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BreadCrumb Navigation = Easier Mailbox Migrations

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 »

Chicago-Based IT Consultant Designs Customized Office 365 Solution for Local Organization

“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 »

Secure Email Migration with Straightforward Pricing

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 »

Executive Coaching Leader Benefits from 24/7 Support & Reliability with New Hosted Exchange Provider

“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 »

Video: Why Office 365 and How to Get There

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 »

Scripting Multi-Pass Migrations w/ Data Pre-Staging

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 »

Email Coexistence with Google

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 »

Pushing Out More Interface Updates

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 »

Cloud Technology Consultant Adopts Go-To Solution to Improve Customer Service & Increase Flexibility

“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 »

Migration From Zimbra 7 Is Here!

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 »

Award-Nominated Online Marketing Agency Increases Productivity After Migration to Office 365

“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 »

Unique Direct Video Response Company Improve Communication & Collaboration with Hosted Exchange Solution

“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 »

Announcing Usability Improvements

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 »

Understanding Real-Time Migration Statistics

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 »

Top 10 Articles of 2011

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 »

Identifying Items Larger Than What The Destination Allows

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 »

How to Test/Verify Credentials

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 »

Email Migration Security and Privacy

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 »

Easier Mailbox Migration Troubleshooting

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 »

Security, Efficiency, and Simplicity Key in BodyLogicMD’s Migration to On-Premise Exchange 2010

“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 »

Global Cloud Integrator Maintains Competitive Edge with MigrationWiz

“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 »

Microsoft Office 365 Inter-Plan Email Migrations Explained

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 »

New Website!

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!

Video: What Can MigrationWiz Do? Hear From Our CEO

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Call to Partners: Participate in a Case Study, Gain Visibility

If you’ve used MigrationWiz for a migration project, you have a story to tell. Share your MigrationWiz success story and be recognized as a leader in your field! There is only one reason we’ve become a leading provider of cloud-based migration services: our customers. We want to recognize the success of our customers and partners and … Continue reading »

The MigrationWiz Team Has Your Back

When you use MigrationWiz, you’re not only using a first-class product, but you’re also receiving support from a first-class engineering team.  Here are some things you probably don’t know about our team. We are: Email pioneers who developed and shipped Exchange Server and Microsoft Office while at Microsoft Security experts who developed and shipped Microsoft … Continue reading »

Affiliate Program: Checks are in the Mail

Last quarter’s checks are in the mail! Don’t want to wait for a check in the mail? Check this for faster, easier options. Not familiar with our affiliate program? In some cases, you may not want to do the heavy lifting or the customer may want to do the migration themselves. In either case, we want to … Continue reading »

Why We Believe In Self-Service Migrations

When you start a migration project, some of our competitors may require you to: call for a quote pay a setup fee sign a support contract commit to a minimum purchase complete class-based training have an army of consultants plan your migration carefully review installation guides and release notes In some cases, you may even … Continue reading »

Google Apps IMAP Migration Tool Discontinued

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 »

Why Migrating Large Exchange Folders Can Be Tricky

With the advent of search, users are no longer required to physically organize email content around folders. It also means that search-savvy users can end up with folders containing over 50,000 items. MigrationWiz always uses paging and batching to migrate mailbox content as quickly as possible. In spite of all this, we cannot migrate faster … Continue reading »

Yahoo and Gmail Downtime: Migrate Today!

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 »

Script Your Migration: New Migration Downloads

Ready to move your migration plans to the next level? We’ve just published new scripts on our support site to accelerate your migration. As a cloud-based migration solution, our focus is on migrating your data as efficiently as possible. However, several of our customers have been asking us for help with account provisioning and email … 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 »

Announcing Email Migration CommandLets

We’re proud to announce public availability of migration commandlets (based on our email migration SOAP API). We host one of the largest migration farm in the world, scaling to hundreds of thousands of migrations across a large variety of email systems. To manage and scale to these numbers, our operation team relies on powerful scripting. It … 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 »

Data Center Expansion

We’re proud to announce that we’ve expanded our US data center‘s capacity to accommodate increasing demand for cloud-based migrations. With thousands of IPs and a fully geo-distributed presence, we manage what we believe to be the largest migration farm in the world. As part of this upgrade, we’ve also decided to increase hardware specifications. At MigrationWiz, … Continue reading »

Ensuring That Emails Are Repliable After Migration

If you’ve performed a migration using a PST import or the  Microsoft Transporter tool, you may have found yourself in a situation where all migrated emails are non-repliable. Users who reply to migrated emails will discover that responses cannot be delivered. In some cases, users will be notified that recipients cannot be resolved. In other … Continue reading »

New Mailbox Migration Support Center

We’d like to invite you to visit our new support center. You can count on us to continue to provide you with the highest level of support. Below are some of the changes we’ve made. Improved look-and-feel Additional support content Improved search capabilities Real-time migration farm status Knowledge base article reorganization

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 »

Insane Migration Speed

We recently migrated a mailbox for a customer based in Canada. Although our main data center is not even in Canada, we just reached new peaks in terms of migration performance. The screenshots below speak for themselves, but using a single connection, we exported 6.35 GB of data – from an Exchange system to an … Continue reading »

Migrate Off Gmail / Google Apps Today!

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 »

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’s Mascot Challenges Hosted Providers at Parallels Summit

The parallels summit 2011 is over! While some of our key employees were busy round the clock demonstrating cloud-based migrations at booth 117, our mascot found a few minutes to challenge hosted service providers at the Microsoft Kinect booth. Wondering how our MigrationWiz superhero fared playing Kinect? No problems scoring high at Kinect Sports (boxing) … 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 »

Cloud-Based Migrations GoldBricking

Is your migration providing goldbricking you? While the term originates from the trick of applying a gold coating to a brick of worthless metal, it’s also being used as a synonym for cyberslacking and all the inefficiencies that come with it. Are you being sold a migration solution advertised as “hosted” or “cloud-based”? As we pointed out … Continue reading »