How To: Exchange to 365 Migration

This article will help guide you through migrating from the Hosting UK Exchange services to Office365 using a Windows machine.

If you are using a Macintosh, please install PowerShell onto your device by following:  Install PowerShell onto your Mac

A quick checklist of things you'll need before beginning:

1. A windows computer where you can run Powershell
2. Access to the Control Panel at https://billing.hostinguk.net/
3. Access to your Office365 Service

Creating a User for the Migration

A user will either need to be created or promoted to a "Manager" in order to allow the migrator access to move all the accounts. Use the steps below to promote a user to manager.

1. Log in to your account at https://billing.hostinguk.net/clientarea.php

2. Go to Services > My Services


3. Click on your Exchange Service

4. Go to Mailboxes


5. Next to the account you wish to give manager control too, click "Promote to manager"

We need to give the user Full access, for this, we need to use PowerShell.

Go to the Start Menu on your computer and search for Powershell, you should get an app for Windows Powershell to show up.  If you are using a Macintosh, please see the guide mentioned earlier in this guide.



This should launch a window that looks like this:


Run the command:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

This will give a login window. Enter the email address and password for the account you set to manager.


Run the command:

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://owa.exchange2go.com/PowerShell/ -Authentication basic -Credential $UserCredential

and then:

Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking

This will log you into the server.

Run the command:

Get-Mailbox

This will give you a list of all your users.

Give the user Full access:

Get-Mailbox | Add-MailboxPermission -User MAILBOX -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all

(Where the command says "MAILBOX" replace with your user i.e "sales")


Once this is done, you would perform a cutover migration as detailed in: Migrate email from Exchange to Microsoft365 Online

Starting from Step 1 validate your domain with a TXT record in the DNS zone.

Then from Step 2: Connect Microsoft 365 or Office 365 to your email system and use the Account with privileges: namely the administrator user you created above.

If you require assistance or have any questions please contact our Support Team by opening a ticket from within your account:  Submit a Ticket