Foster Swift

Customer Profile
For over a century, Michigan’s leading corporations, individuals and families have relied on Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith (www.fosterswift.com). The firm has earned a reputation for outstanding client service, for a results-minded attitude and for across-the-board legal excellence.

Business Situation
Foster Swift needed to transition their 275 user accounts, email, contacts, and calendars from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.  To avoid downtime for their users, they needed to schedule these migrations to run unattended late at night and provide automated communications to end-users..

Solution
Foster Swift chose Logicalis, a Binary Tree Premier Partner and Microsoft Gold Partner, to conduct the messaging migration project with Binary Tree's E2E Complete software.

Benefits

• Migrated 275 email accounts without impacting user productivity
• Simple user interface allowed IT Administrator to pre-schedule migrations for late night processing
• Throughput for migration jobs was measured at 14.4 Gb per hour
• Users found with corrupt items in mailboxes were identified and flagged by toolset so migration processing continued automatically
• Legacy Exchange servers were made available sooner to be re-provisioned for other IT capabilities

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