PowerPoint Presentation

Migrate From GoDaddy

To Office 365

The Step-by-Step

Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

Your Migration Checklist

Migrating from GoDaddy to

Office 365

Post-Migration Steps

Final Thoughts

Introduction

Your Migration Checklist

Before you begin, you’ll need the answers to following

questions and to complete these tasks. Feel free to print

out this page and use it as your migration checklist:

 What email service are you currently using?

 Who is your DNS provide? Who is the admin to the

account, and what are the credentials?

 How many inboxes are there?

 What items do you want to migrate? Just the

emails? Contacts? Calendar items?

 Do you have any shared inboxes?

 How many domains do you have?

 How many email aliases are there?

 How large (in GBs) are each of the mailboxes?

 Create a BitTitan account

 You have the first Name, last Name, username and

password for all your users in an excel spreadsheet

(unless you are planning to be using Enable SSI,

Source-Side Impersonation, on GoDaddy)

 Calculate your migration time. Microsoft's policy

limits the transfer rate of data to 10GB per user/per

day. What does that mean? Take a list of all the

mailboxes you have today and rank them by size,

from largest to smallest. If the largest mailbox of all

of them is 18GB, then it will take 2 days to migrate.

If the largest of the bunch is 7GB, then it will take

under a day to migrate all of them.

Migrating from GoDaddy to

Office 365

STEP 1: DNS ACCESS

 Validate that you can still connect to the DNS on GoDaddy

STEP 2: BACKUP CLIENT GODADDY DNS SETTINGS

 Log in to your GoDaddy account

 Click on Account Settings

 Select the domain you will be working on

 Click on DNS

 Under the Advanced Feature section in the bottom of the page, click on Export

Zone File (Windows)

 Save the file locally so you can restore the DNS to its original state if something

were to happen

STEP 3: PREPARATION STEPS ON THE TARGET OFFICE 365 TENANT

 Log on the target Microsoft 365 admin portal portal.office.com

 Make sure you are a Global Administrator on the target tenant.

 Create all end-users accounts using the <tenantName>.onmicrosoft.com

address.

 Provision all the necessary Microsoft 365 licenses from your CSP (Cloud Solution

Provider)

 Assign the licenses to your end-users.

 Note: all end-users included in the email migration must be licensed. They must

have at least Exchange Online Plan 1 assigned. The Global Admin account needs

to be licensed as well.

STEP 4: BECOME TENANT ADMIN ON GODADDY

 Go to Azure AD Portal https://portal.azure.com (in private mode)

 Use the GoDaddy credential from one of the users with Admin privileges

 Once on the Azure portal, select Azure Active Directory.

 Go to Users.

 Look for an Admin account that looks like a[email protected]microsoft.com.

 Select this user account and click on Reset Password at the Top Navigation

pane > Reset Password

 You will get a temporary Password, Copy the temp password as well as the

admin@xxxx.onmicrosoft.com username into Notepad.

 Sign-Out for the Azure Portal and open a new browser session and login to

https://portal.azure.com with the New Global Admin Account

admin@xxxx.onmicrosoft.com. During the first sign-in, reset the password and

set a new password.

 Make sure to save it locally on Notepad

 Important: make sure that the Global Account is licensed too!

NOTES:

•You will be asked to enter some credentials, enter the Global Admin from the

source tenant first.

•Enable-OrganizationCustomization command can take a very long time to run.

•Ignore any error such as "This operation is not available in current service offer."

•Ignore any error such as "The assignment of the management role

'ApplicationImpersonation' [...] won't take effect until user is migrated."

•Make sure to replace "admin@domain.com" in the last PowerShell command above

with the global admin account used for migration.

• Close the PowerShell Command

• Repeat the process by using the target Global Admin credentials instead

• SSI will be enable on both the target and source tenant.

STEP 6: Create a Migration Project on BitTitan and Perform a first Full

Migration

 On BitTitan Go to My Projects

 Create a Mailbox Project

STEP 5: ENABLE SSI (SOURCE-SIDE IMPERSONATION) ON GODADDY

Note: these are recommended steps to avoid asking all passwords from your end-

users.

 Click on the Windows Start button.

 Search for Windows PowerShell (PowerShell should already be installed).

 Start PowerShell under an administrator context (right-click -> run as

administrator)

 Run the following PowerShell commands (one at a time):

 Fill up Project Name and create a New Customer

 Provide an endpoint name and provide the credentials for the source (ie

credentials for the Global Admin).

 This is what needs to be selected for GoDaddy:

 Create an endpoint for the target. Provide the Global Admin credentials.

 Leave the following box unchecked:

 Save Project

 Run the Autodiscover tool

 Make sure that all the mailboxes that are in scope are displayed in the

project window.

 Make sure to change the target email to the onmicrosoft.com one that

was setup on step 3. Edit each mailbox and change the target email

address if necessary.

 Select at least 2 mailboxes and verify that the credentials are valid ==>

Start / Verify Credentials

 Wait until both jobs are completed (it can take a few minutes…..)

 If all are ready, select all mailboxes in scope and launch a full sync ==>

Start / Full Migration

 Make sure to buy BitTitan licenses if there is not enough. A Credit Card

and address will need to be used at this stage

 If there are enough licenses, start the migration

 Wait for the first migration to be completed. THIS CAN TAKE SEVERAL

DAYS!!!

