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Office 365 is an enterprise email, calendaring and notes platform based in the cloud on Microsoft's servers in their data centers. The email on these servers is owned by MIT via contractual agreement with Microsoft.

PRE-TRANSITION

What needs to be done pre-transition

  1. Read/skim the IS&T O365 Pre-transition information: https://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/Office+365+Pre-Migration+Information 
    AND the IS&T Migration Checklist: https://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/Office+365+-+Email+and+Calendaring+-+Migration+Checklist

    1. Make a note if any of the listed conditions apply to you.
    2. Plan contingencies if a condition applies to you.
    3. If you are not sure what needs to be done for any condition affects you, contact the IS&T O365 representative who is helping your DLC transition.

  2. Clean up your emails including deleting and purging deleted emails and junk emails .
  3. Notify IS&T of ANY AND ALL shared MIT Exchange calendar resources as they will need to be migrated as well.
  4. Anyone who is a user sharing a calendar or has Delegate permissions to see a user's Calendar must be all be transitioned at the same time.

The TRANSITION

On Monday September 19th 2022, Albert and Dan were migrated from MIT Exchange to MIT O365 Email. As Apple Mail and iCal users these are the notes of what we saw.

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