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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

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 import procedure which requires no preparation.

IMAP

In order for Exchange Online to access your IMAP sever/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 existing IMAP mailboxes in CSV format which is imported into the Exchange Online control panel. This CSV maps the IMAP credentials (e-mail address, username, and password) to the Exchange Online mailbox.

Hosted Exchange/Gmail

When migrating to Exchange Online from a hosted Exchange or Gmail...