Samuel Adams | June 2nd, 2020 | Tips
Are you ready to migrate Offline Exchange Database file to Office 365 for your organization? This guide will help to go through the process, no matter user is technical or non-technical. But while working with live environment multiple methods that can be deployed. Some techniques are given below:
A lot of reasons prompt towards companies that make them migrate Offline Exchange Datebase to Exchange Online. The primary one is what if any disaster occur? All, your data can come to risk. Moreover, Hardware maintenance cost, 100% server availability, are also a few reasons to migrate. Let’s see in brief about Office 365 advantage over Exchange:
Office 365 offers easy access to your data without spending on the infrastructure. All you need to subscribe plan as per your companies need and create users.
Above cons of Office 365 that forced companies to migrate Exchange databases to Office 365 successfully. But it needs a lot of in-depth expertise and patience for migrating to Office 365 from Exchange Server.
a) Migrate PST to Office 365 Mailboxes: Since Exchange mailbox can be exported into PST File format and in Office 365 Account we can use Azure AzCopy Tool import this PST File. As this process divided into three different sections such as:
For Complete Steps, Please Visit: Import PST File to Office 365 Account
This Migration Feature helps Exchange Administrator to Move mailboxes to O365 easily. But methods hold some limitation such as:
a) Method used to Migrate Mailboxes less than 2000.
b) Useful for Small and Medium Organization
Now follow step by step for Exchange 2010 to Office 365 Hybrid Migration
1. Create a Group to Receive:
The on-premise Exchange server consists of a mail-enabled security group. So create a mail-enabled security group within Office 365 before migrating. For this login to the O365 account, Next GOTO Office 365 Admin Centre > Group > Create new and create a group to receive mailbox items.
2. Create Cutover Migration Endpoint:
This method can only be used for Exchange version 2003 & 2007. And as Cutover migration, Staged migration also helps to migrate only 2000 mailboxes. If companies want to migrate more then 2000 mailboxes then this will not be helpful.
Limitations of Mentioned Techniques
Step by Step Guide to Migrate Dismounted Exchange 2010 to Office 365
Now Organization using Office365 application to avoid infrastructure and other resources such as Space, Operating System environment and networking resources used in Exchange Server environment. But moving mailboxes of users created in Exchange Server environment to Office 365 account remains a difficult task if we did not follow the right procedure offered by Microsoft such as “Cut Over Migration and Shared Migration”.
Exchange Administrator can try another alternative solution offered by SysTools to migrate Exchange 2010 mailbox to Office 365 step by step using the above guide. As Software not only export but also repair and fix any corruption in a .edb file of various Exchange environment.