Migrating Mailboxes to Amazon WorkMail: Steps and Issues

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(a) The following steps are followed in migrating the mail boxes to the Amazon WorkMail.
First you prepare the source environment by:
 Creating an account for the administrator in the Office to be used in migration.
 Exporting the list of users to a file of CSV.
You then prepare the destination environment by:
 Adding the Organization to the WorkMail of Amazon.
 Adding the domain to the WorkMail of Amazon.
 Creating new users or enabling the directory of users that is already existing for the
WorkMail of Amazon.
 Creating an account for the admin to be used for migration containing full permissions of
access for all the mailboxes. Adding a new user who is the admin of migration in the
console of the WorkMail of Amazon or creating the user who is the admin of migration
in the Active Directory and enabling the user for the WorkMail of Amazon. (Varia, J.,
2011)
Importantly, when setting the endpoint of the Destination, the login name of the administrator
ought to be keyed in in the format of email address.
After that, the MSP steps are completed which include:
 Creating the customer, Destination and the Source end points.
For the endpoint of the Source:
 Select Endpoints, Add the Endpoint, enter the name of the endpoint then chose
the category of the endpoint you are sourcing out from.
 Then select the radio button indicating the option of Provide Credentials and then
key in the identifications regarding the account of the admin.
For the endpoint of the Destination:
 Select Endpoints, Add the endpoint, input the name of the endpoint and then
when keying in the type of the endpoint, chose the AWS WorkMail.