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Not all features are available through the Office 365 Portal. There are a lot of features that you can enable with with PowerShell. PowerShell may sound a little scary, which is why we’ve been posting PowerShell commands you can cut and paste with our Office 365 PowerShell tip series. Previously in BPOS and similarly with … Continue reading
Sometimes you may provision accounts in Office 365 before any sort of domain validation. In this case, you don’t want to hit up each user account and manually change the UPN one at a time, possibly leading to setting something incorrectly. We’re going to give you some PowerShell code you can cut and paste to … Continue reading
When you submit a mailbox for migration, we give you plenty of options. Do you want to verify credentials, submit a trial migration, or retry failed items? For example, did you know that these three types of migrations are always free of charge? As you can see below, we’re re-designing our interface to make it … Continue reading
MigrationWiz is a self-service migration solution. Whether you want to perform migrations using our website, our PowerShell commandlets or even our SOAP web services, we’re always looking for new ways to make email migration easier than ever before. For those of you who prefer using our website to writing scripts, we’re proud to announce some … Continue reading
MigrationWiz has offered real-time statistics during your migration since the beginning. Over-time, we have added a lot of information to empower you to determine where the bottlenecks are and ensure that your migrations are running as fast as they can. In this article, we’re going to explain some of the rich information we present and … Continue reading
We covered a lot of different topics throughout the year. Some of our most popular articles this year were posted more than a year ago. We have been very busy this year with many things such as the launch of Microsoft Office 365, our new case study program, and updated website. Remember, we’re open to … Continue reading
Yesterday, we announced the availability of our simple directory synchronization tool. Today, we are going to discuss deployment and give you a step-by-step guide on how to use it in your migrations. First things first, there are some things you will need to do before deploying directory synchronization: Validate your domain in Office 365. Before … Continue reading
Most, if not all email, service providers enforce item size limits. For example, Office 365 requires all emails to be no larger than 25 MBs. Other hosted email service providers are more generous. Nevertheless, most fall within the 10-to-50 MB range as this table shows. Yet, we’ve come across mailboxes containing individual items larger than 300 … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the global availability of our very own Active Directory (AD) to Office 365 directory synchronization tool. This tool is free of charge for all MigrationWiz customers! As you probably know, Microsoft’s Office 365 directory synchronization tool leverages Forefront Identity Manager (aka FIM, aka Identity Lifecycle Manager, aka ILM, aka Microsoft … Continue reading
Before you migrate, you should always check to make sure your credentials are correct among other things to ensure a smooth and pain-free transition. If you are just migrating a handful of mailboxes, you can manually test each credential of the mailboxes for an IMAP mailbox, Google Apps/Gmail, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Office … Continue reading
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If you are worried about data privacy and security in your migration projects, MigrationWiz complies with some of the high-level security standards. We have migrated many health care and government organizations that typically have very sensitive information that requires stringent security requirements. Additionally, we’ve migrated for customers from individuals to Fortune 500s. We implement these … Continue reading
We’ve previously blogged about how to manually configure Outlook for BPOS. Now that BPOS has been replaced by Office 365, we thought we’ve update the information to reflect the current state of Microsoft’s hosted Exchange offering. In some instances, you may not be able to configure autodiscover for Office 365 with your domain. This can … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 combined with Outlook 2010 Service Pack 1 introduced a new “feature” which auto-maps mailboxes you have permissions to in Outlook. This means any mailbox you were granted full access permissions to, Exchange sets an AD link which is used by Outlook to open all mailboxes you have permissions to. This has really caused … Continue reading
In this post, we’re going to identify some of the common misconfigurations and issues when using ISA to protect an Exchange Server. We find that over half of the ISA servers that protect Exchange are not configured properly. The first thing you need to understand are the authentication requirements for the various virtual directories that … Continue reading
At MigrationWiz, we believe in automation as a way to promote security, reliability and ease of use. For example, you don’t have to remember to delete sensitive log files once you’re done with your migration: we’ll automatically purge your entire configuration after 90 days (configurable). Or when you submit a mailbox for migration, you don’t … Continue reading
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View original document Core Based in central London, Core Technology Systems (Core) provides consulting, development, and support services across multiple Microsoft product lines. Core specializes in Microsoft SharePoint, System Center and Online Services (including Office 365 and Windows InTune). With over 20 years of experience, Core helps clients in several industries leverage technology to increase … Continue reading
IMAP is an ancient protocol. Designed by Mark Crispin in 1986 as an improvement over POP, it still remains one of the most popular email access protocol. Nevertheless, IMAP was never designed to support modern features such as administrative login. Administrative login makes it possible to login to multiple mailboxes using a single set of credentials. … Continue reading
View original document HubOne HubOne is a global cloud-computing integrator with offices in Australia, Singapore in the US. The company helps customers of all sizes select, adopt, and deliver the benefits of cloud computing to end users. HubOne specializes in assessing customer environments to determine the most efficient way to migrate entire IT infrastructures to … Continue reading
If you’ve read our last three posts about migration between Microsoft Office 365 plans (Office 365 Migration: From E1-3 Plans to P1, Office 365 to Office 365, Easy Upgrade from Microsoft Office 365 Plan P), you may have learned that you can expedite the process to Office 365 from BPOS and that Microsoft does not provide … Continue reading
Have you checked out our new website? We updated it to have a cleaner interface and look. All the features and links from the original site have been transferred to the new site, so functionality should be the same. Let us know what you think!
Learn how you can easily migrate your mailboxes in a matter of minutes with no hardware or software required with a demo led by our CEO, Geeman Yip, hosted by Microsoft TechNet Edge. “In today’s episode, we’re talking about email migration for Office 365, Tune in as we hear from Geeman Yip, CEO of BitTitan … Continue reading
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It never ceases to amaze us how many recommendations are put out by people (including consultants) to do a PST import into a new mailbox in order to migrate data. Not only that, but these recommendations are either put out because of the lack of knowledge by the person recommending this method or without disclosing … Continue reading
