AMSTERDAM: New email archive migration options allow organizations to speed up their move to cloud-delivered email services.
Microsoft has announced a public preview of Office 365 Import Service, a new offering that allows organizations to quickly import their Personal Storage Table (PST) files into Exchange Online, the company’s cloud-based hosted email platform. PST is a file format used by Microsoft to store email messages, tasks, calendar events and other items.
Two years ago, Microsoft released a PST Capture Tool that allows organizations to collect, consolidate and ultimately upload their PST data directly into corresponding Exchange Online mailboxes. However, customers with years’ worth of email archives faced a long wait for their data to arrive on the cloud, according to Danny Popper, program manager for the Office 365 Information Protection Team.
“We have consistently been approached by customers and partners asking for help with migrations that could easily take multiple years to complete, because of the time required to move data across the wire,” Popper wrote in a blog post.
To remedy this, Office 365 Import Service offers two new options.
