MigrationWiz Blog

We know you’re always on the run or just making excuses to leave the office. If you subscribe to cable internet from Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, or Time Warner Cable, you will be able to access Wi-Fi hotspots from the other four companies listed, even if you have never given them a … Continue reading »

When creating a connector, you’ll come across a list of service providers when selecting your source and destination systems. Each service provider on the list has already been configured to work correctly when selected. If you don’t see your company on the list, make it easy for your customers to migrate to your system and … Continue reading »

Whether it is for the purpose of filing, customer, or company accounting, MigrationWiz now allows invoices/receipts of your purchases to be emailed to the account holder. Sign in to your account and head over to your MigrationWiz Dashboard Click on ‘Review purchase history’ in the ‘Mailbox Migration’ box Select the purchase you want an invoice … Continue reading »

“Once we set up MigrationWiz, we really do not even look at it again until it’s over. We can set it up, start it, and then go on to help the customer complete all the other aspects of the migration.” David Petree Solutions Engineer AppRiver The manageability and cost-savings of hosted services attract many businesses … Continue reading »

A few weeks ago, Microsoft published a guide on migration performance with Microsoft Exchange Online using various tools. We want to clarify where MigrationWiz fits in respect to throttling mechanisms and performance factors mentioned in this guide. Many third-party migration tools use MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) with an average throughput of at most a few hundred … Continue reading »

Are you trying to find a specific mailbox in your connector of “too many” mailboxes? We just added a search field when editing the mailbox list in your connector. Now, when you finally realized that Joe gave the wrong credentials for his account, you can easily find his mailbox and change it.

“How long will my migration take?” We are sure you have either been asked that question or asked that to someone else. There is no clear answer. Every mailbox contains a unique set of data which results in different speeds. When adding in other factors related to networks, mailboxes, and others, the answer becomes even … Continue reading »

We have many customers who enjoy MigrationWiz’s easy configuration and migration process. Numerous migrations are started at the end of the work week to allow extra time to complete other migration tasks without disruption to the regular business day. Since these migrations occur over the weekend, who wants to be at work on a weekend … Continue reading »

With help from Microsoft Consulting Services and MigrationWiz, Catholic Relief Services successfully consolidates 4,525 email accounts residing in different systems and countries to Microsoft Exchange Online. “CRS also needed to migrate 850 email accounts that were already running on five separate instances of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. The Microsoft Consulting Services group connected CRS … Continue reading »

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Office 365 received the green light to operate under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Enacted into federal law in 2002, FISMA requires US federal agencies to ensure that all parts of their information security systems are managed to be in compliance … Continue reading »

Beta testing to migrate from Lotus Notes have begun! We are selectively accepting candidates for beta testing. If you have a migration project scheduled to be completed by the end of this month, please contact our support and we may be able to offer you complimentary licenses.

If you are a MigrationWiz partner, you have the ability to transfer licenses to another MigrationWiz user. There are a few reasons where this can be beneficial to you. For many, this allows your company to have a centralized account for MigrationWiz purchases which makes it easier for management to control and distribute migration licenses. For example, one of … Continue reading »

On occasion, our support team receives requests from users for a couple extra passes for their delta migrations. Five passes proved to be a limitation for them. Recently, we’ve increased the number of passes for any premium license from five to ten. Ten passes should be more than enough for any multi-pass migration. Image: Stuart Miles … Continue reading »

If you’re wondering if we’ll be supporting email migrations from Lotus Notes anytime soon, your wait is almost over. We’re currently in one of the final testing phases before launching our support for Lotus Notes. Follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook for further news and developments.

MigrationWiz migrates many items from systems like Exchange, Gmail, Groupwise, Zimbra, IMAP and POP. It’s easy to get confused what items are migrated with which system. The following table describes the items that we migrate for various protocols. Please note that MigrationWiz supports all types of Microsoft Exchange regardless of setup. Our per-mailbox pricing system … Continue reading »

We get many questions regarding the types of Microsoft Exchange that MigrationWiz supports as a destination and source server. The answer is all of them. Whether your messaging system is on-premise or hosted, Office 365 or Live@edu, MigrationWiz’s patent pending technology is able to access your Exchange server regardless of your setup. Supported types of … Continue reading »

For many companies, moving company systems to the cloud allow them to operate more efficiently and quickly. Tasks that take days to complete can be shortened to hours with a cloud system. Files are accessible as long as an Internet connection is available. Even though these systems come with so many benefits, many companies are … Continue reading »

In a survey conducted by eleven, a German email security firm with customers like Siemens, BMW, and Vodafone,  95.2% of German IT managers think that email will still rule in the long-term as the primary communication tool in business. As the current demand for cloud-based email continues to rise, many businesses are looking into popular … Continue reading »

