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Office 365 is the first choice of many businesses as it offers Microsoft’s functionality of its full suite of collaboration and productivity tools. Your users are familiar with Microsoft Office (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook) as they have been using it over from years.
Plus, Microsoft’s cloud-based hosting offers a cost-effective method to host the business email that comes with 99.9% guaranteed uptime and allows you to scale your organization effortlessly when it comes to user accounts and mailboxes. However, if your email hosting service provider is a different one (managed by a third-party other than Microsoft), you need to perform a migration to move your mailboxes in Office 365.
Hence, if the above case is applicable to you, we have put together this article where we shall discuss how to perform a migration from GoDaddy to Office 365.
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Steps before planning for Office 365 migration from GoDaddy
To migrate from GoDaddy to Office 365 tenant, you shall need the following information:
- Access to your Office 365 administrator account
- Access to your GoDaddy administrator account
- Login credentials of all users’ mailboxes that are to be migrated
Step 1: Export users’ mailbox data from GoDaddy email
You need to export the login data of the mailboxes that you wish to migrate from GoDaddy to Office 365. You will need to have access to their mailboxes to complete migration from GoDaddy to Office 365. Your CSV file is now ready with the requisite information.
Step 2: Set up your Microsoft Office 365 account
In this step, it is assumed that you do NOT have a purchased domain that has been configured to work with your Microsoft Office 365, nor do you have a tenancy for Office 365.
The emails created and the users’ profiles are now in the Office 365 system. Before the migration begins, it is a good idea to create a store of the contacts and calendar information because the IMAP migration that is going to be performed from GoDaddy to Office 365 does not migrate those. Hence, a local copy of the data should be created and saved on your system.
Step 3: Create a Local Copy of Contacts and Calendar
To create a local copy of contacts and calendar, please follow the steps. After launching the Outlook client, you can click on the ‘File’ option from your menu.
After creating a copy of your contacts and calendar locally, now come to a real major step: Migrate mailboxes from GoDaddy to Office 365.
Step 4: Begin the GoDaddy email migration to Office 365
Now that you have set up your Office 365 as well as made local copies of your contacts and calendar information, you are ready to begin the migration. After logging into Office 365 Admin Center, go to Exchange Admin Center. After clicking on ‘Recipients’, select the option of ‘Migration’. Follow the consecutive steps with the guidance of an Office 365 expert.
If you selected the automatic batch migration option, your migration process will have begun, and you shall see the name of your migration batch with the status of ‘Syncing’ next to it if everything went correctly. The whole process might take some time, so please be patient. Once the migration process has been completed successfully, the status shall change to ‘Synced’.
Step 5: Route your incoming email to Office 365
The migration process has been completed, but you need to configure your DNS records so that incoming emails are routed to your Office 365 email mailbox.
Once you update the MX records and Autodiscover records to that of Office 365, any incoming email to GoDaddy shall be redirected to Office 365 instead.
Step 6: Configure Outlook for Office 365
Now that you have successfully migrated from GoDaddy to Office 365, you need to configure your Outlook client for Office 365 as well.
After this, your Outlook client shall restart and when it does, you will see your new profile (which you just updated) listed. The PST files that you had previously created and saved as local copies implemented in Step 3 can now be imported.
Step 7: Delete the migration batch
At this point, you can test whether the incoming emails are being routed to your Office 365 system or not. If it is, then you can go back to the migration wizard and then select the migration batch that says ‘Synced’ as status and click on the trash can icon to delete it. Subsequently, complete any necessary account cleanup on your system.
Email migration is never an easy task; while the steps are not difficult to follow, the process itself can be quite long and tedious to perform. Additionally, there are always chances of errors happening which could cost the company dearly. We provide migration services to help move your email to Office 365 with 24/7 end-user support, without data loss or downtimes during migration.
Are you looking to migrate from GoDaddy to Office 365? Should you opt for cutover migration or staged migration? Is Office 365 subscription really worth for your business?
