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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Patrick J. Simek, Redmond, WA (US);
Prashant Gaurav, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kalyan K. Kona, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ilker Celikyilmaz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for directly transferring tenant data hosted on a source domain to a target domain, wherein the source and target domains are associated with different server farms. Additionally, where the source domain is managed by a source management layer and the target domain is managed by target management layer, which source and target management layers are not in a trust relationship. Aspects describe establishing a secure, direct communication bus between the source and target management layers in order to accomplish a plurality of steps involved in transferring the tenant, wherein tenant data transferred thereon is encrypted. In example aspects, the direct communication bus terminates upon completion of the tenant data transfer.