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Robert K
Feb 09, 2017Brass Contributor
How do I migrate old mails from PST file or public folder into a Group?
I have to migrate several old projects into (new) Office Groups. One of the tasks is to 'import' (lots of) old mails for reference. Sometimes I have old (and shared) PST files as source. In other cas...
Brad Waddle
Copper Contributor
Hot off the presses:
Use batch migration to migrate Exchange 2010 public folders to Office 365 Groups
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt843875(v=exchg.150).aspx
Phil Margetts
May 31, 2018Brass Contributor
Cheers, Brad. Do you (or anyone else) know whether this will work for migrating a O365 user's mailbox to the O365 group?
Phil
- rob_nicholson_heliosNov 27, 2019Brass ContributorA year later and still no migration tools for site mailboxes, kind of associated with this. One can export to PST and wasn't it possible to import PST into public folder. Could then use public folder -> group migration or is that route blocked for Exchange online?
Amazing at lack of migration tools within Microsoft's own software suite. I can't believe it's not possible to write a program to read a PST and write to Office 365 group conversation. Yes, I appreciate the threading will probably be lost but we can put up with that. To be honest, most users hate group conversation mode compared to how Outlook/Public folders did it.