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
Microsoft and WIRED magazine recently partnered together to survey the WIRED.com community to rate the importance of different aspects in cloud solutions: Familiarity Easy Access Business Ready Security See the results in the link below. What are You Looking for in a Cloud Solution? | Office 365 Blog
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
We use email every day. Some of us use it every hour. Using email has become a part of our daily activities and something that has changed the way we communicate with your co-workers in the next cubicle, your boss upstairs, and your business partners around the world. An infographic posted on Visually nicely outlines the … 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
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
“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
