Tag: migration

In steps 4 and 5 of part one I wrote, 4. Delete on-premises groups. After verifying that I had all the data I needed to rebuild them in the cloud (or on-premises if necessary), I removed the original groups… 5. Rename and address online groups. I wrote a third PowerShell script (Address_DistroGroup.ps1) that renames the new online groups to the old on-premises group names and […]

In step 2 of part 1, I created online versions of all my on-premises distribution groups: 2. Create groups in Exchange Online. I used the list I created in step 1 to create corresponding groups in Exchange Online, appending ” OL” to the name of each group to avoid conflicts. This is easy enough to do using a formula in Excel to create the PowerShell […]

In part one (see here) I mentioned a PowerShell script (Export_DistroGroup.ps1) that I wrote to export certain settings of distribution groups in preparation for migrating them to Office 365. 1. Gather data. I exported a list of all distribution groups and their properties to a csv file. Then I wrote a PowerShell script (Export_DistroGroup.ps1) to export key details to multiple csv files for each group, […]

I am most of the way through a hybrid-mode migration from Exchange 2010 to Office 365. There are a few stages in a hybrid migration. During the process, your on-premises Active Directory database and Exchange directories are synced to the cloud so that mailboxes that have been migrated still appear in the on-premises directory for mailboxes that have not migrated and vice versa. Distribution groups […]