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Office 365 Migration
Hi, I was hoping you could help. We will shortly be migrating to Office 365 however, before we do so I was just wondering that during the transitional stage will current users using Outlook 2...
Hi Ad,
The Outlook client could be configured with the Office 365 mail profile providing that the autodiscover record for Office 365 has been added to your current DNS records. However, mail would not route to the Office 365 accounts until the MX record is configured to point to Office 365 from your previous provider (or on-prem server).
If this is a staged migration you would need to temporarily configure mail forwarding from your current email addresses to the target address of your Office 365 tenant, ie tenantname.onmicrosoft.com, until the migration is fully complete. There is an article below here which will explain a staged migration in more detail:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-a-staged-email-migration-to-office-365-7e2c82be-5f3d-4e36-bc6b-e5b4d411e207
In regards to licensing, depending on your current installation if you have pro plus you should just be able to activate the software using the users Office 365 ID.
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
James
The Outlook client could be configured with the Office 365 mail profile providing that the autodiscover record for Office 365 has been added to your current DNS records. However, mail would not route to the Office 365 accounts until the MX record is configured to point to Office 365 from your previous provider (or on-prem server).
If this is a staged migration you would need to temporarily configure mail forwarding from your current email addresses to the target address of your Office 365 tenant, ie tenantname.onmicrosoft.com, until the migration is fully complete. There is an article below here which will explain a staged migration in more detail:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-a-staged-email-migration-to-office-365-7e2c82be-5f3d-4e36-bc6b-e5b4d411e207
In regards to licensing, depending on your current installation if you have pro plus you should just be able to activate the software using the users Office 365 ID.
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
James
Hi James,
Thanks a lot for your quick reply.
That's very helpful thanks, our migration will be a cutover as we don't have a huge number of users.
Thanks again.
