Move From Microsoft 365 To Liberation
When you move from Microsoft 365, mail, contacts and calendar move with you, and we can time the cutover around your renewal date so you never pay the new price.
How the move from Microsoft 365 works
We handle each step so you can keep working.
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The short answer
Moving off Microsoft 365 means migrating mailboxes, contacts, and calendar entries to a new mail platform, then updating your domain’s mail records. All of it happens as part of one free migration.
When you move from Microsoft 365 to Liberation, the goal is a Microsoft 365 migration you never have to think about twice: the same addresses, the same mail history, the same calendar and contacts, just running on infrastructure you own instead of a subscription that renews at a higher price every year. A move from Microsoft 365 is handled by a person on our team, not a self-service import tool — every mailbox is copied over, tested, and verified before the mail records are switched.
Business owners who move from Microsoft 365 often ask how long the migration takes and whether anything will break in the process. In most cases a Microsoft 365 migration wraps up within a few business days of approving the plan, timed to land right before your Microsoft renewal date so you never pay for a cycle you don’t use, and because your original 365 mailboxes stay live and untouched throughout, there’s no window where your team loses email.
Many teams time the switch to land just before their Microsoft renewal date, especially after the July 2026 price increase on Business Basic and Business Standard — see our Microsoft 365 price-increase page for the exact numbers.
What actually happens
We copy your mail first
Existing mail, contacts and calendar entries are copied to the new mailboxes before anything is switched over.
We test before cutover
Migrated mailboxes are checked against the originals for completeness before your domain’s mail records change.
We can time it to your renewal
Tell us your Microsoft renewal date and we’ll plan the cutover to land before it.
Your team keeps the same email addresses — nothing changes for anyone emailing you.
- Free migration of mail, contacts and calendar data, done by our team.
- No lock-in month-to-month, cancel anytime — no renewal-date price surprises.
- U.S.-owned infrastructure and support, not outsourced overseas.
Beyond email
If your team also leans on Teams, SharePoint, or shared drives, Hub for Teams covers that ground at $7.49/user/month, still less than the new Business Standard price alone.
What moves, what changes
Mail, contacts, calendar
Copied to your new mailboxes before the domain’s mail records ever change.
Teams/SharePoint
If your team relies on these specifically, Hub for Teams covers similar ground; ask us to walk through the gap.
Your domain
Stays yours — only the mail records (MX) change to point at the new mail servers.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month, no annual commitment.
- Hub for Teams $7.49/user/month for email, drives, chat and video.
- Free migration included with any plan switch.
Priced the way a business buys
Per-mailbox pricing, billed monthly. Migration itself is free regardless of team size.
- Liberation Email $1.95/user/month.
- Hub for Teams $7.49/user/month.
- WordPress hosting from $35/month for a companion website.
What It Costs
Starting prices, billed monthly unless noted. Anything larger gets a written quote.
Step-by-step: find your DNS records in Microsoft 365 and switch them to Liberation
We copy your mail first
- Sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Show all in the left navigation, then open Settings → Domains.
- Select your domain, then click DNS records → Manage DNS to see the exact MX, TXT, CNAME and SRV records Microsoft has configured for your mail flow today — worth screenshotting before anything changes.
- If you want a personal copy of mailbox content first, run a mailbox export request per user from the Exchange admin center (or skip this — we import directly from your live mailboxes during the migration, which is faster for most teams).
- Once your new Liberation mailboxes are built, tested, and holding a full copy of your mail, we send you the new MX and supporting DNS records to publish at your DNS host in place of Microsoft’s.
- Microsoft 365 stops receiving new mail once the MX records change and propagate (usually under an hour); we monitor both inboxes through the cutover window so nothing sent mid-switch is lost.
- Once confirmed, downgrade or cancel the Microsoft 365 subscription from Settings → Billing.
We test before cutover
Migrated mailboxes are checked against the originals for completeness before your domain’s mail records change.
We can time it to your renewal
Tell us your Microsoft renewal date and we’ll plan the cutover to land before it.
Your team keeps the same email addresses — nothing changes for anyone emailing you.
Your new workspace
Mail, chat and files together.
Common questions
Will my team lose email during the move?
No — mail is copied to the new mailboxes first and tested before the domain’s mail records change.
Can you time the migration to our Microsoft renewal date?
Yes — tell us your renewal date when you book a call and we’ll plan the cutover around it.
Can you migrate our whole 365 tenant at once?
Yes — when you move from Microsoft 365, mail, contacts, and calendar move as part of a single free migration handled by our team. If you want to see what Microsoft’s own tenant-to-tenant migration and export options look like first, Microsoft’s own Microsoft 365 data migration documentation covers the process we’re replacing with one flat-rate, done-for-you move.
Is there a contract with Liberation?
No. Plans are month-to-month and you can cancel anytime.
Do I need technical skills to move from Microsoft 365?
Yes. When you move from Microsoft 365 to Liberation, our team handles the entire migration for you — you don’t need any technical experience, and your current mail, contacts, and calendar stay live and untouched until the new setup is tested and ready to go.
Time your switch before your renewal
Book a call and we’ll map the migration to your Microsoft renewal date so you never pay the new price.
What actually makes leaving Microsoft 365 hard
Microsoft 365 is not really a mail product, and that is the entire difficulty. The tenant is an identity system: the same account signs people into Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Windows devices, and frequently into third-party applications through single sign-on. Moving the mail is straightforward. Moving the identity the mail is attached to is the actual project.
So the first question is what else authenticates against that tenant. Line-of-business applications configured for single sign-on, devices joined to the directory, multi-factor enrolments, and any vendor portal using Microsoft as its login provider all have to be addressed before accounts are retired. This is the list that takes longest to assemble and causes the most disruption when it is incomplete.
Teams is the second consideration, and the honest answer is that conversation history does not migrate cleanly anywhere. If chat history matters to you — for retention obligations, for a regulated industry, or simply because decisions live in it — it has to be exported and archived deliberately before accounts close. Decide whether you need it searchable or merely retained, because those are different jobs with different costs.
Third, SharePoint and OneDrive are very often doing the work of a file server, with permissions inherited through nested sites and links to those files embedded in documents and emails across the organization. The files themselves copy out fine. The permission structure and every internal link pointing at the old location do not.
How we handle it: we inventory mailboxes, groups and aliases, map what authenticates against the tenant, and plan the exit in stages rather than as a single cutover — mail first, files second, identity last. Mail is copied while the old system still accepts it, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC go on your domain. Hub For Teams gives you mailboxes, shared calendars and contacts on your own domain. Book a call and bring a user count.
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