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How to Staged migration mailbox To Office 365

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Staged migration

Staged migration enables migration from an on-premises Exchange 2003 or

Exchange 2007.

1.     Prepare a CSV file.

 

Attributes

Here are the attributes for each mailbox. The CSV file can only contain these attributes.

EmailAddress specifies the primary SMTP e-mail address for users’ on-premises mailbox. For example, pilarp@tailspintoys.com. This attribute is required.

Important   Be sure to use the primary SMTP address for on-premises mailboxes and not user IDs from the cloud-based organization. For example, if the on-premises domain is named tailspintoys.com but the cloud-based e-mail organization is named service.tailspintoys.com you would use the tailspintoys.com domain name for e-mail addresses in the CSV file.

Password is the password that will be set on the new cloud-based mailbox. Any password restrictions that are applied to your cloud-based organization apply to the passwords included in the CSV file. For more information, see Password Guidelines. This attribute is optional.

ForceChangePassword specifies whether a user must change the password the first time they sign in to their new cloud-based mailbox. Use either True or False for the value of this parameter. Other values are invalid. This attribute is optional.

Important   If you’ve implemented a single sign-on solution by deploying Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 in your on-premises organization, you must use False for the value of the ForceChangePassword attribute.

CSV file format

Here’s an example of the format for the CSV file. In this example, three on-premise mailboxes are migrated to the cloud.

EmailAddress,Password,ForceChangePassword

pilarp@tailspintoys.com,Pa$$w0rd,False

tobyn@tailspintoys.com,Pa$$w0rd,False

iant@tailspintoys.com,Pa$$w0rd,False

The first row, or header row, of the CSV file lists the names of the attributes, or fields, specified in the rows that follow. Each attribute name is separated by a comma.

Each row under the header row represents one user and supplies the information that will be used to migrate the user’s mailbox. The attribute values in each row must be in the same order as the attribute names in the header row. Each attribute value is separated by a comma.

Use any text editor, or an application like Microsoft Office Excel, to create the CSV file. Save the file as a .csv or .txt file.

  1. Sign in to the Office 365 portal (https://portal.office.com).
  2. Click Admin, and then click Exchange.
  3. Click Migration, click New (

), and then click Onboarding.

  1. Select the migration option that you want, and then click Next. Migration options are as follows:
    1. Remote move
    2. Staged migration
    3. Cutover migration
    4. IMAP

6.     On the “Select the mailboxes” screen, locate the CSV file that you created in step 1, and then click Next.

7.     Enter the credentials of your on-premises admin account, and then click Next.

8.     Enter a name for the migration batch, and then click Next. 

9.      Specify the admins in your Office 365 organization who should receive the migration report, select one of the following migration methods, and then click New:

 

    1. Automatically start the migration
    2. Manually start the migration later

via How to migrate mailbox data by using the Exchange Admin Center in Office 365.

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/ff959691(d=lightweight).aspx