123 Reg to Office 365 migration
Looking to upgrade from 123 Reg’s email service to the powerful Office 365 platform? Office 365 offers an integrated suite of productivity tools, enhanced security, and cloud-based collaboration features, making it the ideal choice for users who need more than just basic email hosting. 123 Reg, a prominent UK-based domain registrar, is well-known for its domain registration and email hosting services, allowing users to create personalized email addresses tied to their domain names. However, as businesses grow and email demands increase, many users find that the limited features and scalability of 123 Reg’s email service no longer meet their needs. This is where Office 365 excels, providing advanced email management, seamless collaboration, and enhanced security features that 123 Reg simply can’t match.
123 Reg to Office 365 migration comes with its own set of challenges. You may encounter issues such as mailbox size limitations, especially if your 123 Reg email accounts contain large attachments or archived messages. Additionally, migrating custom domain settings and reconfiguring DNS for Office 365 can be tricky, as improper settings can lead to email delivery disruptions. Moreover, handling different email formats like POP3 or IMAP without losing data can be a complex task that requires careful planning.
EdbMails IMAP migration is a Microsoft-partnered software that provides a direct and seamless migration from 123 Reg’s IMAP server to Office 365. The application ensures that all emails, folders, and metadata are accurately transferred while addressing key migration challenges. EdbMails’ delta migration feature ensures only new or modified items are migrated after the initial sync, saving time and preventing duplicates. With advanced filtering options, you can control the migration by filtering emails by date, subject, or folder, ensuring you migrate only the data you need. Its automated mailbox mapping eliminates manual errors, accurately aligning mailboxes from 123 Reg to Office 365, while its step-by-step wizard guides you through the entire process. This comprehensive solution ensures a smooth, reliable, and efficient migration to Office 365, even for non-technical users, minimizing disruption and maximizing productivity.
User Query
"We purchased a web host and email together from 123 Reg and now want to migrate only our email to Office 365 while retaining the web host. We also have the requirement that the email domain remain 123 Reg while receiving emails in our Office 365 account. In other words, how do we keep the same email domain name as 123 Reg email? Thank you for any input."
123 Reg to Office 365 migration planning
Before you start to migrate email from 123 Reg to Office 365, you must first create a detailed plan outlining how you intend to carry out the operation. Ensure that you have taken care of the following items in the checklist
- Determine and make a complete inventory of the items you want to migrate.
- Make sure you have administrator access to both the source and the target.
- Inform your users about the change ahead of time and ask them to back up their data.
- Keep the 123 Reg IMAP server connection details handy.
- Prepare a CSV file with a list of user mailboxes to migrate and verify the format.
- Add your existing email to Outlook and create a PST backup file of all your emails.
- Perform a test migration to ensure that everything works as expected.
123 Reg to Office 365 migration prerequisites
- Find the IMAP server name of your 123 Reg server. You can find this information from your server’s dashboard settings or by connecting your email system to Outlook.
- Have the users email address, passwords, IMAP hostname and port number.
- Create mailboxes on your target Office 365 server. You can choose the option to automatically create target mailboxes in EdbMails. If you prefer to create them manually, refer to the links below.
- If you have a custom email domain from your hosting provider to which you want to migrate and receive emails, 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 and see tips to optimize IMAP migration to Exchange online.
Steps to migrate email from 123 Reg to Office 365
Step 1: Download and Install EdbMails software
- To initiate the migration process, download and install the EdbMails application on your Windows system.
- Launch the application and choose either ‘Login’ or ‘Start Your Free Trial’ to get started.
See a detailed list of EdbMails system requirements for IMAP migration.
- Select the migration method as ‘IMAP migration’ in the main window
Step 2: Connect to source 123 Reg server
- You must get these details from your 123 Reg server and enter them in the EdbMails IMAP connection screen.
Host Name for 123 Reg mail : imap.123-reg.co.uk
Port: 993 with SSL/TLS option (Secure IMAP connection)
Enter your account credentials and password to connect to your 123 Reg mail account. EdbMails is a highly secure application that never saves your credentials and also supports modern OAuth 2.0 authentication for Office 365 login.
