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