Zimbra to Office 365 IMAP using admin credentials

[mariohi]

Hi all,

 

How csv file should look like? I'm trying:

 

EmailAddress,UserName,Password
[email protected],#[email protected]#[email protected]#,AdminPass

 

but it's not syncing - it says it did but nothing happened, no email. I did managed to sync using user credentials before.

 

Microsoft saying I should use:

EmailAddress,UserName,Password

 

[email protected],contoso-students/mailadmin/terry.adams,P@ssw0rd

[email protected],contoso-students/mailadmin/ann.beebe,P@ssw0rd

[email protected],contoso-students/mailadmin/paul.cannon,P@ssw0rd

 

but what would be right format for Zimbra from Link2ICT?

Edited March 19, 2015 by mariohi

[synaesthesia]

We had this, got it working in the end - trying to find the initial CSV!

 

* snip - here we go

 

 

EMailAddress,Username,Password
[email protected],#[email protected]#adminusername#,adminpassword

Edited March 19, 2015 by synaesthesia

[mariohi]

Had to edit it - code got bit scrambled (email format), but to me it looks like exactly like yours. Emails still not importing ...

[synaesthesia]

Anything in the logs? If Zimbra is hosted by your LA it could be interesting - ours was self hosted, so it was easy to find what was happening, and in most cases it was silly filenames/folders that wouldn't work over IMAP - stuff in briefcase, search folders etc.

[Solutions_James]

I used this format on a Birmingham Zimbra to Office 365 Migration

 

EmailAddress,Username,Password

[email protected],[email protected],password

 

IMAP is generally disabled by Link2ICT so you have to request it to be enabled. Unfortunately, Link2ICT restrict this generally to 15 accounts at one time.

 

Are you on Zimbra 5 (mail.myvle.org) or Zimbra 8 (mail.link2ict.org)?

[mariohi]

Zimbra 8.

Is that how you migrated all your users? Have they lost access to their emails?

I tested earlier the way you are suggesting and it works fine, but the only problem with it is that I will have to get passwords from users or change them - you know what will that cause. Migrating email using admin credentials seems like least interrupting way of doing it, but if it is not possible I will have to look for other ways.

When you had zimbra in admin console when select user were options "view emails" and "view rights" are both inactive? I also managed to migrate one domain admin as user, but unable to migrate second one.

[Solutions_James]

Because Link2ICT host Zimbra and control the really "Admin Rights", I have found that resetting the Zimbra password works well, I appreciate it is does cause some disruption but as long as staff are informed the process works well.

 

If staff to moan, just highlight the fact you want to ensure that all their existing mail can be viewed in Office 365 most will be fairly happy then.

 

If you do find a way of migrating using the admin credentials, I would be grateful to know.