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EdbMails Exchange migration software is the ideal application to migrate mailboxes from SBS 2011 to Office 365. With its advanced features such as incremental migration, automatic mailbox-mapping and granular migration, the software transforms and simplifies Exchange 2010 to Office 365 migrations.
The application sets impersonation rights for Office 365 mailboxes and does not require complex PowerShell scripts or technical expertise to perform the migration. In addition, EdbMails enables you to easily select the mailboxes and folders from the user-friendly interface, connect to the target server and migrate your mailbox data in a few clicks.
Before you migrate from SBS 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.
Use the Microsoft 365 mail migration advisor to determine which migration method is best for you.
Ensure that you set the ApplicationImpersonation permissions to the admin account on the source Exchange server 2010. Ensure that the mailboxes you migrate are not hidden from the address lists.
Before you migrate to Office 365, ensure that you create mailboxes for users in your organization and assign suitable licenses to them.
If you plan to migrate Public folders to Office 365, ensure that you create and configure the Public folder mailboxes on the target server.
Create Office 365 Public folder and assign mailbox user
If your mailboxes are in a Hybrid environment, it is not possible to migrate the Public folders directly to Office 365. Refer to this workaround solution to migrate Public folders in a hybrid environment.
Ensure that you have set the impersonation rights to the admin account on the target Office 365 server.
If you have a custom email domain from your hosting provider to which you want to migrate and receive emails, you must add and verify the domain on Office 365.
There are two methods for migrating Exchange 2010 to Microsoft 365 by using EdbMails Exchange migration
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 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 Exchange and Office 365
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.
With EdbMails, you can migrate mailboxes, public folders, and archive mailboxes from Exchange to Office 365.
Select the mailboxes and folders 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 Mailboxes, Public folder or 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 mailboxes exported as PST files from the Exchange server 2010 on SBS. 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.
On the EdbMails migration selection popup, select the migration method as Office 365 migration.
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 Mailboxes, Public folder or 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.
To receive messages on Office 365, change the DNS records known as MX records to enable email to work with the new server you have migrated to. In addition, configure the Autodiscover record to allow Outlook to connect to the migrated mailboxes.
Configure the Outlook profile for each user in your domain if Outlook has problems connecting to Office 365 mailboxes.
Follow the instructions provided on Microsoft's website to learn how to uninstall Exchange Server 2010 and see support and solutions for troubleshooting SBS 2011
See the list of post migration tasks to complete after you finish the Office 365 migration.
Refer to the Exchange 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, you might face 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 is a tailor-made solution to accomplish direct migration from Small Business server and 2010 legacy Exchange server to Office 365. Furthermore, it can also transfer mailboxes to Office 365 from Exchange 2019, 2016, Hosted and Live Exchange server. The application maintains perfect data consistency on the source and target and eliminates intermediate migration hops while performing the migration.
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 facility is valid for all Office 365 mailboxes, Public folder, Shared mailbox, and Archive mailboxes.
During the Exchange 2010 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. Furthermore, you can exclude emails and attachments if their size exceeds a specified limit.
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-Premises or Hosted Exchange to Office 365.
EdbMails Exchange migration is an automated tool that is capable of automatically handling Office 365, Exchange throttling and connection interruption during the migration.
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