{"id":1909,"date":"2018-09-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inswwdev.azurewebsites.net\/au\/insights\/uncategorized\/creating-test-mails-to-check-throughput-of-migration-to-office365\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T07:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T07:53:46","slug":"creating-test-mails-to-check-throughput-of-migration-to-office365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/insights\/geek-speak\/migrations\/creating-test-mails-to-check-throughput-of-migration-to-office365\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Test Mails to Check Throughput of Migration to Office365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, you\u2019re ready to start migrating users to Office 365. You have your batch ready, and you\u2019re about to click the migrate button\u2026 Wait just one moment\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before you do, let me ask you a question. \u00a0How long will it take to complete your batch?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, I\u2019m not expecting you know the exact time but having an estimated completion date allows you to inform your users and provide the business with the reassurance needed to complete the project on schedule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To do this, we will be using a<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/gallery.technet.microsoft.com\/PowerShell-Script-For-4bcc2216\" target=\"_blank\">script<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>by Joe Palarchio that will generate test mailbox data which you can spread across a period. However, in this scenario, it will be over one day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This script will use the impersonation account to create new emails and save them into the Inbox folder. To achieve the desired size, the script creates a notepad attachment containing plain text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, you can provide this report to Microsoft to release any throttling mechanisms on their end you may have hit. You can read about Microsoft\u2019s throttling<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/office-365-migration-performance-and-best-practices-d9acb371-fd6c-4c14-aa8e-db5cbe39aa57#bk_o365throttling\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 40px; border-bottom: 1px solid #f16020;\"><span>PREREQUISITES<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exchange 2013 \/ Exchange 2016 \u2013<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>This will not work with Exchange 2010 \/ 2007<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=42951\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Exchange Web Services Managed API 2.2<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/exchange\/client-developer\/exchange-web-services\/how-to-configure-impersonation\" target=\"_blank\">Exchange Impersonation Account<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 40px; border-bottom: 1px solid #f16020;\"><span>USING THE SCRIPT<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Once you\u2019ve downloaded the script, open it with Notepad.<br \/>2. Specify your API path and Exchange Web Services (EWS) Uri then hit Save.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 896px; height: 138px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/02\/september_3_blog_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/74a2dfb2b72643e38d2635d8f591e94f\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Open Exchange Management Shell and change the directory to the location of the script.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 903px; height: 56px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/02\/september_3_blog_img_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/74277ccc871f4f70998f2514e0896e00\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. The script contains several parameters which you can use for your desired outcome. In the example below, we will be creating 600 messages each totaling 1500KB.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 898px; height: 79px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/02\/september_3_blog_img_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/e9b8c7f403784f06bc1fd60c517b6dbb\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Enter the login details for your Impersonation account.<br \/>6. Once the script is running, you can view the mailbox size in Exchange to confirm it is indeed running. The larger the message and size count the longer it will take to complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There you have it. You now have yourself a test mailbox with test emails for you to migrate to Office 365.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Microsoft Throughput Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When scheduling a mailbox migration in the Office 365 portal, Administrators can specify a group of people to receive the migration report. To do this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Login to the Office 365 Admin Portal and click Exchange.<br \/>2. Under Recipients click the Migration heading.<br \/>3. Click the button and select Migrate to Exchange Online.<br \/>4. Go through the wizard, selecting the type of migration and who to migrate until you get to the last window.<br \/>5. Click the Browse button and add the recipients you want to receive the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 902px; height: 314px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/02\/september_3_blog_img_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-udi=\"umb:\/\/media\/40e03dec35e3426e8dfdbb201e473d9f\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once the migration has completed you will receive a throughput report, which looks something like the one below. This was completed with two mailboxes totaling 4GB. Every environment is different, other factors can impact throughput. Microsoft has provided a good graph which outlines the average speeds for every migration type.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BytesTransferred :1.823 GB (1,957,371,616 bytes)<br \/>EstimatedTotalTransferSize :1.817 GB (1,950,859,857 bytes)<br \/>TotalInProgressDuration(Time) :00:37:07.31 (37 Minutes)<br \/>EstimatedTotalTransferCount :1732 (items)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you\u2019re ready to start migrating users to Office 365. You have your batch ready, and you\u2019re about to click the migrate button\u2026 Wait just one moment\u2026 Before you do, let me ask you a question. \u00a0How long will it take to complete your batch? Now, I\u2019m not expecting you know the exact time but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/insights\/geek-speak\/migrations\/creating-test-mails-to-check-throughput-of-migration-to-office365\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating Test Mails to Check Throughput of Migration to Office365<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-migrations","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32713,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/32713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insentragroup.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}