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Visit the MigrationWiz Booth at TechEd
If you’re going to TechEd, don’t forget to add us to your schedule and visit our booth. TechEd is the leading conference for Microsoft developers and IT professionals, connecting thousands of Microsoft Exchange experts, consultants and hosted email providers. We’re looking forward to the opportunity to meet with all our valued partners and customers. Drop by … Continue reading
Enabling Large-Scale GroupWise to Exchange Migrations
Heard of GroupWise trusted applications? This feature specific to GroupWise systems makes it possible to register an application as “trusted” and so login to any mailbox in your system. As I’m sure you realize, the ability to login to thousands of mailboxes without having to gather or reset individual passwords can prove very useful in migration … Continue reading
Announcing Email Migration CommandLets
We’re proud to announce public availability of migration commandlets (based on our email migration SOAP API). We host one of the largest migration farm in the world, scaling to hundreds of thousands of migrations across a large variety of email systems. To manage and scale to these numbers, our operation team relies on powerful scripting. It … Continue reading
BPOS BlackBerry Configuration
Connecting your BlackBerry device to BPOS and Exchange Online is quite easy. Here is a step by step guide on how to get this done: Sign-in or sign-up to the BlackBerry internet service site for your mobile service provider Verizon: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw Sprint: https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=sprint AT&T: http://att.blackberry.com Click Setup Email Enter the email address and password of your … Continue reading
Data Center Expansion
We’re proud to announce that we’ve expanded our US data center‘s capacity to accommodate increasing demand for cloud-based migrations. With thousands of IPs and a fully geo-distributed presence, we manage what we believe to be the largest migration farm in the world. As part of this upgrade, we’ve also decided to increase hardware specifications. At MigrationWiz, … Continue reading
Ensuring That Emails Are Repliable After Migration
If you’ve performed a migration using a PST import or the Microsoft Transporter tool, you may have found yourself in a situation where all migrated emails are non-repliable. Users who reply to migrated emails will discover that responses cannot be delivered. In some cases, users will be notified that recipients cannot be resolved. In other … Continue reading
New Mailbox Migration Support Center
We’d like to invite you to visit our new support center. You can count on us to continue to provide you with the highest level of support. Below are some of the changes we’ve made. Improved look-and-feel Additional support content Improved search capabilities Real-time migration farm status Knowledge base article reorganization
Search and You Shall Find MigrationWiz
This is something we stumbled on accidentally and perhaps it doesn’t mean that much, but we still think it’s awesome that we’re suggested result number 3 when people search for “migration” on Google. Whether you need to migrate from Google Apps, Exchange, GroupWise, IMAP or POP systems, we’re ready to take on your migration challenge.
Easier Exchange Migrations With Auto-Discovery
When migrating from and to different versions of Exchange, MigrationWiz leverages different APIs such as EWS (Exchange Web Services) or Web DAV (Document Authoring Protocol). Now, some hosted providers use different Client Access Servers to implement OWA access vs. programmatic access. In those situations, specifying an OWA URL as a target in MigrationWiz resulted in … Continue reading
Insane Migration Speed
We recently migrated a mailbox for a customer based in Canada. Although our main data center is not even in Canada, we just reached new peaks in terms of migration performance. The screenshots below speak for themselves, but using a single connection, we exported 6.35 GB of data – from an Exchange system to an … Continue reading
Migrate Off Gmail / Google Apps Today!
Running your business on Gmail? Planning a move to a new service provider? If you read the news today, you’ll discover one new reason to migrate: Google has accidentally wiped 150,000 Gmail accounts! The announcement that “only 0.08% of accounts were affected” sounds like a poor way to mitigate a disaster of this magnitude. If limited support, … Continue reading
Facilitating Cross-Forest Exchange Migrations
Need to perform a cross-forest Exchange migration encompassing multiple versions of Exchange or multiple physical location? Our guess is that you already looked into using the PST ExMerge tool but found the process too labor-intensive, or ran into issues such as missing SIDs, un-repliable emails and unresolved X400 addresses. If you are tired of designing … Continue reading
MigrationWiz’s Mascot Challenges Hosted Providers at Parallels Summit
The parallels summit 2011 is over! While some of our key employees were busy round the clock demonstrating cloud-based migrations at booth 117, our mascot found a few minutes to challenge hosted service providers at the Microsoft Kinect booth. Wondering how our MigrationWiz superhero fared playing Kinect? No problems scoring high at Kinect Sports (boxing) … Continue reading
Google Apps / Gmail Secrets
While reviewing Google’s latest technical documentation, we discovered some interesting facts. Here are a few highlights. Account lockouts: Planning to send e-mails sent to a large set of recipients using Google Apps? Watch out. Sending an email to 100+ recipients via IMAP (or a few hundred using Gmail’s web application) could cause your account to … Continue reading
MigrationWiz Demoes Cloud Migrations at Parallels Summit
