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Migrate Claude Desktop from a cloud provider to Claude Enterprise changedthird-party/claude-desktop/move-to-claude-enterprise

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55Move Claude Desktop from your cloud provider, where the app is named Claude (third-party), to Claude Enterprise. After one configuration change, each user's work migrates when they sign in on the same computer.
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7![Flow diagram: IT updates Claude Desktop, turns on two skills settings, and changes the configuration. Cloud provider controls stop applying. Each user signs in to Claude Enterprise. Claude Desktop migrates earlier work (chats, sessions, projects, scheduled tasks), then adds skills, plugins, extensions, and local MCP servers. The user approves tools in scheduled tasks, adds their instructions, and checks their skills.](https://mintcdn.com/claude-ai/ijOo7DTs1r-Xf3X5/images/third-party/diagrams/move-to-claude-enterprise-flow.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=ijOo7DTs1r-Xf3X5\&q=85\&s=ed9723f563092b8ab40c50ee46afd172)
7![Flow diagram: IT updates Claude Desktop, turns on two skills settings, and changes the configuration. Cloud provider controls stop applying. Each user signs in to Claude Enterprise. Claude Desktop migrates earlier work (chats, sessions, projects, scheduled tasks), then adds skills, plugins, extensions, and local MCP servers. The user approves tools in scheduled tasks, adds their instructions, and checks their skills.](https://mintcdn.com/claude-ai/_XgJ0YMYGsATTg9L/images/third-party/diagrams/move-to-claude-enterprise-flow.svg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=_XgJ0YMYGsATTg9L\&q=85\&s=791675b62f5ca050c920be219ed5b98e)
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99## What is migrated
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1313**Migrated automatically:**
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1515* Chats, which appear in Cowork
16* Cowork sessions and projects, with their folders, except a few broad or network folders
16* Cowork sessions and projects, with their folders, except a few system or network folders
1717* Code sessions in folders Claude Code trusts
1818* Scheduled tasks, on or off as before, except Code tasks in untrusted folders
1919* Local MCP servers and most desktop extensions, as before
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2222**Migrated after one step:**
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2424* Skills, and plugins users uploaded, after the [skills settings](#before-you-begin)
25* Plugin marketplaces users added over HTTPS from github.com, gitlab.com, bitbucket.org, or a GitHub Enterprise host your organization connected to Claude, after the [skills settings](#before-you-begin). Claude must be able to access the repository. Users then install the plugins they want in **Customize > Plugins**.
2526* Personal instructions the account doesn't have yet, after **Add instructions** in **Settings > Import**
2627* Code sessions in untrusted folders, after the user trusts the folder and adds them in **Settings > Import**
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2829**Not migrated:**
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30* Remote connectors, and plugins users didn't upload. Set them up again.
31* Remote connectors, other plugin marketplaces, and plugins users didn't upload. Set them up again.
3132* Skills with plugin components or an unreadable header, or over about 10 MB or 200 files
3233* Scheduled Code tasks in folders Claude Code doesn't trust
33* A few broad or network folders, such as the home folder. The user attaches them again.
34* A few system or network folders. The user can attach most of them again.
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35Migrated sessions stay on the computer and don't sync to claude.ai. Continuing one sends its content to Anthropic, and uploaded skills, added instructions, and MCP tool on/off settings go to the user's account. Claude also sends standard usage data.
36Migrated sessions stay on the computer and don't sync to claude.ai. Continuing one sends its content to Anthropic. Uploaded skills, added instructions, plugin marketplaces, and MCP tool on/off settings go to the user's account. Claude also sends standard usage data.
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3738## Before you begin
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391. **Update first.** Update every computer to Claude Desktop 2.42304.0 or later (rolling out from October 15, 2026) before the configuration change, because the migration runs on the version installed when the change arrives.
402. **Turn on the skills settings.** In [**Organization settings > Plugins & skills > Policy**](https://claude.ai/admin-settings/skills?tab=policy), turn on **User-created skills** and **Skill and plugin security scanning**. For custom roles, also give them the skills permissions in [**Organization settings > Roles**](https://claude.ai/admin-settings/roles). Skills need both settings, and plugins need only **User-created skills**.
401. **Update first.** Update every computer to Claude Desktop 3.1623.0 or later before the configuration change. The migration runs on the version installed when the change arrives. A computer that migrated on an earlier release adds plugin marketplaces after it updates, if `importThirdPartyHistoryIntoOrgUUID` is still deployed, but doesn't add folders to the sessions and projects it already migrated.
412. **Turn on the skills settings.** In [**Organization settings > Plugins & skills > Policy**](https://claude.ai/admin-settings/skills?tab=policy), turn on **User-created skills** and **Skill and plugin security scanning**. For custom roles, also give them the skills permissions in [**Organization settings > Roles**](https://claude.ai/admin-settings/roles). Skills need both settings. Plugins and plugin marketplaces need only **User-created skills**.
41423. **Replace the controls** listed in [What changes for your security controls](#what-changes-for-your-security-controls).
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4344Special cases:
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4546* If Cowork runs only in its VM sandbox in your organization (for example, because [`requireCoworkFullVmSandbox`](/docs/third-party/claude-desktop/configuration#requirecoworkfullvmsandbox) is enforced), nothing is migrated. Ask your Anthropic account team.
46* If your organization needs HIPAA, make it HIPAA-ready before users first sign in. A HIPAA-ready organization migrates no skills, local MCP servers, extensions, plugins, or instructions.
47* If your organization needs HIPAA, make it HIPAA-ready before users first sign in. A HIPAA-ready organization migrates no skills, local MCP servers, extensions, plugins, plugin marketplaces, or instructions.
4748* With the MSIX install on Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, or Windows 10 older than 21H1, update Claude in place. Uninstalling or resetting it deletes the Claude (third-party) data.
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4950## What changes for your security controls
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103104* If a scheduled task asks to use a tool, choose **Allow for all scheduled runs**.
104105* In **Settings > Import**, click **Add instructions** for each set of instructions listed, and **Import…** if a skill is missing from **Customize > Skills**.
105* Set up remote connectors again, and add any keys or sign-ins your plugins and extensions need.
106* Set up remote connectors and any missing plugin marketplaces again, install the plugins you want in **Customize > Plugins**, and add any keys or sign-ins your plugins and extensions need.
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107108> [!WARNING]
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