Stage Migration - Links and Resources

The following post includes many useful links to: articles, videos, PowerShell scripts and tools that relate to the subject of Stage Migration process (migration from Exchange on-Premises server to Exchange Online) in Office 365 and Exchange Online environment.

Stage Migration | Office 365

Office 365 offers a variety of methods for mail migration. Each of the mail migration methods is designed for specific organizational needs and structure. The best practice is to understand the difference between each of the mail migration methods and after choosing the most appropriate migration method, implement the migration process as a workflow that includes steps such as: Learn, plan, deploy, verify, troubleshooting and so on.

Various former times in which there was no much written information about the method of Stage Migration, in the current time, the main issue is related to the phenomena of TMI (Too Much Information) and, the main task is: how to find to the most relevant information from the Microsoft (and other such as mine) web sites.

To be able to save your precious time, I have collected many relevant sources of information that relate to Stage Migration. I hope that the following links will help with the task of implementing Stage Migration.

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Stage Migration | Plan

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Migration to Office 365 \| General information
What you need to know about a staged email migration to Office 365
Exchange Server Migrations
Mailbox Migration to Exchange Online
How to migrate mailbox data by using the Exchange Admin Center in Office 365
Stage Migration \| Plan
Factors that affect Exchange Online Migration performance
Office 365 Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange Server 2013
Planning and Deployment

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Generate Exchange Environment Reports using Powershell	Info As an Exchange administrator, there’s times when it’s useful to have a visual, straightforward and concise document that gives you a good overview of your environment. This script generates a HTML report and can be scheduled and emailed. Compatible with Exchange 2003 – 2013

Stage Migration | Pre Migration operations

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Stage Migration \| Deploy \| Pre Migration operations
Enable Outlook Anywhere (Exchange 2010)
How to Enable Outlook Anywhere (Exchange 2007)
How to Configure Outlook Anywhere with Exchange 2003

Stage Migration | Deploy

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Stage Migration \| Deploy
Staged Exchange Migration
Migrate Mailboxes to Exchange Online with a Staged Migration
Migrate a Subset of Mailboxes to the Cloud with a Staged Exchange Migration
Manage Migration Batches in Exchange Online
How to migrate mailbox data by using the Exchange Admin Center in Office 365
Prepare a CSV File for a Staged Exchange Migration
Set up your desktop for Office 365

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant	Info The Exchange Server Deployment Assistant is the IT pro’s source for Exchange deployment technical guidance. Tell us what kind of deployment you’re interested in, answer a few questions about your environment, and then view Exchange deployment instructions created just for you.

