Exchange Public folder to Office 365 migration

II. Steps to migrate Public folders to Office 365

• Step 1: Download EdbMails EDB to Office 365 software setup

  • Download EdbMails and install the application on your computer. Follow the instructions that appear on screen to complete the installation.

     See a detailed list of EdbMails system requirements for EDB recovery and migration.

    

  • Launch the application and click 'Login' or 'Start Your Free Trial'.

    

  • Select the recovery technique as 'EDB to PST, EDB to Office 365 and EDB to Exchange'.

    

• Step 2: Select the offline EDB file for recovery and migration

  Before starting the Public folder migration, take a copy of the EDB file as a backup. Browse and select the EDB from your computer that contains the Public folders. EdbMails does not depend on Exchange server or Active Directory (AD) and enables you to directly migrate mailboxes and folders from an offline EDB file to Office 365.

  

  Tip: EdbMails supports mailbox.edb, pub.edb, priv.edb and STM files from legacy Exchange servers. If you are using Exchange 2003 then EdbMails will automatically look for the corresponding STM file in the same location. For Exchange 2007 or above, the STM file is no longer used.

• Step 3: Preview and select the Public folders for migration

  EdbMails first performs a recovery operation and fully restores the EDB file in case it is corrupted. You can view the Public folders and preview the mail items such as emails, contacts, folders, notes, tasks, calendars from the application’s preview pane.

  Tip: EdbMails can recover and migrate deleted Exchange mail items to Office 365

  1. Click the 'Show All the folders' check box which is present above the Tree view as shown.
  2. Expand the mailbox and navigate to the 'Recoverable Items' folder.
  3. Click the 'Deletions' folder to view the deleted mails.

  

  Select the Public folders and click the 'Migrate to Office 365' button to continue. Alternatively, you can right click on the selected mailboxes / folders and select the option 'Migrate Selected Mailboxes / Folders to Office 365 Server'.

  

  Tip: EdbMails provides the following additional options to help you customize the migration to Office 365 based on a Date and other mailbox rules.

  1. Additional Include and Exclude Filter Options.
  2. Filter emails by Date: Migrate emails to Office 365 by applying the Date filter
  3. Filter emails by Size: Exclude emails and attachments from migration, which are larger than a specified size.
  4. Filter emails by domain name: Extract emails sent to and received from a particular domain.

  

  Add a suitable label to the job for identification. This enables you to quickly load the application’s settings for future export operations. You can view all the labels by clicking 'View Log' that contains all the details of the previous operation.

• Step 4: Connect to the target Office 365 server

  In the Connect to Office 365 (Target) window, select the authentication method as Auto or Manual registration for modern authentication and the connection method as Mailboxes, Public folder or Archive Mailbox. Enter the global administrator credentials to authenticate.

   Connect to Office 365 server using secure modern authentication

  

  After you authenticate and log in successfully, select one of the methods to load the mailboxes. You can also load and migrate the mailboxes using a CSV file.

  Note: If the Standard folders (such as Inbox, Calendar, Contacts) in the source EDB file are initialized with a different language, follow the details in the link 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 Office 365

  Tip: 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.

• Step 4: Map the mailboxes and folders between the source and the target

  Map the mailboxes and folders between the source and the target. The mapping activity in EdbMails can automatically match and map the mailboxes and folders and saves time when you’re migrating a large number of mailboxes.

  

  That's it! During the migration, you can view the progress as shown where you can also pause and resume the operation. An appropriate message will be displayed upon completion. Finally, verify the list of migrated folders and mailbox items with EdbMails text-based log report.

  

Benefits of EdbMails for Public folder migration to Office 365

• EdbMails can fully recover corrupted EDB files and enables you to migrate mailboxes and Public folders from EDB to Office 365.
• Single recovery and migration tool for both Exchange and Office 365.
• Migrate Public folder from EDB to Office 365 without size limitations.
• Compatible with all Windows Operating systems and EDB files from all Exchange servers (2003-2019).
• EdbMails does not store your credentials and it uses secure OAuth 2.0 modern authentication with TLS encryption.
• You can recover and migrate deleted email items from EDB to Office 365. More Features

 Related Links

1. Steps to convert Exchange EDB to PST
2. Steps to migrate EDB to Live Exchange
3. Steps to export Exchange Public folders to PST
4. Steps to migrate Public folders from Live Exchange to Office 365