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title: Create project
description: Describes how to create project
author: ankitsurkar06
ms.author: v-uhabiba
ms.service: azure-migrate
ms.topic: how-to
ms.date: 04/11/2025
# Customer intent: As a cloud migration specialist, I want to create a new project in Azure Migrate, so that I can store and manage discovery, assessment, and migration metadata for efficient cloud transition.
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# Create project
::: moniker range="migrate"
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.
::: moniker-end
::: moniker range="migrate-classic"
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.
::: moniker-end
## 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 selectβ―**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](prepare-azure-accounts.md).
> [!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.
::: moniker range="migrate"
Set up a new project in an Azure subscription.
1. In the Azure portal, search for *Azure Migrate*.
1. In **Services**, select **Azure Migrate**.
1. In **Get started**, select **Discover, assess and migrate**.
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1. In Servers, databases and web apps, select **Create project**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot of button to start creating a project." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-expanded.png":::
1. In **Create project**, select the Azure subscription and resource group. Create a resource group if you don't have one.
1. 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](supported-geographies.md#public-cloud) and [government clouds](supported-geographies.md#azure-government).
> [!Note]
> Use the **Advanced** configuration section to create an Azure Migrate project with private endpoint connectivity. [Learn more](discover-and-assess-using-private-endpoints.md#create-a-project-with-private-endpoint-connectivity).
6. Select **Create**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-subscription.png" alt-text="Image of Azure Migrate page to create project." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-subscription.png":::
Wait for a few minutes for the project to deploy.
::: moniker-end
::: moniker range="migrate-classic"
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**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/assess-migrate-servers-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot displays the options in Overview." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/assess-migrate-servers-expanded.png":::
4. In **Servers, databases and web apps**, select **Create project**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-inline.png" alt-text="Screenshot of button to start creating a project." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/create-project-expanded.png":::
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](migrate-support-matrix.md#public-cloud) and [government clouds](migrate-support-matrix.md#azure-government).
> [!Note]
> Use the **Advanced** configuration section to create an Azure Migrate project with private endpoint connectivity. [Learn more](discover-and-assess-using-private-endpoints.md#create-a-project-with-private-endpoint-connectivity).
7. Select **Create**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/project-details.png" alt-text="Image of Azure Migrate page to input project settings.":::
Wait for a few minutes for the project to deploy.
::: moniker-end
## 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.
```rest
PUT /subscriptions/<subid>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.Migrate/MigrateProjects/<mymigrateprojectname>?api-version=2018-09-01-preview "{location: 'centralus', properties: {}}"
```
::: moniker range="migrate"
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](/cli/azure/install-azure-cli).
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>
1. Register the Dependency Map private preview feature on the Subscription.
- az feature registration create --name PrivatePreview --namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap
1. Ensure that the feature is in registered state.β―
- az feature registration show --name PrivatePreview --provider-namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap
- Output contains - "state": "Registered"
1. Register the new Dependency Map resource provider.β―
- az provider register --namespace Microsoft.DependencyMap
1. Ensure that the provider is in registered state.
- az provider show -n Microsoft.DependencyMap
- Output contains - "registrationState": "Registered"
::: moniker-end
## Create additional projects
If you already have a project and you want to create an additional project, do the following:
::: moniker range="migrate-classic"
1. In the [Azure public portal](https://portal.azure.com) or [Azure Government](https://portal.azure.us), search for **Azure Migrate**.
1. On the Azure Migrate dashboard, select **All Projects** on the upper left.
1. Select a **Create Project**.
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/create-a-project.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows how to create a project by selecting the create project button." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/create-a-project.png" :::
::: moniker-end
::: moniker range="migrate"
1. In the [Azure public portal](https://portal.azure.com) or [Azure Government](https://portal.azure.us), search for **Azure Migrate**.
1. On the Azure Migrate dashboard, select **Servers, databases and web apps** > **Create project** on the upper left
:::image type="content" source="./media/create-manage-projects/switch-project.png" alt-text="Screenshot that contains information on how to create a project." lightbox="./media/create-manage-projects/switch-project.png" :::
1. To create a new project, select **Click here**.
::: moniker-end
## Next steps
Add [assessment](how-to-assess.md) or [migration](how-to-migrate.md) tools to projects.