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18Feb2016

How-to migrate Email from Small Business Server 2008/2011 or Exchange Server 2007/2010 to Office 365 with Zero Downtime

Update: Please refer to this newer article. Some of the details here are very dated--like there is no hybrid key anymore--and the activation only works on 2016, not 2019, plus we have minimal hybrid now, etc., etc. A "minimal hybrid" approach is preferred if you're just doing a quick...
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25Jan2016

Manage Office 365 Mailboxes using Directory Synchronization w/o Hybrid Exchange

When you have a hybrid environment configured between Exchange 2010 or 2013 and Office 365, then you will probably have noticed that mailbox creation and management happens on-premises. For example, to create a new mailbox, you would initiate this process from the local Exchange server instead of the Office 365...
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14Jan2016

Comparing Office 365 Migration Methods

At the time of this writing, Microsoft offers three primary migration paths from on-premises Exchange servers into Office 365: Cut-over, Staged and Remote Move.*  In this series I would like to discuss each of them, and highlight the differences.

Cut-over migration

The first option is the cut-over migration. Cut-over can be used with...
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11Jan2016

Why a “Hybrid” or Remote Move Migration is Always the Right Choice

True, hybrid does require more up-front configuration, and of course there are those pesky pre-requisite requirements of having Exchange 2010 or 2013, as well as Azure AD Connect for Directory Synchronization. But the benefits do outweigh these concerns—trust me. The overall time commitment to your migration project will plummet with a hybrid...
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