Welcome to Microsoft Exchange 2013 server, Microsoft newly launched latest version of Exchange server 2013 with advance features. After launching latest 2013 version many organizations planned to switch their mailbox data from Exchange 2010 to 2013 server without any interruption. In this segment Exchange users can explore the concept of Exchange Admin Center of the 2013 version which helps to move Exchange 2010 mailbox data to Exchange 2013 Server.
Users can perform Exchange to Exchange migration process using EAC (Exchange Admin Center)
Let’s start migration procedure with EAC
Step1) Login “Exchange Admin Center”
Step2) Navigate “Recipients” >> Hit on “Migration” tab from the right pane
Step3) Choose “+” sign and select “Move to a different Database”
After selecting the first option of Move to a different database then “New Local mailbox move” window will appear on the screen.
Step4) In this window user can choose “select the users that you want to move” option and click on “+”sign
Step5) In this wizard, user can enter the name for batch mailbox migration and also select the data from the targeted mailbox.
In case if there is archive mailbox folder of a particular user then they can opt for any option from the “Archive part”
Once the user browses mailbox in target database and target archive database tag through the “Browse” option then hit on “Next” tab.
Step6) Once batch migration is done user can choose at least one desired folder to receive the report.
After choosing desired folder for reporting, user can select “Automatically Start Batch” option and mark on “Automatically Complete the Migration” tab and then click on “New” tab.
Setp7) Now multiple mailbox conversion process is started. Get the view of current migration status. Once entire process is done then users can delete the batch selection and hit on the “Delete” tab.
Exchange 2010 user mailbox is productively exported into Exchange server 2013
Conclusion:
We performed Exchange to Exchange migration process using EAC (Exchange Admin Center) in Exchange 2013 server with proper steps. The manual process is useful when Exchange server and its mailbox are in active mode. In case if users have dismounted EDB file and they want to restore it into healthy new EDB file format then they can choose third party tool named as Exchange conversion software. This utility is first choice for Exchange administrators because this application has potentiality to migrate Exchange server mailbox data to another server without any obstruction.