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Migration Section

Welcome to the MSExchange.org Migration Section. Here you will find the latest articles, news, white papers, and a number of essential links to help all Exchange administrators deal with email complexity and migration issues.

White Papers

A three step plan for migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010

Harnessing the powerful new features of Microsoft Exchange 2010, but without introducing additional risk, cost and complexity during the migration process- is a challenge many CIOs are about to face. In this whitepaper, we consider the risks involved in migrating to Exchange 2010 and take a look at what actions businesses can take to mitigate them.

Exchange 2010 Migration Guide

This guide details the best practices to follow when migrating from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange 2010. The guidelines provided explain how to prepare the existing infrastructure for the process, what safeguards should be employed before migration begins, and how to perform the actual migration.

MSExchange.org Product Review - Gold Award

Product Review: Mimecast Unified Email Management

J. Peter Bruzzese takes a closer look at Mimecast's Unified Email Management (UEM) solution.

Latest Migration Blog Posts

  • Dec 22nd, 2011 - Email Complexity and the March of Progress

    You don't need to go beyond a high school course in Physics to begin to understand the importance of entropy and complexity in everything from the fate of the cosmos to the smallest, most unimportant-seeming details of daily life. more...

  • Dec 1st, 2011 - Easy Migration: An Added Benefit of Cloud-based Archiving

    Mimecast has been getting a lot of awards and recognition lately, and while I don't usually blog about such things, our latest award, for our Exchange Migration program, is worthy of some discussion. I'm often asked why we've put so much emphasis on assisting companies in their migration to Exchange 2010; it seems like at best a sideline to our core business of providing unified email services via the cloud. more...

  • Nov 15th, 2011 - Spam or Anonymity: We Don’t Have to Choose

    With its new "Block 25" crackdown, South Korea has become the latest government to attack the spam problem with medicines worse than the disease.  Unfortunately, while many may support this approach out of ignorance of the consequences, such mechanisms advance a much more pernicious desire for cont. more...

  • Oct 3rd, 2011 - Why is Email So Complicated? Reason # 501: Human Communication is Absurdly Complex!

    In this series of blog posts -- which started on the Mimecast site before migrating here -- I've been writing primarily about the technical complexities that make email a much more interesting business than it seems at first glance. But some of the most daunting complications are not technical; email needs to support the complexity of social interaction in general. A straightforward example of this is the MIME protocol, which I co-designed twenty years ago. more...

  • Sep 25th, 2011 - An Underappreciated Email Pioneer: Einar Stefferud, 1930-2011

    Those of us who work with email every day rarely reflect on the people who created the technologies we take for granted.  Today, we should make an exception. Not that many people will recognize the name of Einar Stefferud, but he was one of the great unsung pioneers of the Internet.  I had . more...

Latest Exchange 2010 Migration Articles

Exchange 2007 Migration Articles

Exchange 2003 Migration Articles

Migration Software Solutions

  • May 2nd, 2012 - Lepide Exchange Manager

    Lepide Exchange Manager is a tool for organizations using Exchange Servers. The product is a repair, restore and backup recovery solution. The tool provides extended capabilities like recovery from PST/ OST backup files along with EDBs. Not just emails, the tool allows you to recover, restore, transfer any Outlook items such as Calendar Items, Attachments and Contacts etc. Exchange Migration can be completed in a few steps between 2 Live Exchange Servers,and being equipped with the capability to restore emails from large backups, it removes the need to maintain brick level backup.

    Recovering selected emails has been eased with the Search & Restore functionality combined with Drag-n-Drop interface. The tool allows exporting emails to MSG/EML format or copies your mailboxes to PST files. Along with mailbox creation capability and criteria based Reporting, the product serves as a complete backup and recovery tool supporting Exchange 2000-2010.

    Platform :: Windows
    Product URL :: click here
    Company :: Lepide Software Pvt Ltd
    Company URL :: www.lepide.com
    Email :: sales@lepide.com

  • Apr 3rd, 2012 - SMP for Public Folders

    The StealthAUDIT Management Platform (SMP) for Public Folders is a solution providing end-to-end assessment, analysis, and remediation of Public Folder infrastructures. Proven effective in the largest Public Folder environments, SMP's built-in workflow components and business intelligence allow administrators to identify each folder's "Most Probable Owner" and communicate with them to obtain definitive sign-off regarding each folder's fate; in bulk.

    SMP for Public Folders provides the data collection, analysis, remediation, and reporting facilities needed to make Public Folders a thing of the past, opening the door for newer, alternative collaboration technologies such as SharePoint or cleaner, more cost effective cloud migrations. With years of expertise in Public Folder clean-up and millions of folders retired, STEALTHbits is also pleased to offer professional services to streamline and expedite your organization's Public Folder clean-up initiative.

    Platform :: Windows
    Product URL :: click here
    Screenshot :: click here
    Company :: STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc.
    Company URL :: www.stealthbits.com
    Email :: sales@stealthbits.com

  • Apr 2nd, 2012 - MigrationWiz

    MigrationWiz is a complete cloud-based email migration solution that helps companies move from existing to new messaging systems seamlessly and affordably. With no hardware or software to install, the patent pending technology is a solution designed to meet the needs of individuals, IT administrators, consultants, system integrators and service providers interested in migrating mailboxes. MigrationWiz is a trusted brand in over 50 countries by global Fortune 500 organizations, governments, healthcare providers, and more. Customers can sign-up, configure and initiate migrations in a matter of minutes with no prior experience.

    Platform :: Windows
    Product URL :: click here
    Screenshot :: click here
    Company :: BitTitan
    Company URL :: www.bittitan.com
    Email :: vendor@bittitan.com

  • Dec 15th, 2011 - Binary Tree E2E Complete

    Binary Tree’s E2E Complete is a full-featured solution for any Exchange-to-Exchange migration scenario. E2E Complete supports upgrades from Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010, cross-forest Exchange migrations, and migrations to Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365 as well as to hybrid deployments.

    E2E Complete performs migrations without requiring any modifications to your Active Directory environment and without installing agents on all your Exchange servers. E2E Complete leverages the Exchange Management Shell (PowerShell) for the migration processing. The product also helps manage the end-user communications as part of the migration project, as well as the mailbox move scheduling, tracking and reporting. E2E Complete features a simple web-based interface that enables administrators, not Exchange architects, to run the project. For more information, videos, case studies, white papers, a cost and timeline savings calculator, a free trial download and more, visit us online.

    Platform :: Windows
    Product URL :: click here
    Screenshot :: click here
    Company :: Binary Tree
    Company URL :: www.binarytree.com
    Email :: sales@binarytree.com

  • Nov 30th, 2011 - Address Magic Enterprise Edition

    Enterprise solution for the migration of address books, contacts and messages between Netscape 4, GroupWise, Lotus Notes, and Outlook. Copy users' personal addresses from the old email application to the new, even if they are on different machines. Complete scripting interface allows data cleaning, consistency checking, and other address book operations.

    Platform :: Windows
    Product URL :: click here
    Company :: Connected Software, Inc.
    Company URL :: www.connectedsw.com
    Email :: sales@connectedsw.com


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