- 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.
Steps to connect to single and multiple users in EdbMails IMAP migration
- You must get these details from your 123 Reg server and enter them in the EdbMails IMAP connection screen.
Step 3: Select source 123 Reg mailboxes
- Select the mailboxes and folders to migrate.
- Click ‘IMAP to Office 365’ to set up the connection with the target server.
See tips to optimize IMAP migration to Exchange online
Step 4: Connect to target Office 365 server
- Select the preferred method for secure OAuth-based modern authentication. The default option, ‘Auto Registration,’ requires Global admin access. Alternatively, in the Manual Registration method, you can use either a Global admin account or any user account with full access rights.
- Next, select the most suitable migration option and proceed by logging into the Microsoft sign-in page to authenticate your account.
- EdbMails automatically loads the mailboxes from your 123 Reg server. Also you can use a CSV file to load Office 365 mailboxes.
- Select the preferred method for secure OAuth-based modern authentication. The default option, ‘Auto Registration,’ requires Global admin access. Alternatively, in the Manual Registration method, you can use either a Global admin account or any user account with full access rights.
Step 5: 123 Reg to Office 365 mailboxes mapping
- Select the mailbox mapping option that best aligns with your requirements
- EdbMails simplifies the migration process with automated mailbox creation for Office 365, ensuring precise mapping of mailboxes and folders from the source IMAP server automatically. This feature is crucial for large-scale migrations, optimizing the workflow and ensuring a seamless transfer to Office 365 without manual intervention.
- Click the ‘Folder and Item Filter’ button to set a filter for your migration. For instance, you can choose to migrate data only within a specific date range by applying a date filter. Additionally, you can exclude both standard and custom folders from the migration.
- Select the mailbox mapping option that best aligns with your requirements
Step 6: Start 123 Reg to Office 365 migration
- Once the mailboxes are mapped, assign a job name and begin the migration process. To review the migration report, click the ‘View Log’ button, which provides a comprehensive report detailing the number of emails, folders, and mailbox items successfully migrated.
- Once the mailboxes are mapped, assign a job name and begin the migration process. To review the migration report, click the ‘View Log’ button, which provides a comprehensive report detailing the number of emails, folders, and mailbox items successfully migrated.
123 Reg to Office 365 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 email and receive messages on the target Office 365 server. In addition, 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 the Outlook profile for each user in your domain if Outlook has problems connecting to Office 365 mailboxes.
123 Reg to Office 365 migration troubleshooting
Refer to the knowledge base articles for solutions to common issues. For additional details on EdbMails IMAP migration, check the frequently asked questions or reach out to our customer support team.
Benefits of EdbMails for 123 Reg to Office 365 Migration
- Easy to use software interface
Security is a big concern when moving emails from one location to another. There is no chance of any security flaws with EdbMails solution. The software is built using the most up-to-date technologies, providing the greatest and safest user interface panel.
- Bulk mailbox transfer
With the help of EdbMails 123 Reg mail migrator, you can migrate multiple 123 Reg server mailboxes. By loading multiple mailboxes, you may save spending unnecessary time and effort loading individual files.
- Migrate selected items with additional filter options
EdbMails provides a number of advantages that other programmes that make similar claims to being the best never provide. The app offers the most effective method for strategically moving mailbox items. These filter options make it simple to migrate emails according to many criteria, like subject, email address, date and time range, etc.
- Maintain folder hierarchy & email properties
Throughout the process, the software preserves all email attributes safely. Your original email's attachments, email subjects, internet header properties, email addresses, inline graphics, hyperlinks, and other elements are all preserved. The software maintains the hierarchy of the 123 Reg server mailbox folders throughout the procedure.
- Unwavering customer support
EdbMails 123 Reg to office 365 migration tool is trustworthy and safe, offers free assistance throughout migration, is completely scalable, and is flexible enough to handle all of your migration needs. For any migration assistance, our migration specialists can offer free 24/7 services to guarantee your migration proceeds as planned.
