Litigation Hold Mailbox Migration
My company is currently moving from Exchange 2016 to 365. We are currently setup in a hybrid environment. The question arose of how do we migrate mailboxes that are on litigation hold. I have found that you can do a migration of the lit hold mailboxes from on-prem to 365 without any issues per this document - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/policy-and-compliance/holds/holds?view=exchserver-2016#migrating-mailboxes-on-hold-from-exchange-server-to-microsoft-365-or-office-365. However, what I can't seem to find is the best way to test a migration for a lit hold mailbox. I also have found that some of our lit hold mailboxes have been on hold so long that their mailboxes are on Exchange version 0.10. So, I really have 2 questions. 1) How can I test migrating a lit hold mailbox from on prem to 365 without using an active person's mailbox? 2) Does the Exchange Version for the mailbox matter when I migrate them? Any help would be much appreciated.Public Preview announcement - Unified migration experience in Azure DMS
We are excited to announce that Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports seamless migration of your MySQL on-premises or Virtual Machine (VM) workloads to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server. This new feature, now available in public preview, allows you to use physical backup files of the MySQL server for migration. By restoring your physical data files directly to your target Flexible Server, you can migrate multi-terabyte workloads quickly and effortlessly with minimal downtime ensuring a smooth and efficient transition to Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server, enabling you to take full advantage of the platform's capabilities. To migrate your workloads using the Physical Online Data Migration option in Azure DMS, you need to take backups of your workload on the source server using Percona Xtrabackup utility. After taking a backup, upload the backup files to Azure Blob Storage. DMS can read the uploaded backup files from Azure Blob Storage and apply them on the target flexible server for rapid movement of large workloads to MySQL flexible server. To get started, go to your DMS project and choose "[Preview] Physical Online Data Migration" for migrating your workloads from on-premises or VMs. Limitations: You must create and configure the target Flexible server prior to migrating your physical backup files. Migration for encrypted backups isn't supported. Migration cancellation during the import operation is not supported. For more information about using physical online migration with Azure DMS please follow our detailed step-by-step instructions in our documentation: https://aka.ms/dmsPhysicalImportOnlineMigration If you have any feedback or questions about the information provided above, please leave a comment below or email us at AskAzureDBforMySQL@service.microsoft.com. Thank you!
GoDaddy to Microsoft 365 Migration Issues
Hi there, I wonder if I could get some help with an issue I've got. Currently I am attempting to migrate one user mailbox from the current GoDaddy tenant to our new Microsoft tenant, to initially test out the migration. I've followed the Migration tool in the Exchange admin center but am receiving the following error: Error: MigrationRecipientNotFoundException: A recipient wasn't found for "***@***.onmicrosoft.com". Create a recipient of the appropriate type for this migration and try again. I've got the user created in the Microsoft 365 admin center and a mailbox is set up for them. Both on GoDaddy and Microsoft it is UserMailbox recipient type. I'm using the IMAP Migration settings as outlined from the GoDaddy IMAP settings, and have since checked with GoDaddy and they give these settings: IMAP Server: imap.secureserver.net Authentication: Basic Encryption: SSL Accept untrusted certificates: Yes Port: 993 GoDaddy have also said that Basic authentication is supported by them and I have checked the Entra configuration to ensure that Basic is not blocked. I have even had the user I'm attempting to migrate log in to the temporary onmicrosoft account to make sure there are no log in issues there. I have posted this on the Answers forum as well and was pointed in this direction for further help. Any thoughts or help on this would be amazing. Thanks in advance, OliRegister now for the Migrate to Innovate Summit
Join the summit on March 11, presented in partnership with Intel. Stay agile, innovate for the future, and maintain a competitive edge by accelerating your cloud migration and modernization journey. Microsoft thought leaders will discuss the latest news and trends, showcase real-world case studies, and share how Azure can help you fully embrace AI. Join us to: Maximize business value and build the foundation for successful innovation by leveraging the latest Azure and Intel capabilities for your workloads. Dive into case studies and real-world examples showcasing how organizations have successfully transformed their business and how you can be next by migrating and modernizing on Azure. Make sure your cloud migration and modernization journey is using the best practices and strategies featured in product demonstrations. Register now > Migrate to Innovate Summit Tuesday, March 11, 2025 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)Register now for the Migrate to Innovate Summit
Join the summit on March 11, presented in partnership with Intel. Stay agile, innovate for the future, and maintain a competitive edge by accelerating your cloud migration and modernization journey. Microsoft thought leaders will discuss the latest news and trends, showcase real-world case studies, and share how Azure can help you fully embrace AI. Join us to: Maximize business value and build the foundation for successful innovation by leveraging the latest Azure and Intel capabilities for your workloads. Dive into case studies and real-world examples showcasing how organizations have successfully transformed their business and how you can be next by migrating and modernizing on Azure. Make sure your cloud migration and modernization journey is using the best practices and strategies featured in product demonstrations. Register now > Migrate to Innovate Summit Tuesday, March 11, 2025 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7)
Adding Proxy Addresses in AD Before Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Cutover
We're in the process of migrating users from another M365 tenant into our own, which is synced with on-prem AD. Before the cutover, we'd like to add the proxy addresses from the source tenant to our AD and have them sync to the cloud once the domain is added to our M365 tenant. Would this work as expected, or are there any potential issues to be aware of?What's in a Name?