“MigrationWiz was very easy to use; much easier than any other solutions provided to us. Anybody could use it and figure it out!” Floyd Pena Systems Administrator Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority Serving over 750,000 people and 210,000 accounts in New Mexico’s most populated county, Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority technicians are always … Continue reading »

We just came across this infographic describing the basic formula that makes up Microsoft Office 365. Sponsored by Cloud Hypermarket, the graphic also compares a few key categories between Office 365 and Google Apps. The collaboration between Microsoft Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync in Office 365 wins for ease of use, online/offline capability, and customization options. … Continue reading »

Need to go to the Cloud? Due to the growing popularity of Office, Microsoft just lowered their prices for Office 365. When they are able to rapidly add customers such as JetBlue, Patagonia, Campbell Soup Company, and Tata Steel Europe, the resources to run Office 365 becomes more efficient. These cost savings are passed on down to … Continue reading »

Earlier this month, Microsoft introduced Windows PowerShell Web Access for Windows Server 8 Beta. This new feature acts as a Windows PowerShell gateway, providing a web-based Windows PowerShell console that is targeted at a remote computer. With Windows PowerShell remote access enabled in the environment, users can now run commands using any web-enabled computer. Introducing … Continue reading »

Every day, people consume information from the Internet, send emails, write articles, update statuses, and probably tweet. The amount of information and traffic that goes through the Internet on a daily basis is undeniably huge. This infographic from MBA Online puts that amount in terms you can better understand. Did you know that 172 million … Continue reading »

Written by: Nick Bowyer, IT Professional Services One of the things that impress me with the cloud offerings from Microsoft is the great partner community dedicated to delivering the solution. In this blog I want to talk about the experience I had recently moving a customer from the P Plan of Office 365 to the E Plan. … Continue reading »

According to WIRED magazine in a study sponsored by Microsoft, one of the biggest concerns in a cloud solution is security. 82% of WIRED readers would not be willing to trade most privacy and security for lower subscription cost. Surprisingly, when CompTIA surveyed companies about their security concerns, only 29 percent of them engaged in heavy … Continue reading »

Our partners over at Paradyne just published an infographic on “Why Customers need Office 365 Partners.” It also easily explains why people need a Microsoft Partner in general, not just a Microsoft Office 365 partner. View the whole infographic below. Choosing the right Office 365 partner | The Cloud Mouth

A recent analysis by Rackspace studied the time business people used their email the most. They plotted their findings to see if there are any major differences between people’s email usage by regions and state. Naturally, New York state with the City That Never Sleeps was called the state “most likely to never stop” with a … Continue reading »

We’re proud to announce some improvements to the way we migrate mailbox data from Google Apps to Exchange. We hope you will find these new options useful as they provide more control over how your Gmail data should migrate to Exchange. Below are new options that your connector will show (the first option is the recommended … Continue reading »

UPN’s are a convenient way for users to rememebr their usernames.  A UPN essentially has the same format as an email address.  Rather than having users login to their workstations or intranet resources as EXAMPLE\User, they can login as user@example.com which is the same as their email address.  You can reduce support costs as users … Continue reading »

In this episode of TechNet Radio, Sr. IT Pro Evangelist, Kevin Remde, talks to our CEO, Geeman Yip, about why Office 365 is a good solution for many businesses right now. “We’re kicking off a new series today with Sr. IT Pro Evangelist Kevin Remde as he examines some of the top innovative companies who … Continue reading »

We recently used a backup MX provider to queue up emails for a customer and learned something along the way which we thought would be worth sharing. But first, what does a backup MX provider do? Suppose that you want to perform a major upgrade of your entire email system and expect significant downtime. The SMTP … Continue reading »

We always recommend to pre-stage data before the cut-over of your mailboxes.  This will mitigate risk (incase of outages), ensure timely cut-overs, and satify even the smallest internet pipes. This is why we’ve created an automation script you can use to perform multi-pass migrations.  This script can be downloaded and run right out of the … Continue reading »

Do you access Office 365 with your mobile device? If you do, there is a high chance that your device connects to the Exchange platform via the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The Exchange Team Blog over at Microsoft TechNet posted a detailed and insightful article on how Exchange ActiveSync communicates with Office 365. There is also a … Continue reading »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

“MigrationWiz is a user-friendly solution with a very practical interface. The layout and general design makes MigrationWiz an easy solution to migrate different types of customers.” – Maxime Boulanger, Senior Engineer SherWeb View original document SherWeb Ranked in the top 100 of the prestigious North American Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, SherWeb is one of the … Continue reading »

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 »