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Stage Migration \| Video Links
Office 365 Staged Migration Deep Dive	Info Using a staged migration, you’d migrate batches of on-premises mailboxes to Exchange Online over the course of a few weeks or months. This video will show all the steps to perform a Staged Migration.
Understanding simple Migration – IMAP, Cutover and Staged Migrations	Info Our latest Office Ignite Webcast discusses Office 365 migrations. We will get an overview of migration capabilities, limitations and available tools. The migrations discussed will include Cutover and Staged migrations.
01 \| Preparing On-Premises Exchange Environment for Migration	Info In this module you will learn how to prepare the On-Premises Exchange Environment for Migration. This is a self paced interactive learning experience. When module is completed make sure you return to this page to continue with the next module. Click on the materials below. These materials are external documents and will open in a new window. Please come back to this page once you have reviewed them.
Exchange Online Migrations \| General \| Video Links
Exchange Online: Migrating Mailboxes to Office 365	Info In this 300 level session, you will learn the various migration paths for moving email services and mailboxes from an on-premise mail system (Exchange or IMAP) to Exchange Online. We’ll review the considerations that should be made in understanding a customer environment and the implications each migration method brings for business continuity, as well as step you through the actual migration process. Finally, we’ll cover any post-migration steps, equipping you to see a mail migration to Exchange Online through to completion.
Office 365: Mailbox Migration Strategies	Info In the 200 level Office 365 Migration Strategies Overview session, you will learn the options for migrating mailboxes to Office 365, considerations for choosing a particular migration strategy, and an overview of basic and advanced migration methods.
Real World Deployment Scenarios	Info Are you looking to deploy Office 365? Are you a seasoned pro at Office 365 deployment, but want to learn more? This Ignite Webcast will fill your deployment needs as Loryan Strant and members of the Microsoft Support team discuss Real World Deployment Scenarios. From 30 to 30,000 seats, deployment fits many different scenarios. Learn more about this and some of the best tricks of the trade during our Ignite Webcast.
Preparing for an Office 365 Exchange E-mail Transition – Lync and Learn	Info Transitioning e-mail services from a legacy Exchange e-mail system to Office 365 may seem like a complex project. Migrations require expertise in several technical disciplines: Windows Server, Exchange, network design, Active Directory / Identity Management, desktop support and more. Office 365 projects depend on good planning and preparation. During this Lync and Learn session, Scott Cameron will discuss the steps you can take before an Office 365 e-mail transition and some of the tools you can use to help ensure a successful migration.
Office 365 Mailbox Migration Velocity Best Practices	Info There are many paths to migrate data from an on-premises email organization to Exchange Online in Office 365. When planning a migration to Exchange Online, a common question is about how to improve the performance of data migration and optimize migration velocity. This session provides informations on the most common best practices.This module provides an overview of the main best practices which should be followed to perform a swift and smooth migration to Exchange Online.
Mailbox Migration Strategies Overview	Info Which migration method is right for your organization? It depends on your existing email organization, how many mailboxes you want to migrate, and whether you want to manage user accounts in your on-premises Exchange organization or in Office 365. During this module we will cover all the aspects that we should evaluate when selecting the migration method.
Office 365 Administration for Small Business: (07) Exchange Online Deployment and Migration	Info Now that you know the basic administration, learn deployment consideration and the various migration options. [01:06] – Deployment Considerations [04:20] – Migration Options Decision Framework [08:05] – Simple Migration [11:58] – Exchange Cutover Migration [19:54] – Staged Migration [24:05] – Remote Move Migration

Stage Migration | Troubleshooting

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Stage Migration \| Troubleshooting
Error message when you try to migrate users from an on-premises Exchange Server environment to Exchange Online in Office 365: “Unable to connect to the server”
You receive the following error message in the Office 365 portal: “A user with this name already exists. Use a different name.”
We weren’t able to connect to the remote server error when you try to migrate from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online
Troubleshoot Active Migration Errors
Error message when you move mailboxes from an on-premises environment to Office 365: “Mailbox Move to the cloud fail with error”
Office 365 \| Troubleshooting \| General
Office 365 Knowledge Base Library
Stage Migration \| Troubleshooting \| Client side \| Outlook
Correcting Autodiscover and DNS settings
Fix Outlook connection issues

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Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer	Info About Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA)-Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site that allows you and your users to quickly test connectivity, availability and functionality of your on-premises Exchange and Lync servers and Office 365 services. You can access it at exrca.com. For more details about the variety of tests included in RCA, see What’s new with Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer?
Test Outlook Anywhere Connectivity	Info You can test for end-to-end client Outlook Anywhere connectivity by using either the Shell or the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA). This includes testing for connectivity through the Autodiscover service, creating a user profile, and signing in to the user’s mailbox. All the required values are retrieved from the Autodiscover service.
Office365 Outlook Connectivity Guided Walkthrough	Info Welcome to the Outlook connectivity guided walkthrough. The goal of this guided walkthrough is to enable you to isolate and resolve any connectivity or performance issues that you are experiencing when you connect your Microsoft Outlook client to an Office 365 mailbox.
New Remote Connectivity Analyzer Tests for Mail Flow	Info About Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer (RCA)>Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site that allows you and your users to quickly test connectivity, availability and functionality of your on-premises Exchange and Lync servers and Office 365 services. You can access it at exrca.com. For more details about the variety of tests included in RCA, see What’s new with Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer?
Office 365 Best Practices Analyzer for your PC	Info The Office 365 Best Practices Analyzer for your PC is an automated tool that tells you whether your PC is ready for Office 365.This tool only works on PCs with -Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, 64-bit and Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, 64-bit
MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit

