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New: User who doesn’t have an account in the destination Jira Cloud site and will be invited to join
Existing: User with this email exists in the destination Jira Cloud site.
Unknown: User doesn’t have a valid email address, and it cannot be determined if the account exists on the destination Jira Cloud site. The user either doesn’t have an email address, or its email address is invalid.
Check out our complete Deploy Users tutorial, which introduces the different options you have to successfully manage your users during a deployment and ultimately transport them safely to the cloud.
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in the Analyze phase of a deployment. Learn more about transforming configuration elements during a deployment.