Tag: Migration
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IT/DEV Connections 2016 – Enterprise Collaboration Track
IT/DEV Connections 2016 is coming up in October and a great set of sessions will be delivered in the Enterprise Collaboration track covering Exchange and SharePoint on-premises, Office 365 from programming to implementation, and lots of ask the expert sessions.
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The cloud means the demise of the traditional file server
One of the most obvious aspects of the adoption of cloud technology over the last few years is the growing amount of storage available at little or no cost to end users. A good example is the way that Office 365 personal plans (OneDrive for Consumers) and Office 365 business…
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Fast track Office 365 migrations by Microsoft pose some challenges for partners
Microsoft’s announcement that they intended to accelerate the on-boarding (migration) of customer seats to Office 365 through the “FastTrack” program surprised some attending the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month. Apparently the idea is that Microsoft will hire (or has already hired) between 250 and 600 new employees to take…
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GAMME – an unfortunate name for Google’s new migration utility
I know (because I have visited the Dublin Googleplex several times) that Google employs several thousand people in Ireland. Couldn’t one of them have looked at the acronym for their new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) service and raised a red flag that perhaps a second meaning can…
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Selecting mailbox migration software
I am asked on a fairly regular basis to recommend software to migrate data from different systems to Exchange (either on-premises or cloud). I don’t want to endorse any software in any way, but I think it worthwhile to set down a number of principles that can be used to guide…
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Outlook Web App 2013 and mail public folders
Following up the post about migrating public folders to the modern version introduced in Exchange 2013, an entry in a TechNet forum asked whether Outlook Web App (OWA) supported shared calendars held in public folders. This came as a kind of throwback to me as it’s a long time since…
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The dirty little secret about migration to modern public folders
Have you heard about a migration to modern public folders that has gone well? I haven’t. Apart that is from the demo migrations that appear at trade shows and conferences to show that all is well and that Microsoft hasn’t reneged on their promise to bring the cockroaches of Exchange…
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Avoiding outdated addresses during a migration to the cloud
One of my current projects is to help a large multinational move from Exchange 2007 to a dedicated instance of Microsoft BPOS running Exchange 2010. BPOS is having some woes of its own with yet another outage causing disruption to customers around the world. Let’s hope that Office 365 provides…
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First appearance of an Exchange 2010 Messaging Appliance
On January 19, 2011 HP and Microsoft announced the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange. The name is a mouthful but the important point is the creation of a solution designed to make Exchange 2010 easier to deploy. This product is part of a set of four appliances that…
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