Migrating to Hosted Exchange
Migrating to Hosted Exchange
This article will show you an overview of how you will be migrating to hosted exchange. A few scenarios will apply so you are free to choose what is best for your organization.
Migration Overview
Here will be the steps in order to migrate to us.
- Apply online
- Create your mailboxes and set passwords
- Change DNS to point to us
- Setup new Outlook profiles to connect to us
- Once configured and connected to our exchange, you may import your old PST to us OR import mail through the IMAP method.
We always recommend doing the cutover method when migrating to hosted exchange. This allows the migration to happen in the background. The disadvantage to this is that old mails won’t be available on the server immediately. However not the end of the world, if there are higher priority users, move those users email first.
Migrate mailboxes from Exchange Server (PST Migration)
For migrating to hosted exchange from an existing on-premises Exchange Server environment, an administrator can migrate all email, calendar, and contacts from user mailboxes to Hosting.ca. You may export your existing mail data to a PST file. And then import the PST mailbox contents to the new mailbox. This is known as the PST migration method. This moves all of the Outlook items:
- Contacts
- Calendars
- Tasks
- Notes
Migrate email from another IMAP email server
You can use the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to migrate user email from Gmail, Exchange, Outlook.com, and other email systems that support IMAP migration. When migrating to hosted exchange by using IMAP method, only the items in the users’ inbox or other mail folders are migrated. Contacts, calendar items, and tasks can’t be migrated with IMAP. You must be sure that you have a copy so you can import it as a PST file. This IMAP migration method moves the following items:
IMAP migration DOES NOT move the other items like, calendar items, contacts, calendars, notes. If you want to keep all of these items, we suggest you use the Outlook PST migration method above. For this method, we have a web based tool to help with your Exchange Mailbox Migration.