Partial Success:

Short Version:

So, we had a few issues with the migration. Those issues are resolved, but not in time to finish the rest of the student email accounts. A little less than half of the Student accounts have been migrated. The plan is to do the rest this coming weekend. So, faculty is saved till next weekend (2/11). Now that we've found those issues, things have run pretty smoothly. 

"But, I like knowing why" version

This process is never simple. You are migrating huge chunks of data from an old dying machine to 'the cloud' all the while trying to keep the system from crashing down. That's one of the reasons we were trying to hold off till summer. (We'd hoped to actually shut down email for a day or two and do it all at one time without worrying about up-time. 

In addition, we have a bit of a spaghetti monster when it comes to emails. Most of our high school students have at least two email accounts (first.last AND first.last.gradyear). Some students have even more... (first.last, nickname.last, nickname.last.gradyear...). This was causing some issues with the script that we were running to migrate students over. In addition, some of those were actually showing up as separate accounts, effectively doubling (or worse) the amount of data we are having to move. That, of course, is one of the reasons we are waiting till the weekends. We do have much better bandwidth than we did in the fall, but this would still bog us down during the school day. 

As usual, if you have questions, feel free to ask. 

Email Migration is moving forward. 

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