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Microsoft FastTrack was designed to help you move your on premise Exchange email system to Office 365 “smoothly and with confidence”.  But, when you read the “fine print” you discover that FastTrack will NOT migrate email archive data, including compliance-related journal data.  The problem with this oversight is that most organizations planning to migrate to Office 365 similarly have a legacy email archive that should also be migrated. In fact, in a recent survey by Osterman Research, 64% of Office 365 migrations include a legacy email archive, so this lack of support is a major “road block” (or at least speed bump) to fully migrating to Office 365.

Responding to an eDiscovery request carries with it many duties and responsibilities that the court will expect to be carried out in a good faith manner. Several of these duties are set it stone via the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and should not be ignored or taken lightly.

Believe it or not, email archives and Zombies have quite a lot in common.  Below is my list of common archives/zombie issues.  I would love to hear your horror story with regards to a legacy email that you’ve had problems with during a migration.  Please submit below in the comments.

The automated PST discovery, rehydration, migration and removal solution helps organizations achieve fully defensible and painless moves of email content to the cloud.

I’ve been talking to many Microsoft Office 365 Partners asking them why they almost always avoid the companion email archive migration project. One of the most common answers is: "we just don't have the knowledge of the many email archives and their particular idiosyncrasies; let alone attempt to migrate one of them." This answer baffled me since an archive migration can generate 3-5x the revenue of a single project not to mention, if done correctly, can generate a 90% profit.  You may be asking yourself how….? Well, let me explain.

In todays blog we'll look at how PowerShell reduces the complexity of archive migrations all while providing efficiencies that current archive migration software cannot. 

Like thousands of companies, you are probably considering moving away from an on-premise Microsoft Exchange deployment to the new cloud-based Office 365.  But before you jump in to make the move, consider for a moment if you have a legacy email archive.  If the answer is “Yes”, it is likely that your email archive made a total mess of Exchange.

Are you considering moving your on-premise Exchange Server to the new cloud-based Office 365? If so, you must consider if a legacy email archived is attached to your Exchange Server. Email archiving was a very popular application used to reduce Exchange mailbox size and for regulatory compliance. For compliance, Exchange Journaling was enabled for secure retention of all email sent and received by Exchange.

Happy New Year! We’re already one week into 2016 and I’m wondering how those New Year’s resolutions are working out for you. Apparently the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions stretches back more than 4000 years to the ancient Babylonians. I’m not sure how their resolve to pay off their debts and return borrowed objects to their owners worked out for them. If they were anything like we are today, the majority would already have given up on their well-intentioned resolutions by now.