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Convert O356 Group to personal mailbox
Im trying to convert a O365 group to a personal mailbox.
I'll do it manually, because I know that there is no way to do this in Exchange Center.
My O365 group is client1@mydomain.com. I already created a personal mailbox named client1-mail@mydomain.com
So this is my plan:
- Migrate all the mails from the group to the personal mailbox
- Change group mailbox alias to client1-old@mydomain.com
- Change personal mailbox alias to client1@mydomain.com
Do you think this is possible? is the best approach?
and finally, is there a way to send all the O365 old mails to the personal mailbox?
Thank you in advance and sorry about my english.
You will have to export the old messages manually, which is also a bit tricky for Groups as you cannot use the export functionality in Outlook. You either have to use some EWS-based tool or do an eDiscovery against the group, export the results to PST and import them to the new mailbox. Still a better approach than copying them all manually via OWA/Outlook 🙂
Thank you for your comment VasilMichev .
I was thinking in the next workaround:
- Add client1-mail@mydomain.com (personal mailbox) as member of group client1. So I can see the historical conversation of group.
- Change client1@mydomain.com (group) alias to client1-old@mydomain.com
- Change domain of client1-mail@mydomain.com (personal) to client1@mydomain.com
- Remove all members of the group except by client1@mydomain.com
- Hi,
did your procedure work?
- Unfortunately there is not a "supported" way to do this so you will have to go ahead with your approach (I recommend you to test it first carefully to validate the procedure)...there was a similar discussion a while ago here with similar conclusions: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Convert-O365-Group-to-Shared-MB/m-p/180520
