Exchange Online Migration From POP3
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@garak0410 said:
We are right at 50 users and purchased 55 licenses for future use...17 on E1 and the rest on basic email only. 5 are in the field and would need me to send them directions on changing the settings in their phone/tablets.
Why pay for licenses you're not using? You can literally add new users any time.
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@Dashrender said:
@garak0410 said:
We are right at 50 users and purchased 55 licenses for future use...17 on E1 and the rest on basic email only. 5 are in the field and would need me to send them directions on changing the settings in their phone/tablets.
Why pay for licenses you're not using? You can literally add new users any time.
With the office manager only wanting to be billed once a year with no autodraft on the card on a monthly charge, she made the decision to buy extra...didn't question it...
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Your Office365 will probably do all of this for you.
Huh?
Sorry. The word partner got missed.
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You can always run email servers side by side. MX records determine where the email goes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Your Office365 partner will probably do all of this for you.
How does the partner create new profiles on the end user machines?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Your Office365 partner will probably do all of this for you.
How does the partner create new profiles on the end user machines?
Same way as anyone else. You grant access. Many partners have migration teams that do this stuff.
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@scottalanmiller They wanted $5,000 to assist...I was thinking this wouldn't be too hard, even if I had to do it all in an evening...
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller They wanted $5,000 to assist...I was thinking this wouldn't be too hard, even if I had to do it all in an evening...
We are a partner that often does free migrations. Desktop profiles are never free but that price seems awfully high for so few users.
Did the partner offer something really compelling to make them a great option?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller They wanted $5,000 to assist...I was thinking this wouldn't be too hard, even if I had to do it all in an evening...
We are a partner that often does free migrations. Desktop profiles are never free but that price seems awfully high for so few users.
Did the partner offer something really compelling to make them a great option?
No...except lowest price I could get...
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@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@garak0410 said:
@scottalanmiller They wanted $5,000 to assist...I was thinking this wouldn't be too hard, even if I had to do it all in an evening...
We are a partner that often does free migrations. Desktop profiles are never free but that price seems awfully high for so few users.
Did the partner offer something really compelling to make them a great option?
No...except lowest price I could get...
But that said, I've YET to complete the sign up so they have not been given credit for it... :0
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You kinda need downtime. There is a period of time
Isn't the price set my MS? The price comes from them not the partners. We, as a partner, can't vary the price only raise the service level.
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Can I ask what price you got?
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Back in topic....
You don't need downtime per se. But...
You have many hours while the MX records propagate. During that time it is best to not have people using the email if you can help it.
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Uploading PSTs can be done after the core migration is done.
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Generally the main migration you want to do in a single shot. Like Friday night into Saturday.
Then once new emails are working and everyone is functional you look to migrate historic emails.
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@scottalanmiller has pretty much nailed this one.
But I suggest changing the TTL on your MX records to something extremely short a week before your migrate. This will simply let mail flow to the new destination faster.
Then setup Office 365. Get Outlook configured on all of the clients and send out an email with the information on how to connect their mobile device. Then flip the DNS and wait for mail to flow in.
Once mail is flowing in, hit each user and drag/drop their email from the PST folder to the new Office 365 folder. Outlook will then handle getting the old email sent up to Office 365.
Finally nuke the local PST files after August 31st and you have confirmed that each user is fully in sync -
@scottalanmiller said:
Can I ask what price you got?
For E1: $8.00 a person
For Just Exchange; $4.00 a person -
I haven't read every single post on the thread so forgive me if I repeat something someone says.
- Do not buy more licenses then you need right now there is no reason at all very easy to add and subtract as needed
- $5,000 to do a migration for 50 users!! Wow they are nuts. That is a MASSIVE amount of $$ for a small migration.
- SAM is right
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@scottalanmiller said:
Back in topic....
You don't need downtime per se. But...
You have many hours while the MX records propagate. During that time it is best to not have people using the email if you can help it.
I was thinking a Friday Night...going around to every workstation, setting up the new mail server info and then uploading the PST's. I'll send our mobile users home with directions on how to update their mobile devices (I am sure I'll get calls).
I was hoping I could at least set myself up on the new system and then slowly roll people to it...saw an article where people could still be on the POP3 (see original post) and on the new system but wasn't sure if that applied to my situation.
