Migration to cloud with third party identity provider that will change after migration

[David Meadow]

We are using an external AD for authentication with local Jira groups. When we migrate we will switch to a different AD. In addition we will be changing the email address for all our users as our domain is changing. I'm thinking I migrate users and groups separately, change the email addresses, then connect to the new AD with Atlassian Access and deal with the groups/roles etc. Fortunately this is a very small instance with less than 50 users so manual work isn't a huge burden. 

Thoughts? 

[Heather Ronnebeck]

Hi @David Meadow 

Based on what you're describing I would personally do the AD migration work done first, then do your Jira migration. The reason I say that is because then you can validate that your AD migration was done successfully with your server environment being intact still. 

Also, from experience AD migrations are a lot harder to do than a Jira migration is. And Jira migrations are quite hard enough as is. 

That's my two cents. I hope this helps.

[David Meadow]

Thank you for the advice. However, we are not migrating the AD. We are no longer using one owned by a different company. It's complicated, but we are using their AD at the moment and will be using ours when we move to cloud.