Are you running your AD migrations through MigrationWiz with an engineer who’s only certified on the M365 workload?

I hold both BitTitan certifications: MigrationWiz for Microsoft 365 and MigrationWiz for Active Directory. They’re separate credentials because the migration mechanics are genuinely different. User mapping, object types, password synchronization, and coexistence configuration don’t carry over from mailbox migration knowledge.

The practical difference in how migrations run: in a mailbox migration the source and target object are matched on email address. In an AD migration the match is on sAMAccountName or SID, and if your naming convention changed between domains, you need a custom mapping table or every object migrates to the wrong target account.

In one past project, I also migrated over 9,000 AD objects using custom PowerShell scripts outside of MigrationWiz; specifically for bulk group membership operations. MigrationWiz handles the object-level migration.

PowerShell handles the group membership restructuring after objects land.

What’s your approach for validating AD object matching before you run the full migration batch?

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