Whitepaper: Essential Practices for Cross-Platform Migrations
If you’re an MSP or internal IT in a large organization, it’s a good bet you’ll be called upon to perform a cross-platform mailbox migration. These more complex migration projects can result from a merger or acquisition, organizational change, platform cost analysis, or evolving business requirements. MigrationWiz makes every mailbox migration easy. But dealing with different platforms naturally adds complexity, because each provider has designed their platform based on their own set of assumptions. That means it takes a bit of planning to execute a cross-platform migration and avoid user confusion or lost productivity.
For us at BitTitan, a successful migration is more than data moved from A to B. That’s why we’ve put together this quick and easy-to-understand whitepaper, Cross-Platform Mailbox Migrations: Key Issues and Essential Practices. To illustrate, we’re using a Gmail to Exchange Online/Microsoft 365 scenario, but the issues are relevant to most cross-platform migrations.
Read the whitepaper first
The few minutes it takes to read the white paper will pay off in a smoother, faster migration. Preparation and planning are key. In a mailbox migration, the goal is to assure that users can get to work immediately after cutover in an email environment that looks and works the way they expect. This whitepaper will help you plan for:
- Common issues with cross-platform migrations, including email storage differences and mailbox size limitations. Understanding these issues will assure that the completion of your project isn’t delayed by archive limitations.
- Assessment strategies that will help you advise users on pre-migration archiving or retention in order to decrease the volume of data in the final migration.
- A pilot or pre-migration testing to gauge migration performance so you can adjust timelines and expectations as necessary.
- Communication strategies so users know what to expect during the migration and are able to quickly adopt the new platform.
- Top tips and tricks, including a MigrationWiz license recommendation, pre-staging for efficiency, using Advanced Options, planning for large mailboxes and folders, migrating All Mail items, and what to do post-migration.
As always, BitTitan is committed to your success. In addition to expert whitepapers like this one, you’ll find thorough documentation online as well as a full library of video training tutorials. Any time you need help, whether you’re in the planning stage or you’ve run across a stumbling block, the BitTitan Customer Success Team is here for you. If you have questions about MigrationWiz or about cross-platform migrations, please connect with us.
