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Steps for Exchange to Office 365 Migration

Follow step by step guide to Transfer Data from Exchange to Office 365 account using SysTools Migrator.

Pre-Requisites

Pre-requisites for Exchange as source

Pre-requisites for Office 365 as destination

Note: Before starting the migration please make sure about the destination domain name(e.g., @domain.com, @domain.onmicrosoft.com, or hosted domains), as this cannot be changed later, because the software licenses will be consumed and these cannot be revoked afterwards.

Step by Step Guide to Carry Out Migration

STEP 1

Download and Launch the migration tool.

If your tool is not activated, then see the activation steps here. Activation Steps

Tool provides the help section for the details about each migration mode. Click on "Help" button to view this section.

Help Context

To enable advance settings for Concurrent migration (optional). Read more: Advance Settings

Then, you will get this screen where you can select Source & Destination Account.

SysTools Migrator

STEP 2

Select “Exchange” as a source platform and “Office 365” as destination platform.

enter source and destination users

STEP 3

In the same screen, select the categories that you want to migrate from Exchange to Office 365 under the Workload Selection.

workload screen

STEP 4

After making required changes, click on Next button.

filters

STEP 5

Enter all the required Exchange Server details:

Admin Account Must be Impersonated. You can find the steps here: Exchange Impersonation

Source screen

STEP 6

After filling all the required details, click on Validate button.

provide details

STEP 7

After validating, the permissions will be granted to the source user. Click on Next button.

validate

STEP 8

In Destination window, provide Admin Email and Application ID.   Steps to Get Application ID

Click on Validate for permission validation. Hit the Next button.

Office 365 as destination

STEP 9

On the Users screen, there are several ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be processed.

users

Fetch Users: It will fetch all the users from Source domain.

users

Import Users: This will import users through CSV.

users

Download Template: In this option, you will get a sample CSV file in which you can add source and destination users manually.

users

STEP 10

The list of users is displayed on the screen.

user list

Import a Group mapping file which provides mapping between Source & Destination domain groups.

user list

Mention the Group IDs of both source and destination accounts.

user list

Now, browse the CSV file and add the user groups into tool by clicking on Upload button.

user list

You can select users based on the Priority and view the Selected Users only.

priority

STEP 11

Click on Validate to authorize selected user source and destination resources.

validate users

STEP 12

After the validation is successfully completed it will show against the Destination permissions. Click on Start Migration after that.

Validation Completed

Users can also Stop Migration if required while the migration is In Progress.

Stop Migration

STEP 13

You can view the Migration Status in multiple formats.

List View:

List View

Tile View:

Tile View

STEP 14

You can check the mailboxes with complete migration under Completed tab.

status

STEP 15

After completion of migration, click on the Download Report button to generate the detailed migration report.

Download report

The tool provides two options for downloading the reports:

Summary Report: The summary report will be a single .csv file containing migration reports of all the selected users for migration.

migration summary

Detailed Report: Here, you get the option to save the detailed migration report of the mailboxes you want to. Select the mailbox and click on Download button.

report downloaded

Choose the destination location where you want to save the Detailed Report.

report downloaded

STEP 16

Re-Run Migration option is also provided in order to perform the migration again.

migration options

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