Mail Archives (MBOX/EML)

 

This quick start guide provides you with the basic information to configure CloudM Migrate for a migration from MBOX and EML Archives. It is highly recommended that you read the application documentation in full for your platforms in order to understand all of the options available to you during a migration.

 

The workstation running CloudM Migrate must have access to the file paths where the archives files are stored. If using multi-server you map the location of the files to the secondary machines. 

Create a Mapped Network Drive using SysInternals PSTools

• Download PSExec in the migration server and extract the zip file from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/downloads/psexec
• Open an elevated (run as administrator)  Command Prompt and navigate to the unzipped PSExec folder
• Run psexec -i -s cmd.exe
• Whoami will confirm that you're logged in as SYSTEM
• Run net use z: \\servername\sharedfolder /persistent:yes to connect to the shared drive as the SYSTEM User. Optionally add /user:username to map the drive as a different user.

Service Access to Mapped Drives

If you are using the web version of CloudM Migrate, or secondary servers then you should make sure that the CloudM Migrate service has access to mapped drives if the files are located there. Please see the article on making mapped drives available for more information.

 

Step-by-step guide
Select 'Mail Archive' in the platform selector

Enter your license key. Please click Help > Licence Key to apply the licence. Paste in the license key and click Apply.

 

Setup your destination platform. Instructions are available for G Suite, Google Vault, Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 and Exchange Online Archives.

Test the configuration using the configuration test tool, available at ‘Tools->Check Connections’. See this article for more information about the connection test tool. You will also need to complete the settings for the destination platform before running this test. If any problems are encountered with the connection test, please examine the error and make the adjustments to your configuration settings.

Generate your user list and select the users and items you would like to migrate in the ‘Users/Resources’ tab. When migrating archive files you must specify the path to the archive for each user you want to migrate in the 'Archive Path' setting

 

Start your migration

If you have any specialized needs, or would like to learn more about the migration options and how they can be used to make sure your migration is performed in an appropriate way for your organization, please refer to the advanced settings.

The table below shows the supported features for Email messages from Mail Archive (MBOX and EML) to another destination system.