Live Exchange Migration FAQ

EdbMails Exchange server Migration takes the most critical part of a server migration or Exchange upgrade - moving of user’s mailboxes as well as public folders - off your back. EdbMails automatically performs a direct migration of the mailboxes you selected on the source and mapped to target server. (without modifying any items on the source server).

Direct Exchange server migrations from any Exchange Server to Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019 and to Office 365 organizations;
Allows migrations to new domains or forests;
Support public folder migrations;
Intuitive GUI (no PowerShell cmdlets are required);

EdbMails for Exchange Server Migration works by accessing all the mailboxes in your source server and then migrating each of those mailbox data to mailboxes on the destination server. With EdbMails, you can easily map all source mailboxes to mailboxes of your liking on the the target server. To achieve migration, EdbMails automatically sets impersonation rights to a exchange server user in both the source and target server.

Yes EdbMails Exchange server migration supports migration to your Office 365 tenants. You can effortlessly migrate from Exchange Server (version 2019, 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007) to Office 365.

Yes. EdbMails supports Hosted Exchange Server migration. If your organization is running Hosted Exchange services on Rackspace, Godaddy etc., and are in the need of migration then EdbMails can easily accomplish seamless migration.

EdbMails is a user-friendly and most reliable migration application compared to any competitors. EdbMails application is being used by users from more than 150 countries. EdbMails ensures no server downtime during migration, by keeping high performance under every scenario. Your migration data is 1:1 copy of the source, by retaining original folder structure intact.

EdbMails does complete migration and we ensures 100% data is migrated. In addition, it migrates Mailbox, Public folders and Folders permission as well. EdbMails migrations are safe and secured as it follows Microsoft recommended flow for migration.

For Instance:

Yes. EdbMails Live Exchange migration tool can migrate all your Public folder contents and its permissions to target server. All you have to do is create Public folder and assign users to this Public Folder on target Exchange Server, EdbMails will replicate the source server Public folder structure exactly as it is, on the target server.

For Exchange Server 2013 / 2016 / 2019

For Exchange Server 2010

Yes. You can migrate mailboxes within the same domain using EdbMails if the the UPN (user principal name) of the source and target mailboxes are different.

For Instance: If the source and target servers have a user mailbox with the name such as alex.joe@domain.com then you have to create a different mailbox for the same user in the target server (say, alex.j@domain.com).

NOTE: All the Microsoft’s coexistence limitations for various exchange server versions still apply and only cross-domain direct migrations are possible in all such cases.

No. EdbMails keeps certain metadata details (not the entire mailbox details) on your computer in encrypted format.

Yes. EdbMails has extensive support for Non-English Unicode languages. This means that you can migrate your data between source and target servers irrespective of the language. EdbMails will also ensure that all special characters are migrated to the target servers without anything being left out.

EdbMails for Exchange server migration doesn’t impose any restrictions on the size of the mailboxes / items that can be migrated or the speed of migration. Nevertheless, the target exchange server may have its own mailbox size restrictions and throttling policies that limit connection speed which EdbMails cannot override on its own.

It is not easy to predict the duration of migration process as it will vary significantly depending on a number of factors involved. Important thing is that EdbMails is a high-performance oriented migration tool which is designed to improve the migration speed. However, few factors such as the Internet speed, router capabilities, configuration of the computers involved, connection speed throttling in the source and target servers etc., can affect speed of migration.

For any queries, you can always contact our 24x7 Technical Support Team by Email, Live chat or on Phone.

Yes. Using EdbMails Exchange Server migration, you can directly migrate all your exchange 2003 mailboxes to exchange 2013 with ease. Since Exchange 2013 does not support coexistence with Exchange 2003, you will have to opt for cross forest staged migrations when using native utilities, however EdbMails helps eliminate all this complexity by enabling direct migration from exchange 2003 to 2013.

Yes. EdbMails Exchange Server migration tool is compatible with Office 365 Multi Factor Authentication. You can migrate from your MFA enabled Office 365 account using the Microsoft app-password instead of normal password.

No. It is not possible as Exchange Server does not allow creation of more than one Public folder in the same Active Directory Forest.

You can run EdbMails demo / trial version for a quick test / review using 2 easy steps:

Step 1: Download and install the EdbMails application
Step 2: Click the "Start Your Free Trial" button as shown in the below screenshot

Yes. You can run EdbMails demo / trial version for a quick test / review using 2 easy steps:

Step 1: Download and install the EdbMails application
Step 2: Click the "Start Your Free Trial" button as shown in the below screenshot

Demo / Free trial will migrate 30 items from each and every folder maintaining the exact source server folder hierarchy. You can Migrate 30 items from each and every folders from your Live Exchange server to other Live Exchange Server / Office 365.

