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This article shows you how to create a project. A project is used to store discovery, business case, assessment, and migration metadata collected from the environment you're assessing or migrating. Within a project, you can track discovered assets, create business cases, conduct assessments, and orchestrate migrations to Azure.

A project is used to store discovery, assessment, and migration metadata collected from the environment you're assessing or migrating. In a project, you can track discovered assets, create assessments, and orchestrate migrations to Azure.

Verify permissions

Ensure you have the correct permissions to create a project using the following steps:

  1. In the Azure portal, open the relevant subscription, and select Access control (IAM).
  2. In Check access, find the relevant account, and select it and view permissions. You should have Azure Migrate Owner or a role with higher permissions. Learn more.

Note

Starting November 2025, only users assigned the Azure Migrate Owner or a higher privileged role will be able to create Azure Migrate projects. Users without these role assignments will no longer have the required permissions to create new projects.

Set up a new project in an Azure subscription.

  1. In the Azure portal, search for Azure Migrate.

  2. In Services, select Azure Migrate.

  3. In Get started, select Discover, assess and migrate.

    Screenshot shows how to create project.

  4. In Servers, databases and web apps, select Create project. Screenshot of button to start creating a project.

  5. In Create project, select the Azure subscription and resource group. Create a resource group if you don't have one.

  6. In Project Details, specify the project name and the geography in which you want to create the project.

    • The region is only used to store the metadata gathered from on-premises servers. You can assess or migrate servers for any target region regardless of the selected region.
    • Review supported regions for public and government clouds.

    Note

    Use the Advanced configuration section to create an Azure Migrate project with private endpoint connectivity. Learn more.

  7. Select Create.

    Image of Azure Migrate page to create project.

Wait for a few minutes for the project to deploy.

Set up a new project in an Azure subscription.

  1. In the Azure portal, search for Azure Migrate.

  2. In Services, select Azure Migrate.

  3. In Get started, select Discover, assess and migrate.

    Screenshot displays the options in Overview.

  4. In Servers, databases and web apps, select Create project.

    Screenshot of button to start creating a project.

  5. In Create project, select the Azure subscription and resource group. Create a resource group if you don't have one.

  6. In Project Details, specify the project name and the geography in which you want to create the project.

    • The geography is only used to store the metadata gathered from on-premises servers. You can assess or migrate servers for any target region regardless of the selected geography.
    • Review supported geographies for public and government clouds.

    Note

    Use the Advanced configuration section to create an Azure Migrate project with private endpoint connectivity. Learn more.

  7. Select Create.

    Image of Azure Migrate page to input project settings.

Wait for a few minutes for the project to deploy.

Create a project in a specific region

In the portal, you can select the geography in which you want to create the project. If you want to create the project within a specific Azure region, use the following API command to create the project.

PUT /subscriptions/<subid>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.Migrate/MigrateProjects/<mymigrateprojectname>?api-version=2018-09-01-preview "{location: 'centralus', properties: {}}"

After you have created the project, perform the following steps to try out the new agentless dependency analysis enhancements:

Ensure that you have installed Az CLI to execute the required commands by following the steps provided in the documentation here.

After you install the Az CLI (in PowerShell), open PowerShell on your system as an Administrator and execute the following commands:

  1. Log in to the Azure tenant and set the Subscription.
    • az login --tenant <TENANT_ID>
    • az account set --subscription <SUBSCRIPTION_ID>
  2. Register the Dependency Map private preview feature on the Subscription.
    • az feature registration create --name PrivatePreview --namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap
  3. Ensure that the feature is in registered state. 
  • az feature registration show --name PrivatePreview --provider-namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap - Output contains - "state": "Registered"
  1. Register the new Dependency Map resource provider. 
    • az provider register --namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap
  2. Ensure that the provider is in registered state.
    • az provider show -n Microsoft.DependencyMap
    • Output contains - "registrationState": "Registered"

Create additional projects

If you already have a project and you want to create an additional project, do the following:

  1. In the Azure public portal or Azure Government, search for Azure Migrate.

  2. On the Azure Migrate dashboard, select All Projects on the upper left.

  3. Select a Create Project.

    Screenshot shows how to create a project by selecting the create project button.

  1. In the Azure public portal or Azure Government, search for Azure Migrate.
  2. On the Azure Migrate dashboard, select Servers, databases and web apps > Create project on the upper left Screenshot that contains information on how to create a project.
  3. To create a new project, select Click here.

Next steps

Add assessment or migration tools to projects.

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