MigrationWiz - Email Migrations - FAQ – Support Latam

What Items are Migrated?
Encrypted Email: For all Source email systems, any email sent or received using third-party encryption plugins will not migrate using MigrationWiz. This email will need to be decrypted before it can be migrated.

Migration between different domain suffixes: You may migrate data between email accounts that have different domain suffixes.

Let's say the Source email address is user@example1.com, and the Destination email address is user@example2.com. When the data is migrated, all of the data is carried over as is, with user@example1.com. Note that we do not perform email address conversions.

After migration, ensure user@example1.com is a secondary email address for repliability purposes.

Out of Office Messages: There are two ways to set Out Of Office messages in OWA. You can set an Out of Office for a user as an admin using MailTips, or you can set it as the user in the user's settings.

Neither of these are migrated with MigrationWiz, because they are profile settings and not mailbox content.

Folder Permissions: Folder permissions are migrated using the following approach:

First, MigrationWiz will try to match the source SMTP email address to the destination SMTP email address.
Next, MigrationWiz will try to match the source display name to the destination display name.
Note: If more than one match is found on the destination display name, a failure will occur and the permissions will not be assigned to that particular UserID.
Important: MigrationWiz migrates folder permissions but not delegate/sharing permissions, which means that "Send As" and "Send On Behalf Of" permissions are not migrated.

Pre-existing items: Email that already exists in a Destination mailbox will not be changed or affected in any way during the migration process. MigrationWiz will not delete, change, or move any items that exist in the Destination mailbox prior to running a migration.

S/MIME Email: MigrationWiz can migrate S/MIME digitally-signed messages with or without encryption.

Mailbox Size
There is a relationship between mailbox size and data transferred but they can be quite different and cannot be compared directly.The size statistics shown on the mailbox statistics page indicates the amount of data transferred over the wire. This typically differs from your mailbox size (as reported by your Source email system) for different reasons including:

Size calculation: Your Source email system will calculate and report mailbox sizes using proprietary formulas/methods.
Content conversion: The same data may be encoded using different formats at the Destination (i.e., plain text + HTML MIME parts).
Protocol overhead: Data as read from the Source will often include protocol data such as headers, flags, IDs, etc.
Data encryption: Unless you configure your connection to use non-SSL endpoints, all data will be encrypted.
Data compression: Data may be compressed or decompressed during storage or transmission.
Data encoding: Many communication protocols will encode data (like Base64 encoding, SOAP encapsulation).
Also, some items may not have been migrated (details),or may have failed to migrate (up to the error count specified on your project).

If you are trying to compare mailbox sizes because you are looking for missing items, click here.

Add Mailbox to Existing Project
Sign in to your MigrationWiz account.
If you do not see your projects listed, click on the Projects section.
Click on the name of your Project in the list.
Click on the Add button.

Sent Items migrated to Wrong Location
This article applies to mailboxes whose Source "Sent Items" folder was successfully migrated, but whose location at the Destination is different from the expected one.

The IMAP protocol only identifies the "Inbox" folder as a system folder. There is no clear identification of other system folders such as "Sent Items", "Deleted Items", etc.

For example, a "Sent Items" folder may be labeled as “Sent Items”, “My Sent Items”, “Sent”, “Sent emails”, “Courrier Envoye”, ”Sendte emails”, etc. There is no reliable way for us detect if a specific folder is a Sent Items folder. For this reason, we map folders by name.

However, we support folder remapping as an advanced feature. To implement specific folder mappings:

Go to Advanced Options. To enter Advanced Options within the new MigrationWiz interface, select your project name, then click on Edit Project at the top left, then click on Advanced Options at the bottom right.
Within the Support Options section, specify the following:
FolderMapping="^SourceFolder->DestinationFolder"

Example: FolderMapping="^My Sent Emails->Sent Items"

3. Click on Save Options.

Click on Save Project.
Note: The expressions on the left and the right are regular expressions.

Migrating Permissions
Folder permissions are migrated using the following approach:

Merging Mailboxes
If you intend to merge several email accounts that you have been managing separately into a single email account, you will be able to do it via MigrationWiz, by migrating all Source mailboxes at the Destination where they will be mixed. You will need to purchase as many licenses as Source mailboxes you want to merge.