To get the above questions answered, contact our Microsoft-certified Office 365 migration experts today!
When Microsoft announced a partnership with hosting provider, GoDaddy for Office 365 services it seemed it would offer a huge advantage for SMBs.
Billed as a “strategic partnership” between the two, it allowed GoDaddy to sell three of Microsoft’s Office 365 plans to its customers. Being a web hosting provider to over 17 million users, GoDaddy for Office 365 offered an exclusive email and productivity service to its customers, who are predominantly small business owners.
GoDaddy for Office 365 also offered bonus elements such as:
- Domain selection & registration, with email address suggestion.
Access to a full suite of Microsoft productivity solutions via a custom admin panel.
Another bonus was that purchasing a multi-year subscription to Office 365 Business Premium through GoDaddy instead of Microsoft costs less. This made purchasing the bundle seem like a great deal for businesses that wanted to save money.
The partnership seemed great on paper, but soon after rolling out the service, customers began to experience several issues with integration that made using the software quite complex.
The Drawbacks
One major problem is that GoDaddy’s Office 365 application requires users to sign in through GoDaddy’s Office 365 UI. When you access the application like this there are issues with token-based authentication which conflicts with other Microsoft apps or services.
Users also find that apps like Office 365, Bing, Outlook would require re-authentication and consistently prompt users to login again, and again.
Other issues include:
Inability to protect accounts using 2-step or multi-factor authentication – GoDaddy for Office 365 only offers a password reset for security, which opens up businesses to phishing and other cyber-attacks.
Potential to reset the wrong password – Using the reset password option takes you out of your Office 365 dashboard and back to the GoDaddy portal. This makes it easy to reset the wrong password.
GoDaddy’s poor tech support – One would expect GoDaddy to be able to troubleshoot and resolve these problems quickly, but users claim they couldn’t get good support or helpful answers from GoDaddy. Some claimed they were even referred to call Microsoft or a third-party vendor to troubleshoot these problems.
If It Seems Too Good To Be True….
Taking a step back to examine the situation, it’s obvious who benefited the most from the “strategic partnership”.
GoDaddy is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company, with a large customer base of small businesses. By allowing these businesses buy Office 365 and cloud storage under their own domain name, SMB customers seemed to be getting the best of both worlds.
But were they really getting that?
When contacted for further clarification, GoDaddy eventually admitted that the only reason they can sell Office 365 at a cheaper price is by offering less of the Office 365 product. Yes, GoDaddy for Office 365 is a light version of Office 365, with less features and functionality but still more complex to use.
Now you’d think the logical step of migrating off the platform would be easy, right?
But it isn’t.
It’s a complex procedure that can take up to 2 whole days. And that’s when it’s done by an actual IT technician. For people that have a business to run, this is too much hassle. As an end user who has a business to run, poking around in the registry looking for a fix is not the best use of your time.
Yes, rooting around in Outlook to find client information or not having emails sync with phones and the shared company calendar leading to missed appointments can be frustrating.
But using a solution like GoDaddy for Office 365 simply isn’t an efficient business practice. While the ‘low’ upfront cost may seem attractive, remember it’s only available via a multi-year subscription, you’re getting less service and the whole ecosystem is riddled with extra complexities.
Post-migration Steps For GoDaddy
So, is that really worth the hassle?
If you experience any of the issues above and must pay for a tech to sort things out, doesn’t that work out to be more expensive in the long run?
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At Admiral Consulting Group, we encourage businesses to stick to the knitting. We know our clients would rather focus on business growth and increasing profits than waste time pretending to be IT experts.
You know what they say, “to do two things at once is to do neither.”
The ‘simplicity’ of an Office 365 one-click install via GoDaddy isn’t worth the hassle; businesses should get Office 365 direct from an accredited supplier.
The potential downtime can lead to a chain reaction of negative events, everything from decreased employee productivity to lost revenue.
Speak to one of the experts at Admiral Consulting Group today and let us show you how Office 365 can help keep your business running with zero downtime.