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EdbMails Exchange migration tool can help you migrate oversized archive mailboxes from Exchange to Office 365. You can migrate mail data, user folders, public folders, contacts, calendars, permissions, mail header data, tasks, journals, notes from the source to the target with complete data consistency. You can migrate the archive mailbox to Office 365 archive mailbox or from archive to primary mailbox. The following steps detail the archive mailbox migration procedure by using EdbMails.
Before you migrate from Exchange 2016 to Office 365 you must carefully plan the approach based on your current environment and migration requirements. Following is a checklist of items to identify and prepare your environments.
Ensure that you set the ApplicationImpersonation permissions to the admin account on the source Exchange server.
Before you migrate to Office 365, ensure that you create mailboxes for users in your organization and assign suitable licenses to them.
After you have created and assigned a license to a user mailbox, you must enable the archive mailbox in Office 365.
Ensure that you have set the impersonation rights to the admin account on the target Office 365 server.
There are two methods to migrate large archive mailboxes to Microsoft 365 by using EdbMails
Refer to the link for a detailed list of EdbMails system requirements for Exchange migration.
Note: If the Standard folders (such as Inbox, Calendar, Contacts) on your source Exchange server mailboxes are initialized with a different language, follow the below details to migrate these folders to the respective system folders on the target (destination) server.
For Instance: If your source Inbox folder is named 'Boîte de réception', which is in French language and you migrate this folder directly to the destination server, then by default it will not be mapped to the 'Inbox' folder on the target server. In order to map the folder with the french name to the respective folder, change the regional settings on the target server to match that of your source mailbox folder language (in this case, it is French).
Click here to know the steps to change the language and regional settings on Exchange server
In the Connect to Exchange server (Source) window, select 'Connect using Global Admin User’. You can also load the mailboxes using a CSV file. Refer to the link for instructions on how to use the different Exchange server connection methods supported by EdbMails.
See the steps to connect to archive mailboxes from EdbMails.
Select the archive mailboxes from the Exchange that you wish to migrate to Office 365.
Click 'Migrate to Office 365' to setup the connection with the target server
If this is the first time you’re migrating with EdbMails, the migration is a full migration. On subsequent migrations from the same source to the target, the migration is incremental.
EdbMails provides the following additional options to help you customize the migration task.
EdbMails supports both modern and classic authentication. Connect to the target server by selecting Auto or Manual registration for modern authentication and the connection method as Archive Mailbox.
Connect to Office 365 server using secure modern authentication
The mapping activity in EdbMails can automatically match and map the mailboxes and folders between the Exchange server and Office 365. This activity saves time when you’re migrating a large number of mailboxes.
Start and monitor the migration operation after you complete the mailbox mapping. Finally, verify the count of migrated emails, folders and mailbox items with EdbMails text-based log report.
EdbMails can also assist you in migrating to Office 365, if you have the archive mailboxes exported as PST files from your on-premises Exchange server, Download and run EdbMails if it hasn't already been installed on your system. The following steps outline how to migrate PST files from Exchange to Office 365.
To add the PST files, close the Connect to Office 365 (Source) connection window and click migrate 'PST to Office 365' at the bottom.
EdbMails supports both modern and classic authentication. Connect to the target server by selecting Auto or Manual registration for modern authentication and the connection method as Archive Mailbox.
Connect to Office 365 server using secure modern authentication
The mapping activity in EdbMails can automatically match and map the mailboxes and folders from the PST file to Office 365. This activity saves time when you’re migrating a large number of mailboxes. After you complete the migration, verify the count of the migrated items, folders and mailboxes with the help of EdbMails log report.
See the Archive migration troubleshooting guide for possible solutions related to migration errors. For more information on EdbMails Exchange migration refer to the frequently asked questions (FAQs)
If you plan to migrate to Office 365 on your own, there will be challenges and technical roadblocks. EdbMails removes the complexity and technicalities of Exchange and Office 365 migration and enables you to complete the mailbox transfer in a few clicks.
EdbMails supports incremental migration wherein it migrates the new and updated items avoiding duplicates on subsequent migrations to the same target mailbox. The incremental migration is valid for all Office 365 mailboxes, Public folder, Shared mailbox, and Archive mailboxes.
EdbMails is a tailor-made solution to accomplish direct migration from Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013 to Office 365. Furthermore, it can also transfer mailboxes to Office 365 from Exchange 2019, 2016, Hosted and Live Exchange server. This eliminates the need for intermediate migration hops maintaining perfect data consistency on both the source and the target.
EdbMails allows you to migrate a single Exchange mailbox or multiple mailboxes in batches. You can migrate folders, specific attachments, contacts and calendars from On-Premise or Hosted Exchange to Office 365.
EdbMails Exchange migration is a fully automated tool that is capable of automatically handling Office 365 throttling and connection interruption during the migration.
During the Exchange 2013 migration to Office 365, you can use filter options in EdbMails settings to include or exclude mail items based on Date, Subject, Sender, and Recipient Address. You can also exclude emails and attachments if their size exceeds a specified limit.
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