Zimbra Migration Tool
Looking for an alternative to Zimbra, time to move away and migrate your Zimbra infrastructure to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace?
Zimbra Migration Tool
Zimbra is a popular open source and collaborative email service, used by many small, and medium-sized businesses, universities and non profit organizations.
As the needs and requirements of organizations change, Administrators look for alternatives to migrate to other suitable services such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
Zimbra Migration Tool for Microsoft 365
Your business requirements are becoming more complex and you need to move away. Easily Migrate from Zimbra to Microsoft 365 mailboxes or archives.
Zimbra Migration Tool for Google Workspace
You are ready to move to Google Workspace and need a Zimbra Migration tool?
Migrate your mailboxes From Zimbra to Google Workspace with Cloudiway platform.
Administrative level solution :
Migrate your users from a central interface.
Self service mode:
You cannot create an administrator account that have access to all mailboxes?
Let the users migrate themselves.
Scalability:
- Migrate dozens of mailboxes in parallal.
- Migrate by batches
- Run Delta passes
Zimbra Migration Tool
What’s migrated:
- Mails
- Contacts
- Calendars
- Secondary Calendars
- Folders
- Permissions
Frequently
Asked Questions
What is the Zimbra Migration Tool and why is it necessary?
Zimbra Migration Tool is a product for copying youre emails from one server or system to another. It’s often necessary when a company switches email platforms or needs to consolidate servers for cost-effectiveness, better performance, or improved user experience.
How does the Zimbra Migration Tool work?
Email migration typically involves exporting the data from the source email system (The Zimbra server), converting it into a format compatible with the destination system (such as Google Workspace or Microsoft 365), and then importing it into the new system.
What are the typical challenges faced during email migration?
Email migration can present challenges like data loss, downtime, compatibility issues, and the task of reconfiguring user settings. It requires careful planning and execution to minimize these potential issues.
How can I ensure that my data is secure during an email migration?
Data security during migration can be ensured by using secure protocols, encrypting data during transmission, and choosing a trusted and reliable migration service.
What types of data can be migrated during an email migration?
emails, contacts, calendars, , folders are migrated
How long does an email migration typically take?
The duration of an email migration depends on several factors including the amount of data to be migrated, the speed of the network, and the performance of the source and destination servers.
Can I access my emails during the email migration process?
Yes, the migration is a copy of source content to target content. Access to the source is readonly, therefore it remains available and untouched during the migration.
What are the steps to migrate from Zimbra to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace?
The most important part is to setup the administrative account in Zimbra that has access to all mailboxes and configure the access to the zimbra administrative Soap apis.
Also important, your company firewall needs to be configured to allow inbound connexion from the Cloudiway platform.
How can I ensure minimal downtime during an email migration?
Downtime can be minimized during an email migration by careful planning, performing a test migration beforehand, scheduling the migration during off-peak hours, and using reliable migration tools or services.
Do I need to backup data before an email migration?
No, Cloudiway requires a readonly access and does not make any modification or deletions to the source content.
What People Says
We have been working with Microsoft 365 for more than 10 years. We have needed to perform Cloud-to-Cloud migrations on many occasions. Cloudiway has always been the perfect partner providing a very valuable product and support”
Víctor M. Salanova
Dirección en Centria TecnologíaAll was achieved 24h after the start, 1st time in my career after more than 10 years of migration. Cloudiway takes care of everything, Mail/shared mailboxes/Ressources/Teams/OneDrive, etc. You need one hour of consulting services to be sure everything is well set up before starting, but in a migration budget, this hour is nothing regarding the time you earn after in support issues…
Didier Delens
IT Manager at EyeD PharmaThe Cloudiway Expert was fantastic to work with, very knowledgeable and helpful
Conrad Murray
Director and Messaging Architect at Nero BlancoMicrosoft Teams usage continues to grow worldwide, and migration between different teams or from different collaboration systems can be a requirement. With years of experience and a new interface, Cloudiway offers a solution to MSPs and IT Professionals.
Mike Ammerlaan
Director of Microsoft 365 Ecosystem marketing at Microsoft CorpThe choice of the Cloudiway solution was a guarantee of success given the experience acquired over many years and the need to migrate Teams that only Cloudiway was able to offer on the market at the time. Experience has shown that Cloudiway is the ideal partner.