Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps / TFS both within the same Organization, and between Organizations.
Azure DevOps Migration Tools (Preview) is a migration utility designed to facilitate the transfer of Teams, Backlogs, Work Items, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suites between projects in Azure DevOps or TFS. This tool enables seamless data migration within the same organization or across different organizations, streamlining project restructuring and consolidation.
Key Features:
Cross-Organization Migration: Transfer data between projects, collections, or even different organizations.
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 .
Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps / TFS both within the same Organization, and between Organizations.
Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps / TFS both within the same Organization, and between Organizations.
Azure DevOps Migration Tools allow you to migrate Teams, Backlogs, Tasks, Test Cases, and Plans & Suits from one Project to another in Azure DevOps / TFS both within the same Organization, and between Organizations.
Work Item Migration: Copy Work Items with history, including links and attachments, while supporting custom field mappings.
Test Plan & Suite Migration: Move Test Plans & Suites, including Configurations, Shared Steps, and Shared Parameters.
Process Template Changes: Modify process templates (e.g., from Agile to Scrum) during migration.
Bulk Work Item Editing: Clean up or modify data in place before or after migration.
Compatibility: Works with Azure DevOps Server, Team Foundation Server 2013+, and Azure DevOps Services.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for organizations needing to reorganize projects, consolidate teams, or migrate between systems. This tool ensures efficient data transfer without disrupting ongoing work, helping businesses maintain continuity while optimizing their project structure. It can be installed via winget, making setup straightforward.
These tools run on Windows and support connecting to Team Foundation Server 2013+, Azure DevOps Server, & Azure DevOps Services. They support both hosted and on-premise instances and can move data between any two.
Supports all versions of TFS 2013+ and all versions of Azure DevOps.
You can migrate from any TFS/Azure DevOps source to any TFS/Azure DevOps target.
What do you get?
Move Work Items, Test Plans & Suits, and Pipelines between projects, collections, and even organizations.
Merge multiple projects into a single project even from different organizations.
Split one project into several projects even between projects, collections, and even organizations.
Change Process process from Agile to Scrum or any other template.
Bulk edit Work Items.
What does this tool do?
For the most part we support moving data between ((Azure DevOps Server | Team Foundation Server | Azure DevOps Services) <=> (Azure DevOps Server | Team Foundation Server | Azure DevOps Services)) for any version greater than 2013.
Work Items (including links and attachments) with custom mappings for fields and types
Copy Work Items between locations with history
Bulk Edit in place of Work Items (Great for cleaning up data, process template changes)
Optionaly includes Teams, Shared Queries
Test Plans & Suites
Copy Test Plans & Suites between locations
Includes Configurations, Shared Steps, Shared Parameters
Pipelines
Copy Pipelines between locations
excludes XAML & Classic Builds & Release
Processes
Copy Processes between locations
Note: 'Locations' includes Projects, Collections, Organizations
Important: This tool is intended for experienced users familiar with TFS/Azure DevOps object models and debugging in Visual Studio. It was developed by 100+ contributors from the Azure DevOps community to handle various scenarios and edge cases. Not all cases are supported.
These metrics come directly from Custo Metrics in Application Insights and are updated every 10 minutes. They are experimental and may not be accurate.
Metric
Category
Type
All (last 30 days)
Notes
WorkItemMetrics
WorkItems
Count
This counts the number of work items processed
Ave
The average amount of time a work item takes to process
Revisions
Count
The total number of revisions processed
Ave
The average number of revisions per work item
This tool uses OpenTelemetery to collect metrics and logs, and Application Insights to store and analyse them. Exceptions are also sent to Elmah.io for analysis and improvement.
Advanced tools
There are additional advanced tooling available on Azure DevOps Automation Tools. These are a collection of Powershell scripts that can be used to;
Generate Migration Tools configurations across many projects on many organisations
Export Stats on many projects on many organisations
Publish Custom fields across many projects on many organisations
Output the fields and other data for many projects on many organisations
These tools are designed to help you manage migration of Work Items at scale.
Support
Question & Discussion - The first place to look for usage, configuration, and general help.
Issues on GitHub - If you have identified a bug and have logs then please raise an issue.
Professional Support
You can get free support from the community above and on social media on a best effort basis if folks are available. If you are looking for paid supportnaked Agility with Martin Hinshelwood & Co has a number of experts, many of whom contribute to this project, that can help. Find out how we can help you with your migration and book a free consultation to discuss how we can make things easier.
We use these tools with our customers, and for fun, to do real world migrations on a daily basis and we can:
Consult with your internal folks who need help and guidance in running the tooling.
Make changes to the tool to support your needs; all additions are committed to the main repo.
Run the migration for you:- you would need to pay for the hours that we would spend baby-sitting the running migrations
