Thursday, July 9, 2015

Update: Office 365 migrations and the 'Delete‎()‎ is not supported on a read-only session' error

If you're performing a Staged or Cutover migration to Exchange Online you may run into the following error:

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Error: MigrationPermanentException: An error occurred while running Get-MergeRequest -Identity : Delete‎()‎ is not supported on a read-only session. --> Delete‎()‎ is not supported on a read-only session.

Many customers reported this issue in the last couple of days. Moderators in the Office 365 Support Forums confirmed that Microsoft is aware of the issue in their backend and is still investigating. Unfortunately the Service Health dashboard does not make mention of this issue.

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If you run into this issue you could try to stop and delete the migration batch, delete the created Office 365 users and restart the process. Some people reported their migration to succeed now. Others are still seeing the same issue in their migration batch.

To make sure that Microsoft has a good understanding of the scale of the issue, please open a Service Request if you're impacted too. And keep an eye on the discussion thread in the support forums to see if there's any progress made in resolving this issue.

Update July 14th 2015

Microsoft confirmed they implemented a fix in their environment, but it may take some time before it applies to all tenants. To find your tenant version, connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell first. Then query the version number:

Get-OrganizationConfig | ft AdminDisplayVersion

The fix has been implemented in version 15.1.234, so if your tenant is on that version or newer you can restart the migration batch and expect it to no longer fail. If your tenant is still on an older version I'm afraid you just have to wait a little more.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey,

Count us in too, we are getting the exact same error:

An error occurred while running Get-MergeRequest -Identity : Delete() is not supported on a read-only session. --> Delete() is not supported on a read-only session.

We are running a Staged Migration with Exchange 2007 SP3

Our Tenant version is quite old.
0.20 (15.1.154.19)

Has there been any progress??

There appears to be an upgrade but not visible to all clients. EX25749

There is another thread with alot of useful information regarding this problem also:
https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/156/p/357618/977659#977659

Anonymous said...

When talking to Microsoft Support team, they'll able to upgrade our version to 15.1.225 and now it doesn't connect to our exchange 2010.

Today looks like they downgraded our version to 15.1.219 (not sure why but we'll give it a tried and update later sometime today).

Mee said...

no go; Microsoft is aware of the issue and they're working on a fix for it.