14 DAY TRIAL // Customers looking to migrate mail, calendar and contact information from existing email systems to Microsoft Live@edu will be able to take advantage of a new offering from FullArmor in the coming weeks. Two flavors of the FullArmor’s MailPortal Migrator will be made available starting on July 19, both focused on streamlining migration from on-premise Microsoft Exchange deployments and Google Apps mail to Microsoft’s communications and collaboration service tailored to the needs of educational institutions worldwide, which also includes the hosted version of Exchange.
The promise from Microsoft and FullArmor is that MailPortal Migrator will be delivered as a free download in just 10 days. End users can leverage MailPortal in order to extract the data from Outlook PST files and Google Apps mailboxes and take it to Live@edu. The two companies planned the release of the solution after Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference next week.
“With MailPortal Migrator, FullArmor is providing schools around the world a cost effective, efficient way to move from their existing mail and calendaring system to Live@edu,” revealed Anthony Salcito, Vice President of Worldwide Education for Microsoft. “We are pleased to be able to provide this capability to our Live@edu community so IT administrators can quickly deploy a best of breed communications and collaboration infrastructure so students and teachers can be more productive.”
In addition to MailPortal Migrator, will offer MailPortal Migrator Admin for purchase. But unlike MailPortal Migrator, the MailPortal Migrator Admin is tailored to migration scenarios that involve the bulk transition from Exchange and Google Apps mail. And when FullArmor says bulk, they mean nothing less. According to Boston-based company, the Beta of the MailPortal Migrator Admin was at the core of the massive Live@edu migration performed recently by the Kentucky Department of Education, which involved no less than 700,000 student, teacher, and staff Exchange mailboxes.
“We’ve found that Live@edu, which includes Exchange 2010 provided as a service and other collaboration tools, is so much better than anything else out in the market, there is a huge worldwide demand for it. The problem many customers face in K-12 and higher education is migrating effectively and efficiently from their existing mail system. The same situation holds true for other Microsoft Online Services now and may accelerate even more once other enterprise online offerings upgrade to Exchange 2010,” noted Bob Chung, Director of Microsoft Alliance for FullArmor.