Manual Methods to Migrate Exchange 2013 to Microsoft Office 365
Exchange Cutover Migration – This method carries out the migration of all mailboxes in one go. As all the On-Premise mailboxes are transferred simultaneously, it makes it difficult for the users to process a large number of mailboxes. This approach supports up to 2000 mailboxes but is best suited for 150 or fewer mailboxes and can be used for Exchange 2016, 2013, 2010, and 2007.
Exchange Staged Migration – This approach is useful when the organization wants to transfer many Exchange mailboxes. But it has a limitation associated with it i.e. it only supports Exchange 2003 and 2007. Therefore, if an organization is using any of these versions, then it can choose staged migration.
Hybrid Exchange Migration – The hybrid migration process is best-suitable if there are many Exchange mailboxes to be migrated. This method helps an organization maintain online and On-Premise mailboxes and progressively migrate data into Microsoft Office 365 cloud. Although this process is smooth, it is complex and time taking as it is carried out in small batches.
If a user skips a step during the migration, the process remains incomplete. You can use this approach to migrate Exchange 2013 to Office 365 as well as Exchange 2010 mailboxes.
IMAP-Based Migration – This is a slow and long process. In the IMAP email migration process, you first have to create user accounts on Office 365 cloud and then start migrating email messages. This takes a lot of time and effort and only exports emails to the destination account.
Excessive maintenance leads to avoidable downtime and higher costs. It’s always better to switch your paradigm to a more useful, less distracting, and cost-effective Microsoft Office 365 and to Migrate Exchange 2013 to Office 365.
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