SharePoint Migration Identity Mapping Tool: SharePoint Identity Scan

Overview

The SharePoint Identity scanner is responsible for finding users and groups that are listed as active in the SharePoint farm being scanned. The result of this scan is a set of distinct identities that have permissions in the source SharePoint environment. A distinct set of identities is captured. For example, if contoso\bobsmith is listed in permissions for multiple site collections, there will be one entry for contoso\bobsmith in the resulting output.

The tool reads each SharePoint Content Database and if the User Profile Service is available, it gathers the email and My Site information related to the identity.

This scan is required for identity mapping as the data located in SharePoint is used for the resultant identity scans.