LiveOffice Helps Streamline the Transition Process for Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive Customers

TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

LiveOffice, the number-one global provider of cloud-based email archiving, email compliance, email discovery and email continuity solutions, today announced the EHA Fast Pass migration program, a transition service developed in collaboration with Microsoft to streamline the migration process for select Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) customers to LiveOffice cloud archiving.

Following the launch of Microsoft Office 365 in June 2011, Microsoft began the process of transitioning existing EHA customers to Exchange Online Archiving—the next generation of Microsoft's cloud-based archiving solution. To assist customers in cases where their email archiving needs are unable to be met by either Exchange Online Archiving or the built-in archiving capabilities of Office 365, Microsoft has partnered with LiveOffice to offer existing EHA customers an alternative choice in the following situations:

• Customers who cannot meet the minimum technical requirements for Exchange Online Archiving.
• Customers with specific industry or governmental regulation requirements, such as FINRA or SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4.
• Customers who also need to archive other content types, such as Microsoft SharePoint, instant messages, social media and Bloomberg.

“Our primary focus is delivering the best possible customer experience during this transition to our new Exchange Online Archiving service, and by working closely with Microsoft, LiveOffice is helping us deliver upon this goal,” said Ian Hameroff, group product manager of Exchange partner marketing at Microsoft. “The EHA Fast Pass migration program is an example of how our collaboration with LiveOffice puts the customer first without risking the preservation of this business critical data our customers have entrusted us with safeguarding.”

LiveOffice designed the EHA Fast Pass migration program to ensure a smooth data migration from EHA to LiveOffice, while preserving metadata for chain of custody. In addition, LiveOffice will offer the EHA to LiveOffice migration at no cost to the customer.

“Migrating email archive data can create regulatory compliance risks and require unplanned budget, adding to the stress of moving to a new system,” said Nick Mehta, CEO, LiveOffice. “LiveOffice is pleased to partner with Microsoft to ease companies' transition from Exchange Hosted Archive in those cases when they need additional compliance and discovery functionality.”

In addition to the EHA Fast Pass migration program, LiveOffice offers EHA customers and others looking to move to Microsoft Office 365 unparalleled integration, including:

• Capturing all content sources: LiveOffice offers the only archiving solution that is fully integrated with Office 365 and captures all of its data sources, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online.
• Offering Office 365 user sync: LiveOffice uses a journal configuration that eliminates any extra steps for the user by completely integrating user synchronization and single sign-on with Office 365.
• Preserving personal archives: LiveOffice is the only service provider that captures and stores content (emails and PSTs) from Exchange Online personal archives.

Underscoring LiveOffice's commitment and proficiency with cloud-based archiving, LiveOffice has earned the Microsoft Gold Hosting and Silver Server Platform competencies and is also a Cloud Accelerate Partner. These distinctions place LiveOffice among the top one percent of Microsoft partners worldwide, and equip EHA customers with a higher level of comfort, knowing that LiveOffice delivers on its migration promise.

For more information about this new service offering, customers can either contact their LiveOffice account manager or simply complete this form to get started today.

About LiveOffice

LiveOffice is the number-one global provider of cloud-based email archiving, email compliance, email discovery and email continuity solutions, with more than 20,000 clients and a 97-percent client retention rate. Founded in 1998 and backed by leading private equity firm Summit Partners, the company has more than 200 employees with deep experience in messaging, including executives from Symantec, Microsoft and Cisco. For more information, call 800.374.2032 or visit www.liveoffice.com. Visit the LiveOffice Blog at http://blog.liveoffice.com or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/liveoffice.