EdbMails software for Liquid Web migration
Liquid Web is a managed cloud and web hosting service that offers dedicated servers, cloud VPS hosting, Wordpress and Enterprise Hosting, Storage and Backup, and other services. There is also an email hosting available in two flavors, Standard and Plus (which requires a Liquid Web hosting plan) as well as an independent Microsoft Exchange mailbox. Liquid Web manages all server maintenance and allows you to browse and access emails from anywhere, at any time, with the managed service. Some of the features of Liquid Web include IMAP webmail support, archiving, spam and virus protection, and so on.
While all of these are excellent for basic needs, they pale in comparison to broader collaboration and communication. Office 365, on the other hand, offers extensive integration with numerous apps and services, as well as a 50GB mailbox size that includes in-place Archives, Shared Mailboxes, and so on. With SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft Office apps, it is unquestionably a full-fledged business suite. Due to these reasons many users are looking for a way to migrate their email data to Office 365. EdbMails IMAP migration tool is a Microsoft partnered software that can help you migrate from Liquid Web to Office 365. In this article, we describe the pre and post migration activities along with the actual migration with EdbMails.
User Query
Many users who want to migrate to Office 365, approach us, asking for solutions that will allow them to do so easily and without having to go through complicated steps. We understand the difficulties and challenges of cloud based migration and therefore we've included step-by-step instructions in this article.
" We use Liquid Web for hosting and would like to migrate our emails from Business email to Office 365." We looked for solutions but found it difficult to comprehend the migration. Could someone please simplify the steps for us or point us in the right direction so that we can safely transfer all of our data? "
How to plan migration from Liquid Web?
Before starting migration from Liquid Web ensure that you have made a detailed plan so that all your data is safe. Planning also saves your time and gives an overview of the entire operation. Here is a checklist of points to consider.
- Ensure that you have administrator access to both Liquid Web and Office 365 accounts.
- Keep your Liquid Web email's IMAP connection information handy.
- Before beginning the migration, make a complete backup of all your mailboxes.
- Make a list of what you want to migrate and what you want to leave behind.
- Remove unwanted and unnecessary mailboxes from the source.
- Request that your users save or export large attachments to their local storage.
- Consider whether you want to keep the Liquid Web domain or get a custom domain for your email.
- Communicate all of these changes to your end users, stakeholders and keep them updated.
- Perform a pilot migration to ensure everything works as expected.
- After you complete the migration, allow enough time for testing and verification.
- Add the MX records on Office 365 and configure Outlook for all users.
Pre migration activities for Liquid Web to Office 365 migration
- Make sure you have admin access on the source and target serverThe admin account that has all the necessary permissions to migrate mailboxes on behalf of all the users in your organization. Also assign the Organization Management role group and impersonation rights to the admin user on Office 365.
- Create a list of users in a CSV file, which you want to migrate from Liquid Web.
- Find the name of your source email server from an email client
- Purchase a suitable Office 365 licensing plan. You can also sign up for a 30 day free trial and decide to go with a suitable one later. Compare Office 365 business plans and Compare Office 365 enterprise plans
- Create Office 365 mailboxes and assign licenses to them
- If you plan to migrate your mailboxes to Office 365 Public folders, ensure that you create and configure the Public folder mailboxes on the target server.
- Similarly, if you want to migrate mailboxes to Office 365 In-Place archive, enable them from the admin center.
- If you have a custom email domain from the source which you want to retain and receive emails to, you must add and verify the domain on Office 365.
Steps to add a custom domain to Office 365 and steps to add DNS records to connect your domain.
- Configure Office 365 to send and receive large messages.
Follow the steps to increase the message size on Office 365 to 150MB. See message size limits on Office 365 for more information.
Liquid Web to Office 365 migration using Edbmails
You can perform the migration with the following two methods.
- Migrate Liquid Web to Office 365 from Outlook
- Migrate to Microsoft 365 with EdbMails IMAP migration tool
Steps to migrate Liquid Web to Office 365 from Microsoft Outlook
- Step 1: Add your Liquid Web email account on Outlook
Configure your source account on Outlook by entering the user name, password and IMAP server details.
- Step 2: Add and configure your target Office 365 tenant account in Outlook
Configure your Office 365 account on Outlook in the same way as you did for Liquid Web.
- Step 3: Drag the messages from the source folder to the destination account’s folder
After the emails are copied to the destination folders in Outlook, the IMAP protocol syncs messages to the destination Office 365 server.
- Step 4: Log into your Office 365 tenant to see if all of your emails have been successfully synced.
This method is appropriate if you have a limited number of mailboxes with small data. However, if you have a large number of mailboxes and want to migrate them all at once, this approach takes a long time. You can also migrate your emails by creating a migration endpoint and batch from the Exchange admin center (EAC). However, both these methods are time consuming and do not ensure data consistency. We therefore recommend EdbMails for the migration that can expertly transfer all of your data from Liquid Web to Office 365 in a few simple steps.
