Migrating to cloud is the powerful way to keep and access user’s data . Cloud environment offers on demand access to user’s information . You can move on-premise mailbox items emails, contact, calendar, etc., to Online Exchange. Users can access their data on demand.
There are different ways for the migration of data from Exchange to Office 365.
1. Cut over migration
2. Staged migration
3. Remote move
4. IMAP Migration
Each methods put some limitations over the migration process. So it is better to switch on to third party tool like EdbMails Exchange migration office 365 .
The tool helps you to migrate mailboxes from almost all Exchange server versions to Office 365 . No size limitation on the mailboxes.
Migrate Exchange 2013 Mailboxes to Exchange Online:
You get the option of move migration wizard in the Office 365 tab of the Exchange Admin Center. It helps to move mailboxes from on-premise Exchange to Exchange Online (vice versa too).
Follow these steps to migrate on-premises Exchange mailboxes to Office 365-
Go to Office 365 in EAC
Click Add and choose to Migrate to Exchange Online under Recipients>Migration.
On the, select a migration type page, select Remote move migration, then click next. It will take you to Select the Users page.
Then click Add. Here you get the option to select on-premises Exchange users in case you want to migrate to Office 365. Then you have to click Add, then Ok, then Next.
Then put the credentials of the on-premises administrator. Enter the Windows user account credential page.
Make sure that your on-premises Exchange Server (FDQN) is there on the “Confirm the Migration” endpoint page. Then, click next.
In the Move configuration page, create a migration batch. You can do this by providing the required details. Then, click Next at the end.
Finally, at the Start the batch page, choose one recipient to receive the report. After batch completion, check the automatically complete the migration batch Box. Click New.