You will need to perform the following steps:

Create a Project, and add a mailbox to migrate from the first Source mailbox to the single Destination mailbox.
Submit the migration from the first mailbox to the Destination mailbox.
Wait until the migration has completed.
Add a mailbox to migrate from the second mailbox to the same Destination one.
Open Advanced Options.
Under Support, checkmark the Do not search destination for duplicates button.
Submit to migrate from the second mailbox to the single Destination mailbox.
Wait for completion.
If you have more than two accounts, repeat Steps 4 through 8.
Notes:

This will require two or more licenses (one for each Source mailbox).
If you have duplicate email messages across Source mailboxes, you will encounter duplicate ones at the Destination mailbox.
You can also migrate the Source mailboxes into individual subfolders at the Destination

Migrate Mailbox to Single Subfolder
It is possible to migrate a Source mailbox into a single subfolder of a Destination mailbox, but contact and calendar folders will need to reside under the root contacts and calendar folders.

These folder mapping support options ensure the folders are created at the correct location:

First:

FolderMapping="^(?!Calendar$|Calendar/|Contacts$|Contacts/)->DestinationFolder/"

Second:

FolderMapping="^((Calendar)([/]?)|(Contacts)([/]?))->$2$4/DestinationFolder$3$5"

Notes:

The support options above both need to be added in the Advanced Options for your project or for individual mailboxes.

To add for a single mailbox, click on the pencil icon to the far right side of the email address that you wish to edit.

Replace "DestinationFolder" with the name of the folder you want to use at the Destination.

Important: The folder mapping support options listed above must be added in the order shown. If they are not added in this order, some contents of the migrating mailbox may become invisible and inaccessible on the destination

The spelling of both 'Calendar' and 'Contacts' must also reflect the language of the folder name at the Destination mailbox, e.g., 'Calendar' will be 'Calendrier' in French and 'Contacts' will 'Contactpersonen' in Dutch.

Migrating Suggested Contacts and Autocomplete Lists
It is important to understand the difference between Autocomplete Lists and Suggested Contacts.

Autocomplete Lists

When email addresses are typed in, Outlook remembers them and can offer autocompletion when adding recipients to a new email message. The Autocomplete List stores email addresses in a server-side hidden file. Therefore, those contacts remain accessible when a user has multiple computers running Outlook 2010 or later.

Note: If you are using the DeploymentPro product to automate the configuration of Outlook profiles, Autocomplete Lists will be migrated over to the new profile, as part of the process. The DeploymentPro Guide provides more information on the steps to follow to run DeploymentPro projects. If you are using DeploymentPro, you will not have to manually migrate these.

Suggested Contacts

Suggested Contacts is a special contact folder introduced with Exchange 2010 and was removed in Exchange 2013. This folder creates contacts for each new address a user sends email to.

Summary

This table shows which type of contacts are supported by Outlook/Exchange, depending on the version.

Type

2010

2013

Autocomplete List (mailbox data)

Suggested Contacts

Autocomplete Lists:
From Exchange Server 2003 / 2007 (.Nk2 file): MigrationWiz will not migrate these. This process must be done manually.
From Exchange Server 2010 / 2013 / 2016 (server-side file): MigrationWiz will not migrate these. The DeploymentPro product will migrate these. If you are not using DeploymentPro, the process must be completed manually.
Suggested Contacts:
From Exchange Server 2003 / 2007 / 2013 / 2016: Not applicable.
From Exchange Server 2010: Will be migrated by MigrationWiz.
Note: Autocomplete Lists and Suggested Contacts cannot be migrated if the Source Exchange server is unavailable.

Bulk Imports
MigrationWiz allows you to bulk import mailboxes into the system.

NOTE: For Lotus Notes, see the instructions on this page.

To import one or more mailboxes:

Sign in to your MigrationWiz account.
Select the Project for which you want to perform the bulk import.
Click on Add.
Click on Bulk Add.
Follow the instructions on the page.

The sample CSV file looks like this:

Source Email, Source Login Name,Source Password,Destination Email, Destination Login Name,Destination Password,Flags

Columns that are allowed within the import file:

Column

Description

Source Email

Primary SMTP email address of the Source mailbox. This column is required.

Source Login Name

The user name used to access the Source mailbox. This column is required only if the administrative credentials are not specified. If administrative credentials are specified, this column is ignored.

Source Password

The password used to access the Source mailbox. This column is required only if administrative credentials are not specified. If administrative credentials are specified, this column is ignored.

Destination Email

Primary SMTP email address of the Destination mailbox. This column is required.

Destination Login Name

The user name used to access the Destination mailbox. This column is required only if administrative credentials are not specified. If administrative credentials are specified, this column is ignored.

Destination Password

The password used to access the Destination mailbox. This column is required only if administrative credentials are not specified. If administrative credentials are specified, this column is ignored.

