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Gain E-mail Freedom With Low-Cost E-mail Migration Tools |
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In today's difficult economy, many firms are investigating paths to cut back their e-mail costs by switching their e-mail system or changing to a far lower-cost e-mail cloud service. One challenge in moving from one
e-mail solution (such as Microsoft Exchange) to another (such as Google Apps or hosted Exchange) is what to do with the company's's old e-mail information and how to make a smooth transition without interrupting users or overburdening the
IT staff.
E-mail migration enables companies to switch e-mail solutions without fear of losing their historical e-mail information. Some migrating
e-mail solutions also provide continual, clear e-mail replication so that instead of a single point-in-time migration rollover, users benefit from ongoing mailbox co-existence and seamless transition. You may use two different mailboxes (as an example,
Microsoft Exchange and Gmail) not solely to move over e-mail, calendar, and contacts but can also keep both systems running until comfortable with making the final cut over to the new e-mail service.
IT departments also appreciate this complicated feature because instead of the agony of weekend migrations, they can schedule migration during normal hours without disrupting the work of their user community.
Today vendors offer different e-mail solutions and migration tools to provide e-mail freedom and portability. You can simply find the best e-mail migration software online by doing a Internet search. E-mail service suppliers such as Google and Microsoft offer their own custom tools. Vendors offer different migration capabilities, consider the following key standards in your evaluation process: Does the migration tool force a single, knife-edge rollover or enable mailbox co-existence? Does the
e-mail solution migrate email, contacts and calendars or simply e-mail? If you are migrating data from
Microsoft Exchange/Outlook, check whether the migration tool works alongside your personal
Exchange/Outlook version. Can the software be employed at the server level to enable simple installation and management of larger user groups? Rather than buying and maintaining the software internally, you may also want to consider hiring a migration service which does all of the work for you without requiring internal structure.
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