STEP 7: REMOVE FEDERATION WITH GODADDY

 Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator and run the following commands

STEP 8: DELETE USER ACCOUNTS/ EMAIL ADDRESSES ON GODADDY

 Run the following commands:

STEP 9: REMOVE DOMAIN FROM GODADDY

 Run the following commands:

STEP 10: ADD VANITY DOMAIN AND UPDATE DNS ON NEW OFFICE 365 TENANT

 Log to Office 365 with Admin credentials

 Go to Admin -> Setup -> Domains

 Click on Add Domain

 Enter your domain

 You will be prompted by the Verify Domain page. Select Add a TXT record

instead

 On a separate browser, open your DNS and add the TXT record

 Once done, wait few minutes and then click on Verify

 You will now be prompted by the Update DNS settings page. Select I'll add the

DNS records myself

 Update the DNS accordingly and remove any GoDaddy email server references

 Once done, click the Refresh button until you get the message "All DNS records

are correct, no error found"

STEP 11: UPDATE PRIMARY EMAIL ADDRESSES TO NEW VANITY DOMAIN

 On Office 365 Portal, click on Users -> Active users

 Select one user, and click Edit within the Username / Email section

 Create a new alias using the new vanity domain name and click Add

 Click Set as primary

 A big Warning yellow box will be displayed. Click Save

 Click Close

 Now ready the last 5 steps (of Step 11) for all the other users

If you get a warning Red box saying that you need to wait up to 4 hrs, do the following

steps:

 Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator and run the following commands:

STEP 12: FINAL SYNCHRONIZATION

 This step is really important! A final synchronization needs to be performed to

make sure that all emails have been captured.

 In BitTitan, Once the domain has been correctly added on Office 365. Modify the

project settings and change the source to be the admin account on the

netorgXXX.onmicrosoft.com account instead of the account using the vanity

domain.

 Run a full synchronization on 1 small mailbox to validate that there is no

credentials issues

 If the test full sync does not work, make sure that the password for the source

admin has not been modified during the vanity domain deletion.

 Run a full synchronization on all mailboxes and wait for this step to be

completed before proceeding to next step.

STEP 13: EMAIL TESTING

 On Office 365 Portal, click on Users -> Active users

 Select one of the users and reset his password (uncheck Make this user change

their password when they first sign in)

 Now, send a test email to this user

 In a separate window, open Office 365 portal, use the credential of this user, and

confirm that your email was received.

 Delete the test email from their inbox as well as their deleted email folder

Consider this step completed only when both send and receive tests have been

successful

STEP 14: PASSWORD RESET

 Now, reset the passwords for all users (using the password you have

communicated to your users in Post Migration Steps) and check this user can

change their password when they first sign in

 All passwords should now have been reset

STEP 15: CLEAN UP

 Make sure to delete the accounts from the Deleted Users to Permanent Deletion

from Office 365. Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator and run the

following commands:

STEP 15: SET SSPR ON A NEW DOMAIN

 Within Office 365, click on Admin -> Admin centers ->Azure Active Directory

 Click on Azure Active Directory

 Click on Password Reset

 Under Self-service password reset enabled, select All

 Click Save

Congratulations! You are done. Now, for the post-migration steps.

Post-Migration Steps

STEP 1: RESET YOUR PASSWORD

To connect to your new email:

 Go to https://www.office.com

 Click on Log in

 Use your credentials

i. Username: <your email address> (i.e.: johndoe@contosos.com)

ii. Temporary password: NewPassw0rd! (<-just an example)

iii. Follow the wizard to reset and create your own password.

iv. Once done, you will be able to check your email on your smartphone (iOS

or Android) using the Outlook app and/or via Office 365 Outlook Web (as

shown below)

STEP 2: LOG OFF YOUR OFFICE APPLICATION FROM GODADDY

 Open Microsoft Word

 Click on Files

 Click on Office Account

 Click on Sign out

You will now get a message similar to the one below:

 Click Yes

 Repeat steps D and E until your only option is Sign In, as shown below:

 Click Sign in

 Enter your new credentials (Select work or school if asked)

 Username: <your email address> (i.e.: johndoe@contoso.com )

 Password: use the one you created when resetting your password in step 1

 Your Office 365 Office Applications are now fully disconnected from

GoDaddy and now connected to your new Office 365 tenant

STEP 3: UPDATE OFFICE 365 TO THE LATEST VERSION

 Open Microsoft Word

 Click on Files

 Click on Office Account

 Click the button Update Options -> Update now

 Office will either install an update or you will get a message such as

“You’re up to date! The latest version of Office is installed on your

computer”

STEP 4: RESET YOUR OUTLOOK PROFILE

 If you were using Outlook 2013 or 2016 to manage your email hosted by

GoDaddy, you will need to reset your Outlook profile as your Exchange

server has changed from GoDaddy to Microsoft. Watch our video  on

Microsoft Outlook Profile Update.

Congratulations! You are officially finished with GoDaddy. Welcome to the

world of Microsoft, on your own terms! 

Final Thoughts

If you’ve made it this far, you deserve a medal.  Truly, a

migration is no easy feat. However, life after a migration is

easy. Welcome to the wonderful world of full access and full

compatibility. If you pay for a product, you want it to fully work

and now, it will! Enjoy all that Office 365 has to offer. Check out

our

BEMO Blog for tips and tricks to discover the full potential

of your licensing.

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