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Migration from Office 365 P plan to E plan
Written by: Nick Bowyer, IT Professional Services One of the things that impress me with the cloud offerings from Microsoft is the great partner community dedicated to delivering the solution. In this blog I want to talk about the experience I had recently moving a customer from the P Plan of Office 365 to the E Plan. … Continue reading
Introducing MigrationWiz AD to Office 365 DirSync Tool
We are pleased to announce the global availability of our very own Active Directory (AD) to Office 365 directory synchronization tool. This tool is free of charge for all MigrationWiz customers! As you probably know, Microsoft’s Office 365 directory synchronization tool leverages Forefront Identity Manager (aka FIM, aka Identity Lifecycle Manager, aka ILM, aka Microsoft … 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
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
