From b219b91a8dd2c83ce19c8225c4a29a61c09872c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brad Harton Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 08:51:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update about-admin-roles.md Migration admin role now allows file share migrations as well. --- microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.md b/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.md index 426f4eb747c..0a3ed89ea96 100644 --- a/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.md +++ b/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles.md @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ You'll probably only need to assign the following roles in your organization. By |License admin | Assign the License admin role to users who need to assign and remove licenses from users and edit their usage location.

License admins also can:
• Reprocess license assignments for group-based licensing
• Assign product licenses to groups for group-based licensing | |Message center privacy reader | Assign the Message center privacy reader role to users who need to read privacy and security messages and updates in the Microsoft 365 Message center. Message center privacy readers may get email notifications related to data privacy, depending on their preferences, and they can unsubscribe using Message center preferences. Only global administrators and Message center privacy readers can read data privacy messages. This role has no permission to view, create, or manage service requests.

Message center privacy readers can also:
• Monitor all notifications in the Message Center, including data privacy messages
• View groups, domains, and subscriptions | |Message center reader | Assign the Message center reader role to users who need to do the following:
• Monitor message center notifications
• Get weekly email digests of message center posts and updates
• Share message center posts
• Have read-only access to Microsoft Entra services, such as users and groups| -|Migration admin | Assign the Microsoft 365 Migration Administrator role to users who need to do the following tasks:
• Use Migration Manager in the Microsoft 365 admin center to manage content migration to Microsoft 365, including Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint sites, from various sources such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box.
• Select migration sources, create migration inventories (such as Google Drive user lists), schedule and execute migrations, and download reports.
• Create new SharePoint sites if the destination sites don't already exist, create SharePoint lists under the SharePoint admin sites, and create and update items in SharePoint lists.
• Manage migration project settings and migration lifecycle for tasks as well as manage permission mappings from source to destination.

**Note:** With this role, you can only migrate from Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and Egnyte. This role doesn't allow you to migrate from file share sources from the SharePoint admin center. Use the SharePoint admin to migrate from file share sources.| +|Migration admin | Assign the Microsoft 365 Migration Administrator role to users who need to do the following tasks:
• Use Migration Manager in the Microsoft 365 admin center to manage content migration to Microsoft 365, including Teams, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint sites, from various sources such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box.
• Select migration sources, create migration inventories (such as Google Drive user lists), schedule and execute migrations, and download reports.
• Create new SharePoint sites if the destination sites don't already exist, create SharePoint lists under the SharePoint admin sites, and create and update items in SharePoint lists.
• Manage migration project settings and migration lifecycle for tasks as well as manage permission mappings from source to destination.

**Note:** With this role, you can migrate from file share, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and Egnyte.| |Office Apps admin | Assign the Office Apps admin role to users who need to do the following:
• Use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 to create and manage cloud-based policies.
• Create and manage service requests
• Manage the What's New content that users see in their apps in Microsoft 365
• Monitor service health
• Manage Office Scripts settings | |Organizational Message Writer | Assign the Organizational Message Writer role to users who need to write, publish, manage, and review the organizational messages for end-users through Microsoft product surfaces. | |Organizational Messages Approver | Assign the Organizational Messages Approver role to users who need to review, approve, or reject new organizational messages for delivery in the Microsoft 365 admin center before they are sent to users through Microsoft product surfaces. |