Mailbox Moves in Exchange 2013

Exchange 2013 includes lot of improvement on the mailbox moves. Moving a mailbox in Exchange Server 2013 has different options as mentioned below.

Local Move: Moving a mailbox from one database to other in between the existing On-Premise exchange organization

Cutover Exchange Migration: Migrating all the mailbox in On-Premise exchange to Exchange online in Office 365

Cross Forest Move: Moving mailbox from Different on-premise exchange forest

Remote Move: Moving a mailbox from on premise exchange environment to Office 365. It has two options on boarding migration (Moving mailbox from On-premise to Office 365) and off boarding migration (moving a mailbox from Office 365 to On-Premise Exchange)

Staged Exchange Migration: Moving a subset of mailbox from On-Premise Exchange to Office 365

Mailbox Moves in Exchange Server 2013 introduced two new concepts as Batch Moves and Migration End Points

Batch Moves:
A Batch move is the option to move multiple mailboxes as large batches. This option includes the following features

• Email notification during move with reporting
  
• Automatic retry and automatic prioritization of moves
  
• Primary and personal archive mailboxes can be moved together or separately
  
• Option for manual move request finalization, which allows you to review your move before you complete it
  
• Periodic incremental syncs to update migration changes
  

Migration End Points:
If we are performing local mailbox moves there is no need of Migration End Points and if it is a Cross-Forest or Remote mailbox moves then the Migration End Points are required, So what is Migration End Points?

Migration endpoints capture the remote server information and persists the required credentials for migrating the data and the source throttling settings from local to the remote exchange organization.

Migration Endpoints like Remote Move endpoints used in Cross Forest and Remote Moves and the Exchange End Point in used in Cutover Exchange Migration and IMAP endpoints are used when using IMAP migration

On the below demo, we will see the option for Local Move for Single Mailbox, Local Move for Multiple Mailbox.

Note: Options available for Cross Forest mailbox move will be discussed on other post.

Local Move for Single Mailbox

To move a single mailbox from one database to other database with in the on premise exchange organization

From Exchange Admin center, we can select the respective mailbox and select the move the mailbox option or click on the migration option and select that particular mailbox

 

Below details are to be filled to move the mailbox to different database and click Next to continue

Below screen shows the option to select the batch operations… when to move the mailbox and leaving an option to complete the migration automatically\manually. Also, we can set the option to notify a user about the migration complete status.

To view the status of the Migration, we can use the below command lets as shown

Once the status shows the Migration Batch is completed, we can remove the Migration Batch, using Remove-MigrationBatch –Identity "Identity Name"