Exchange Migration to Office 365requires preparations and planning to have hassle free migration since it’s a complex procedure. Sometimes if the migration goes wrong, you may lose the data permanently. You should take all the necessary precautions to have a smooth migration. With the proper planning and precautions you can improve the performance of migration process and improve the speed of migration too.
Mention below is the step by step manual guide.
Go to EAC and open it>>Now, navigate to Office 365>>Choose on the Recipients
Choose the Migration option >> Click on Add option >> then, Select Migrate to Exchange Online
Now, from Select a Migration Type wizard, Select Remote Move Migration>>Click on Next
Under the Select, the users’ window, click on Add + option
Select On-Premises User>>Click on Add>> Click on Ok and Next
At this point, under Enter the Windows user account credential, add credentials of on-premises administrator account>> Click on Next.
Check if the FDQN of desired Exchange server is present or not in the “Confirm the migration endpoint” window.
Under the New migration batch name text field, enter the migration batch name in the move Configuration window.
Click the Target delivery domain for the mailboxes for migrating to Office 365
At this point, check Move primary mailbox along with archive mailbox option is selected or not.
On the Start the Batch option >>Choose one Recipient>> Ensure that start the batch option is Automatically selected
Choose checkbox of Automatically complete the migration batch >>Click New
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In the EAC, go to Office 365 > Recipients > Migration. , and then select Migrate from Exchange Online. On the Select the users page, select Select the users that you want to move and then click Next. and then select the Exchange Online users to move to the on-premises organization, click Add and then click OK.
Office 365 Migration from mail boxes can range from a few minutes to several months. While the answer to such a query certainly cannot be whetted on stone, based on our experience and the historical data from Microsoft, it could take up to two weeks to migrate a batch of not more than 1000 mailboxes.