This means that, if you’re using it to migrate e.g. a user’s mailbox, only 30 emails from each mail folder, 30 calendar items from each calendar, 30 contacts from every contacts folder, etc. will be migrated.

Later you can purchase the license for full version of Live Exchange Migration tool; you can resume the migration and move all remaining items incrementally.

For any queries / issues related to Exchange Server Migration, you can refer FAQs which answers most of the general questions / queries.

In addition, you can always contact our 24x7 Technical Support Team by Email, Live chat or on Phone.

EdbMails does not require any separate KEY to use the application after purchasing the license. That is, your account will be automatically upgraded to the type of the license that you have purchased. You need to download and install the application and login using the EdbMails account credentials (E-mail Address and password) that you have created during license purchase.

EdbMails only counts source mailboxes that are actually considered for migration.

For Instance:
User1@source.onmicrosoft.com
User2@source.onmicrosoft.com
User3@source.onmicrosoft.com

If you migrate above 3 mailboxes to any destination mailboxes (with different domains) for any number of times (for lifetime), EdbMails only counts number of mailboxes used as 3.

You can directly view number of mailboxes that are already used. Click here to know more

EdbMails is licensed per mailbox for Exchange Server migration.

For Instance, if you have purchased license for 100 mailboxes and migrate only 50, you can migrate the remaining 50 more items from the source server whenever you choose to.

Live Exchange migration license works based on how many mailboxes you want to migrate. That is, if you want to migrate 200 Mailboxes to a different domain then you just need 200 Mailboxes license. And you can use this license to migrate same mailboxes repeatedly for lifetime.

Yes. It will support Contact, Calendar, Task, Mail, Public Folders / Archive mailbox migration.

No. The migration license will support Contact, Calendar, Task, Mail, Public Folders / Archive mailbox migration.

Yes. You can reuse the license for the same mailbox for lifetime. That is, migrate the same mailbox any number of time repeatedly to any destination server / domain without buying any additional licenses.

Yes, you can easily purchase additional licenses for more mailboxes after the initial purchase. Click here to upgrade the license with additional mailboxes.

In the Exchange Migration screen, Click on the button 'View list of mailboxes that are used for migration'

You will be displayed with the list of Mailboxes that are already used for migration.

EdbMails can migrate all emails, journals, tasks, calendar, contacts, notes, public folder, archive folder, permissions from the source server to target Live exchange server.

You can install EdbMails Exchange Migration tool on any computer (server or client) that can access both the source and destination servers.

For Instance: Your source Inbox folder is named 'Boîte de réception', which is in French language. If you migrate this folder directly to the destination server then by default it will not get mapped to the 'Inbox' folder on target server. In order to map this to the respective folder, change the regional settings on target server to 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
Click here to know the steps to change the language and regional settings on Office 365 server

Yes. EdbMails supports migration of all emails on the source server whether it is encrypted or regular. All the source server mailboxes are migrated “as is” to the target server.

Yes. EdbMails Exchange migration tool automatically maps source mailboxes to required target mailboxes. It will also allows you to select appropriate source and target mailboxes during Exchange Server migration. For this, select the mailbox from the list of mailboxes/folders that are selected for migration and choose target mailbox from the right pane as shown in the below screen.

No. EdbMails does not alter the data in the source server in anyway. It will read source server data and migrate it to target server.

In some cases especially in cross forest migrations all the target server mailboxes may not get listed. For this, you have to generate a .csv file containing all the mailboxes in the server and import it to the application. Execute the below Exchange Management Shell (EMS) commands to generate the CSV file.

Command: Copy & Paste it on EMS & change CSV file path

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Select-Object PrimarySmtpAddress | export-csv "C:\Mailbox_Names.csv"

Result

To verify the already migrated data, EdbMails keeps certain metadata details (not the entire mailbox details) on your computer in encrypted format. This metadata details are used for incremental check during migration. Hence, once you migrate a mailbox from a particular computer, during consecutive migration use the same computer to avoid duplicates. However, other Mailboxes that are not been migrated from this computer can be migrated from any other computer in parallel.

Click here to know more on Incremental Migration

Steps to perform Live Exchange Migration

Click here to know the steps to recreate Outlook profiles after migration

Yes. EdbMails does not alter the contents of source mailboxes in anyway and this ensures that you can keep using the source mailboxes as you normally would even after migration process. With EdbMails incremental migration, only the new items that are created in the source server after first full migration can be migrated to target server again without having to repeat the full migration.

EdbMails supports incremental migration wherein, it will only migrate the new items that are created in the source server after the first full migration without creating any duplicate data on target server.

In addition, to avoid complete re-scanning of the source mailboxes, you can apply the filter and include items based on your last migration date. You can access the include / exclude option under the 'Settings' menu as shown below.