Migrate from Dynamics GP

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Overview

This section walks through moving Dynamics GP data into Business Central online. It follows the order of the migration: an overview of the process and migrated data, preparation and planning, setting up cloud migration, replicating data, upgrading data, and completing the migration.

Start with the Overview to understand the phases, which GP data moves, and how everyday GP work maps to Business Central. Then use Prepare to check prerequisites for the destination environment, the source system and the self-hosted integration runtime, and to plan scope and approach. Set up cloud migration covers the connection and pipeline, running the setup, GP company migration settings, and retaining user permissions.

Replicate data explains how to run and manage replication from the Cloud Migration Management page and how to validate migrated data. The two pages in this section cover the later steps. Data upgrade transforms GP tables into Business Central tables, and you review migration errors in the operations log. Completing the migration means validating data, disabling cloud migration, and setting up user accounts and permission sets in Business Central online.

Key points

• Source is on-premises Dynamics GP and the target is Business Central online.
• Prepare covers prerequisites for the destination, the source system and the self-hosted integration runtime.
• Planning covers migration strategy, the migration assessment tool, data scope, and an approach with backup, replication and upgrade steps.
• Setup involves the connection and pipeline, running the setup, GP company migration settings, and retaining user permissions.
• Replication is run and managed from the Cloud Migration Management page, followed by validation of migrated data.
• Data upgrade transforms Dynamics GP tables into Business Central tables; errors can be checked in the operations log.
• Completion means checking validation status, disabling cloud migration, and setting up user accounts and permission sets.

Subtopics

• Overview (4 pages)
• Prepare (2 pages)
• Set up cloud migration (4 pages)
• Replicate data (3 pages)

More Learn pages

• Complete cloud migration for Dynamics GP: This article describes the task you do to complete the data migration from Dynamics GP to online.
• Upgrade data for Dynamics GP cloud migration: This article explains the process for running the data upgrade as part of Dynamics GP cloud migration.

Videos and posts

Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item’s summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated.

• GP Assessment Tool - Optimize Your Migration to Dynamics 365 Business Central (2024) (video): “gp assessment; migration planning; cloud migration; gp to business central”
• Dynamics GP Cloud Migration - Moving to Business Central (video): “Dynamics GP Cloud Migration - Moving to Business Central. Topics: gp migration; cloud migration; data migration”

Business Central pages and reports

The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.

• Page 4003 “Intelligent Cloud Management” · captioned “Cloud Migration Management” · on Table 4001 “Hybrid Replication Summary” · via Overview

Learn also names 1 object with no object page: page/2502.

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