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Aysani
Jan 22, 2019Copper Contributor
Adding a new domain (company acquisition) to existing Office 365 Environment
Hi, Our company ( hybrid, 600 E3 users) acquired a company ( calling it X 200 user exchange 2010) my question is when is the right time to add the domain name X.com to our office 365 environment. ...
Jan 23, 2019
Yes, you should enable Exchange services to proceed otherwise the domain will never go onto Exchange Online and you will not be able to do steps 2 and 3.
If you are unsure about the migration route to take, I would advise not to proceed with adding the domain until you have a clear migration methodology. As Vasil said, it is only 200 users so this usually fits a cutover migration. You can check out the ways to migrate to Office 365 here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/office-365-migration-best-practices
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/mailbox-migration
And follow this guidance.
Best, Chris
If you are unsure about the migration route to take, I would advise not to proceed with adding the domain until you have a clear migration methodology. As Vasil said, it is only 200 users so this usually fits a cutover migration. You can check out the ways to migrate to Office 365 here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/office-365-migration-best-practices
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/mailbox-migration
And follow this guidance.
Best, Chris
Jan 23, 2019
Yeah, for some readon I had a tenant to tenant migration in mind! In this cAse Chris Hoard is right and ms tools will suffice! Just to not any confusion
Adam
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