What are the exact permissions that are needed for the Target service account that will run a cross forest migration to the 2019 Exchange org. The requirements doc only says: "Migrator Pro for Exchange requires a mailbox-enabled user with administrative privileges for both on-premises and Office 365 mailbox move migrations" They need more specific requirements
What are the exact permissions that are needed for the Target service account that will run a cross forest migration to the 2019 Exchange org.
The requirements doc only states;
"Migrator Pro for Exchange requires a mailbox-enabled user with administrative privileges for both on-premises and Office 365 mailbox move migrations"
The “Exchange Organization Administrators” is a member of Domains Builtin “Administrators” group on the domain controller.
Most of the time if a consultant or partner is on site and the Administrator will not approve such elevated rights as defined in the documentation.
Exchange 2019 requires.the following:
1. Organization Management
2. Recipient Management
Microsoft has the following. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/assign-permissions-for-migration
Also remove any documentation which is outdated and not related to 2016/2019
For M365 target migrations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/assign-permissions-for-migration
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