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
“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
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
“No email migration project should be done with anything other than MigrationWiz!” – Matthew Roberts, Senior Network Administrator & Systems Engineer BodyLogicMD View original document BodyLogicMD Founded in 2003, BodyLogicMD specializes in natural bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Its member physician-owned practices represent one of the nation’s fastest growing networks for specialty medicine. BodyLogicMD provides essential services … Continue reading
“We have not lost one email during the migration of over 1,000 mailboxes!” – Cathal Callanan, Cloud Consultant Core 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 … 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
“It is awesome and better than anything else!” – Nick Beaugeard, CEO HubOne 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 … 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
“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
When looking for businesses to work with, should you consider a company who is a Microsoft Partner? MigrationWiz is a Microsoft Partner but what does that mean? “Why should businesses hire a Microsoft certified and qualified partner for service and support? Is being a member of the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) just a designer label, … Continue reading
As Microsoft makes its rounds to transition BPOS users to the new and popular Office 365, they are upgrading them to Plan E by default. The users in transition have no choice as to which plan to get automatically migrated to. For many professionals and small businesses, this may cause problems because they prefer to … Continue reading
Since we posted Easy Upgrade from Microsoft Office 365 Plan P1, we have received many questions and requests regarding migration the other way around: migrating to P1 from another Office 365 plan. Since there is no built-in mechanism to switch from one plan to another, some people have resorted to the time-consuming method of PST … Continue reading
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“(I) was pleasantly surprised when looking at the post-migration results. It saved me about three days of work!” – David Terrell, President The Cyberwerks View original document The Cyberwerks Founded by Louisvillians, The Cyberwerks provides IT services to a wide area in the Kentucky region – including Louisville Metro, Southern Indiana, Bardstown, La Grange, Elizabethtown … Continue reading
Confused about the difference between the Basic and Premium licences? Not sure which one is right for your next migration project? In this blog post, we look into the differences between those two options. Still not sure which option is right for you? Contact our support team and we’ll help you select the best type … Continue reading
“MigrationWiz gets top marks from us for both their application and technical support.” – Ryan Walters, Infrastructure Engineer Blockbuster View original document Blockbuster With over 3,000 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, and Australia, Blockbuster is a leading provider of in-home movie and game entertainment. Open 365 days a year, Blockbuster’s stores attract over 50 million … Continue reading
Who says you can’t easily migrate from Microsoft’s Office 365 Plan P1 to a more complete Plan E(1-3)? Although most small businesses may get started with a Plan P1 because of its lower price point, others will also want to upgrade to a more complete plan to benefit from functionalities such as instant messaging integration, personal archive … Continue reading
If you’ve used MigrationWiz for a migration project, you have a story to tell. Share your MigrationWiz success story and be recognized as a leader in your field! There is only one reason we’ve become a leading provider of cloud-based migration services: our customers. We want to recognize the success of our customers and partners and … Continue reading
When you use MigrationWiz, you’re not only using a first-class product, but you’re also receiving support from a first-class engineering team. Here are some things you probably don’t know about our team. We are: Email pioneers who developed and shipped Exchange Server and Microsoft Office while at Microsoft Security experts who developed and shipped Microsoft … Continue reading
Microsoft’s offer ends December 31, 2011 or when supplies run out, whichever is earlier. Hurry – quantities are limited! Sign up for the Microsoft Cloud Essentials Pack and Microsoft Office 365 today and receive up to 10 complimentary MigrationWiz license codes. You can use these licenses to migrate your own employees or perhaps a customer. Simply follow … Continue reading
“Efficiently, effectively, and transparently migration 7,000 mailboxes to a new mail system for our educators in a weekend.” – Mitch Mitchell, Assistant Director of Technology Plano Independent School District View original document Plano Independent School District Plano Independent School District (PISD) serves the residents of approximately 100 square miles in southwest Collin County with 71 … Continue reading
Last quarter’s checks are in the mail! Don’t want to wait for a check in the mail? Check this for faster, easier options. Not familiar with our affiliate program? In some cases, you may not want to do the heavy lifting or the customer may want to do the migration themselves. In either case, we want to … Continue reading
Today the MigrationWiz team was well represented at the Microsoft company store in Bellevue, WA for the official launch of Microsoft Office 365. As expected, the store was packed with attendees. This event was also a great opportunity to meet and greet several of our customers. With over 1800 IT organizations having signed up to our … Continue reading
We recently received an email from a customer with extensive expertise using multiple migration solutions. Were were surprised to learn that, in order to use some of these migration solutions, he had to undergo a mandatory yearly certification process. After some fact checking, we were able to confirm that some vendors require certification in order to … Continue reading
