Provide users with seamless device migration on their timeline
A great way to accelerate endpoint modernization is to migrate hybrid Active Directory devices to Entra ID. While the process no longer requires a complete device reset, it still involves many complexities: maintaining productivity during coexistence, minimizing migration errors and ensuring the result is seamless to users. Moreover, there’s the issue of timing: What happens when the IT team’s device migration schedule doesn’t work for business users?
Self-service scheduling, anyone?
If the IT team migrates a user’s device at an inopportune time, such as when a business deadline is looming or a strategic project is in flight, the migration could send the business into a tailspin. That’s exactly the kind of recognition the IT team wants to avoid.
Quest On Demand Migration offers a better approach. Its Self-Service Scheduling product removes the timing variable from the device migration equation. Each user controls the timing of their own device migration — minimizing business disruption while freeing IT teams from manual orchestration.
What do IT pros think of this innovation?
"Quest On Demand Migration Self-Service makes the migration process easier to manage — whether it's enabling end users to opt into migrations, guiding required actions, or identifying user-to-PC relationships," says Erick Purkins, Technical Lead at CDW. "The dashboard provides insights that are hard to get from other tools, helping coordinate migrations where users have multiple devices. Initially, I wasn’t sure how it would fit into M&A migrations, but it has proven to offer greater flexibility, allowing users to choose when to migrate while giving administrators better visibility into the process." (Source: https://uevi.co/8047SOME & https://uevi.co/1696WHSO).
Quest On Demand Migration has migrated over 100 petabytes of data since 2010. In 2024 alone, it migrated 5.4 million users, 3.2 million groups and 260,000 devices. To learn more, visit https://www.quest.com/solutions/migration-and-modernization/.