Migration in the Hosted Exchange

Businesses are, these days, looking for changes to upgrade the email and shift to the Microsoft exchange 2010 hosting. Osterman Research, an analyst firm in its recent survey brought out that almost 65% of all the IT decision makers within the next 6 months are desirable to align to the exchange 2010 hosting. However, transferring to the “implementing a solution” to the “determining a need” normally mean the same “migration”.

To many IT professionals, migration is just a scaring process that requires day and night services with the investment of endless time for testing and validating the data. Although the IT professionals are aware of the fact that the email systems are complex, yet the layered applications and the end users’ data can be mould, tangled or altered anytime. Therefore, attempting the migration process perfectly avoiding the end user impact should be done by an experienced person. The question that is asked by many professionals is how they can migrate the total environment of their company without any problems or without losing data.

The expense of upgrading the premise solution can be highly expensive and complex that it may require many months to complete. Many organizations hire experts from outside to handle the whole project. Beside the cost of hiring consultant from outside, the process often involves expenses like the buying the Collocation space, installing the software, ordering the servers, configuring them and finally migrate. The Osterman Research created a model to bring out the expense to migrate to Exchange 2007 for an organization having 5000 seats, could be even higher than $244 per user. This is quite a lot investment for any organization irrespective of the size.

The Exchange servers are upgraded once in every three to four years by most of the IT administrators. The upgraded version brings with them many new features that must be learnt by the experts. This indicates that there is an up going learning curve with every new version. But in case of the critical application like the email services, the complaints of the end users are not the only feedback system that is considered by the IT professionals. Migrating is synonymous to tremendous hard work and also using new mechanisms to the Rxchange migration issues listed below:

• Bouncing of messages
• An outlook profile that indicates the old server.
• Not being able to open the calendars of other users.
• Failure of the rules deactivating and uploading.
• Failure of the Out -of –Office reply option
• Access and synchronization problems of the mobile devices

Why it is essential to use the Migration while selecting the Hosted Server?

The migration leads to the technological advancement, increasing the efficiency and effectively and potential end users. An IT Analyst for the Tier-1 Research says “Organizations continue to see the logic in moving on-premise Exchange servers into third-party datacenters. It makes too much sense from a cost, performance and efficiency perspective, while allowing customers to easily and affordably consume value-added services like archiving, security and disaster recovery."

Therefore, with the right exchange hosting provider like the Exchange 2010 hosting an organization can totally manage the process of migration and the timing it require and outsource the rest of the services required.