I will upload PST to Office 365 via the internet because this method is the most affordable if you don’t have terabytes of information in your PST files. The second option is to write your data on a hard drive and ship the hard drive to a Microsoft data center (there is an additional fee of $2 per gigabyte). The first option is to upload your data via the internet.
Hit Next to continue.ĭo you want to upload or ship your data? Microsoft provides two options to migrate PST to Office 365. Enter a name for your PST files import job, for example, importpst. On the Import page, click Import PST Files.Ĭlick New Import Job to create a new job and import PST files to Office 365. In the navigation pane, click Information governance, then hit Import. Go to to open Office 365 Security & Compliance admin center. Now you are ready to start to upload PST to Office 365. Microsoft says that the process can take up to 24 hours, but in practice, settings are usually applied within a few minutes. You may also need to wait for a few minutes until permissions configuration is applied and changes take effect. Log in to Office 365 by using the account that has the required permissions (you may need to log out before logging back in if you are logged in at the moment). The Mail Recipients role is assigned to Recipient Management and Organization Management groups by default. The Mail Recipients role must be assigned to your user account. If you are a global administrator of an organization in Office 365, you don’t need to assign additional permissions for a global administrator account. You can edit other permissions and add roles by clicking Organization Management in the Admin roles list and configuring permissions in the Permissions tab of the Organization management window. In the Mailbox Import Export window, select the Assigned tab, hit the + Add button, and add the needed user account to be used for importing PST files to Office 365. As an alternative, you can create a new role group, assign the Mailbox Import Export role to this group, and then add your user account as a member of this created group.Īfter you click the Mailbox Import Export role group on the Admin roles page, the Mailbox Import Export window opens. Note: Before this step, you may need to add the Mailbox Import Export role to the Organization Management role group. On the Admin roles page, click Mailbox Import Export. In the left pane of the Exchange admin center page, select Roles > Admin roles.
Log in to the admin center by using the administrator credentials.
Let’s start by looking at how to configure the needed roles and permissions. The Mailbox Import Export role must be assigned to your user account in the Exchange admin center. Your Office 365 account must have enough permissions for importing PST files to Office 365. In this example, I’m going to copy the source PST file from one mailbox to D:\temp\pst\ on my machine, and this directory is used as the source directory in my walkthrough.
If you use Microsoft Office Outlook 2016 in Windows 10, the default location where PST files are stored in Outlook is:Ĭ:\Users\user-name\Documents\Outlook Files
Where Do You Find a PST FileĪ PST (personal storage table) file contains email messages, calendar events, tasks, and other items. This blog post explains how to import PST to Office 365 by using native Microsoft tools. Outlook Online is the web application for emails in Office 365. After migrating to Office 365, you might need to import data from PST files to Office 365 email accounts to allow users to see their old email data in the web interface of Outlook Online. PST files allow you to access email data in an email client even without an internet connection.
By Michael Bose A Detailed Guide on Migrating PST Files to Office 365