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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 options


There are really only five main mail platform types used by organizations that wish to migrate to Exchange Online:

  • POP e-mail systems

  • IMAP e-mail systems

  • Hosted Exchange server

  • Gmail or Google apps

  • Exchange Server 2003 or 2007

Based on these platforms, we have created several scenarios that are reflective of common customer environments and situations.

POP e-mail

Many small businesses currently utilize POP e-mail provided by their domain name or website host. These are the simplest of migrations as the mailbox content is migrated by relying on the PST file import functionality in Outlook. Users simply need to import their existing PST file into the new Exchange Online mailbox.

IMAP

Some organizations may be utilizing IMAP either from a hosted service provider or on an on-premises server (such as Novell GroupWise). These mail systems can be imported natively by using the migration wizard within the Exchange Online Control Panel. It is important to note that IMAP only contains mail...