Quest Microsoft Platform Management: Email Migration Customers Share Lessons Learned

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

Good project and change management are required.

— Chief Information Officer, Medium Enterprise Construction Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

Never go back to IBM products.

— Nicolas Sirot, Chief Technology Officer, Genopole

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

The goal is to have less customer support the day after the migration.

— Customer Support Manager, Large Enterprise Banking Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

The quality of a migration rises and falls with the right partner.

— IT Project Manager, Small Business Banking Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

Calendar free/busy sync
Co-existence

— IT Project Manager, Medium Enterprise Financial Services Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

That migrating Quickr to SharePoint is trickier than it seems.

— Ryan Partlow, Systems Engineer, Lynden Door

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lessons learned:

WAN performance is critical. Also, don’t panic if you see calendar appointments in deleted items – that’s normal as it deletes the source appointment and moves that to deleted items as it copies the appt. to the target mailbox.

— IT Director, Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

Glad this tool made it as tolerable as it did.

— IT Manager, State & Local Government

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

Coexistence is very powerful and permits us to reduce user impact and to achieve the goal.

— IT Architect, Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

How to create impersonation accounts.

— Jon Gillen, IT Administrator, WLFI TV Corp.

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

We continued to see that the migration of the mail is not an issue but the migration of the Outlook profiles is where we have the most issues.

— Ron Buie, Senior Enterprise Consultant, QCM Technologies, Inc.

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

Don’t rely on the customers knowing what they actually use, or that they are actively using all mailboxes.

— IT Specialist, Large Enterprise Insurance Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Email migration lesson learned:

Rollback is helpful when the wrong customer is migrated.

— IT Architect, Medium Enterprise Food Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

Lesson learned on email migration?

When migrating archives, the folder structures get moved and multiplied due to different Locations in different archives.

— IT Manager, Medium Enterprise Food Company

Quest Microsoft Platform Management Customer Testimonial

What are lessons learned for email migration?

Each customer is different so the migrations are different also. Any migration of Lotus to Exchange, Exchange to Exchange, or Exchange to O365 must be well prepared.

— Tony Allamelou, IT Architect, Econocom Group

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E-mail Migration Lessons Learned…

It’s possible to have a seamless migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange with just one click.

— Christoph Wagner, Manager IT Infrastructure Europe, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe