Various steps involved in staged exchange migration

 

Various steps involved in staged exchange migration 

A staged migration is a way to migrate email data from an on-premises Exchange server to Microsoft 365 or Office 365. Here are the steps involved in a staged migration 

1. Verify your ownership of an on-premises domain.
2. Create a migration endpoint to connect Exchange to Microsoft 365 or Office 365.
3. Create a CSV file that contains a row for each user whose on-premises mailbox will be migrated in the migration batch.
4. Create the staged migration batch.
5. Begin the staged migration batch.
6. Route your MX records to Microsoft 365 or Office 365 mailboxes.
7. Delete your staged migration batch.
8. Assign licenses to your users’ migrated Microsoft 365 or Office 365 accounts.

The main steps you perform for a staged migration are shown in the following illustration