When using either the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) or running a Migration Manager agent, follow these guidelines to help improve your migration performance.

Performance guidance for Migration Manager and SPMT See the FAQ and Troubleshooting section below for additional information. Opening a support ticket will not lift throttle. Throttling rules cannot be disabled or suspended. Throttling is in place to protect the reliability and availability of the service. However, during evening and weekend hours for the region, the service will be ready to process a significantly higher volume of requests from background apps.Ĭan Microsoft turn off the throttle to help me with migration? No. You should expect that these apps will achieve very limited throughput during these times. In support of this objective, we have implemented tighter throttling limits on background apps (migration, DLP and backup solutions) during weekday daytime hours.

During these unprecedented times, we are taking steps to ensure that SharePoint and OneDrive services remain highly available and reliable for your users who depend on the service more than ever in remote work scenarios.

These include content migration, data loss prevention (DLP), and backup solutions. Many Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft OneDrive customers run business-critical applications against the service that run in the background.

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