Many times exchange administrators have to move mailboxes in bulk to a different database.
Exchange mailbox migration csv format.
You can specify a csv file when you use the exchange admin center eac or the new migrationbatch cmdlet in exchange online powershell to create a migration batch.
So you need a different approach to migrate multiple mailboxes.
You need to export a list of mailboxes to a csv file in exchange server.
For example there is a mailbox migration coming.
If you re going to.
After you select a csv file microsoft 365 or office 365 checks the csv file to make sure that.
Each row in the csv file that you use to migrate on premises exchange mailboxes to the cloud in a staged exchange migration should contain information about the on premises mailbox.
Csv files for mailbox migration.
Such a list can be important.
Manually moving them would be a difficult task.
A local move request for mailboxes that are specified in a csv file is known as a migration batch and uses the new migrationbatch cmdlet.
Using a csv to specify multiple users to migrate in a migration batch is supported in the following migration scenarios.
On the select the mailboxes screen locate the csv file that you created in step 1 and then click next.
A csv file for an imap migration batch can have maximum of 50 000 rows.
Choose new migrate to exchange online.
Export a list of mailboxes to csv through powershell.
In the window that opens tick checkboxes next to the user data you want to export fig.
Batch migration involves the use of a csv file containing both the source.
To export this list to a csv file click the ellipsis button and from the drop down menu choose export data to a csv file fig.
For more information about the csv file requirements for local move requests see csv files for mailbox migration.
User mailboxes shown in the exchange admin center.
In this article you will learn how to do it through powershell.
Creating migration batch for a local move where the mailboxes in the specified csv file are moved to a different mailbox database.
The following screen shot shows an.
That is why you need to perform a batch migration.
But it s a good idea to migrate users in several smaller batches.
For more information about imap migrations see the following topics.
It uses comma separated.
On the select a migration type page choose staged migration next.
The header for this column must be named emailaddress.
Use the exchange management shell to create a local move request from a csv file.
On the select the users page choose browse and select the csv file to use for this migration batch.
Migrate email from an imap server to exchange online mailboxes.
Exporting mailboxes to a csv file.
With that list you can get more information about the mailboxes of the users.
Prepare a csv file.
This csv file contains a single column with the email address for the mailboxes that will be moved.