Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Sometimes you migrate email...

 I've been pretty busy with work lately. The last month or so have been pretty crazy. We migrated our email systems from GSuite to Office 365(Exchange Online), which has been in the works for a while. I was actually hired to help lead this effort to migrating everything (not just email) out of the Google world and into the Microsoft world. Well email was officially migrated on the 16th, but as with any migration of this size(~5500 users + ~2000 groups/distribution lists/shared mailboxes), there's always loose ends and things to work through afterwards. 

What the migration tool looks like. Only some backfill email left to transfer over. 

I am still in cleanup mode, but the heaviest workload is behind us. The next portion of the migration will be the Teams and SharePoint parts, which someone else will be leading, so that will be a lighter workload when that comes around. Just today I finished catching up with all my work email, so some sense of normalcy is returning. 

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  1. I'm glad things are getting back to normal! It looked intense there for a while.

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  2. 5500 users, +2000 lists/groups/shared mailboxes? I can't even begin to comprehend that sentence. No, I just can't

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    1. Yeah, it's been pretty crazy. Even the cleanup phase is intense. With groups, shared mailboxes, and DLs needing config changes or conversion from one thing to another. Been learning a lot though. And having to find ways to either automate or script/powershell because manually would be a forever task.

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