Step-By-Step Process to Migrate Office 365 Domain to Another Tenant

Overview: If you are struggling to migrate Office 365 domain to another tenant. So, now your search ends. Here you will find the complete process to move Office 365 domain between tenants.

The organization needs to transfer Office 365 domain between tenants for several reasons such as merger and acquisition. However, the process of transferring the domain between tenants is not that easy. It requires a lot of steps to complete the process. To successfully migrate the domain between tenants, we need to migrate the user’s email to the destination account. Detach the domain from the source tenant and attach it to the destination. As the complete process is lengthy that’s why we have divided it into several stages, so let’s discuss these stages in detail.

Stage 1. Move the User’s Emails to the Destination Tenant

Firstly we need to create the user account in the destination tenant. So that after migrating the user’s emails, contacts, and calendars into the destination tenant. We can directly connect the domain to the destination Office 365 tenant. Because of no direct method to do so. That’s why we should use the expert’s recommended Migrator Wizard Office 365 Migration Tool for the error-free process. You should also take a look at Office 365 migration checklist before start the process.

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Migrate User’s Emails from the Source Domain to the Destination Tenant

Now elaborate on the required steps of the automated tool to migrate Office 365 domain to another tenant.
Step 1. Download and Launch the tool on the system. Choose the Source and Destination as Office 365.

Step 2. Tick the checkboxes to transfer Office 365 mailbox to another account including other items as well. Apply the date filter to particular data to filter out the relevant data only.

Step 3. Enter the source credentials in the Source tab of the source Office 365 account. Validate the entered details and then Next.

Step 4. Now in the Destination tab, provide the details of the destination Office 365 account. Validate the credentials and move to Next.

Step 5. Load the users into the tool using several options such as Fetch Users, Import Users, and Download template.

Step 6. Validate source and destination users mapping and Next.

Step 7. Finally, click on the Start Migration button to start the process.

Now, the source users successfully migrated to the destination tenant. It’s time to look for the domain detachment.

Stage 2. Remove Source Office 365 Tenant Domain

In the next stage migrate Office 365 domain to another tenant. We need to remove the domain from the source tenant before attaching it to the destination tenant. Because it is not possible to connect the same domain to multiple tenants. So, move forward to the required steps.

Step 1 – Remove the domain from Users

• Sign to Office 365 account then Users.
• Choose Active Users > tick the checkbox near to username.
• Select the option of Edit Domains > choose another domain.
• Select Set as primary and Save.
• Perform the same steps for the Admin mailbox as well.

Step 2 – Remove domain from Groups

• Choose Groups then Group Name which is connected to the domain.
• Now select the option of Edit for the group.
• Finalize another Group from the drop-down.
• Click on Save and then Close.

Step 3 – Detach the Domain

• Choose Setup and Domains.
• Now choose the domain that you want to detach from the source account.
• Select Remove and click on Close.

The process of detaching the domain takes time and during that period, we cannot attach the domain to the destination tenant until it is completed.

Stage 3. Connect Domain to Destination Office 365 Tenant

Now move forward to move Office 365 domain to another tenant. As we have discussed before until the detachment of the domain from the source account is completed. We cannot add the domain to the destination tenant. So, as the process of detachment of the domain from the source tenant gets completed then connect it to the destination tenant by using the below steps.

• Step 1. Move to Office 365 destination tenant admin center and select Setup > Domains
• Step 2. Choose the Add Domain option.
• Step 3. Provide the name of the domain that you want to add to the destination tenant and Next.
• Step 4. Select how you want to verify the ownership of the domain.
• Step 5. Pick one from two options; 1 – Sign in to GoDaddy, and 2 – Verification email.
• Step 6. Now, select how you want to make the DNS changes in the destination Office 365 account. Add the DNS records for me – Configure DNS by Office 365 itself. and second one is I’ll add the DNS records myself – to attach only specific services of Office 365 in your selected domain. Here, we pick the second option.
• Step 7. Now, click on Next, and choose to skip this step.
• Step 8. Click on Finish.

Now it’s time to take the process to the final stage to transfer Office 365 domain to another tenant.

Stage 4. Migrate Users from Destination Tenant to Destination Domain

Now, we have come to the final stage of migrating the domain between tenants. Here we need to add the users to the destination domain by destination tenant. When we migrate the users to the destination tenant then the data is saved to the temporary mailboxes.

Now the domain is connected and this is time to move the data from temporary mailboxes to the destination domain. It is possible with the above-mentioned automated tool. As you migrate the users to the destination domain the process of moving domains between Office 365 tenants gets completed.

Conclusion

There are several scenarios in which there is a need to migrate Office 365 domain to another tenant. But because of the absence of any direct solutions users get frustrated. However, removing and connecting of domain to the Office 365 tenant is possible manually. But to move users, we have explained an automated tool. So, through this write-up, we have explained the complete process so that any needy user can complete the task efficiently.