“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“(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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
