Transitioning to MailStreet
Every day, companies around the globe transfer their email service to MailStreet. The process consists of the following four step,s and in many cases can be completed in less than 24 hours.
Step 1: Purchase Exchange Account
First, an order is placed for the MailStreet hosted Microsoft Exchange service. After the order is completed, you will receive an "Order Receipt" and a "Welcome to MailStreet" email with all of the new account settings. Your domain ownership will be verified and approved for use in the system. At this point you will be ready to create your mailboxes in the Administrator Control Panel, and configure profiles for your users.
Step 2: Set Up Domain Name
The next step is pointing your domain's MX record to MailStreet so that new email stops going to your existing mail server/host and starts going to MailStreet. Optionally, you can also transfer the whole domain, and we will host the DNS/MX records for free. MX record changes usually propagate across the Internet quickly (between 1 and 24 hours,) and whole domain transfers take longer (24-48 hours).
Furthermore, if you do not have your own domain, you can choose a "sub-domain" (example: @mycompany.hostaccount.com). In this situation, the domain is instantly available and requires no DNS changes on your part.
Step 3: Configure Outlook
After completing the DNS changes, you may then configure new Outlook profiles on each computer that will use the service. You will use Outlook to connect to your MailStreet accounts. Optionally, you can use Outlook Web Access which requires no additional configuration. Also, if you get stuck, we are here to help.
You may also want to import existing data to your new MailStreet mailbox. Typically this consists of uploading Calendar and Contact data from an old Outlook profile. You may also choose to import all or none of your previous email correspondence. In either event, this is completed using the "Import/Export Wizard" feature of Microsoft Outlook. If you have a lot of data to import, we can also assist you in this process by providing an FTP site where you may upload the Outlook data (PST files), and our engineers will import this data for a nominal hourly fee.