Flags

Optional flags to apply to the mailbox. This column is optional.

Mailbox Flags

This table provides a list of possible flags that may be set. Specifying a flag value of zero (0) will not enable any flags.

Column

Description

No flags are set.

Send an email to the administrator (you) when migration is complete.

Send an email to the administrator (you) if the migration fails.

Send an email to the Source mailbox when migration is complete

Send an email to the Source mailbox if the migration fails

Send an email to the Destination mailbox when migration is complete

Send an email to the Destination mailbox if the migration fails

192

Request the user name and password from the Source mailbox

768

Request the user name and password from the Destination mailbox

1024

Do not search Destination for duplicates

2048

Remigrate previously successful items

4096

Do not migrate calendars.

8192

Do not migrate contacts.

16384

Do not migrate mail.

262144

Do not migrate journals.

524288

Do not migrate notes.

1048576

Do not migrate tasks.

2097152

Remigrate previously failed items.

4194304

Do not retry errors.

8388608

Log subjects of failed items

Add the flag values together to enable multiple items. For example, to enable the following:

Send an email to the administrator (you) when migration is complete;
Send an email to the administrator (you) if the migration fails; and
Remigrate previously failed items
...you would calculate the flag as 1 + 2 + 2097152 = 2097155.

Finding Large Items in Gmail
It is possible that the size item limit on the Destination is lower than the Source. This will result in migration failures for those items that are larger than the limit on the Destination.

Before you start a migration, it is possible to identify the items that will fail to migrate by doing a mailbox search for large items on the Source.

Notes:

This is an end user approach, which requires each end user to perform these steps.
This article includes instructions for Outlook clients and G Suite webmail clients. Refer to the option that matches your client.
Option 1: Using Outlook Client

Create a new search folder.
Note: More information on how to create a search folder can be found here.
In the resulting drop-down list, scroll down and select Large mail, and click on Choose...

Change the number to the item size limit on the Destination (e.g., 25000), and click OK twice.
You will now have a new folder, under Search Folders, that will display all the emails that are larger than the selected size.

Option 2: Using G Suite webmail client

Access the G Suite Gmail website.
On the Search box, type the item size limit on the Destination (e.g., 25000000) and click on the search icon.
Note: The value entered in the search box must be in Bytes.

Bulk Name Change
Domain Name
There are two ways you can bulk update the domain name in the email addresses of migration mailboxes:

You can use the Change Domains button in MigrationWiz
You can download and run the Change-MW_ExportAddresses or Change-MW_ImportAddresses PowerShell scripts.
Why might it be necessary to change the Source or Destination address of all your Users on a MigrationWiz Project?

If you are performing a tenant to tenant migration while keeping the same domain name, and you started the migration using the vanity domain on the Source addresses, we recommend using .onmicrosoft.com addresses for both Source and Destination addresses to avoid this.
If you just ran Autodiscover on MigrationWiz to discover all your Source mailboxes, and you are migrating into a different Destination email domain.
These examples are two among others that might make it necessary to have to change those addresses.

Use the Change Domains button

MigrationWiz now provides the option of doing a bulk update of email addresses on both the Source and Destination computers, where the change is of the address domain. The image below shows the Change Domains button.

When you click on the Change Domains button, the following box opens to allow you to bulk change the domain associated with mailboxes on the Source or Destination.

Bulk Name Change – All Addresses
Use the BitTitan SDK PowerShell script

If the BitTitan SDK is not installed on your computer, the first step will be to download and install it. Our SDK will include the PowerShell and the Management Console modules.

For more information: Read the How do I install the BitTitan SDK? article.
Download the PowerShell script(s) required to make the bulk changes:
The Change-MW_ImportAddresses script changes all Destination addresses
The Change-MW_ExportAddresses script changes all Source addresses.
Both scripts make changes based on a CSV file, that needs two columns, as shown below:
It's important that you name column A as "UserPrincipalName" and column B as "NewUPN", because those are the names hard-coded in the script.
List all the current addresses in column A.
List all the new addresses, with the new domain name, in column B.

Note: You can obtain those addresses by exporting them via PowerShell when connected to the Source or Destination system (i.e., via the On-Premises Exchange or the Exchange Online PowerShell).
Follow these steps to run the PowerShell scripts:

Once you run the script, the first thing it will do is prompt you to enter your MigrationWiz credentials as shown below.
After entering your credentials, the script will prompt you to enter the MigrationWiz project name, and the location of your CSV file.
Once all the data is inserted, the script runs, and changes all the Source or Destination addresses, as defined in the CSV file.

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