restructure, merge, split, or transform projects and workflows to fit modern DevOps practices using OMM’s transformation capabilities, rather than relying on a basic lift-and-shift approach.
Guaranteed migration success: Every work item and update reaches the target Azure DevOps organization as expected. The OM4ADO tool is designed with built-in mechanisms to handle downtime, failures, and conflicts, ensuring reliable migration.
Incremental migration: With OM4ADO, allows teams can to migrate in phases, ensuring continuous access to the source system during the migration process. There’s no cold downtime, so teams can keep working without disruption.
Maintain compliance and control: OM4ADO’s reverse sync ensures that updates are not only sent to the target Azure DevOps organization but also synchronizes changes back to the source ADO organization. This ensures that reports, audits, and compliance checks in the source remain accurate and up-to-date until the migration is fully complete.
Data protection at every step: Enterprise-grade security safeguards all data during migration. With encryption and role-based access controls, your code, work items, and project data remain secure throughout the entire process.
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