Steps for How to migrate from an IMAP server to Office 365
Announcement posted by Soma Technology Group 29 Nov 2018
The article opens up about converting your mail from an IMAP server to Office 365, you can migrate all your IMAP data to office 365 through third party tool. Before migrating your emails from an IMAP server, you need to ground first for the online exchange. Firstly, you need to formulate user sources and target servers for mail migration then you are all set to use any of the available online website for migration process. Mean while the migration took place to office365, you need to clean up the destination for further process. Further, you need to read and swot over office 365 migration that will ease your migration, additionally it will make the process quick than an instinctive solution. All you need to follow the steps to perform migration process.
Here you find step by step guideline on how to perform migration of emails from IMAP to Office 365 with Office 365 Migration software. Before you start you need to do a little task.
The premigration task to migrate from IMAP server to Office365 is:
• Open office 365 and create your conventional domain then verify it by following up the instruction that displays the verification process.
• It is mandatory to recreate IMAP server users in Office 365 for those who are migrating to office 365.
• There are two ways to perform the task, one is to run it automatically Office 365 Migration or you can do it manually as well.
• You need to assure that your admin account should have all necessary roles assigned in it that you use to connect to the target tenant.
• Office 365 admin’s email address you create must get activated over the new domain. You can check it by visiting the Office 365 admin tab then users and group, here you find the details of account holder.
• You are now set to assign Office 365 licenses to your mailboxes. You can either do it manually or use automatic way by using Soma IT Office 365 Migration that will create an automatic mailbox and assign licenses to them. You can also find the manual instruction easily on other sites.
• Here you need to create a CSV file holding, the credentials of the user account because of the protocol restriction of IMAP.
• Now it’s time to know your IP or IMAP email address.
• The process is complete you can activate your account by installing it.
It’s easy to migrate and configure the migration office 365 tool. All you need to follow the steps to set up the program:
1. Open the program; in the dashboard you will witness a link “create a migration job”. Click the link then select “Migration job from IMAP server” to start the process.
2. Select name of your choice for the migration file and click to Next button.
3. You need to configure your IMAP server to your connection and provide the server details you have been working till now. Click the next button and close the tab and return to migration job wizard.
4. You need to describe which mailbox you are willing to migrate your data from IMAP to office 365.
5. You are now set to connect to the target office 365 tenant.
6. Configure your server connection then you are ready to match source and target mailboxes. You can either perform it manually or you can also do it automatically by using Automatch options.
7. Time filter, scheduler, advanced setting is the options you need to configure related to your migration job.
8. After you finish the migration job, click start button at the top to run the process. The process time might differ, depending on the data and environment.
9. After the end of the last process now you are able to see the items you have migrated, in case you find any file missing in your new setup, you only have to rescan and run it again to migrate remaining files.
10. If you receive any new email while migrating your data, you can also have them on your office 365 by running the rescan option. Now your migration is completed.
Your migration process is done. Once your email from your IMAP server is transferred to your Office 365 then you need to change the MX record to point mail flow to your new Office 365 server. This process is time consuming and might take several hours, during the MX record if you notice any new item; you can rescan to have them. After this you are done with you IMAP server migration to Office 365.