As long as they keep upgrading Exchange, you’re going to have to deal with the challenges of Exchange Migration. This isn’t just a headache for your IT Department – it affects your end users directly. Regardless of the versions involved, Exchange migration has always required downtime—stopping the mailboxes during the process. At the typical migration pace of five mailboxes at a time, users can be left incommunicado for a very long time. (Unbearable, for your 24/7, always-on, hyper-connected business users.)

Put an end to migration downtime with MailShadow 2.2 Migration Tool, by Cemaphore Systems.

MailShadow’s powerful replication engine and fast failover process makes migration between any two versions of Exchange easy and seamless. With a simple point and click, the “permanent failover” feature transforms the server with the new Exchange version into the primary production server.

What’s more, MailShadow replicates MAPI transactions, not bits or files, guaranteeing the integrity of the replicated data on the new primary production server. And MailShadow accomplishes all of this without the need for downtime.

And if you aren't ready to purchase MailShadow but still need to migrate, you can even rent MailShadow just to use it for your Exchange Migration project. (We think once you use it, you won't ever want to do without it again.)

MailShadow for Centralization

MailShadow also facilitates the centralization of Exchange versions. Just as with server migration, you can use MailShadow’s permanent failover feature to bring all of your remote office Exchange servers into the data center. By centralizing all your servers, you can increase server utilization and reduce licensing, hardware, and facilities costs dramatically. MailShadow can help you centralize without missing a beat.

Benefits of Using the MailShadow Migration Tool

• Unlike the typical Exchange migration process, the MailShadow Migration Tool works in the background with no impact to users.
• MailShadow replicates from source to shadow/destination mailbox and cut-over is accomplished with a single push of a button.
• There is no need to declare migration outages or stop a mailbox, which alleviates the previous nightmares of using Move Mailbox.
• MailShadow migrates faster than current tools, handling up to 1000 concurrent mailboxes at the time.
• MailShadow checks the integrity of the data and ensures that no corruption is moved/migrated to the new mailbox. If an issue/corruption is detected in a mailbox, th corrupted item is skipped and logged.

Different Exchange Configurations? No Problem

The MailShadow Migration tool provides support for multiple Source and Recovery Exchange servers. It also supports different Exchange configurations on the Source and Recovery Exchange servers—providing a highly scalable architecture, additional configuration options, and enormous flexibility.

Scheduled or Automated Migration Synchronization

MailShadow even allows you to schedule the replication to the new version of Exchange. Scheduled synchronization eliminates bandwidth congestion to the Recovery Site during normal working hours. As a result, the migration process does not affect production time and user productivity.

User mailboxes can be automatically migrated based on a defined schedule by virtue of their membership in either AD Security groups or an Exchange Storage Group. MailShadow monitors membership in these groups and migrates the users based on the schedule you set. This significantly reduces the burden on your IT staff, simplifies large deployments and allows you to do phase and group migrations by business unit, job role, organizational groups, etc.

There’s No Better Solution on the Market

The MailShadow Migration tool provides the fastest, easiest and most transparent migration and centralization process available. Put an end to your Exchange migration headaches, and let MailShadow help you keep your users connected and productive while you upgrade and consolidate behind the scenes. There’s no quicker way to reduce the TCO of your Exchange investment.