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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

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Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of the most trusted communications and collaboration products in a single desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Exchange Online gives you access to enterprise class email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices."Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" is a practical hands-on tutorial that shows small businesses to enterprises how to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. This book also places an emphasis on setting up a Hybrid and migrating from Exchange on-premise to Exchange Online. "Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration" will show small businesses to enterprises the steps to implement and migrate to Exchange Online in Office 365. The book starts by providing an overview of the Office 365 plans available and how to make a decision on what plan fits your organization. The book then dives 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 and migration amongst others.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Deploying a Hybrid Infrastructure: Exchange Hybrid
Index

Performing a migration using PowerShell cmdlets


The move process from the Exchange Management Console (EMC) is technically all PowerShell driven, on the backend. The EMC allows administrators to simplify the process of performing quick migrations to Office 365. As all of these commands are PowerShell driven, let's review how to perform a migration without the EMC. We will cover the following areas:

  • Assigning a license to a user with PowerShell

  • Migrating a user to Office 365 with PowerShell

  • Migrating users in bulk to Office 365 with PowerShell

Assigning a license to a user with PowerShell

Let's first look at applying licenses through PowerShell:

  1. To do so, start by installing the Online Services Module found at http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/Office365-enterprises/ff652560.aspx

  2. Go to step 2, Download the Microsoft Online Services Module, and either install the 32-bit or 64-bit version:

  3. Now connect to your Office 365 subscription by running the following cmdlets:

    • $cred=get-credential

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