By Jim Ruder · May 21, 2026
COO, LeadThem Consulting
LTC spent some time this week looking at how MSPs talk about M365 migration tools online. ShareGate and BitTitan dominate the conversation. Quest On Demand Migration barely shows up.
That is not a product problem. MSPs who have used Quest ODM call it the most complete M365 migration toolset on the market. The end-user experience across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Entra ID moves together in one coordinated job, with less disruption than anything else in the category.
It is an access problem. Quest sells enterprise-direct. There is no free trial floating around r/sysadmin, no MSP partner motion pulling smaller shops in. The tool stays invisible to the people asking "what should I use for this migration?" at 11pm on a Tuesday.
That is the gap LTC's Micros program is built to close.
A Micro is a short, training-led engagement that gets your team trained on Quest ODM and Migrator Pro for AD, with consulting hours bundled in for your first live project. Your engineers learn the toolset on a real migration, with LTC architects available when something gets complicated, and it always does.
MSPs defaulting to the familiar two tools are not making a wrong choice. They are making the only choice they have seen work. The question worth sitting with is whether that default is still the right fit when the workload involves coordinated identity, mailbox, and content moves across tenants.
More on the training side here: https://leadthemconsulting.com/training/courses/on-demand-migration
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