The migration consisted of transferring authentication and e-mail services to the Media24 infrastructure in order to merge the two environments. The challenge was to ensure system availability while the migration was in progress and this required a toolset that could fulfil a number of crucial needs. Quest Migration Manager for Exchange was chosen as it had the broadest range of functionality and ticked all the required boxes.
“Migrating user accounts and e-mail resources while retaining free/busy information is a daunting task, but the Quest Migration for Exchange allowed us to run our migrations in batches which allowed us to overcome all these hurdles” says Willem Swart, IT Manager at Touchline Media. “The migration was completed in less than a week and more than 300 users and mailboxes were migrated in the process.”
Quest Migration Manager was configured to allow full coexistence during the migration of users to ensure that e-mail flow and free busy information would remain intact. During this process, evolv networks supplied consulting and deployment services to prepare the environment for the migration.
The migration challenges faced by Touchline Media IT come in many different variations, including migrating to Hosted Exchange or Office365. Other scenarios include cross-platform migrations such as GroupWise and Domino to Exchange.
“Similar to other migrations, the planning and preparation consumed the majority of the resource time and attention to detail ensured the project success,” says Gerhard Conradie, MD at evolv networks. “The Migration Manager toolset is ideal for many scenarios, and by partnering with Blue Turtle Technologies, we are able to ensure exceptional results when migrating to Exchange 2010.”
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evolv networks was founded in 2005 with the goal of supplying superior IT consulting and support services to small (one to 50 computer users) and medium (50 to 250 computer users) size companies. Equipped with industry leading technical skills, it has remained committed to this strategy. It strives to better understand its customers and through this it is able to align technology with their business needs and processes.
As an IT service partner, it also knows that technology never stands still, and through its own evolution, it has brought value-adding technologies to its customers. Through careful maturity testing and entrenching new technology in its environment, it ensures the solutions it supplies are business ready. This methodology comes from deep technical roots in ensuring that solutions are tried and tested.
evolv networks also has skills in the enterprise management field utilising Microsoft System Center technologies such as System Center Operations Manager and Configuration Manager. These skills have unlocked benefits for its small/medium and large customers who utilise its skills with these systems as well as enabling small/medium customers to have truly enterprise management solutions without the need for in-house skills.
As experts in the design, deployment and support of IT infrastructure, evolv networks continues finding innovative ways to use technology to add value to its customers.
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