How to make changes to Microsoft 365 Entra Admin Center so BitTitan MigrationWiz can migrate emails into Microsoft 365 Exchange Online
Introduction
This is the 5th step in our complete guide on how to migrate your emails to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. In the previous step we created user accounts for all the email addresses we want to migrate to Microsoft 365 Exchange Online. This means we also have mailboxes for our email addresses but the mailboxes are empty and they are not live either.
Since December 2022 Microsoft 365 has used somrthing called Modern Authentication to make Microsoft accounts more secure. When we come to migrating all of your existing emails into Microsoft 365 Exchange Online we will be using a 3rd party service called MigrationWiz. In order for MigrationWiz to be able to access the new mailboxes in Microsoft 365 and migrate emails across we need to make changes in the Microsoft 365 Entra Admin Center. Entra is the new name for Azure Active Directory..
1. In the Microsoft 365 Admin center click the 3 horizontal lines in the top left corner
2. Click Show all and then click Identity.
3. Go to Overview and then Properties
4. Click Manage security defaults.
5. Change Security defaults from Enabled (recommended) to Disabled (not recommended).
Note: this is just a temporary measure and once the migration is complete we will turn the security defaults back to enabled.
6. Select one of the Reasons for disabling and click Save.
7. In Entra admin center go to Identity and then Applications and App registrations.
8.Select New registration.
9. Give it a name, such as Migration Wiz.
10. Under Supported account types select Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Microsoft Entra ID tenant - Multitenant)
11. Under Redirect URI (optional) select Public client/native (mobile & desktop).
12. Set the Redirect URI value to urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob
13. Click Register.
14. Click on the name of the new Registration.
15. You will see an Application (client) ID and Directory (tenant) ID. Make a copy of both of these values in Notepad or Microsoft Word.
16. On left hand side, under the heading Manage select Authentication.
17. Scroll down and under Allow public client flows select Yes.
18. Click Save.
19. On left hand side, under the heading Manage select API permission.
20. If under Configured permissions there is a permission name User.Read under Microsoft Graph then this can be deleted.
21. Click Add a permission.
22. Select APIs my organization uses
23. In the search box, type in Office 365 Exchange Online
24. Select Office 365 Exchange Online.
25. Select Delegated Permissions
26. Expand EWS
27. Select EWS.AccessAsUser.All
28. Click Add permissions
29. Under Configured permissions click Grant admin consent for company x
30. Click Yes to confirm.
That completes the changes we need to make to Microsoft Entra. In the next step we will create an account with MigrationWiz and start migrating emails into Microsoft Exchange Online.