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Microsoft Exchange Online (Office 365) Migration Performance Guide
A few weeks ago, Microsoft published a guide on migration performance with Microsoft Exchange Online using various tools. We want to clarify where MigrationWiz fits in respect to throttling mechanisms and performance factors mentioned in this guide. Many third-party migration tools use MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) with an average throughput of at most a few hundred … Continue reading
Understanding Migration Performance Constraints
“How long will my migration take?” We are sure you have either been asked that question or asked that to someone else. There is no clear answer. Every mailbox contains a unique set of data which results in different speeds. When adding in other factors related to networks, mailboxes, and others, the answer becomes even … Continue reading
Initiate Migrations with your Smartphone
We have many customers who enjoy MigrationWiz’s easy configuration and migration process. Numerous migrations are started at the end of the work week to allow extra time to complete other migration tasks without disruption to the regular business day. Since these migrations occur over the weekend, who wants to be at work on a weekend … Continue reading
With Help from Expert Consultants, Global Nonprofit Trims Email Costs By 38 Percent | Microsoft Case Studies
With help from Microsoft Consulting Services and MigrationWiz, Catholic Relief Services successfully consolidates 4,525 email accounts residing in different systems and countries to Microsoft Exchange Online. “CRS also needed to migrate 850 email accounts that were already running on five separate instances of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. The Microsoft Consulting Services group connected CRS … Continue reading
Lotus Notes Migration – Beta Testing Program
Beta testing to migrate from Lotus Notes have begun! We are selectively accepting candidates for beta testing. If you have a migration project scheduled to be completed by the end of this month, please contact our support and we may be able to offer you complimentary licenses.
Premium License Now Include 10 Passes for Delta Migration
On occasion, our support team receives requests from users for a couple extra passes for their delta migrations. Five passes proved to be a limitation for them. Recently, we’ve increased the number of passes for any premium license from five to ten. Ten passes should be more than enough for any multi-pass migration. Image: Stuart Miles … Continue reading
Coming Soon – Lotus Notes Support
If you’re wondering if we’ll be supporting email migrations from Lotus Notes anytime soon, your wait is almost over. We’re currently in one of the final testing phases before launching our support for Lotus Notes. Follow us on Twitter or Like us on Facebook for further news and developments.
Supported Systems & Items for Email Migration
MigrationWiz migrates many items from systems like Exchange, Gmail, Groupwise, Zimbra, IMAP and POP. It’s easy to get confused what items are migrated with which system. The following table describes the items that we migrate for various protocols. Please note that MigrationWiz supports all types of Microsoft Exchange regardless of setup. Our per-mailbox pricing system … Continue reading
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
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
Why Office 365 and How to Get There [Video]
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
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
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
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
What Can MigrationWiz Do? Hear From Our CEO [Video}
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
Email Migration or Email Coexistence?
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
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
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
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
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
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
