until now we are manually creating customers and mailboxes via cloudpanel.
But we are facing new projects where we would like to migrate new customers wich have on-premise exchange servers.
we would like to use migration tools that can migrate all mailboxes including rights to our exchange using cloud panel.
For instance codetwo mail migration tool.
is this possible or would cloudpanel get in the way of this ?
Tham
CloudPanel would not be in the way. You can create all the users with CloudPanel and then use a product like MigrationWiz to migrate the mailbox data from the source to the destination mailbox.
Keep in mind none of these actually take care of the Outlook Profiles or mobile devices setup with the old server. You still have to do that manually or with GPO.
Sorry if I pull this Topic back from the Bottom but I kinda have the same Question.
Currently many of our Customers have they own Exchange but like an older 2007/2010 version and they now want to have it hosted by us.
Is there any recommendet Tool out there to get Organisations easy sinced?
Like the Public Folders and User Based Calendar, Contacts etc.
Jacob Dixon 2018-04-05 09:03
In my experience your best way is still going to be MigrationWiz or if you want to save cost and since they have Exchange, you can export the mailboxes to PST. So:
- Generate a CSV from their current environment and import into CloudPanel, creating their users and mailboxes
- Disable SCP lookup in their domain so it won’t autodiscover their Exchange on-site.
- Choose a night to move MX records and autodiscover records over to your environment (check local DNS because their server may have a zone for their domain you have to update also)
- Wait a couple hours after the MX and autodiscover changes, and then export all mailboxes from their Exchange to a PST.
- Next morning go on-site to retrieve the PST or upload over the WAN (if they have enough bandwidth) and start importing on your side. At the same time we typically would have someone on-site helping with the Outlook changes and such.
Using MigrationWiz would help with moving the data but you still need to change their devices over to your mail server. Unfortunately there isn’t a good way to do like a hybrid setup that you can do with Exchange 2010/2013/2016 and Office 365. Besides a hybrid setup takes a lot of time to setup anyways if you are not familiar with it.
Thanks for the Answer. MigrationWiz is no Option for us since theyr licensing model is kinda … duh… . So I guess ill go with the PST Method you mentioned above. Thanks for your Help =)
