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simple Exchange 2007 to Office 365 migration
Thanks for the reply and information - I know I am taking an unconventional approach but will the basic steps I listed work? As long as my users can access their old info via PSTs in the short term, I can deal with the data over time at a slower pace - especially during the next couple of slow weeks due to the holidays.
"Technically" yes, but per my reply, I believe this will not actually simplify your migration, and in fact will create more work in the long run.
- I agree with Hunter - the approach & steps will work, but with a little more effort, you could do a cutover migration that will achieve the desired end result (all data in the cloud) with less work required from the end users, and less opportunities for user error.
I did my migration last night and had a few minor issues. I flicked the switch to go from my on site Exchange 2007 to Office 365 and that was pretty simple. Even the DNS entries were automated via the Admin Center (which I didn't expect so a nice surprise).
I did have a problem configuring the Outlook client to talk to Office 365 but a call to Microsoft fixed me up - we connected using IMAP and it all worked. I expected I could just create a new Outlook profile and go but apparently since I was using Outlook 2010 and 2013 I had to use IMAP instead.
Then I imported my PSTs and tested - all working for my 4 users in around 5 hours. I'm still not sure why the Azure upload was taking so long but I just knew it wasn't an option for me.
All in all, it went a lot better than I expected. But of course this was a very simple migration - 4 users with around 20GB total of data.
And the help that Microsoft provided was outstanding - I know they get a lot of bad press and I've had my issues with them but I talked to two different people over the last couple of days and they were very good to deal with.
I appreciate all the input on my questions :)
- Glad to hear it went well for you!
An observation - not sure why you would need to use IMAP for Outlook 2013?? It natively supports Office 365 - but connecting to it may have been impacted by autodiscover records on your local environment pointing back to EX2007.
