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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
Why Cloud-Based Migrations Are More Secure
Thinking about using an on-premise migration solution because you’ve been told it’s more secure than using a cloud-based migration solution? Wrong choice! With on-premise solutions, you must deploy external software behind the firewall, sometimes on mission-critical servers within your data center. By installing third-party software, your entire infrastructure can be put at risk by security … 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
Cost-Effective Migrations to the Cloud
You’ve made a decision to migrate to the cloud. What you need next is a cost-effective migration solution able to move your data data quickly and with high fidelity. While evaluating migration solutions, it’s important to keep in mind all hidden costs such as: The number of hours your IT staff will spend on training … Continue reading
Happy New Year to Our Customers and Partners
We’d like an opportunity to wish all our partners and customers a very happy new year! We’re confident that this year will bring new features and new capabilities which will make your mailbox migrations easier than ever before. In fact, we’ve been working hard during the holiday season and will have an announcement to make … Continue reading
Migration Checklist
First time you’re performing an email migration? Unsure what the timeline may look like? Want to make sure you’re not missing anything? We’ve just published a new migration checklist. While we recognize that each situation is unique, the following steps can be used to build your own customized migration checklist. Also don’t forget that our wiki … Continue reading
Queuing a Large Number of Mailboxes
Some of our customers need to migrate a large number of mailboxes but have limited bandwidth. If bandwidth is limited, submitting all mailboxes for migration may result in issues ranging from transient timeout errors to firewall blocks. Manually starting migrations so that no more than let’s say 100 migrations run concurrently does work but requires … Continue reading
ImapSync vs. MigrationWiz
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
Migrating From IMAP… Means Migrating What?
Need to migrate from an IMAP system? There are some limitations you should be aware of. First, most IMAP servers have some technical limitations (see our previous post). Second, only emails can be migrated using IMAP. That’s right, contact or calendar items CANNOT be migrated using IMAP because it is an email-only protocol: Wikipedia: “items … Continue reading
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
Google Apps: Ready for the Enterprise?
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
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
Why IMAP Migrations Are Challenging
This blog post is about technical challenges associated with IMAP Migrations. After migrating thousands of Terabytes from and to a multitude of IMAP systems, we’ve learned that almost all IMAP systems on the planet are non-compliant with standards (ex: RFC 3501) to a varying degree and so suffer from various glitches. The key problem is … 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
Streamlining Resolution of Migration Errors
We’re proud to announce a new feature which should help streamline resolution of migration errors. But what are migration errors, and why should there be any? During the course of a migration, several hundred thousand items may be processed for a single mailbox. Even with an error rate as low as 0.001%, a mailbox may end up … Continue reading
New Migration Visualization
We’re proud to announce that we’ve just added one more visualization to our list of migration performance charts. This visualization shows the number of items migrated as well as the number of errors encountered for each folder. For mailboxes with a very large number of folders, only the first 200 folders will be shown. For … Continue reading
Email Migration Strategies
Every customer has different requirements. Today’s post is about 3 common email migration scenarios and techniques from which custom migration strategies can be derived. All scenarios can be applied to one mailbox, a group of mailboxes, or even all mailboxes within the organization. Below are some of our favorites: Gathering requirements: Before selecting a scenario, … Continue reading
Email Migration API: Developers Welcome!
While most of our partners and customers are familiar with our volume discount and affiliate programs, fewer are familiar with our developer program. The MigrationWiz SOAP API allows any organization to perform migrations with virtually unlimited scalability. It enables data migration from and to a multitude of systems, without the need for any user interaction … 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
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
Testing IMAP Server Connection
Testing connectivity to your IMAP server before migration is always a great idea. Even if you’re technical, opening a telnet session can still be painful. So we’ve added a new feature which lets you check if the IMAP server is responding, but also get basic mailbox stats such as a list of folders. After logging … Continue reading
Support for Gmail Administrative Authentication
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
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 Mailbox Migration Offerings
We’re excited to inform you of our latest product updates and the many new features we’ve added to our zero-deployment, easy to use self-service migration service! Thousands of $$$ Earned The first affiliate rewards quarter has just ended and was a huge success. Thank you partners for your trust and loyalty. Partners are receiving a … 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
New Mailbox Migration Offerings
We’re excited to inform you of our latest product updates and the many new features we’ve added to our zero-deployment, easy to use self-service migration service! Earn Cash Back We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Affiliate Program. Earn 10% of each customer purchase you refer to us. Our compensation philosophy is … Continue reading
Exchange 2010 Migration Support Coming Soon
I’m excited by the fact that we’re going to be announcing the worldwide availablity of Exchange 2010 support very soon! This means that you will be able to migrate all of the the usual suspects that we support to an Exchange 2010 server regardless if it’s an on-premise or hosted service. This also now enables … Continue reading
Free trial migrations
As of the beginning of this month, we have added the ability to perform free trials. We truly believe in “try before you buy.” We’re confident that when you see how simple yet power our migration service is, you’ll find out that no other migration solution compares. Our free trial will migrate up to 10 … Continue reading
MigrationWiz service updates
We’re excited to inform you of our latest product updates and the many new features added to MigrationWiz, the only cloud based migration service. New Features: Improved Interface Our new and improved interface is now more intuitive and easier to use than ever before. You can configure migrations faster, view status across all your jobs … Continue reading
Manually Configure Outlook for Exchange Online
NOTE: These steps apply to BPOS. If you are looking for steps to Office 365, please refer to our Office 365 steps for manual Outlook profile creation. I could not find any documentation anywhere on how to configure Outlook with Exchange Online. The only way that I discovered was to install the Microsoft Online Services … Continue reading
