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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

Migration from non-Exchange Server systems


If you are currently using an e-mail system that is not based on Exchange Server 2003 or 2007, the migration is not as seamless as moving directly from Exchange. However, it is still almost as quick and easy.

The two main steps involved in performing a simple migration from a non-Exchange system involve creating the user accounts in Office 365, and then performing a mailbox content migration using one of several methods.

Creating user accounts

If you are creating more than a handful of users it is recommended that you create the accounts using the bulk account creation method, as this will save a considerable amount of time.

This involves populating a Comma-separated Values (CSV) file with information about your users and uploading it into the Office 365 admin console.

While the CSV file allows you to populate many fields with user information, the two key fields required in order to create any user account are described in the following table:

Field...