Introduction

Milestone Migration Assistant Tool facilitates the migration from these XProtect Professional VMS products:

• XProtect Enterprise
• XProtect Professional
• XProtect Express
• XProtect Essential

to these XProtect VMS products:

• XProtect Corporate
• XProtect Expert
• XProtect Professional+
• XProtect Express+

Only migration from XProtect Professional VMS products version 7.0 or later are supported.

After installing your new XProtect VMS system, the Migration Assistant Tool helps you migrate the XProtect Professional VMS system configuration to the XProtect VMS system.

The XProtect Professional VMS system remains untouched, and recording is not interrupted while using the Migration Assistant Tool.

This guide takes you through:

• What to consider: Information about migration of the system configuration, reuse of devices, computer hardware, integrations and more
• Pre-migration steps: Important points to consider before you start the migration
• Migration steps: Step-by-step process for migration using Milestone Migration Assistant Tool
• Post-migration steps: How to verify the migration
• Removal of the XProtect Professional VMS system: Instructions on how to remove the XProtect Professional VMS system when archives have expired

New features available in the XProtect VMS system requires additional configuration to fully take advantage of the migration to XProtect VMS products.