Migration from one email system to another may sound simple while deciding but it actually involves meticulous efforts. Email systems are complex, layered applications and important user data can easily be altered, tangled or completely left behind without careful planning and an understanding of all the elements involved in the migration.
Email migration involves many tasks such as data migration, training, change management, hardware purchases, and licensing. However, data migration is the premier and most important aspect and here the focus remains on the same. For a proficient email data migration, take a tour of all factors before jumping in the actual migration process:
List the data to be migrated.
Match the list with migration software products.
Evaluate and select the best suited migration software.
Perform a demo migration test and seek feedback.
Finally perform the complete migration.
Here the case can be seen with the most common migration situation, i.e. migration from Lotus Notes to Outlook. A common delusion is that you can connect your Lotus Domino server to your new Exchange server using the new server's migration connector, let the connector perform the user account migration, and then your new server will have all of your user's migrated data.
