Office 365 cut over

[itfool]

Hi,

 

I Was wandering if any one had a good how to for a school to move to office 365. The school have just appointed a new head of ICT and she would like everyone to be on office 365 for the start of term. Currently we are using exchange 2007 server without lookout as the client. Pupils use owa to gain access to there mail from both inside the school and also from home

 

kind regards,

 

Allan

[pantscat]

Hi Allan,

 

This will give you a good idea of the steps involved: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Perform-a-staged-migration-of-email-to-Office-365-83bc0b69-de47-4cc4-a57d-47e478e4894e?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB&fromAR=1

 

Feel free to ask any specific questions.

 

All the best,

 

Ant

[ITGURU]

Good Luck with that! We are becoming part of a MAT and others are on O365. I have said that I will be keeping email in-house, so that we always have communication. They only use the O365 website, not the outlook client so I won't be following in their footsteps.

 

I think that the ICT staff and IT staff should be separate in terms of how things are run, and final decisions made by the actual IT staff employed to do their job!

[snagrat]

Cut over is pretty straight forward.

 

First you need to ensure you have Outlook Anywhere and SSL setup in exchange.

 

Use the exchange connectivity test tools to ensure Outlook Anywhere works as expected.

 

Also do not set up any users in Office 365 manually yet. The cutover will replicate all current mailboxes.

 

Then start a cutover and watch it copy all data from exchange to O365.

 

Once completed it will run every 24 hours automatically to stay synced up.

 

Then you just need to change the MX to O365 when ready.

 

Very basic instructions but that is the jist if it

[snagrat]

Good Luck with that! We are becoming part of a MAT and others are on O365. I have said that I will be keeping email in-house, so that we always have communication. They only use the O365 website, not the outlook client so I won't be following in their footsteps.

 

I think that the ICT staff and IT staff should be separate in terms of how things are run, and final decisions made by the actual IT staff employed to do their job!

 

So when you lose the Internet, lose power or have a server problem how do you stay connected?

 

With Office 365 there is always the facility to fall back on phone data connections if any of the above happens, or even work from home.

[ibismillah]

I'm getting these error messages does anyone know where I can correct these problems?

[ibismillah]

Hi I am getting a few error message from the https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com I was wondering if someone can help.

[CraigM]

I'm getting these error messages does anyone know where I can correct these problems?

 

Your first problem is that Microsoft's tool can't find the autodiscover record for your domain. This means the record is incorrect or doesn't exist on your external domain. You need a CNAME entry in your external domain records to point to your Exchange server i.e. autodiscover.mydomain.co.za goes to mail.mydomain.co.za

 

You'll also need a valid SSL certificate and Exchange published properly through your firewall. The Microsoft tool is a great way of testing each part of the process until it connects and you are good to go.