We’re exhibiting at the Parallels Summit 2011 and it’s been a busy day. We really enjoy any opportunity to showcase new features and demonstrate fast migrations directly from the cloud. The response we’ve received from folks who’ve dropped by our booth has been overwhelmingly positive. To our valued partners and future customers, thank you for taking … Continue reading
Where MigrationWiz Adds Value
Today someone asked us how why so many of our customers use MigrationWiz after experimenting with Microsoft’s free Transporter Suite. While the Transporter Suite is a fantastic tool, there are some situations where customers can benefit from some of the many features we provide. Quick recap: √ Zero Footprint MigrationWiz requires no software, no hardware, and no … Continue reading
Cloud-Based Migrations GoldBricking
Is your migration providing goldbricking you? While the term originates from the trick of applying a gold coating to a brick of worthless metal, it’s also being used as a synonym for cyberslacking and all the inefficiencies that come with it. Are you being sold a migration solution advertised as “hosted” or “cloud-based”? As we pointed out … Continue reading
Why Cloud-Based Migrations Are More Secure
Thinking about using an on-premise migration solution because you’ve been told it’s more secure than using a cloud-based migration solution? Wrong choice! With on-premise solutions, you must deploy external software behind the firewall, sometimes on mission-critical servers within your data center. By installing third-party software, your entire infrastructure can be put at risk by security … Continue reading
We’re Moving (and Expanding)
So far we’ve been very busy moving other people’s mailbox data. The time has come however for us to also move ourselves to a new physical location. In about two weeks, we’ll be opening a new office in Redmond Town Center (Washington State). This is an ideal location close to the Microsoft campus, coffee shops, restaurants, … Continue reading
MigrationWiz Interview on TechFlash
Check out our recent interview on TechFlash, the Pacific NorthWest’s leading technology journal. One small detail: with thousands of terabytes migrated, including for multiple Fortune 500 companies, we’ve moved well past serving only small and medium sized businesses. One thing remains the same however. Whether you need to migrate one single mailbox or one hundred … Continue reading
MigrationWiz Introduces GroupWise to Exchange Migrations
Kirkland, WA — MigrationWiz, a leading provider of cloud-based migration solutions, announced support for high-fidelity migrations from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange – including variants such as on-premise Exchange, hosted Exchange, and Exchange Online (BPOS). Using MigrationWiz’s cloud-based solution, organizations relying on GroupWise as a messaging platform can migrate to Exchange without having to deploy … Continue reading
How ThinkGrid Accelerates Cloud Adoption
We’re proud to announce that MigrationWiz has partnered with ThinkGrid, a large provider of cloud-based services such as hosted virtual desktops and hosted solutions. Using ThinkGrid, organizations can reap the benefits of using Exchange without having to invest in costly infrastructure. Click here to read ThinkGrid’s press release. If you’re an email service provider, you know that easier … Continue reading
Advanced Options for Migrating from GroupWise to BPOS / Exchange
We’re proud to announce full support for migrating from Novell GroupWise 8 to Exchange – including BPOS, Office 365, on-premise Exchange and hosted Exchange. The benefits remain the same as when migrating from Google Apps, Exchange, IMAP, etc. You not only get a zero-installation solution but also advanced stats, email alerts, built-in retries, automated credential management, scripting capabilities, … Continue reading
High-Fidelity Migrations from GroupWise to BPOS / Exchange
We’re proud to announce full support for migrating from Novell GroupWise 8 to Exchange – including BPOS, Office 365, on-premise Exchange and hosted Exchange. The benefits remain the same as when migrating from Google Apps, Exchange, IMAP, etc. You not only get a zero-installation solution but also advanced stats, email alerts, built-in retries, automated credential management, scripting capabilities, … Continue reading
Introducing Migrations from GroupWise 8 to BPOS / Exchange
We’re proud to announce full support for migrating from Novell GroupWise 8 to Exchange – including BPOS, Office 365, on-premise Exchange and hosted Exchange. The benefits remain the same as when migrating from Google Apps, Exchange, IMAP, etc. You not only get a zero-installation solution but also unlimited scalability, advanced stats, email alerts, built-in retries, … Continue reading
Cost-Effective Migrations to the Cloud
You’ve made a decision to migrate to the cloud. What you need next is a cost-effective migration solution able to move your data data quickly and with high fidelity. While evaluating migration solutions, it’s important to keep in mind all hidden costs such as: The number of hours your IT staff will spend on training … Continue reading
MigrationWiz Featured on Microsoft’s Partners Page
We’re excited about having been selected as the featured partner for this week on Microsoft PinPoint’s facebook page. As the leading provider of migration services to Exchange Server (hosted or on-premise), we’re grateful for the opportunity. But did you know we just created our own facebook page?
Happy New Year to Our Customers and Partners
We’d like an opportunity to wish all our partners and customers a very happy new year! We’re confident that this year will bring new features and new capabilities which will make your mailbox migrations easier than ever before. In fact, we’ve been working hard during the holiday season and will have an announcement to make … Continue reading