Some products specialize in email migration while others specialize in email coexistence. The problem with coexistence is that the process is generally error prone. Tasks range from the reasonable (ex: synchronize free/busy status) to the complex (ex: synchronize passwords across systems). In addition, problems inherent to any type of synchronization complicate the whole process. For example, complex … Continue reading
In case you haven’t heard, the Office 365 administrative portal lets you initiate migrations directly from the web. This is a welcome addition to the Office 365 suite. However, there are a few important pitfalls you should be aware of. After your migration completes, source mailboxes will be disconnected from Active Directory. This is a significant problem … Continue reading
When preparing an Exchange system for migration, you should ensure that message size limits are high enough. Exchange is a complex product different types of message size limits: some for sending emails, some for receiving emails, some for Exchange Web Services, some for maximum item size, some for maximum attachment size, etc.: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124345.aspx. From our perspective, API limits … Continue reading
When you start a migration project, some of our competitors may require you to: call for a quote pay a setup fee sign a support contract commit to a minimum purchase complete class-based training have an army of consultants plan your migration carefully review installation guides and release notes In some cases, you may even … Continue reading
Most people think of a free migration solution as one with no associated costs. While you may not pay for the goods, you are certainly paying for your own time. Once in a while, a customer asks us why they should pay for MigrationWiz versus using the free tools. It’s simple. Think about how much time you … Continue reading
In case you haven’t heard, BPOS experienced a major outage last week. While some users were outraged (very understandably), no online solution offers a 100% uptime guarantee. Bad things do happen, especially when dealing with complex software with so many dependencies. In the end, it is all about how incidents are handled. - Was the magnitude of the problem acknowledged? … Continue reading
Some IT companies we work with are surprised to learn that we never become the Partner On Record (POR) when performing migrations to various service providers (including Microsoft Exchange Online). The reason is quite simple: commissions are not what drives our business model. Our business model is to provide high-fidelity, easy to use migration services … Continue reading
Wondering how you could make money reselling mailbox migrations? We’ve got everything you need: a partner program, volume discounts, a SOAP web API, PowerShell command lets, an affiliate program, and soon a white label portal. If you’re asking yourself how much you could charge for migration, let’s take a look at what Microsoft Premier Professional Services … Continue reading
Did you know that the online IMAP migration tool in the Google Apps control panel is going away? We would have expected exactly the opposite: full deprecation of Google’s on-premise migration tool and more investment in the online tool – especially given the fact that it only supported IMAP migrations (see screenshot). Instead, Google has decided … Continue reading
With the advent of search, users are no longer required to physically organize email content around folders. It also means that search-savvy users can end up with folders containing over 50,000 items. MigrationWiz always uses paging and batching to migrate mailbox content as quickly as possible. In spite of all this, we cannot migrate faster … Continue reading
Today was a particularly bad day for Yahoo Mail and Gmail. First, many of Yahoo mail’s 250 million users worldwide were unable to access their account. Later, many users were unable to view their contacts using Gmail. This follows a recent issue with Google’s services causing hundreds of thousands of mailboxes to be wiped clean. At MigrationWiz, we … Continue reading
While performing a migration to a large hosted Exchange service provider, we experienced performance issues while creating Exchange contacts. Strangely enough, the performance problem appeared entirely specific to contact creation. This initially made little sense to us because contacts are simpler objects than appointments or tasks. With contacts, there is no complex recurrence rules or … Continue reading
Ready to move your migration plans to the next level? We’ve just published new scripts on our support site to accelerate your migration. As a cloud-based migration solution, our focus is on migrating your data as efficiently as possible. However, several of our customers have been asking us for help with account provisioning and email … Continue reading
Thinking about moving to Office 365? Already a US Microsoft partner? Wondering about migration? Here is an offer you may not want to miss. Microsoft is offering 10 free MigrationWiz licenses with subscriptions to Cloud Essentials Pack. Each license lets you migrate from a wide array of systems (ex: Google Apps, Exchange, GroupWise, IMAP, POP, etc.) … Continue reading
Planning a mailbox migration from an Exchange environment? Not sure you’ve located all the mailboxes in your system? We’ve just added a new script whose purpose is to automatically discover all mailboxes in your Exchange environment and generate a MigrationWiz import CSV file. Whether your environment has a few mailboxes or several thousands, performing a … Continue reading
MigrationWiz was recently invited by Microsoft Pinpoint for an interview about what it means to be a Microsoft partner. With petabytes of data migrated to platforms based on Exchange technology, we’ve been able to fully realize the benefits Microsoft’s partner program brings to the entire IT ecosystem. Whether your organization specializes purely in Microsoft or … Continue reading
