Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Quest on Demand Email Migration to Office365


I do not mean to sound like a Quest Sales Man , But this product from Quest truly is a super product.

It allows you to migrate email from the following sources.

Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010
IMAP
Lotus Notes
Microsoft Bpos
Microsoft Live@edu
Microsoft Office365
Novell Groupwise
Sun One / iPlanet
Pop
Windows Live Hotmail

You can then migrate to the following targets

Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013
Office365
Microsoft Live@edu

So why would you use this service?

A couple of reasons, It is hosted in Windows Azure and can allow for zero touch migrations.Exchange 2007 messaging platforms upwards give us the ability to implement hybrid environments which can then create a platform which will allow rich co-existence and migration.

Its a hell of a lot cheaper than the full email migration products from quest.

It can migrate from Lotus Notes!!!

I have worked on quite a few corporate companies that  acquire companies. Extracting email from a business first before an AD consolidation project makes the AD consolidation project a lot easier and a tool like this allows zero touch email extraction into a companies own on-premise exchange messaging environment or into my preferred platform Office365.

I have taken some screen shots of how easy the wizard is to begin a migration. In this example I   wanted to migrate from Exchange 2010 to Office365 wave15. So before I did that , I created an application impersonation role in the exchange 2010 on-premise environment and one in the Office365 environment.



After that we sign into the Quest On Demand Portal HERE

Then agree to the service's agreement and select your data center location.

Then create a Migration Plan. There are four simple steps.

  1. Connect to the email services
  2. Import Mailboxes
  3. Choose what to migrate
  4. Migrate
On the connections tab you connect to the source exchange 2010 messaging platform and enter the credentials of an account that has the application impersonation. There is a test connection tab to verify connectivity.

Then you connect to the target , in this case Office365. You will need to add an exchange license to the office365 account in order to make it a member of the application impersonation group. Microsoft throttle the amount of data that can be migrated into Office365. So you can add multiple accounts for the target to increase migration throughput.

In section 2 you specify the source and target mailbox which is populated by a simple text file.
You then select what to migrate.

Finally you begin migration.

And once all the mail has been extracted from the business and when the ad consolidation project has been complete , you can refer to one of my previous blogs HERE on how to convert existing Office365 users to federated users.

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