Migrating to Office 365
Hello E-E,
Our small office (20 Employees) is moving from our current Third Party Exchange Email provider to Office 365.
> Most of our existing users already have MS Office 2007, with only 2 exceptions, so the majority of our users will be using Office 365 Essential (Business Email service Only).
> Any new user and any user who is being moved to a Virtual Environment will be using Office 365 Premium for Email and the MS Office Product Suite.
Currently, I have two new VM users (Hyper-V) who I need to install and configure them for Office 365 Premium.
> In my research of installing Office 365 (O/365) and walking through the Online Admin Center, it is asking for our Domain Name and such - My concern is that moving the domain over to O/365 would disrupt the rest of the users who will remain with our current ISP/Email until our initial test is completed.
Here is my dilemma, I need to use these two new VM based users as a test cases for a 'proof-of-concept' before moving the rest of the production users - So I need to ONLY migrate these two test cases to O/365 Premium and their email service without affecting the rest of the production users
=> Is this possible?
=> And if so, anyone have a document/video/anything that would help me accomplish this?
Inquiring minds need to know...
Rojosho
Our small office (20 Employees) is moving from our current Third Party Exchange Email provider to Office 365.
> Most of our existing users already have MS Office 2007, with only 2 exceptions, so the majority of our users will be using Office 365 Essential (Business Email service Only).
> Any new user and any user who is being moved to a Virtual Environment will be using Office 365 Premium for Email and the MS Office Product Suite.
Currently, I have two new VM users (Hyper-V) who I need to install and configure them for Office 365 Premium.
> In my research of installing Office 365 (O/365) and walking through the Online Admin Center, it is asking for our Domain Name and such - My concern is that moving the domain over to O/365 would disrupt the rest of the users who will remain with our current ISP/Email until our initial test is completed.
Here is my dilemma, I need to use these two new VM based users as a test cases for a 'proof-of-concept' before moving the rest of the production users - So I need to ONLY migrate these two test cases to O/365 Premium and their email service without affecting the rest of the production users
=> Is this possible?
=> And if so, anyone have a document/video/anything that would help me accomplish this?
Inquiring minds need to know...
Rojosho
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Very sorry for the absence - I was doing some research on the different suggestions.
Scobber - Based on my research, Vasil Michev suggestion are more in line with the spirit of my question - Test without a full migration, which your suggestion seem to end up with.
> I spoke to one of our local MS reps and he pretty much agreed with Vasil if that is what I wanted to do... Which it is... we want to implement Office 365 Essential on one user and Office 365 Premium on another.
= When we decide to make the 'full switch' then your plan is right on target.
At this point, we are moving forward with Vasil's suggestion to set up our test environment and run our proof of concept trails.
Thank you both for your input.
Rojosho