Collaboration Migration

Collaboration System Migration

The migration tool provides support for the migration of Email, Calendar and Contacts (and soon Documents!) from a source GroupWise, Sun Mail, Google Apps or Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010 to a cloud hosted Exchange service be it Live@edu, Microsoft Online or a Microsoft Partner hosted Exchange service, or on-premise mail system.

Additionally the tool provides support for:
  • Rapid transfer. Multiple-concurrent sessions per machine (up to 10) across any number of source machines
  • Simple IMAP migrations. IMAP to IMAP migrations over SSL/non-SSL connections
  • Administrative migration. Support for Exchange Impersonation, Google OAuth/XOAuth and GroupWise Trusted Application and removes the need to know end-user passwords
  • Fault tolerance. Checkpoint restarts which allow for restarting failed runs or running validation checks over existing mailboxes
  • Reporting. Summary reporting for migration runs
Support for Personal Address Books and Calendar migration hosted on the Google's Google Apps platform or in Sun's Java Mail solution are currently undergoing testing and should available 2Q CY2010.

Additionally, support for Google Docs migrations to SharePoint  2007/2010 is also undergoing testing.

Where possible, the tool provides retains the maximum fidelity of source information including:
  • Email
    • The email folder structure is preserved and source folders mapped to their logical counterparts in the destination
    • MIME content of each the mail message is replicated in the destination 
    • Preserves the original recipient/sender information and timestamps
  • Calendar 
    • Recurring appointments are handled correctly
    • The format of the body of a Calendar entry is preserved
    • Fields such as importance, classification (tagging), recipient list are preserved
  • Contacts 
    • Personal Contact and Contact Groups are preserved
    • The format of the body of the Contact is preserved
    • Fields such as classification (tagging) is preserved


  Gmail source


Outlook Live destination