Microsoft Exchange and Email Migration Assistant
The Email Migration Assistant supports both POP3 and IMAP migration. By default, Microsoft Exchange Server uses MAPI, EWS, or ActiveSync for email client connectivity. In order to migrate your mail to your new Advanced Email mailbox, please review the methods below:Important note
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The Zimbra Migration Wizard will automatically copy your email, contacts, calendars, contacts, rules, and out of office messages to your new Advanced Email account. You can either run the Zimbra Migration Wizard on each user's machine where Outlook is installed or on any Windows machine with Microsoft Outlook along with the user's .PST file.Click here to get started with the Zimbra Migration Wizard
Enabling IMAP
The easiest way to migrate your Microsoft Exchange Mailbox to Advanced Email is to enable IMAP. In most cases, this will require a change to your Microsoft Exchange server configuration to enable IMAPv4 support. Please refer to the documentation below to review the steps necessary to enable IMAPv4.- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: How to Enable or Disable IMAP4 Access for a User (external link)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Enable IMAP4 in Exchange 2010 (external link)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Enable IMAP4 in Exchange 2013 (external link)
Exporting .PST files from Exchange
You can also have your Microsoft Exchange administrator export .PST files that can be imported in to Microsoft Outlook on the client machine.- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: How to Export and Import mailboxes to PST files in Exchange 2007 SP1 (external link)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Exchange 2010 – Exporting Mailboxes without EXMERGE (external link)
Exporting .PST files from Microsoft Outlook
If you do not have administrative access to your Microsoft Exchange Server, you can manually export the .PST file using Microsoft Outlook.- Microsoft Outlook 2010: Export Outlook items to an Outlook Data File (external link)
Importing .PST files in Microsoft Outlook
Once you have obtained your .PST file, you can follow the instructions below to import it.- Microsoft Outlook 2010: Import Outlook items from an Outlook Data File (external link)