Basic Work Item Migration with the Azure DevOps Migration Tools

The Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to bulk edit and migrate data between Team Projects on both Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Azure DevOps Services. Take a look at the documentation to find out how. This project is published as code on GitHub as well as a Winget package a nkdAgility.AzureDevOpsMigrationTools.

*What can you do with this tool?*
- Migrate Work Items, TestPlans & Suits, Teams, Shared Queries, Pipelines, & Processes from one Team Project to another
- Migrate Work Items, TestPlans & Suits, Teams, Shared Queries, Pipelines, & Processes from one Organization to another
- Bulk edit of Work Items across an entire Project.

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[ashwinganesan]

Hi Martin, this is an awesome tool! this is what I need for testing but I have a question can we use service principle or prompt as authentication mode for target devops project collection?

[iurifarenzena]

21:27 is the migration tool supposed to automatically create the areas and iterations at the target if they don't exist, or do you need to manually create all of them before running the migration?
Thanks for sharing this video!

[karthik]

Amazing tool, and the video is very helpful. I have a question: should users be created manually, or will they be created automatically? Alternatively, can I run the migration without users and add them later?

[nasertahiri-pu]

Hi,
I am getting the following error, any help would be appreciated.
[13:17:21 INF] [15.2.1] Validating::Check all Target Work Items have the RefectedWorkItemId field
[13:17:21 WRN] [15.2.1] ValidatingRequiredField: User Story does not contain Custom.ReflectedWorkItemID
[13:17:21 WRN] [15.2.1] ValidatingRequiredField: Test Case does not contain Custom.ReflectedWorkItemID
[13:17:21 WRN] [15.2.1] ValidatingRequiredField: Feature does not contain Custom.ReflectedWorkItemID
[13:17:21 WRN] [15.2.1] ValidatingRequiredField: Epic does not contain Custom.ReflectedWorkItemID
[13:17:21 WRN] [15.2.1] ValidatingRequiredField: Bug does not contain Custom.ReflectedWorkItemID
[13:17:21 ERR] [15.2.1] Not all work items in scope contain a valid ReflectedWorkItemId Field!
Not all work items in scope contain a valid ReflectedWorkItemId Field!

[DineshKumar-rvfl]

Thank you so much for the video! But I have a question, Is it possible to migrate project work items from one organization to a project in another organization? For example, my vendor has AzDo DevOps, and the requirements are in their project, which belongs to a different organization. My project, where we are handling testing by creating a test plan, is in our organization. I want to transfer all existing and future requirements from the vendor's project to ours. Can this tool facilitate that?

[mocanada]

I have ab agile process project.
I am unable to add the field ReflectedWorkItemFieldName, can I still perform the migration?
Is there a limitation for the free version, that one cannot add fields? Before doing the migration I am testing it using a free azure devops tier.
Thank you!

[CésarVillalobos-fg]

I have a problem with this tool. I need migrate only specific Feature and all childs, but I don't know how. Its possible? In azure devops Server 2022 between 2 collections

[clrsdte]

Hey, this looks like a fab tool. I’ve attempted to give a run in a test environment but when I attempted to run the migration, I’m blocked by ‘version’ error stating “The config version 0.0 does not match the current app version 14.3”. There isn’t a version number in your demonstration (it looks like the files have been updated since the recording). Any advise on how to over come this issue?

[maheshchorage]

What specific configuration setting should we add if we need to migrate all items from the source project to one specific area path in the target project? I am planning to migrate work items from multiple projects into a single project, and I want to have a dedicated area for each project in the target project.

[chandrakanthreddy]

I am seeing this error when i run it " Unable to configure store: Check persmissions and credentials for Prompt!"

[reggiegupta]

Can I migrate repos and CI/CD pipelines via this tool? I've more than one in each of them.

[JasonWilson-xqfp]

Will the migration work without ReflectedWorkItemId? ADO won't let me add a custom field to the default processes

[WLife-re]

Does this method migrate the discussion comments?