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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

Migrating from Exchange Server


If you are migrating from an existing Exchange Server environment the steps are relatively similar. As the Office 365 Small Businesses and Professionals plan does not allow Directory Synchronization we have limited the scope of this section to a cutover migration method.

The key steps involved in performing a migration from an on-premise Exchange Server are:

  1. Ensure that remote connectivity is possible using RPC over HTTP (as discussed in Chapter 5, Preparing for a Simple Migration).

  2. Grant the migration user full access to the mailboxes or mailbox store.

  3. Run the Migration wizard from the Exchange Online control panel.

Granting access to all mailboxes in Exchange Server

Assuming that you have successfully prepared your Exchange Server environment to allow RPC over HTTP and tested it using the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer, we can now move towards the steps involved in migrating the mailboxes.

The first task required is to allow the migration administrator permissions...