I received the strange issue in a Hybrid environment where in a user account received the error that this user’s on-premises mailbox hasn’t been migrated to Exchange Online. I was able to fix it and wanted to share the strategies in this post.
- Go to “Exchange Server“
- Access the “Exchange Management Shell“
- Disable the affected mailbox. For example, Disable-RemoteMailbox Test248 -Confirm:$false
Note: I would advise not to use the remove-mailbox as it removes the AD account that is associated with the mailbox. I recommend to use the disable command.
- Wait for the changes to replicate in Microsoft 365. After the sync, the mailbox will be moved to the soft deleted list.
- Now, enable the on-premises object again using the Enable-Mailbox command and not remote user mailbox. For instance, Enable-Mailbox test248
Note: If there is no AD account available, then Enable-mailbox command will not work.
- After the sync is complete, perform the migration from on-premises to Exchange Online and assign the license.
- The mailbox should be ok now. This has been tested in my lab and the error (This user’s on-premises mailbox hasn’t been migrated to Exchange Online) no longer occurs.
- Now, perform the mailbox restore request to move mailbox contents from the soft-deleted mailbox to the active mailbox.
- Finally, add the email addresses of the soft-deleted mailbox to the active mailbox to receive all emails to the current mailbox.
If the above steps fail for some reason, follow the instructions mentioned in the Microsoft website.
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