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philt's avatar
philt
Level 5
4 years ago

Exchange Online migration - Enterprise Vault steps?

Current environment;

  • Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator 12
  • Mailbox and Journal Archiving
  • Exchange 2016 - 1,100 mailboxes

We are about to implement Exchange Hybrid mode to integrate with MS Teams. No Mailboxes will be migrated or any changes to email traffic routing at this stage.

When we are ready to start migrating mailboxes I’m wondering how this will effect Enterprise Vault. Can we still keep EV On-Premise or do we need to also migrate EV to the cloud and what would be the steps for a successful migration.

Thanks in advance,

Phil

 

  • MichelZ's avatar
    MichelZ
    Level 6
    4 years ago

    Hi Phil

    There is a Whitepaper (How to archive Microsoft Office 365 with Enterprise Vault) about this from Veritas.

    You will be able to continue to use Enterprise Vault if you want to, but things are based on SMTP with Exchange Online. You won't have the full Shortcut-fidelity.

    What companies often do is migrate the Enterprise Vault data to Office 365 as well. This can be accomplished e.g. manually by exporting everything to PST and importing it to Office 365. It can be somewhat automated using e.g. Powershell, but it's still a tedious and error prone approach, especially when handling exceptions, leavers data, service protection throttling, etc.
    There are also specialized 3rd party tools.

    I work for cloudficient, a leading provider of such Software. Our portfolio includes Office 365 OnBoarding to migrate mailboxes to Office 365, as well as EV Complete, our solution to retire Enterprise Vault and migrate the content to Office 365 or on-premises Exchange.

    Regards
    Michel

    • philt's avatar
      philt
      Level 5
      4 years ago

      Hi Michel, thanks for your reply,

      We don't use Shortcuts so that would seem like a good thing to me, do you agree?

      I understand the potential issues with migrating via pst files so will be staying away from that, thanks for the advice there.

      I'm not completely sure on my Management's end goal at the moment so it's great to know that we can still operate the same with EV on-Prem when we start migating Exchange mailboxes.

      I will keep you in mind when\if we decide to migrate Archives to Office 365 in the furture.

      Thanks and Regards,

      Phil

      • TonySterling's avatar
        TonySterling
        Moderator
        4 years ago

        Yes, not having shortcuts are a good thing in your scenario. You users should be mainly unaffectect, unless EV is syncing permissions from mailboxes to the archives.  Once the mailboxes are moved to 365 EV will no longer be able to synchronize them.