Planning is one of the prime requirements to ensure that you transfer all the data to the target server safely. Here is a general checklist of points and migration strategy to migrate from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2019 that you can follow.
Take a complete backup of all your mailbox data at the source.
Ask your users to backup important files, attachments and contact entries.
Communicate the changes to all your users and stakeholders.
Estimate the cost required to upgrade your hardware, operating system and consider the maintenance factors.
Prepare the target environment and ensure you have the required bandwidth to migrate.
Make a note of the inventory of items such as Active Directory association, operating system, firewall, network configuration, port numbers installed programs, and list of users.
Install Exchange 2019 and create suitable mailboxes and Public folders
Perform a test migration to a few mailboxes and check if you are ready for a full migration.
Migrate Exchange 2013 to 2019 and configure the MX records to receive emails.
Create a new Outlook profile for all users and test if you are receiving emails correctly.
Decommission Exchange 2013 after you verify and inform the changes to all the end users.
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