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Email Migration Options - Migration vs Coexistence
Email Migration Options - Migration vs Coexistence
Difficulty
Beginner
Duration
22m
Students
196
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Description

In this course, you will learn about Microsoft 365 Messaging Migrations and Deployments.

Learning Objectives

  • Email migration options
  • Migrating from on-premises Exchange environment to Microsoft Exchange Online
  • Coexistence between an on-premises Exchange environment and Exchange Online
  • Migrating from third-party mail solutions to Exchange Online

Intended Audience

  • This course is intended for those who wish to learn about messaging migrations and deployments in Microsoft 365

Prerequisites

  • Have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365
Transcript

Welcome to Email Migration Options. In this lesson, we’ll take a quick look at the two ways that you can get to Exchange Online.

The first option is Migration, which, as you would expect by the name, is the movement of user data from your source messaging system to Exchange Online. In a typical migration scenario, the organization needs, or wants, to move all existing on-prem Exchange mailboxes to Exchange Online without any need for a long-term coexistence between the on-prem Exchange org and Exchange Online. 

Coexistence is the other option for getting to Exchange Online. This term refers to a hybrid Exchange environment. In other words, when you have coexistence, you maintain both the existing on-prem messaging solution AND Exchange Online at the same time. 

While coexistence DOES offer a smoother way to move mailboxes between on-prem mail servers and Exchange Online – often without the end users even knowing it’s happening - it also requires more work for mail administrators to setup and maintain.

I should point out that when using coexistence, organizations can choose to keep some mailboxes in the on-prem messaging systems, while migrating others to Exchange Online. It’s entirely acceptable to maintain long-term coexistence if needed. In other words, coexistence isn’t just a migration strategy. It can be a long-term solution as well, if an organization needs or wants to keep some mailboxes on-prem while moving others to the cloud.

Over the next several minutes, we’re going to take a look at the specific methods for migrating from an on-prem Exchange environment to Exchange Online in Microsoft 365.

 

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