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How to move a Microsoft 365 tenant to another CodeTwo Admin Panel account

Problem:

You would like to move your Microsoft 365 (Office 365) tenant to a different CodeTwo Admin Panel account.

Solution:

If you don't need another CodeTwo Admin Panel account, you can simply transfer the ownership to the account where the tenant in question is registered to another organization. See this article to learn how to do so

If you want to move only a specific tenant from one CodeTwo Admin Panel account to another, or if the organization to which you want to transfer the tenant already has a CodeTwo Admin Panel account in which there are other tenants registered, you need to deregister the tenant in question from the current CodeTwo Admin Panel account and then register it under the new account. Follow the steps below to do so.

Read this before you proceed

  • If you are using CodeTwo Email Signatures 365 in cloud (server-side) or combo mode, make sure that you know the exact scope of users (senders) whose emails are routed through CodeTwo services. The senders scope is specified when you register a tenant in CodeTwo Admin Panel (learn more). You will need to set the same range of users after you move your tenant to the new CodeTwo Admin Panel account. A good idea might be to sign in to the Exchange admin center (EAC), go to Mail flow > Rules, open the CodeTwo Exchange transport rule, and note down or take a screenshot of the conditions.
  • During the procedure, there will be a temporary downtime in adding signatures to your messages. It is advised that you perform all the steps after your working hours.

To register a Microsoft 365 tenant to a different CodeTwo Admin Panel, you need to:

  1. Sign in to your current CodeTwo Admin Panel.
  2. Go to the Tenants page and click the tenant you would like to move.
  3. (Optional) From the left menu, click Scope & region and note down or take a screenshot of the scope of licensed users. These are the users who consume licenses and benefit from the CodeTwo service (get signatures, automatic replies, etc.). Learn more about this scope
  4. Go to Tenant deregistration and click the Deregister permanently button (Fig. 1.).

Deregistering the tenant to be moved.
Fig. 1. Deregistering the tenant to be moved.

  1. Proceed with the wizard and deregister your tenant from the original account.
  2. Sign in to the CodeTwo Admin Panel account where you want to move your tenant.
  3. Register your tenant, as described here. Here's what you need to do to recreate the settings from your previous CodeTwo Admin Panel account:
    • In the Scope & region step, select the same scope of licensed users that you noted in step 3.
    • If you use the cloud or combo signature mode, make sure that you specify the same scope of senders as in your previous CodeTwo account (as mentioned above). You can do that in the Users step of the tenant registration wizard (if you selected the automatic configuration of Exchange Online connectors). Otherwise, follow these steps to learn how to define the scope of senders manually by configuring the CodeTwo Exchange transport rule in Exchange Online.

If you register your tenant in the same Azure region as before, you will have all of your created rules and templates back. This is because rules and templates are assigned to a Microsoft 365 tenant and a CodeTwo region, not to a CodeTwo Admin Panel account.

Warning

Please note that if you have a paid subscription, you will lose it and need to renew it manually. Email signatures configured for your Microsoft 365 tenant will still be added until the end of your current billing cycle, so it's a good idea to renew the subscription right before the current one ends. For more details, go to this website.

If you previously activated your subscription with a product license key, you need to re-enter your license key after the move by following these steps.

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