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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

On-premises resource changes


With most Exchange Organizations, we may be leveraging various types of resource mailboxes or Public Folders. When you start migrating users to Office 365, your Office 365 users will lose access to these delegated resources. If the resource is a conference room, the user will still be able to book time in that conference room and view the existing schedules; however, that's the extent of management for those resource objects. Public Folders are inaccessible, unless we connect the on-premises Public Folders to Exchange Online.

While you migrate on-premises mailboxes, you may need to consider moving these resources with the users moving to Office 365. Let's cover these various resources and how you need to prepare for their moves to Office 365. We will cover are the following resources:

  • Shared mailboxes

  • Conference rooms

  • Public Folders

Shared mailboxes

If you are leveraging shared mailboxes on-premises today, then you may want or need to migrate them to Office 365. Typically...