MessageOps Office 365 Exchange Migrator is currently in Beta and available to everyone as a free download.

Download MessageOps Exchange Migrator

We’ve just released a free utility which simply backs up your Communicator contacts and then allows you to restore them to Lync.

MessageOps Communicator Contact Migrator

We’ve got a couple other transition related utilities in the works so keep an eye on our Transition Center.

If you are an existing BPOS customer that needs help with your transition, please Contact Us and we’ll be glad to help.

By creating rules based on the email address the message was sent to or keywords in the subject or body, a single mailbox can process messages for multiple SharePoint document libraries.  SharePoint bridge copies the entire message to SharePoint, where it’s indexed and search-able.  Additionally it creates fields in the document library for metadata like Subject, Senders, Recipients, TimeStamps, which allow you easily view, sort and filter the messages in SharePoint.

The application is currently in Beta, and free for everyone to try.  Once released it will be free to all MessageOps clients.  Non MessageOps clients can purchase the application for a one time fee.

The trial version is currently available for download.  You can get all the details at:

MessageOps SharePoint Bridge – Office 365 Edition

We are most excited about the migration checklist.  It not only guides you through the migration processes but also goes into some details which we feel the Microsoft documentation is lacking, such as:

• How to deploy the required Office 365 updates through Group Policy
• How to deploy Lync through Group Policy
• How to remove the Sign In Client from all your computers via Group Policy

If you need help with your transition, we are here to help, just Contact Us to get started.

Visit the MessageOps BPOS to Office 365 Transition Center

Second, we are now offer paid support offerings for P1 Plan and E Plan customers.  If you are an E Plan client and have set MessageOps as the Partner on your account, you probably already know that ongoing support is offered at no charge.  We are now pleased to offer P1 Plan customers support as well as offer paid support to E Plan clients who are not able to set MessageOps as the Partner on their account.  You can read more about these offerings on the our Services Page.

You can read all about at on the Office 365 Client Updater page.

If your organization is currently on BPOS and you would like assistance with the transition to Office 365, please let us know.  We offer free BPOS to Office 365 migration assistance for our clients.  Contact us at info@messageops.com for more details.

In addition to creating a new profile it also attaches any PSTs they previously had attached to their old profile, to the new profile.

It’s free to everyone at config365.com.  For more information, see the Config 365 Page.

$o365cred=get-credential
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $o365cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $session

After you are connected, you must run the following command to give Alan full access to Bob’s mailbox:

Add-MailboxPermission -identity Bob@domain.com -user Alan@domain.com -AccessRights FullAccess

If you wanted to give Alan full access to all mailboxes in your environment you would run:

Get-Mailbox | Add-mailboxpermission -user Alan@domain.com -AccessRights FullAccess

• Address Rewriting.  Messages imported from the PST are reply-able once they have been copied to Office 365.
• Resume and Duplicate Detection.  If the transfer is interrupted, the application will quickly pick up where it left off, without creating duplicates.
• Ability to import PST data into the user’s mailbox or archive.

Anyone who has tried to use Outlook to import their data into the Office 365 archive knows it’s a slow, error prone, process.  With MessageOps PST importer, the import happens in the background allowing the user to continue using Outlook while the import is taking place.  You can also queue up multiple PST files for import.

At this time MessageOps PST importer is only available to MessageOps clients.

Stayed tuned for more Office 365 PST Tools from MessageOps!

Before you can use the command you’ll need to download and install the latest version of the Microsoft Online Migration Tools.  Then open the Migration Command Shell and run the following lines.

$creds = get-credential

$users = get-msonlineuser -enabled -resultsize 20000 -Credential $creds

$users | foreach {Set-MSOnlineUserPasswordNeverExpire -Identity $_.Identity -PasswordNeverExpire $True -Credential $creds}

Note that after the first line, you’ll be prompted for your BPOS Admin credentials.  The last command should be run on a single line.

If you create new users after the script is run, you’ll need to either re-run the script, or use the Set-MSOnlineUserPassword on a one off basis to