SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool

The SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) is a simple command line executable that will scan the contents of your SharePoint farm to help identify the impact of migrating your server to SharePoint Online with Office 365. It also includes the SharePoint Migration Identity Management Tool, that performs identity mapping by scanning SharePoint, Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory. As the tool is designed to run without impacting your environment, you may observe the tool requires one to two days to complete a scan of your environment. During this time, the tool will report progress in the console window. After the scan is complete, you can find output files in the Logs directory. This is where you will find the summary and more detailed insights into the scenarios that could be impacted by migration. To improve the quality of Microsoft products and services, the tool will report anonymous statistical information back to Microsoft. Optionally, you can identify your organization when prompted at the end of the scan. If the tool is not able to connect to the internet to report this information, the tool will still function as otherwise expected.

Supported Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2012

SharePoint 2010 or 2013 or 2016

The tool must run as the Farm service account. A farm administrator account is acceptable as long as the account has been given read access to all web applications. The account also needs explicit Full Control permissions on both Operations | Administrators and Sharing | Permissions on the User Profile Service Application. There are a series of checks to ensure the account has enough permissions prior to scanning the environment. From a command line at the location of the File named SMAT.exe. Run smat.exe from the extracted files location. To see all the available parameters, run: smat.exe -help. SMAT.exe is a launcher program that determines your intentions based on the parameters passed in and then loading the appropriate application to do the work requested. Under the covers, there are 3 executables that are responsible for doing the work: Executable Description SMAT2010.exe Performs assessment on SharePoint 2010 environments. SMAT2013.exe Performs assessment on SharePoint 2013 environments. SMIT.exe Performs identity mapping work for both SharePoint 2010 and 2013 environments.