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
Do you access Office 365 with your mobile device? If you do, there is a high chance that your device connects to the Exchange platform via the Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The Exchange Team Blog over at Microsoft TechNet posted a detailed and insightful article on how Exchange ActiveSync communicates with Office 365. There is also a … 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
“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
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
“The use of MigrationWiz’s solution allows us to react more quickly to customer requests, increase our revenue, and decrease customer costs!” – Sean Harrington, President Canyon Networks View original document Canyon Networks In 2008, Sean Harrington founded Canyon Networks. Located in Bangor, the major commercial and cultural center for Eastern and Northern Maine, Canyon Networks … 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 Now that BPOS has been replaced by Office 365, we thought we’ve update the information to reflect the current state of Microsoft’s hosted Exchange offering.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
“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
“We have not lost one email during the migration of over 1,000 mailboxes!” – Cathal Callanan, Cloud Consultant Core View original document Core Based in central London, Core Technology Systems (Core) provides consulting, development, and support services across multiple Microsoft product lines. Core specializes in Microsoft SharePoint, System Center and Online Services (including Office 365 … Continue reading
“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
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
“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
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
Today the MigrationWiz team was well represented at the Microsoft company store in Bellevue, WA for the official launch of Microsoft Office 365. As expected, the store was packed with attendees. This event was also a great opportunity to meet and greet several of our customers. With over 1800 IT organizations having signed up to our … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
While it’s certainly doable to migrate a few mailboxes using do-it-yourself methods such as PST import/export, there are certain features which distinguish Enterprise migration solutions from the rest. But first of all: who needs an Enterprise migration solution? You’re more likely to need an Enterprise migration solution if you: – Need to migrate more than … Continue reading
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
