Does the Kentico Migration Tool preserve user passwords?

2025/09/26 10:49 AM

Asking for a friend: When using the Kentico Migration Tool to migrate users from KX13 to XbyK, how does it handle user passwords? Can users log in to the XbyK Admin with the same credentials they used in KX13, or is an onboarding process required (e.g., generating new passwords)? I haven’t found any guidance on this in the documentation.

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Security Migration / upgrade

Answers

2025/09/26 2:28 PM

For the administration, users will need to create new passwords using the invitation or password recovery flow. KX13's admin used ASP.NET Forms authentication which had a different security and hashing process than ASP.NET Core Identity used in Xperience by Kentico.

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