Office 365?

[Carol W.]

I'm looking for as much information as I can find on Office 365. I'm a new member of a nonprofit committee that has put out a request for proposal for an Office 365 email migration. I searched this board but was unable to come up with anything related to Office 365. Maybe I didn't search correctly.

Unfortunately, I don't even know the format of the existing email files or even if they're resident on an Exchange Server. I think not but I'm not sure.

Any general information on such a migration would be appreciated.

[HansV]

Office 365 is basically the subscription version of Office 2013 - you "lease" the Office 2013 applications from Microsoft. The file formats are the same as those for Office 2010 and Office 2013.

[Carol W.]

Thanks, Hans. I'll continue to research email migration strategies.

[JoeP]

You can start with Office 365 Nonprofit. See Office 365 Nonprofit plans and pricing for more information.

If I misinterpreted that you are working for a non-profit organization there is similar information for other businesses starting at Office 365 for business.

Joe

[JoeP]

For migration information you really need to know the current email setup.

Joe

[Carol W.]

JoeP,

Thanks for the replies. The organization will be hiring a consulting firm to do the email migration to Office 365. I'm a technical person by nature so I'd like to be able to understand what the consultant is proposing to do.

And, yes, this is a nonprofit organization.

[JoeP]

If the current setup is Exchange based migration can be very easy using the built-in Exchange tools as long as it is a fairly recent version of Exchange. Do you know if it is a domain based setup? Is this for email only or will it include SharePoint too? Possibly the Office desktop programs too?

Joe

[Carol W.]

JoeP,

There is a domain involved but the organization needs to get control of it first. That has to be done before the email migration.

There is a task in the proposal that says "export archive mail to pst". Doesn't sound like Exchange to me but I'm really not sure. I probably will know more next week.

Thanks.