Copy structure and content - Group membership

Copying a Group will recreate the group in your destination environment or merge it, but it will not copy the group membership unless you use Mappings.  

Note: Groups do not maintain the source site permissions when copied. 

Index

• Prerequisites
• How-to

Prerequisites

• You have site collection admin permissions on your source and destination site collections.

Note: Site collection admin permissions are required even if you have higher admin privileges like SharePoint admin or global admin permissions. For more information click Microsoft administrative permissions.

How-to

1. Select Copy from the menu.
2. Select Copy structure and content.
3. Add your source credentials. 
4. Click Connect.
5. Select your source. 
6. Click Next.
7. Add your destination credentials.
8. Click Connect.
9. Select your destination. 
10. Click Next.
11. Select Groups  from the list of Site objects. 
12. Click Mappings on the top-right.
13. Select the Users and Groups tab.
14. Select the source group, and map it to the destination group. 
15. Select the group(s) you want to copy from the source.
16. Click Options on the top-right if you want to apply specific parameters. 
17. Click Start copy on the bottom-right corner. 

Once the action is completed, the migration report will show any successes, warnings, or errors. See Migration report for more details.

When you verify your destination group, the group members from the source group should be merged.