Recently the ADMS (Active Directory Migration Service) changed its name to IMS (Identity Migration Service). If you’re not familiar with the ADMS offering, it is an orchestration of technologies that allows migration of user and computer objects from one or many on-premises Active Directory domains to another. This can be helpful in many scenarios including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. ADMS features include: Secure connections to ADMS services for synchronization and migration. Identity synchronization and transformation. Group and User sidHistory Unified migration portal with multiple migration methods App remediation pipeline Many to one/One to many connections Client application flexibility – Customer supplied scripts can be added to meet the needs of the individual customers as migrations occur. Preservation of user profiles The best feature, the crème de la crème if you will, is the self-service model. This means that your busy CFO (don’t forget who pays the bills), can wait until he’s free to opt into a migration rather than someone in IT dictating when he gets migrated. If you prefer the white glove treatment, you can leverage surrogate migration where skilled IT personnel perform the user migration on behalf of a special user. Why Change? Recently we’ve had an opportunity to look at what the service provides and what lies ahead, and the name just doesn’t fully fit what we do and what we’re intending for our products’ road map. Identity Migration Service is more encompassing for the features and functionality we’re targeting across multiple services. Why is this important? We’re using our years of experience, knowledge and expertise to extend our on-premises domain migrations to cloud services. As a first release of IMS we will debut a tenant-to-tenant migration (for customers who have no on-premises footprint). This will fully synchronize your directory from the source tenant into the target and perform the user migration, remediation tasks as well as workstation Entra join to the new Entra tenant (while maintaining the user’s profile). A following release will add functionality to migrate customers who have deployed on premise Active Directory and are ready to step into the cloud. Our on-premises AD to Entra migration will work similarly to both tenant to tenant and AD to AD where the user and group objects are synchronized, activated at migration time and workstations migrated. This will have the option of using our self-service, opt-in model we currently leverage in our ADMS product. Does this mean ADMS functionality is going away? No, we are simply expanding the functionality to include services our customers want and need. We understand that the ADMS feature set is still sought out by our customers and we are committed to enabling customer migrations within every service. Is ADMS/IMS just a migration solution? No, it is a family of solutions. We have many great services and tools that have enabled customers to navigate logical issues with identity transitions (Migrations, modernizations, synchronizations, etc.). Below are some of our other current services: ADGMS - Active Directory Group Modernization Service, for the conversion of on-premises synchronized distribution groups into cloud only groups ADSS - The backbone of migrations is a customizable sync engine that can apply business logic for the objects being synced and transformed between directories. This is leveraged by many of our solutions; however, it can be a standalone sync service as well. Tsync - Tenant synchronization. Using the ADSS synchronization engine we can synchronize and transform objects between tenants. SOA - Source of Authority. Customizable business logic that can be applied to AAD Connect so it can pivot the authoritative source of an object to another directory. This allows AAD Connect to marry the new, authoritative user with the correct identity in Entra. Which IMS solution best fits your needs? Which features would you like to see on our roadmap? Have any questions about an existing service or functionality? Let us know in the comments or reach out to us at IMSSales@microsoft.com
