Month: July 2017

Third-Party Exchange Online Migration Tools

Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC) Exchange, Exchange Online, Office365

Over the last 5 years we have migrated thousands of mailboxes from on premise systems to Microsoft Office 365 – Exchange Online. During those years, we have been able to identify many tools from third parties that facilitate and automate the migration processes. They use distinctive protocols and approaches to conduct email migrations from email platforms like Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, Zimbra and Novell GroupWise.

Here are some of our favorite third-party migration tools that can assist with Exchange migrations from either Exchange or other third-party platforms:

  • Binary Tree: Provider of cross-platform messaging migration and coexistence software, with products that provide for the analysis of and the coexistence and migration between on-premises and online enterprise messaging and collaboration environments based on IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and Exchange and SharePoint.
  • BitTitan: Provider of migration solutions to Office 365. This is one of our preferred tool and is very cost efficient. Supports multiple platforms and it also has a new tool support outlook reconfiguration (DeploymentPro).
  • Dell: Provider of on-premises and hosted migration and coexistence software, including pre-migration analysis and complete user and application coexistence. Also known as Quest Migration Tools. Full-featured migrations from on-premises Exchange, IBM Domino, Novell GroupWise, Zimbra, and other environments to Office 365, and SharePoint Online. The main drawback of these tool are the cost. Not recommended from the SMB market.
  • Metalogix: Provider of migration solutions to Office 365 and SharePoint Online.
  • SkyKick: Provider of automated migration solutions to move on-premises Exchange, Gmail, POP3, IMAP, Lotus Notes to Office 365. The end-to-end migration tools help partners with the sales, planning, migration, management, and onsite phases of the migration project.
  • TransVault: Provider of migration solutions to Office 365.

 

 

Original Folder Item Recovery in Exchange is Now Available

Carlos A Lopez (Twitter: @CLopezDC) Office365

After so much wait, with the new Exchange Updates released on June 2017, now will be possible to recover item their original folder in Exchange 2016.
However, there are still some limitations:

  1. First, to use this functionality, the user’s mailbox must be on a Mailbox server that has CU6 installed. The user must also use Outlook on the web to recover to the original folder; neither Outlook for Windows or Outlook for Mac support this functionality, today.
  2. If an item does not have an LAPEID stamped, then the item will be recovered to its folder type origin – Inbox for mail items, Calendar for calendar items, Contacts for contact items, and Tasks for task items. How could an item not have an LAPEID? Well, if the item was deleted before CU1 was installed, it won’t have an LAPEID.
  3. And lastly, this feature does not recover deleted folders. It only recovers items to folders that still exist within the user’s mailbox hierarchy. Once a folder is deleted, recovery will be to the folder type origin for that item.

I have not doubt that this will make your life easier and your end-users happier