Steps to Migrate Zimbra to Microsoft 365

Follow All the Steps to Migrate Zimbra to Microsoft 365 by using SysTools Zimbra to Office 365 Migrator

Pre-Requisites

Following are the Steps to Migrate Zimbra to Office 365

Download and Launch the Zimbra to Office 365 Migration Tool.

In case, tool is not activated, see how to activate the product: Activation Steps

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

Help Pane

STEP 1

Now, Select Zimbra as Source & Microsoft 365 as Destination.

Zimbra to O365

STEP 2

Under the Workload Selection, you will see Email, Calendar, Contact, and Documents checkbox. Keep the checkboxes enabled.

workloads

STEP 3

Date Filter Option is available in this tool to migrate only selective data from Source Zimbra Server to Office 365.

Date Filter

STEP 4

Here you need to perform the source side admin validation.

source page

Type Admin email of Zimbra Server in the space. Followed by the Password and IP Address. Then, click on the Validate Button

add details

After Validation click on Next.

Source Validation Done

STEP 5

Here you need to perform the destination admin validation validate "Microsoft 365 Permissions".

scanning mode

Put the admin email ID and the application ID, then click on Validate.

fill admin details

After Validation click on Next.

destination data validated

STEP 6

In the Users screen, there are three ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be migrated.

 Users screen

Fetch Users: This will get users directly.

scan partition

Import Users: This will import users through CSV.

scan partition

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

STEP 7

Here we Use the Fetch Option to Automatically Accumulate user list. Select User Fetch and press Continue.

User Fetching

The tool shows the number of users fetched. Click on OK.

User Fetching Done

STEP 8

View the entire Users list, there are two ways in which you can add users from the source account that needs to be migrated.

view user list

Mark checkbox for the users you want to migrate. Apply star icon to assign priority filter. Toggle show selected to only see the users whose are selected. Then press Validate

Validate

User Validation happens in realtime.

validation ongoing

Once User Validation completes click on OK.

validation completes

STEP 9

Verify the Validated workloads. Then, press Start Migration.

Start Migration

A popup with the license count available and license count consumed is shown. Press Start.

license count

A migration started sucessfully message appears. Click OK.

migration started sucessfully

STEP 10

Upon the start of Migration one user account can be in one of 3 stages. In Progress tab ios for accounts currently under migration.

In Progress

Pending tab contains the account in waitlist for migration.

Completed tab holds all accounts whose migration is done.

Completed tab

STEP 11

You can stop migration midway.

stop migration

Confirm Stop.

Confirm Stop

STEP 12

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

View Summary Report.

migration summary

Detailed Report: Here, you get the option to save the detailed migration report of the mailboxes you want to.

report downloaded

Select the mailbox and click on Download button.

report downloaded

Save Zipped Detailed Report.

report downloaded

Unzip report.

report downloaded

View Detailed Report.

report downloaded

STEP 13

A varity of re migration options are available:

re migration options

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