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Collaboration System Migration

The migration tool provides support for the migration of Email, Calendar, Contacts and Documents (Tasks coming soon!) from a source GroupWise, Zimbra, Sun Mail, Google Apps Professional Edition (GAPE), Google Apps For Education (GAFE) 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 25) 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 (CardDAV) and Calendar migration (CalDAV and iCal) hosted on the Sun's Java Mail, MiraPoint or FirstClass are currently undergoing testing and should available 1H CY2011.

Additionally, support for Google Docs and Exchange Public Folders migrations to SharePoint  2007/2010 is in development and expected in the next release.

Where possible, the tool provides retains the maximum fidelity of source information including:

  • Email
    • Date/Time stamps are preserved

  • Calendar and 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
  • Documents, Tasks and Notes
    • Document fidelity is preserved (where possible) and defaults to Windows Document formats
    • Tasks and Notes depend on the support for these items in the source system
  Gmail source


Outlook Live destination
    • 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
  • 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


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