Migrating email from LGfL to Office 365

[StrictlyBrew]

Hi,

 

Has anyone had experience migrating all staff emails away from LGfL to another provider, in particular Office 365?

 

My experience is that LGfL will not allow us to do a bulk IMAP migration and the only suggestion is doing a manual move of each mailbox in Outlook.

 

Any advice anyone has to help would be very welcome!

 

Thanks in advance

 

James

[chris_uk]

We did LGFL to On Prem Exchange 2013, the only way of getting the emails away from LGFL is to manually export each account to PST. Yes, this means setting up outlook for each person, waiting for it to download and then exporting it.

With Exchange we then imported the PST using powershell.

[10101010]

Hi,

 

Has anyone had experience migrating all staff emails away from LGfL to another provider, in particular Office 365?

 

My experience is that LGfL will not allow us to do a bulk IMAP migration and the only suggestion is doing a manual move of each mailbox in Outlook.

 

Any advice anyone has to help would be very welcome!

 

Thanks in advance

 

James

 

Hello James

 

I'm also considering go down this route - did you take it any further?

 

Paul

[psydii]

Technically they ought to be able to export all the mailboxes to pst for you:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn440164(v=exchg.160).aspx

 

So the process should basically be that you create your new tenant with empty mailboxes, point all your MX and Autodiscovery records to your Tenant/EOL and then Atomwide export your old mailboxes(in their tennent) to pst, for you to import using the standard MS tools.

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-network-upload-to-import-PST-files-to-Office-365-103f940c-0468-4e1a-b527-cc8ad13a5ea6

[Parm79]

I am using bit titan does the job $4.99 per mailbox. Be sure to use lgflmail as the source address and not your own domain because once you switch you can do one last final sync

[sparkeh]

Why can't you use the standard 365 migration tools? https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2798131/how-to-migrate-mailbox-data-by-using-the-exchange-admin-center-in-offi

and setup an imap migration.

Edited July 19, 2017 by sparkeh

[Parm79]

I'm sure when I checked there was some problems and lgfl where not very helpful.