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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By : David Greve, Ian Waters
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Microsoft Office 365 - Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition

By: David Greve, Ian Waters

Overview of this book

Organizations are migrating to the cloud to save money, become more efficient, and empower their users with the latest technology. Office 365 delivers all of this in a reliable, fast, and ever-expanding way, keeping you ahead of the competition. As the IT administrator of your network, you need to make the transition as painless as possible for your users. Learn everything you need to know and exactly what to do to ensure your Office 365 Exchange online migration is a success! This guide gives you everything you need to develop a successful migration plan to move from Exchange, Google, POP3, and IMAP systems to Office 365 with ease. We start by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. We then dive into topics such as the Office 365 Admin Portal, integration options for professionals and small businesses, integration options for enterprises, preparing for a simple migration, performing a simple migration, and preparing for a hybrid deployment. Later in the book, we look at migration options for Skype for Business and SharePoint to further help you leverage the latest collaborative working technologies within your organization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange Online Implementation and Migration - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure – Exchange Hybrid

Migration from non-Exchange Server systems


If you are currently using an e-mail system that is not based on Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, or 2016, the migration is not as seamless as moving directly from Exchange. However, it is still almost as quick and easy.

The two main steps involved in performing a simple migration from a non-Exchange system are creating the user accounts in Office 365 and then performing a mailbox content migration using one of several methods.

Creating user accounts

If you are creating more than a handful of users, it is recommended that you create the accounts using the bulk account creation method, as this will save a considerable amount of time.

This involves populating a comma-separated values (CSV) file with information about your users and uploading it to the Office 365 admin console.

While the CSV file allows you to populate many fields with user information, the two key fields required to create any user account are described in the following table:

Field...