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Migration from Office 365 P plan to E plan

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 »

PowerShell Tip: Making Sure UPN Values Are The Same As Email Addresses

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 »

MigrationWiz AD to Office 365 DirSync Deployment Guide

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 »

Introducing MigrationWiz AD to Office 365 DirSync Tool

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 »