Case Study: University of Nebraska Omaha achieves on-schedule, zero-disruption migration to Office 365 with Quest's Migrator for Notes to Exchange

University Migrates Email With No Disruption

The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), a metropolitan university serving nearly 15,000 students, needed to migrate 4,200 users and 2,400 mailboxes from IBM Notes to Office 365 on a tight “big bang” timeline over spring break to avoid disrupting classes and campus activities. Midway through the eight‑month project the university discovered its existing migration tool couldn’t meet required throughput and would have forced the costly setup of roughly 1,000 additional migration workstations to hit the deadline.

UNO switched to Migrator for Notes to Exchange, which delivered dramatically higher throughput (over 1 GB/hour per workstation versus 11–15 MB/hour previously), allowing the team to complete the migration using about 10 workstations within the scheduled window. The move avoided the expense and effort of extra workstations, caused no disruption to users or campus events, and earned strong positive feedback — with Quest Professional Services providing timely setup and support.

University Of Nebraska Omaha

Jay Killion

Project Manager and Business Analysis