EdbMails Office 365 Migration: Core Components Explained
EdbMails Office 365 Migration solution has a few interconnected components that work together to ensure smooth, secure, and efficient email migration. Knowing how these elements work will help you maximize the effectiveness of your migration project and avoid some errors. Each component is essential for connecting your source systems, setting migration targets, establishing secure connections, automatically mapping mailboxes, removing manual configuration errors, and saving significant migration time.
1. Office 365 Source Connector
The Office 365 Source Connector allows you to connect to and read data from your source Office 365 environment. This component manages the secure connection to your Office 365 tenant and detects all mailboxes and folders for migration.
Connect to a source Office 365
- Connect to primary / shared mailboxes
The options above will show all of the mailboxes in your organization, and no individual mailbox credentials are necessary for migration. You select the mailboxes individually and migrate all selected mailboxes at once.
- Connect to public folders
This option will list the whole public folder and all the subfolders for migration. You can choose the contacts, calendar, and mail-enabled public folders to migrate.
- Connect to Archive Mailbox (In-Place Archive)
This setting will list the Archive mailboxes. You can select the Archive mailboxes and migrate directly to the Archive mailboxes on your target server.
2. Migrate to Different Targets
EdbMails gives you the option to choose the destination for migration, so that you can migrate data to the platform that best meets your organization's needs. Your choice is based on your business needs, infrastructure strategy and your long-term goals for email management.
- Office 365 to Office 365 Tenant Migration
- Office 365 to Exchange Server Migration
- Office 365 to IMAP migration
- Office 365 to PST Export
3. Office 365/Exchange Target Connector
The target connector establishes a secure connection to your destination system—whether that's another Office 365 tenant, an on-premises Exchange Server, or a hosted Exchange environment. This component handles authentication, validates the target system's readiness, and prepares the destination mailboxes to receive migrated data.
4. Automatic Mailbox Mapping (Source to Target)
Mapping of mailboxes is a tedious process with a manual approach. This results in spending more time on the migration process while mapping a large number of mailboxes for different domains. EdbMails Office Migration tool does it automatically.
