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Renowned Hosted Service Provider Streamlines Clients’ Email Migration
“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
Why Work with a Microsoft Partner?
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
Office 365 Migration: From Plan E1-3 to P1
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
Office 365 to Office 365 Migrations
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
Experienced IT Consulting Firm Increases Efficiency with Email Migration Solution
“(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
1,500 Mailbox Migration From Exchange to Exchange for Retail Entertainment Giant
“MigrationWiz gets top marks from us for both their application and technical support.” Ryan Walters Infrastructure Engineer 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 customers annually and is one of the most recognizable entertainment brands in the … Continue reading
Easy Upgrade from Microsoft Office 365 Plan P
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 Extends Complimentary MigrationWiz Licenses Promotion
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
Large-Scale GroupWise Migration for Award-Winning School District
“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
Office 365 Migrations: Departing Now!
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
Getting to Office 365: Migration Pitfalls
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
Microsoft’s Response to the BPOS Outage
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
Why We’re Never The Partner On Record (POR)
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
How You Can Make Money Reselling Mailbox Migrations
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
How Active Directory Impacts Exchange Migration Performance
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
Cloud Essentials Migration Offer: Free Migration Licenses!
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
Automatically Discover and Import Exchange Mailboxes
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 Interview on PinPoint
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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?
Migrating Garbled iPhone Sent Items
We recently performed an Exchange migration for an Australian customer on Exchange 2003 and whose users occasionally rely on iPhones to send business emails. After the migration completed, they asked us why some emails sent using iPhones appeared garbled when accessed using Exchange 2010. Here is what we discovered and how we updated our service … Continue reading
Evaluating the Exchange to Google Apps Migration Tool
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
What is an Enterprise Migration Solution?
While it’s certainly doable to migrate a few mailboxes using do-it-yourself methods such as PST import/export, there are certain features which distinguish Enterprise migration solutions from the rest. But first of all: who needs an Enterprise migration solution? You’re more likely to need an Enterprise migration solution if you: – Need to migrate more than … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 Throttling: Impact On Migrations
Exchange 2010 introduces new client throttling features which can have a direct impact on migration planning. The feature is designed to prevent some clients from consuming excessive server resources. As with cell phone bandwidth usage, usage distribution is often skewed, with a small percentage of users consuming 95% of resources. Unfortunately, as a provider of … Continue reading
BPOS vs. Gmail: the Battle is Heating Up
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
Migration Data Center Upgrade
This may sound a bit recursive, but we’re proud to announce that we’ve migrated our US migration data center to the Westin Building – a 34-story, 389,000 square foot tower in downtown Seattle. As a result, you may notice faster response times and migrations due to improved bandwidth. The westin tower is the major communications hub for IP … Continue reading
Support for Live.Edu (Outlook.com)
We’re proud to announce a new feature allowing support for migrations from and to Live.Edu. In case you haven’t heard, Outlook.com already runs Exchange 2010 (BPOS-S only runs Exchange 2007) and so is set to host the next version of BPOS. At the moment, Outlook.com is only used by educational institutions, but its audience will soon … Continue reading
Geo-Affinity: Bringing Migrations Closer to You!
We’re proud to announce a new feature called geo-affinity which allows us to bring migrations closer to you! In our normal mode of operation, we select migration resources from a pool comprising thousands of IPs and locations using an algorithm balancing cost, efficiency, and resource utilization. Geo-affinity overrides the default behavior by restricting the set … Continue reading
High Fidelity Migration from Gmail
What does high-fidelity mean when migration mailbox content? We’ll give you two examples of what we mean by high-fidelity migration in the context of a Gmail to Exchange migration. Scenario 1: a Gmail contact with a photo, categories, notes, multiple email addresses, a birthday, etc. Scenario 2: a Gmail appointment with the “private” flag, a … Continue reading
Migrating From Exchange 2010
We’re proud to announce a new feature allowing migration from Exchange 2010. We’ve had the ability to migrate to Exchange 2010 for a long time. However, the ability to migrate from Exchange 2010 is entirely new. Because Exchange 2010 does not support WebDAV (only EWS), we had to enhance our solution to support exporting data using … Continue reading
Rebuilding the NK2 Cache Post-Migration
If you’re planning a mailbox migration which includes Outlook users, then you should know about the NK2 cache and how to rebuild it. Let’s face it, you’re too lazy to create a contact for each individual you communicate with. Which means you’re relying on the autocomplete NK2 cache perhaps without realizing it, and rebuilding it … Continue reading
Verifying Credentials Pre-Migration
We’re proud to announce a new feature making it much easier to verify connectivity to mailboxes before starting any large-scale mailbox Migration. Whether you are migrating to BPOS, Exchange, IMAP, or any other email system, you know that managing a large number of mailboxes can be tricky, even when using administrative credentials. Here are some of … Continue reading
Visualizing Migration Performance
We’re proud to announce new features allowing better real-time visualization of mailbox migration performance. Whether you are migrating to BPOS, Exchange, IMAP, or any other email system, the questions remain the same: At what speed is content being migrated? At what speed is content being read from the source? At what speed is content being written to the … Continue reading
New BPOS User Provisioning Scripts
Did you know you could download BPOS Provisioning Scripts from our Wiki? Not only will our scripts will get you up and running faster, they also can be customized to do exactly what you want. These scripts can be used as alternatives to the BPOS directory synchronization tool (DirSync), for example using scheduled tasks. We’ve broken … Continue reading
Migrating Large Items to Exchange / BPOS
Migrating large attachments to Exchange can be tricky. Using MigrationWiz, should large items fail to migrate, you should receive the following error: “The remote server returned an error: (507) Insufficient Storage“. Often, you will notice that the threshold is around 13 MBs. The reason for this is that this is the default used by some … Continue reading
Repairing Migration Errors
As a MigrationWiz user, you decide how many errors a migration can encounter before it is marked as failed. Simply specify the error limit in advanced connector settings (the default value is 100 errors). This means that a migration can succeed overall, but also report that some errors were encountered. For example, suppose that while migrating a … Continue reading
Folder Exclusions
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
How Fast is Fast?
One question our customers frequently ask is: how much time will my migration take to complete? We were recently contacted by a customer with 400 GBs of email data to migrate to BPOS, but only a T1 line. With a T1 line, the maximum amount of data which can be transfered out is 1.544 Mb/sec, or 694 MB/hour. … Continue reading
Imitation Is The Best Form Of Flattery
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
Beware of PST Imports
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
Thank You for a Great WPC 2010
As the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) unfolds, we’d like the opportunity to say a big thank you to all of you who dropped by our booth in the Microsoft pavillion. This WPC conference has allowed us to close new deals, establish new partnerships, but also for many of you to put a face to the … Continue reading
Why You Should Use a SaaS Migration Solution
Our mailbox migration solution (MigrationWiz) is a cloud-based migration service. Our customers do not need to deploy any expensive hardware or software to perform large-scale migrations. But the SaaS approach also gives us several other advantages over conventional migration solutions. If you’re moving to the cloud, don’t you think it makes sense to use a … Continue reading
