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I have an SBS 2008, with about 60 email boxes about 20 onsite and 40 in the field with air cards. We are moving to Office 365. My issue is the bandwidth at the server is very slow, it is over a microwave connections. Download speed is 1.0 and upload is about half that. We are looking at using Quest software for the migration. My question is what is the best route to do all this?<br />
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Should I just setup Office 365, change over MX records, give users a shortcut to Office 365 OWA, and synch the mailbox's with Quest. When each one is done let that user know to stop using OWA and go back to Outlook?<br />
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Create the Office 365 temp domain, sync all boxes in the background, when done, change Office 365 to FQDN, update Outlook?<br />
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Or if anyone has a better suggestion I am listening.
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I have an SBS 2008, with about 60 email boxes about 20 onsite and 40 in the field with air cards. We are moving to Office 365. My issue is the bandwidth at the server is very slow, it is over a microwave connections. Download speed is 1.0 and upload is about half that. We are looking at using Quest software for the migration. My question is what is the best route to do all this?

Should I just setup Office 365, change over MX records, give users a shortcut to Office 365 OWA, and synch the mailbox's with Quest. When each one is done let that user know to stop using OWA and go back to Outlook?

or

Create the Office 365 temp domain, sync all boxes in the background, when done, change Office 365 to FQDN, update Outlook?

Or if anyone has a better suggestion I am listening.

Office 365 Migration

The Microsoft Legacy Operating System topic includes legacy versions of Microsoft operating systems prior to Windows 2000: All versions of MS-DOS and other versions developed for specific manufacturers and Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions, and Windows Mobile.

Microsoft Legacy OS

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Office 365 is a group of software plus services subscriptions that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers. Office 365 allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and OS X, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month. Office 365 includes e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Office software. All of Office 365's components can be managed and configured through an online portal; users can be added manually, imported from a CSV file, or Office 365 can be set up for single sign-on with a local Active Directory using Active Directory Federation Services.