Easymail migration to Office 365

[snagrat]

Digging up this again..

Can anyone tell me about folder migration from easymail to Office 365? Several users are asking whether they can keep their folders once we go over and I am struggling to find an answer.

 

As in folder structure of manually created folders?

 

If so yes all folders are copied.

[witch]

That's good news?

Thanks

[witch]

...and there's more

The HT came to me today to ask if it might be possible to get this done by the end of term - as Easymail are going to enforce a better password policy in Sept so everything will have to change and I will be back to square one..

 

I pointed out that I hadn't been allowed to get the SLT and Office passwords so I would not be able to say whether or not they will have the same issues as all the others. I can get the MX record changed over and easymail left alone so we will have parallel systems for a while.

Really though - why wait till now? He is also about to put in an order for a new IT suite to be installed at the back end of the summer (depending on my availability - hmmmm - term-time only, no overtime.....)

 

I do have a question though. Looking at my email migration, I notice that it has stopped and if I restart it, it only does it once and stops again. I was led to believe that it would keep syncing until I stopped it myself.

It is a pain as I will have to keep starting it to make sure things are all migrated. Have I done something wrong? Can anyone help?

[witch]

It gets worse

Because the migration will need to be restarted multiple times I have now amalgamated all 55 users into one csv. I had done them separately so that I could see at a glance which ones failed - but now they all work I can put them into one synchronisation - or so I thought...

I have had the csv file checked over by microsoft - it looks fine and when I queue up the job it states "55 mailboxes"

I have come in this morning to find it saying "synced" but with 0 mailboxes and 0 failures - no error message of any kind.

This is all way above my pay grade - has anyone any ideas please?

[snagrat]

Have you deleted other batches? Can't have more than one migration with same user.

 

Delete all the individual ones and start it again

[witch]

The other batches all have different names and according to microsoft, that is fine - but yes, I have deleted them all anyway (which will be a complete pain if I have to reinstate them )

[snagrat]

Name doesn't matter. It's the account names with the batch that matters.

 

Hit the refresh button as sometime they show as deleted but then show as removing and you need to wait for it to be fully removed

[witch]

Nope

Definitely everything is gone and the new batch won't work

 

Tried to connect to exchange online using Powershell on the instructions of my brilliant Microsoft tech. Kept erroring out (see attached)

Spoke to SWGfL who said "if you can connect to Office 365 then there isn't a problem and we don't support Office 365 anyway"

Yay!

 

powershell failure.docx

[snagrat]

Delete all te batches and start again with your new 55 user one.

[witch]

Done that

[snagrat]

On your powershell error should it be ConnectionURL no uri?

[snagrat]

And you hit the refresh button to fully ensure all batches were not in a removing state?

[witch]

YES

I have been doing this for %^&*^% months now

I removed everything last night

refreshed it this morning

all gone

restarted batch

Failed

Rang Microsoft guy (who got me through before)

He tried to connect to exchange servers via powershell

Failed

Never seen this before, apparently

ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[edutech4schools]

has anyone any ideas please?

 

Google Apps for Education????

 

All the Office 365 schools I know have had issues migrating, they got there but not without issues. Not very helpful for you but hay ho.

[Boredguy]

Ok @witch, try this as it might be a proxy server issue

 

$proxysettings = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig
$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -SessionOption $proxysettings

[witch]

Boss wants Office 365

He's been prevaricating for months because he refuses to give me his and the DH and Office passwords, even though I have pointed out that as an Office 365 admin I can see all the emails anyway. Now easymail are going to enforce a password change soon, if we don't move I will have to spend another goodness knows how long getting all 62 new passwords at the beginning of next term.

Now - 9 days before the end of term he wants to get it done - so initially I thought I would amalgamate all my individual csvs to clear it up and then I could create a new one with the 4 missing accounts when I get given the info.

Then I have to get out all the Office 365 passwords and field the "how do I get in to my emails" questions

As well as creating all the new users for next year and getting three new laptops (which may or may not be able to use a current image - bet I know which!) on line and sorted before the end of term. All on three hours a day alongside the usual raft of problems and such

[snagrat]

I don't mind taking a look. I've done lots of EasyMail migration without any issues.

 

But would involve giving me access to your account of course.

 

Feel free to PM me if you want me to look.

[witch]

Ok @witch, try this as it might be a proxy server issue

 

$proxysettings = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig
$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -SessionOption $proxysettings

 

Sorry - know nothing about PowerShell

At what point do I put this in?

[witch]

I don't mind taking a look. I've done lots of EasyMail migration without any issues.

 

But would involve giving me access to your account of course.

 

Feel free to PM me if you want me to look.

 

Thanks

My immediate response was "well, bully for you - I'm just stupid then" but I think that might be because I am really really um annoyed with this load of..data

[witch]

I've left now - will be back there tomorrow at about 11am

I'll have a look and see what is going on then - I deleted everything and started again when I left

[Boredguy]

Sorry - know nothing about PowerShell

At what point do I put this in?

 

I was replying to the Powershell failure document you posted up earlier.

If you launch the Powershell application as you have been doing, but instead of using the normal $cred=Get-Credential and $Session = New-PSSession line use the 3 lines below it might allow you to connect (assuming your able to browse the internet via Internet Explorer at present on that computer running Powershell)

 

$cred=Get-Credential
$proxysettings = New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType IEConfig
$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/" -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection -SessionOption $proxysettings

[witch]

Yay - it all seems to be working now. I just restarted everything

 

Does anyone know what I can do about "sent items" in Easymail? Obviously they are not appearing in Office 365 but there is some important stuff in there?

[snagrat]

I thought it did import but under a different folder name. Like Outbox rather than Sent Items?

[Boredguy]

I believe they just get merged with the inbox.... Or at least my assistant thinks that happened when we did the test migration for our primary school he has the pleasure of looking after.

[witch]

I believe they just get merged with the inbox.... Or at least my assistant thinks that happened when we did the test migration for our primary school he has the pleasure of looking after.

 

You are right - they do. That's stupid - they are emails that have gone out, not come in!

He's not going to like that...