
The MSP Runbook for Moving Clients Off GoDaddy Onto Office 365
GoDaddy email comes in two flavors, IMAP and the 365 syndicate program, and each needs a different move. Here are the tools, the playbooks, and why some tenants need a full migration.
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GoDaddy email comes in two flavors, IMAP and the 365 syndicate program, and each needs a different move. Here are the tools, the playbooks, and why some tenants need a full migration.

Office 365 DLP can find and protect PII like credit card, SSN, and health records across Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Here is a HIPAA policy built from template to report.

Office 365 ATP ships with Safe Attachments and Safe Links switched off. Here is what each feature does and the step-by-step config to turn them on.

A G Suite to Office 365 migration with BitTitan fails at the source if API access is wrong. Here is what cannot move and the exact Google Admin steps to authorize MigrationWiz.

Inter-tenant collaboration in Exchange Online comes down to two controls: user-level sharing policies and organization relationships. Here is what each one does and where to set it.

Office 365 message encryption needs the right license, an activation step, and transport rules to fire automatically. Here is the full setup and the recipient experience.
Most BitTitan migration failures trace back to credential verification. Here are the seven most common errors, what each one actually means, and how to fix them.
Moving one Office 365 tenant into another while keeping the domain means planned downtime. Here is the BitTitan sequence that holds it to 30 minutes, with every PowerShell script.

GoDaddy's Office 365 uses the same MX records as regular Office 365, so the domain itself becomes the blocker. Here is the remove-and-recreate runbook that keeps downtime to 5 to 15 minutes.
Migrating off BAE Silversky hosted Exchange is fast, but the whole job stalls until impersonation rights are set. Here is how to get them through Silversky support and run the BitTitan cutover.

Email migrations run for weeks. These are the source and destination PowerShell scripts we keep in our runbook: bulk user import, UPN swaps, throttling, impersonation, and more.
Migrating on-prem Exchange to Office 365 is gated by upload speed, not by BitTitan or SkyKick. Audit bandwidth, tune concurrency, and prestage weeks ahead so MX cutover is the easy part.