Migration Software
Depending on which email platform you are migrating from, there are many different flavours of migration software you can use.
Software covered in this section includes:
- Open Source
- Microsoft Tools
- Quest Tools
- SaaS Tools
- Toolbox (useful utilities)
The New Product Reviews section aims to provide coverage for any new tools associated with email migrations.
There are the free tools, such as the basic Microsoft Exchange 2003 Migration Wizard, or the more advanced Microsoft Exchange 2007 Transporter Suite. Or you can pay some money for a 3rd Party tool. An example would be the Quest Notes to Exchange Migrator and the Quest GroupWise to Exchange Migrator.
I have performed successful email migrations using the Microsoft tools, and using the Quest tools. And a combination of both. There will be constraints as to which tool you can use — the most common being financial. As a rule, you get more features the more you pay, and certainly the Quest products are very powerful and offer more flexibility and features.
Where possible, you should use the standard Microsoft tools – for credibility and support. But be open-minded when it comes to the migration component you use. A quick search on Google on Microsoft Transporter Suite will bring up actual experiences of using the product. Compared to established products such as Quest, the Transporter Suite appears to have many reported problems. In addition, Quest release frequent updates of versions of their products, whereas Microsoft appear to not be releasing frequent updates of Transporter Suite.
If you use Microsoft Transporter Suite for the inter-connect component, and Quest for the actual mailbox migration then you also have the luxury of using Microsoft Transporter Suite as a backup tool for mailbox migration.
It would be preferable to be able to carry out an evaluation of different email migration tools as part of your project and make an informed decision based on the outcome. You can then refer to this evaluation if someone questions your choice of migration tool, or migration tools.
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