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
There are many articles out there listing keyboard shortcuts for Outlook. Reading these long lists makes it hard to remember the commands when you use it on the interface of Outlook. The graphic below should make it easier for basic users to remember the quick shortcuts to some of the most used things from the … Continue reading
UPN’s are a convenient way for users to rememebr their usernames. A UPN essentially has the same format as an email address. Rather than having users login to their workstations or intranet resources as EXAMPLE\User, they can login as user@example.com which is the same as their email address. You can reduce support costs as users … Continue reading
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 recently used a backup MX provider to queue up emails for a customer and learned something along the way which we thought would be worth sharing. But first, what does a backup MX provider do? Suppose that you want to perform a major upgrade of your entire email system and expect significant downtime. The SMTP … Continue reading
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
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
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
Not all features are available through the Office 365 Portal. There are a lot of features that you can enable with with PowerShell. PowerShell may sound a little scary, which is why we’ve been posting PowerShell commands you can cut and paste with our Office 365 PowerShell tip series. Previously in BPOS and similarly with … 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
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
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
Yesterday, we announced the availability of our simple directory synchronization tool. Today, we are going to discuss deployment and give you a step-by-step guide on how to use it in your migrations. First things first, there are some things you will need to do before deploying directory synchronization: Validate your domain in Office 365. Before … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Some products specialize in email migration while others specialize in email coexistence. The problem with coexistence is that the process is generally error prone. Tasks range from the reasonable (ex: synchronize free/busy status) to the complex (ex: synchronize passwords across systems). In addition, problems inherent to any type of synchronization complicate the whole process. For example, complex … Continue reading
When preparing an Exchange system for migration, you should ensure that message size limits are high enough. Exchange is a complex product different types of message size limits: some for sending emails, some for receiving emails, some for Exchange Web Services, some for maximum item size, some for maximum attachment size, etc.: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124345.aspx. From our perspective, API limits … Continue reading
Most people think of a free migration solution as one with no associated costs. While you may not pay for the goods, you are certainly paying for your own time. Once in a while, a customer asks us why they should pay for MigrationWiz versus using the free tools. It’s simple. Think about how much time you … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
At MigrationWiz, we are confident we can lower your total cost of migration compared to other migration tools. Our simple to use patent-pending technology combined with 24/7 support is in a league of it’s own. We value our partners and are committed to helping you succeed every step of the way. As a MigrationWiz partner, … 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
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
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
