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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
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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
If you perform mailbox migrations on a regular basis, your account probably contains several connectors, each with a different set of mailboxes. Managing multiple migration projects, each with hundreds or thousands of mailboxes can be overwhelming. User-friendly navigation can go a long way towards ensuring each migration project is a complete success. For example, while … Continue reading
There are many articles out there listing keyboard shortcuts for Outlook. Reading these long lists makes it hard to remember the commands when you use it on the interface of Outlook. The graphic below should make it easier for basic users to remember the quick shortcuts to some of the most used things from the … Continue reading
“We’re glad we partnered with MigrationWiz to achieve our migration goals. Within a short period of time, all emails including those in subfolders were migrated to Office 365 servers!” – David Le Roy, Managing Director Dianostics Technical Support View original document DTS Established in 2007, Diagnostics Technical Support (DTS) provides technical support to businesses in … Continue reading
This week, a couple of us flew across the country to Orlando, FL to exhibit at the Parallels Summit 2012. This year, Parallels Summit 2012 was held at Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center. The event was a exceptional. We learned a few new things and met a lot of great people. We’re looking forward … Continue reading
In a recent article by Network World, Christine Burns lists “10 companies that have distinguished themselves as the leaders in cloud computing, either by being first to market, by offering the broadest and deepest set of cloud services or by taking a leadership role in the cloud revolution.” Read more about the companies and why they … Continue reading
Our pricing is both transparent and easy to find. Our pricing policy is only one click away on our home page. With only two pricing options, there is no room for confusion. Our pricing policy is designed to offer a cost-effective migration solution. Add to that a cloud-based solution that can migrate mailbox data between … Continue reading
“It took the extreme stress out of the migration. We lost six days of downtime with other methods before we found MigrationWiz to complete it in 24 hours without a single hitch!” – Michelle Duval, Managing Director Equilibrio View original document Equilibrio Founded in 1997, Equilibrio is an industry leader for executive and personal development … 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
Our latest statistics indicate that 98% of migrations we perform complete in less than 24 hours. This allows most of our customers to perform big bang (single pass) migrations. In spite of this, some companies may need to implement coexistence between different email platforms. For example, consider a set of users sharing the same email domain (user@domain.com) but … Continue reading
Since launching our new website last December, we’ve been constantly pushing out new features and usability improvements. If you use MigrationWiz on a regular basis, you may have noticed incremental changes to our web interface. As you can see, we are committed to improving ease of use, whether you are an IT professional or a … Continue reading
“What was going to be a complex and messy project was simplified, done ahead of time and well under budget by using MigrationWiz!” – Loryan Strant, Director Paradyne View original document Paradyne In February 2010, Loryan Strant started Paradyne, a different type of cloud consulting company. With 15 years of experience in the IT industry … Continue reading
People might disagree about which hosted email platform outperforms others. Ultimately, it comes down to what you or your company needs and uses. Should you find yourself having to migrate from VMWare Zimbra 7, MigrationWiz provides an easy and fast solution. Just like with all MigrationWiz migrations, you can use the same web interface to configure, … Continue reading
“It was great to find MigrationWiz, whose easy-to-use product delivered exactly what it promised.” – Andrew Atalia, Company Founder atom42 View original document atom42 Atom42 is a London-based online marketing agency which specializes in driving new customer acquisition for its clients. The company has identified 42 online marketing techniques grouped into eight “atoms.” These atoms … Continue reading
“MigrationWiz saved us a lot of time and money by developing such an incredible and user-friendly platform! The partners at Blazetrak are extremely pleased with this solution!” – Corey Stanford, Co-Founder & Managing Partner Blazetrak View original document Blazetrak Launched in 2007, Blazetrak is the first website to provide direct video access to well-known artists … 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
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
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
“The use of MigrationWiz’s solution allows us to react more quickly to customer requests, increase our revenue, and decrease customer costs!” – Sean Harrington, President Canyon Networks View original document Canyon Networks In 2008, Sean Harrington founded Canyon Networks. Located in Bangor, the major commercial and cultural center for Eastern and Northern Maine, Canyon Networks … 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
“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
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