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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

Planning for migration


Several key factors must be addressed when planning the migration to Exchange Online to ensure it is done successfully.

These are both technical factors, as well as human factors.

Technical considerations

There are numerous technical considerations which must be taken into account when planning for a migration. Some of the more common questions are as follows:

  • Which of the above example scenarios mirrors yours?

  • Have users been informed of the change?

  • How much data can you send through your Internet link to Exchange Online (meaning how many gigabytes of mail can be uploaded)?

  • Does your monthly Internet download allowance cater for the mailboxes being downloaded back into the Outlook .OST file for each user?

  • Do you plan to start users on Exchange Online with their full mailbox or just a portion of the recent content?

  • Do you have access to all desktops so you can configure the new account in Outlook?

  • How many computers will you have to re-configure, and do you have the resources...