Hi all, We've received a few tips from folks late last week from those who have gone through the migration process. I hope you find these helpful. Additionally, if you have any difficulties on Tuesday, we'll have tech support available in 107 who can help troubleshoot. Additionally, we received one other update as well on Friday. We are all uses of RIVA which is what syncs our calendars with SSH. As such, the note below does apply to us.
One thing I am not sure we communicated clearly about the RIVA moves is that we are moving, not copying the Inbox and OneDrive (that is what the other tool does). So once we move folks, they will not have access back to the old because it was moved.
We are migrating inboxes, OneDrives, SharePoint, and Teams. However, there are a lot of other one-off apps such as Power BI, Bookings, Planner, and Forms that are not going to migrate. If any of the advisors are using those, they will want to export the data from them (if the app allows) before they are migrated Monday night. This article provides a summary of what I just outlined. However, the access back part is not true for your group: https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=413
I do have some availability Monday if you have any last-minute questions, but we'll try to make sure everything is active and shared with you within our internal teams on Tuesday.
Thanks.
[cid:image002.png@01DBB241.EDF0A0F0] Tony Lazarowicz, Ph.D. Director of Academic Advising College of Arts and Sciences<http://cas.unl.edu/advising > University of Nebraska-Lincoln 107 Oldfather | (402) 472-4190 | tlazarowicz2@unl.edumailto:tlazarowicz2@unl.edu Academics + Experience = Opportunities Preferred pronouns: he/him/his, name
From: Sarah Smith ssmith135@nebraska.edu Sent: Friday, April 18, 2025 3:24 PM To: Tony Lazarowicz tlazarowicz2@unl.edu; Christina Fielder cfielder@unl.edu Subject: FW: Migration Notes
June mentioned you might find this handy, too.
Cheers, Sarah
Here are the things I wish I knew well before our migration date. Hopefully, it saves a bit of pain for you and yours. Feel free to share.
Things to do for migration prep
Screenshots to take
* Shared inboxes * Planner items. They do not migrate off your personal Planner boards, only ones tied to a Team. * Pinned OneDrive shortcuts * Shared calendars * Teams (to note ones you are not an owner of and might need to reach out for a re-add)
Things to do or keep in mind
* Pull your Shared File report: Directions here<https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=433 > (only does OneDrive) * OneNote in Teams will disappear. * OneNote for Windows 10 will not migrate. You will need to request temporary access<https://nusupport.nebraska.edu/TDClient/33/Portal/KB/ArticleDet.aspx?ID=501 > to your old unl.edu account to retrieve data from the notebook post-migration. THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE THREE TIMES without reaching out to ITS, so be strategic about it. * You can move the data into a Word document and download any PDFs into a folder to migrate. * Loop workspaces also will not migrate. * You are going to lose Outlook templates and Quick Actions. Save them into a Word doc or make notes of what to readd later. * Anything loaded to send from your outbox later will be wiped out. Prepare accordingly. * Have a copy of the IT spreadsheet if possible so you know what data you are a member/owner on. * You're going to lose your Teams chat. Is there anything important in there?
Post-migration
* Just use your NUID number to log into your machine on startup. * Teams and Outlook required a software update via ITS for me before I could get logged in. * Shared inboxes will now be unl.address@nebraska.edumailto:unl.address@nebraska.edu when you add them back. E.g. casdeansoffice@unl.edumailto:casdeansoffice@unl.edu turned into unl.casdeansoffice@nebraska.edumailto:unl.casdeansoffice@nebraska.edu * Zoom needs to be reconnected to your Outlook calendar. * Every file you pinned, bookmarked, or made a shortcut for is broken. * Some files don't make the migration. Give your SharePoint folders a look over to see if anything is amiss. Check saved dates - we've noticed files reverting to versions that are months old and losing hours of work. These need to be reported to ITS to coordinate with Microsoft 365 to retrieve. Or, save a copy of important things to your computer as backup. * Anyone who is on the other side of migration will not be able to Teams chat with you. * If you are a member of a Team that has not migrated, it will not be accessible unless you switch into the University of Nebraska side of Teams by clicking your initials in the top right corner and selecting the UN option below.
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Switch back by selecting the same option again.
* Check membership/ownership against the IT spreadsheet. Request missing items. * Mailman still works right now, but there is a possibility addresses will not forward in December when the migration process is complete and old data is deleted out of the system, so unl.edu emails might not work off mailman lists. We are unclear on this but prepared for the worst. * My plan is to have ITS pull spreadsheets of all my mailman list memberships then replace the UNL with NEBRASKA in excel and do a mass unsubscribe and mass subscribe to fix each list. * After the ITS folks leave, the best way to get help is to drop into the virtual Technical Assistance Room<https://its.nebraska.edu/tacroom >, available Tues. - Fri. mornings from 8-10:30am CST.
