crossTenantMigrationJob: validate

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Validate the configuration of a crossTenantMigrationJob. This function doesn't migrate any content, but goes through validation for the specified workloads to find any errors or misconfigurations that would affect an actual migration job.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	❌	❌	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permission	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

Important

Extra permissions are required to call this API. The signed-in user or application must be assigned the Global Administrator privileged Microsoft Entra role.

HTTP request

POST /solutions/migrations/crossTenantMigrationJobs/validate

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of the parameters.

The following table lists the parameters that are required when you call this action.

Parameter	Type	Description
displayName	String	Name of the crossTenantMigrationJob to validate
completeAfterDateTime	String	When the CrossTenantMigrationJob
sourceTenantId	String	Source tenant for the CrossTenantMigrationJob
exchangeSettings	exchangeOnlineCrossTenantMigrationSettings	Exchange migration settings for the CrossTenantMigrationJob
workloads	String collection	Workloads to validate for the CrossTenantMigrationJob
resourceType	String	Type of resource in the CrossTenantMigrationJob.
resources	String collection	Identifiers of the users in the CrossTenantMigrationJob to validate

Response

If successful, this action returns a 201 Created response code and a crossTenantMigrationJob in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/solutions/migrations/crossTenantMigrationJobs/validate
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Contoso_migration_validation_job",
  "completeAfterDateTime": "2025-05-22T17:14:52Z",
  "sourceTenantId": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
  "exchangeSettings": {
    "targetDeliveryDomain": "fabrikam.com",
    "sourceEndpoint": "EXOHandler"
  },
  "resources": [
    "b5b8bc4f-0e36-4ad3-8ddf-248b68260b89",
    "ac87d040-a081-426c-a73b-81133f458a29"
  ],
  "workloads": [ "Teams" ],
  "resourceType": "Users"
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#microsoft.graph.crossTenantMigrationJob",
  "id": "0d1d9dbb-7676-4731-a601-5e8406fd7bcf",
  "displayName": "Contoso_migration_validation_job",
  "status": "validateSubmitted",
  "jobType": "validate",
  "message": "Validation job has been submitted successfully",
  "completeAfterDateTime": "2025-05-22T17:14:52Z",
  "sourceTenantId": "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012",
  "targetTenantId": "87654321-4321-4321-4321-210987654321",
  "resourceType": "users",
  "resources": [],
  "workloads": [
    "teams"
  ],
  "createdBy": "admin@fabrikam.onmicrosoft.com",
  "createdDateTime": "2025-11-07T00:19:21.4810014Z",
  "lastUpdatedDateTime": "2025-11-07T00:19:21Z",
  "exchangeSettings": {
    "targetDeliveryDomain": "fabrikam.com",
    "sourceEndpoint": "EXOHandler"
  }
}