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Stage Migration \| Troubleshooting \| Tools \| Video Links
Microsoft Remote connectivity analyzer & MOSDAL support tool kit	Info Learn about Service Management, Troubleshooting Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
Service Management, Troubleshooting Exchange Online and SharePoint Online	Info Learn about Service Management, Troubleshooting Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
Office 365 Troubleshooting common migration Issues	Info When migrating to Office 365 there are a number of issues which can occur. This session provides a list of the most common ones and their solutions.
Outlook – Client-side Troubleshooting Tools	Info This video discusses some troubleshooting steps you can take to isolate and resolve problems with Outlook, including Profile Architecture, using Profile Testing to isolate issues, the Connection Status Dialog, and testing e-mail autoconfiguration.Video Recorded by Will Brandt, Senior Technical Lead for Microsoft

Stage Migration | Complete the Migration process

Stage Migration | Post Migration operations

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Windows PowerShell script to collect information from Exchange Online mailboxes	Info Attached is a Windows PowerShell script that you run in your Exchange 2007 on-premises Exchange organization to collect information about the cloud mailboxes that you migrated to Office 365 during a staged Exchange migration. It uses a Comma Separated Value (CSV) input file to scope the batch of mailboxes that it collects information for. The collected properties are saved to a CSV file named Cloud.csv. This script is specifically designed to work with the Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 script, which is used to convert Exchange 2007 mailboxes to mail-enabled users after a staged Exchange migration.
Script to convert Exchange 2007 mailboxes to mail-enabled users	Info Attached is a Windows PowerShell script that you run in your Exchange 2007 on-premises Exchange organization to collect information about the cloud mailboxes that you migrated to Office 365 during a staged Exchange migration. It uses a Comma Separated Value (CSV) input file to scope the batch of mailboxes that it collects information for. The collected properties are saved to a CSV file named Cloud.csv. This script is specifically designed to work with the Exchange2007MBtoMEU.ps1 script, which is used to convert Exchange 2007 mailboxes to mail-enabled users after a staged Exchange migration.
Convert Exchange 2007 mailboxes to mail-enabled users after a staged Exchange Migration	Info If you’ve completed a staged Exchange migration to migrate your organization’s Exchange 2007 on-premises mailboxes to Office 365, you can convert the on-premises mailboxes to mail-enabled users (MEUs). Doing this lets you manage the new cloud-based mailboxes from your on-premises organization using Active Directory. Converting on-premises mailboxes to MEUs also allows the Autodiscover service to connect Outlook to the cloud mailbox after a user creates a new Outlook profile.

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Office 365 \| DNS Records management \| General \| Video Links
Change DNS settings at your domain registrar	Info Change your name server records to point to Office 365 name servers. This lets Office 365 automatically set up email and other services for you.
How to: Creating DNS autodiscover record in Office 365	Info Understanding how to create a DNS Autodiscover record for Outlook clients
Change DNS records to set up Office 365 Enterprise services	Info Set up DNS records so that your custom domain works with your Office 365 email and other services.
Office 365 \| DNS Records management \| Troubleshooting \| Video Links
Troubleshooting DNS issues – Office 365 Expert Discussions #3	Info Our latest Office 365 Expert Discussion will be an in-depth view of troubleshooting DNS (Domain) configuration issues. DNS is a core technology running on Office 365, and our third Expert Discussion Series will cover the best practices and troubleshooting tips for DNS. Jeremy Kelly, Principle Escalation Engineer for Microsoft and members of the Microsoft Support team will be presenting the first part of the meeting and then questions will be taken live afterward.
Troubleshooting Exchange Online DNS Configuration for Office 365	Info In this video we show you how to troubleshoot problems with Office 365 Exchange Online domain name system (DNS) records. This video is for global administrators of Office 365 enterprise and Office 365 midsize business

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Decommissioning Exchange on Premises server
Modify or Remove Exchange 2010
How to Completely Remove Exchange 2007 from a Server
How to remove Exchange 2007 from a computer
How to Uninstall Exchange Server 2003