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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

Preparing your environment for migration


Before beginning the migration process, it is important to ensure that your environment has been prepared and that all requirements have been met.

Due to the varying requirements and processes, we have broken these down between types of migrations.

PST-based migrations are not documented as they are merely a file export/import procedure, which requires little preparation. You may want to document a procedure that states where the PST files are stored and how they are named, and even list the PST file passwords if password protection is required.

IMAP

In order for Exchange Online to access your IMAP server/service, it must be accessible via the IMAP protocol from the Internet—which is generally the case.

It is important that the users be created via the Office 365 administrative interface, either individually or in bulk.

You also need to prepare a listing of the existing IMAP mailboxes in CSV format which is imported into the Exchange Online Control Panel...