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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In case you haven’t heard about ImapSync, it’s a command-line tool which can be used to migrate IMAP content between mailboxes. We’ve had a few customers ask us if they could use ImapSync as a cheaper alternative. Here is our answer. Speed: ImapSync wasn’t optimized for speed. For starters, it was written in Perl, a … Continue reading
As an online provider of migration solutions, we migrate mailboxes in all directions. Identifying reasons why organizations move to a new email provider can be hard to discern. However, it seems that organizations migrating from Google Apps are driven by a lack of enterprise features. Even with a paid subscription, the Google Apps web client … Continue reading
In this post, we evaluate the Exchange to Google Apps migration tool from a technical perspective. This tool is made available for free by Google. Unlike MigrationWiz, this is an on-premise migration tool which must be deployed locally. Its purpose is to assist customers wanting to switch from Exchange to Gmail. Migration Speed We migrated … Continue reading
We perform migrations in different directions so it is a bit hard to keep track of who the winners are on the online battlefield of email migrations. One thing for sure however: the battle between Gmail and BPOS is heating up. Microsoft was about to be awarded a large ontract to provide email and collaboration technology … Continue reading
By now, your GMail mailbox has probably grown to several Gigs, so you probably forgot what it looked like when it was empty. Below is what GMail displays for empty system folders. If you want to see it for yourself, you’ll have to delete all your emails (preferably after migrating them). Inbox – You don’t … Continue reading
We’re proud to announce a new feature allowing administrative access to Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) mailboxes. MigrationWiz retains the ability to automatically request credentials from users, and to automatically start migrations upon submission. However, the ability to specify a single set of credentials and access thousands of Gmail mailboxes represents a big step forward. … Continue reading
If your Gmail / GAPE account is locked (ex: MigrationWiz reports an error such as “[ALERT] Web login required”), here is how you can unlock it: Login to: https://www.google.com/a/(your domain)/UnlockCaptcha Enter your user name (not email address), password, and solve the CAPTCHA IMAP access should be restored. Log in to MigrationWiz and resume your migration … Continue reading
MigrationWiz allows very rich folder exclusions using the regular expressions syntax. I know that a lot of people are not familiar with this syntax, so I’m going to try and break it down to some simple examples. Folder Normalization The first thing is to understand how we normalize the folder names in which the regular … Continue reading
As the leader in complete cloud based migration solutions, it’s interesting to see other migration solutions saying they are a “cloud based migration solution.” MigrationWiz is a fully automated migration solution. Every aspect of our product is self-service, and completely hands off. This means that we never manually handle any of your data, configuration, credentials, … 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
When migrating from Google Apps/Gmail, you may encounter the error “Account exceeded bandwidth limits.” This is caused if you attempt to retrieve data too fast from your Gmail account. Normally, you would not encounter this problem migrating your mailbox with MigrationWiz as we have mechanisms in place to prevent this from happening. You may … Continue reading
Did you know that we can migrate from Google Apps/Gmail to Exchange 2010? When you configure your connector, select the destination server of “Exchange Server 2007″ You’re probably wondering why it doesn’t say “Exchange Server 2007/2010.” The reason is because we currently only support POP, IMAP and Google to Exchange 2010. We don’t currently support … Continue reading
When you migrate from a hosted environment to another hosted environment, MigrationWiz is the most optimal solution because we, ourselves, are a hosted solution. This is very benefitial for you because you won’t be bottlenecked by bandwidth as you would be when you run your own tool on-premise (even though most likely you will be … Continue reading
When migrating or accessing Google Gmail, you may encounter one of the following errors even though your user name and password are correct: 1) Web Login Required or 2) Invalid Credentials. Like the big black box Google is, they don’t comment on security related problems/features that they implement. In addition, the error codes/messages that they … Continue reading
Last year, MigrationWiz was the product of choice when Vinci PLC, annual revenue of $1.69 billion, moved from Gmail to Microsoft Exchange. This was the largest Gmail compete in Europe for Microsoft so far and we were on the front lines to make it so. VINCI PLC was pleased with its choice of BitTitan for … Continue reading
Gmail has a concept of Labels. These Labels help to categorize and group emails together. When you migrate to Exchange/BPOS using MigrationWiz, we convert your Labels to folders. So each Label is created as a folder in your mailbox, preserving the hierarchy if specified (by using a / to separate names in Labels). In Gmail, … Continue reading
Geeman Yip, BitTitan Founder and CEO, speaks about MigrationWiz during Exchange Online Day to partners at Microsoft France. View the recorded presentation online. https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/view?id=6F574P&pw=qwe971
The mailbox connector end-point “Google Calendar/Contacts/Mail” will migrate Google Calendar, Google Contacts and Google Gmail for both individual and enterprise Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) accounts. When you select the Google, you will notice that there are no additional settings for this end-point. Similar to Microsoft Exchange Online, this is also a well-known end-point. No … Continue reading
We get asked all the time what mailbox servers we currently support. As of today, here are the systems we support: Source Servers: Microsoft Exchange Online Microsoft Exchange Server Google Calendar/Contacts/Mail (GAPE/Gmail) IMAP POP Destination Servers: Microsoft Exchange Online Microsoft Exchange Server Stay tuned for more information about each one of these server types as … Continue reading
There are a few challenges that surround migration from Google to Microsoft Online (Exchange Online, BPOS). MigrationWiz is the only migration solution that understands them and is capable of migrating data from Google to Microsoft Online efficiently. The biggest issue when migrating off of Google are mailbox credentials. Google does not have a notion of … Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who visited our booth at the expo in New Orleans at the Microsoft World Partner Conference 2009. We had a great time and met a lot of great people. Non-stop demos migrating Google Apps and Gmail to Exchange Online with MigrationWiz at our booth.
