Monday, 2 December 2013

Migration from Crazy domains exchange hosting / ultraexchange.com.au to Office 365

How to Migrate from Crazy domains exchange hosting / ultraexchange.com.au to Office 365




  1. First things first do not change DNS records at all if ultraexchange.com.au is currently setup and running until completed otherwise this will not work.
  2. Provision and setup Office 365 domain eg. yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com
  3. Log into http://winlogin.syra.net.au/
  4. Pick one user account that will become the admin for all mailboxes
  5. Go to the advance settings of all other mailboxes and set full permissions and send as permissions to the user you picked in step 4
  6. Apply these permissions to all user accounts you wish to migrate.
  7. Under Organisation's / Users select the user you picked in step 4 and take note of the User Domain Name:DAG01\username (last attribute on the user account)
  8. Log into https://www.ultraexchange.com.au/owa/ as the user you picked in step 4. Username is the email address in this step.
  9. Click on the question mark ? top right hand corner and select about.
  10. Take note of the mailbox server settings and copy the Mailbox server name: e.g. EX-CAS02.dag01.per.ultraexchange.com.au
  11. Login to Office 365 with an admin account e.g. admin@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com
  12. Go to https://outlook.office365.com/ecp
  13. Create a new batch migration with these settings. Use the username you noted in step 7.

  14. Wait for the sync to complete and then change the DNS records as required.