After you've signed in to your Office 365 account, register the gateway. Select Migrate, restore, or takeover an existing gateway > Next.
Select from the available clusters and gateways, and enter the recovery key for the selected gateway. You created and safely stored the recovery key when you originally installed the gateway. For more information, go to step 5 in Install an on-premises data gateway.
Important
Microsoft doesn't have access to this key and it can't be retrieved by us.
Select Configure.
After the configuration finishes, the process of migrating, restoring, or taking over is complete.
Minimize migration downtime
During migration of an on-premises data gateway, some downtime generally occurs. During this downtime, some in-progress refreshes might not succeed.
If a gateway only contains one member, you should expect the following to occur when you migrate the gateway:
Expect all ongoing refreshes using the previous machine to be unsuccessful.
Expect new refreshes starting a few minutes after migration to succeed.
The only way to ensure that there's 100% uptime during a migration:
Are you looking to move to the cloud and easily migrate to Business Central online? This module covers how you can use the built-in migration tools to migrate data to Business Central online from specific product versions.
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