Sitecore 10.4 XM on-premise instance to XM Cloud Content migration tool test-drive
As I had setup a local Sitecore 10.4.0 instance, I wanted to try the Content migration tool available for quite sometime (probably from 10.1). This is a simplistic tool that uses Sitecore Content Serialization, released as part of 10.0 version, as the core concept. Note that the tool must run in the machine that hosts the on-premise Sitecore instance. Content Migration tool process overview : My goal was to setup a few content folders/items in my local instance and push it to the XM Cloud environment. So, without much ado - Two options available in the content migration tool . 1. GUI-based option: Unzip the downloaded zip file and launch the XMMigrationGUI.exe Welcome screen: Note that the tool is expected to migrate not only content but also users as well as domains. The tip beneath the fields are self-explanatory and source points to my local instance: Destination XM Cloud instance: Content tree from source is loaded: Note that the GUI could become unresponsive if you try to load a