- Step 1: Add your Liquid Web email account on Outlook
Steps to migrate Liquid Web to Office 365 with EdbMails
EdbMails IMAP migration is designed to handle migrations to Office 365 from any IMAP enabled server. It is a graphical interface tool that does not require any technical expertise for migration and export operations. The application also comes with a built-in advanced filter to select folders and items of your choice and its incremental migration technology ensures no duplicates on successive migrations.
- Download EdbMails and install the application on any computer that is connected to the source and target environment. You can also perform the migration operation by installing EdbMails on a non-Exchange computer.
See a detailed list of EdbMails system requirements for IMAP migration.
- Launch the application and click 'Login' or 'Start Your Free Trial' Login to the application (if you have purchased a license and already have the username and password). The free trial version allows you to migrate 30 items from every folder of the source account to the target.
- Select the migration method as 'IMAP migration' in the main window
- Step 1: Get the IMAP server connection details from Liquid Web email
Obtaining the IMAP details is dependent on whether you are using Liquid Web's Premium Business email or your website's hosting email, such as cPanel or Plesk. If you're using the Premium version, go to your Business email and look for the server information under webmail user settings. If you are using the hosting email, you can find these details in the cPanel’s Control Panel.
- Step 2: Connect to the Liquid Web server with the IMAP connection
In the EdbMails IMAP connection interface, enter the connection details and user credentials as shown. EdbMails is a secure application that does not save any login data.
- Hostname: secure.emailsrvr.com (If you’re using the Business email)
- Port Number: 993 with SSL/TLS selected (For secure IMAP connection)
- Email address and password associated with your account.
If you want to migrate multiple mailboxes, select 'Multiple (bulk) Users/Accounts Migration'. Download the sample CSV file from EdbMails and fill in the required details such as mailbox name, password, host name and port. Load the CSV file into the application and verify the list mailboxes to continue.
See steps to connect to single and multiple users in EdbMails IMAP migration
- Step 3: Select the mailboxes from Liquid Web to migrate to Office 365
Following a successful connection, EdbMails loads all of your mailboxes, folders, and items, which you can access on the left side.
- Select the mailboxes and folders to migrate
- Click 'Migrate to Office 365' to set up the connection with the target server
See tips to optimize IMAP migration to Exchange online
Tip: If this is the first time you’re migrating with EdbMails, the migration is a full migration. On subsequent migrations from the same source to the target, the migration is incremental to prevent duplicate items..
EdbMails provides the following additional options to help you customize the migration task.
- Additional Include and Exclude Filter Options
- Filter emails by Date: Migrate to Office 365 by applying the Date filter
- Filter emails by Size: Exclude emails from migration larger than a specified size
- Step 4: Connect to target Office 365 as Global Admin User
EdbMails supports both modern and classic authentication. Connect to the target server by selecting Auto or Manual registration for modern authentication and the connection method as Mailboxes, Public folder or Archive Mailbox. You can also connect to the mailboxes by loading a CSV file of users from the Office 365 tenant.
Connect to Office 365 server using secure modern authentication
- Step 5: Map the respective folders from the source to the target
The mapping activity in EdbMails can automatically match and map the mailboxes and folders between Liquid Web and Office 365. This activity saves time when you’re migrating a large number of mailboxes.
- Step 6: Start the migration from Liquid Web to Office 365 and verify the operation
Start and monitor the migration operation after you complete the mailbox mapping. Finally, verify the count of migrated emails, folders and mailbox items with EdbMails text-based log report. You can also pause and resume the migration.
If you require further assistance, contact EdbMails 24x7 support. Try the free trial version today to start the migration!
- Download EdbMails and install the application on any computer that is connected to the source and target environment. You can also perform the migration operation by installing EdbMails on a non-Exchange computer.
Post-migration tasks
- Step 1: Update the MX records to point to Office 365
If you have not done this step previously, change the DNS records known as MX records to enable and receive email messages on the target Office 365 server by keeping the same domain name from the source server. In addition to this setup, configure the Autodiscover record to allow Outlook to connect to the migrated mailboxes.
- Step 2: Create a new Outlook profile for users in the new domain
Configure and recreate the Outlook profile for each user in your domain if Outlook has problems connecting to Office 365 mailboxes.
- Step 1: Update the MX records to point to Office 365
Migration troubleshooting
See the migration troubleshooting guide for possible solutions related to common errors. For more information on EdbMails IMAP migration, see frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Wrapping it up
Without a doubt, Liquid Web has dominated the domain and web hosting, and even provides a Premium Business email. However, for most users, this email appears to be lacking in many collaborative features offered by Office 365. Furthermore, many businesses prefer features such as in-place archiving, shared mailboxes, public folders, and larger mailbox limits. Migrating Liquid Web to Office 365 can be difficult if you do not know the right path to take. Manual methods are frequently suited to small mailboxes and do not guarantee success if you are looking for a full-scale migration. EdbMails is a Microsoft partner and can help you perfectly transfer your emails to Office 365 without data loss or downtime.
