Office 365 Migration is becoming immensely popular in all types of organization. The Exchange Online tool Office 365 by Microsoft is much easier to use and has plenty of user friendly features. You can work or access from anywhere, anytime and on any device. Office 365 has built-in data security control.
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EdbMails – Office 365 Migration can accomplish your existing Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant migration project effortlessly.
You can migrate email data to office 365 from other email systems. Administrators can migrate mailboxes from an Exchange Server or any other Email Systems. And users can import all his data like contacts, mails, calendar etc to his Office 365 mailbox.
Few of the commonly used methods for migration to office 365 from Exchange Server are listed below:
- Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) migration
- Cutover Migration (Migrating all mailboxes at once)
- Staged Migration (Migrating Mailboxes in batches)
- Hybrid Migration (Migrating using an integrated Exchange Server and Office 365 Environment.
- Third-party migration
Office 365 Migration requires preparations and planning to have hassle free migration since it’s a complex procedure. Sometimes if the migration goes wrong, you may lose the data permanently. You should take all the necessary precautions to have a smooth migration. With the proper planning and precautions you can improve the performance of migration process and improve the speed of migration too.
Migration Decision Factors:
The following points needs to be analyzed and evaluated together to plan migration strategy and deployment:
Size – Consider the number of mailboxes and size of the each mailboxes. Size will impact migration timelines and in turn impact coexistence requirements.
Coexistence – Migration may take long time based on the size of mailboxes. During the process, you may have to be connected to the mail user to avoid losing any current appointments or the business meetings. So the customer requirements of co-existence plays an role in the making of strategy.
Provisioning – How are you going to provision the user accounts?. Do you need to use any third party tool to create accounts or provisioning by user accounts import or creating the accounts manually.
Migration Source – The Source of the data and the type of the for migration has major impact on the plans.
Identity Management – you have to find out the strategy for identity management. Will identities exist in the cloud only or do we need to connect with an on-premises identity source.
Precautions to be taken before the office 365 Migration:
Below are few precautionary measures which can be considered before doing Office 365 Migration:
- Selecting the Apt Method for Migration:
One of the important things is to select the best matching migration method. Based on all the decision making factors, choose the appropriate method. Microsoft provides three basic migration methods:
– IMAP migration
– Cutover migration
– Hybrid Migration
- Time Estimation:
Always to try to have a time estimation for the migration process. In Hybrid migration method, you can migrate data in batches. So there you can have clear idea about the time estimation. Usually Staged Migration takes time of 10GB to 14GB per hour on an average. Microsoft provides a timeline chart on the average time required for the Office 365 migration.
- Analyze the impact on Existing Performance and Functionality:
The migration process may affect Exchange Server performance in several ways based on the version of the server currently running. One of the usual problem occurs with mailboxes on Exchange Server 2003, where servers are hard to reach while the migration process is running.
- Be inside the Infrastructure:
You have to follow some infrastructure to perform staged migration process. Microsoft suggests large companies to use enterprise, physical standard tool for a hassle free migration.
- Consider Multi-Staged Pilot Migration:
Its better to plan for a multi-staged pilot migration for the mailbox migration from Exchange server to office 365. Here at first, create few test mailboxes and add few data like mails, contacts, calendar entries etc and use them to test your migration plan. If you are successful here then migrate sample of your production mailboxes. So that you can make sure everything works well even after the migration completes. - Version Compatibility issues:
Migration process is quite simple in Exchange Server 2007 or the recent versions. But the organizations having older versions should analyze how their current server will have impact on migration process. They can go for a two-step migration or they can work within their present Exchange Server version. - Verify Organization Readiness for the migration:
Migration process is complex and it requires proper planning and preparation before the deployment. It’s very important to configure the organization properly before starting the migration.
- Verify Client Readiness:
Like Organization readiness, Client readiness for the migration is also plays an important role. If you are going to use Outlook web app, consider validating the browser compatibility. Microsoft usually prefers making use of Outlook 2010 or 2013 for Office 365 connectivity. Always go for a thorough testing of the connectivity issues that may occur after post an individual’s mailbox is migrated.
- Take enough time to Perform Staged Migration:
Perform the staged migration process slowly. Its nowhere mentioned that you should migrate quickly and deprovision the access to local Server. Instead you can always maintain co-existence between local environment and office 365. It’s always better to have prior knowledge on the complete configuration and requirements for migration. So do not rush into migration directly. Take enough time to understand the procedure and do it carefully.
Scalable and High performance Office 365 migration
EdbMails – Office 365 Migration can accomplish your existing Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant migration project effortlessly.
- Choose right Tool for the Migration process:
One of the important decisions is to choose the best tool for the smooth office 365 Migration. You can use this EdbMails Office 365 Migrator tool to migrate your Exchanged Data file to office 365 with a very few simple steps. You can visit the EdbMails Office 365 page for more information.
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