Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 1

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 2

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 4

Migrate Mailboxes

You’re ready to migrate your mailboxes!  Go to the Recipient link, mailbox category and choose the mailbox(es) you want to migrate.  I’ll be migrating Ferb@hollow.lab to the new servers.  Click “To another database” action on the lower right hand side of the menu.

Pick what mailbox database you want to move to.  Notice that you will see both of your mailbox servers listed even though they are different versions.  In previous incantations of Exchange, routing group connectors needed to be created between servers.   Things have changed a bit with 2013 in terms of routing which is outside the scope of this post.  See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998825(v=exchg.150).aspx for more details on this subject.

Create a migration batch by entering a name.  This is a nice new feature where you can create all your moves ahead of your migration and schedule them for whenever you want.  You also have the option to move archive mailboxes along with your primary mailbox.

Setup an email address to mail a move report when it’s done, and you can start the batch you just created, right away.  In order to show the migration batches, I set it to be manual.

Now if we look at the migration tab we can see the Migration-1 job that I created and it has 1 mailbox listed.  Hit the Play button in the toolbar with your job selected and it will begin the job.

Once it’s done you’ll see it in your batches, along with a report.

If you have a large number of mailboxes that you plan on moving and want to do them all at once, I suggest using the Exchange Shell instead:

Get-Mailbox -Database 2010Databasename -ResultSize Unlimited | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase 2013Databasename

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 1

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 2

Microsoft Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Transition part 4