Winzero Offers Expertise to Assist with Windows Server Migrations

Winzero not only offers server migration software but engages with customers by offering expert advice.

Winzero Technologies announced today a unique service offering, which will accelerate the deployment of Microsoft Windows Server platform replacements, upgrades and consolidations. This service offering will provide Winzero customers with both Winzero's ServerMigrator software and Winzero's consulting expertise to simplify server migration and server consolidation projects.

Winzero ServerMigrator is the only online Windows data and server security migration product that enables organizations to seamlessly automate the migration of Windows server users, passwords, local groups, files, folders, shares, permissions and security.

With the addition of expert advice from Winzero consultants to decide what type of migration method is best for an organization, from planning to step by step use of winzero serverMigrator, will allow customers to perform server migration and server consolidation projects with greater ease and reduced risks.

"Mission critical server migrations involve a lot more than just copying data,” said Akos Sandor, VP of Microsoft Solutions, Winzero Technologies. “Migrating data is the easy part. Maintaining access to that data during the migration and maintaining correct permissions to the migrated data are the challenges at the heart of every successful server migration project. By offering mission critical extend support and best-in-class software is the need that Winzero ServerMigrator and Winzero Virtual Consulting services addresses."

When migrating data from one server to another, administrators simply focus on moving the files and folders. The Winzero server migration solution includes moving all data sets related to the files and folders to ensure the target server has an exact copy of the functional environment of the source server. That is why ServerMigrator provides a comprehensive migration solution including the copying of: files and folders along with their NTFS permissions settings, shares and share permissions, local users, with properties and passwords, and local groups with additional built-in migration tools to address all server migration scenarios from member servers, domain controllers, network attached storage devices and unconnected servers (NCS Migration).

"Windows file Servers provide companies with high data availability, easy browser-based access and fast, simple integration into existing infrastructure," said JP Hann, Marketing Director, Winzero Technologies. "Winzero ServerMigrator enables customers to migrate existing data off end-of-lease, and old failing servers onto new Windows servers without disruption and downtime. We believe that in combination, Winzero ServerMigrator software and our Virtual Mission Critical Consulting Services will remove the learning-curve barriers and help organizations reduce time, costs and effort required for their server migration projects."

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for Winzero ServerMigrator starts at $98 USD per server, with volume discounts available.

Pricing for Extended Virtual Mission Critical Support is available as prepaid drawdown hours starting at just $74.00/hr USD and used in 15 minute increments.

For more information and to download an evaluation version of ServerMigrator visit the Winzero website.

About Winzero
Winzero Technologies is a leading provider of Microsoft Windows migration and management software worldwide enabling customers to reduce repetitive administration, migration and ongoing day to day Windows management while benefitting from reduced risk and improved operational costs.

Media Contact:
JP Hann, Director of Marketing
Winzero Technologies
jphann@winzero.ca

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Winzero Offers Tools, Services And Best Practices for Windows Domain Migration

Software Solutions, Expert Advice and Step by-Step Process to Ensure a Seamless Domain Migrations

Ottawa, CDN. – Aug 4, 2008 – In a recent survey of IT executives and managers, Winzero Research analyst Joel Martin reported that 70 percent of the respondents that were involved in company mergers, acquisitions or company reorganizations had never completed or were not actively involved with a domain migration. While reducing costs was named as a primary motivating factor, Winzero has observed that the lack of guidelines or tools was a major issue. Winzero offers best practices and provides professional services and software tools that enables a seamless transparent domain migratione without disruption to the end-user.

“Because domain migration projects are complex,” said Akos Sandor, vice president of Microsoft Enterprise Solutions, “One way to solve this complexity of not knowing where to begin, Winzero not only offers domain migration tools, but engages with the customer by offering expert advice, a step by step process and professional services, either virtual or onsite that works within their budget. There is a genuine need for the type of knowledge that Winzero provides and the solutions that Winzero offers.”

Winzero offers three solutions for Windows domain migration projects:

Winzero Expert Advice
The Winzero Windows Domain Migration blog and the "19 Steps to Domain Migration" is available free of charge. The Domain Migration Blog is dynamic and ongoing that provides valuable advice from a variety of domain migration experts, to guide and identify critical challenges for a sucessful domain migration project. Expert advice from Winzero consultants helps to decide what type of migration method is best for an organization, and how to plan and execute the migration. The Migration blog also illustrates step by step how Winzero solutions integrate in managing and performing a domain migration project with greater ease and reduced risks.

Winzero Enterprise Toolbox - the software solution
As a compliment to the expert advice, Winzero has a number of tools to ease the pain of domain migration projects in a single consolidated software package - Enterprise Toolbox. The latest version of Enterprise toolbox includes all Winzero tools to perform each step of the migration of moving critical domain objects with minimal downtime as well as ongoing assessment and validation tools.

Winzero Virtual or Onsite Professional services
“Everyone is looking for ways to cut costs, by combining the software solutions required and professional services, is one of the easiest ways to do that,” said JP Hann, director of marketing at Winzero. “The catch is making sure you don't accidentally cut access because of planning mistakes or execution problems. The bottom line is to help companies achieve success in their migration efforts. Winzero domain migration expertise, along with Winzero software and Virtual or onsite professional services, can make the difference.”

Winzero Virtual Domain Migration
The Winzero Virtual Domain Migration offering includes Winzero Enterprise Toolbox and a virtual consultant from start to finish for any domain migration, domain reconfiguration or domain consolidation project. Customers can gain access to the expertise of our consultants, software and product specialists without the cost associated with an onsite consultants.

Winzero Onsite Domain Migration
Winzero provides experts anywhere in North America or Europe. Migration experts well versed in the use of Winzero products as well as in the Microsoft infrastructure. Experts who assist your team with a variety of projects—including Active Directory and Exchange migration to ensure Winzero products work effectively in your particular environment.

For more information, visit www.winzero.ca

About Winzero
Winzero Technologies is a leading provider of Microsoft Windows management software worldwide enabling customers to centralize and reduce repetitive administration, migration and ongoing day to day Windows management while benefitting from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies.

Media Contact:
JP Hann, Director of Marketing
Winzero Technologies
jphann@winzero.ca

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Winzero Develops First Windows 64 bit Password Copy Solution

First solution to accelerate Microsoft Windows 64 bit server and domain migrations

With the development of a 64 bit password copy solution, Winzero Technologies will be the first software provider to offer a complete software solution set to migrate customers to Microsoft Windows 64 bit server platforms. Many businesses are considering moving to Microsoft 64 bit platforms such as Microsoft Server 2008 and Microsoft Server 2003 from their current 32 bit platform. Winzero will integrate the new 64bit solution set into tools designed to migrate Windows servers and domains.

Winzero’s comprehensive set of software solutions will make it possible to migrate servers and domains for organizations wishing to transition off Microsoft 32 bit platforms in one operation. With support for selective migrations, allowing for co-existence of multiple platforms, businesses will be able migrate server or domain accounts with passwords incrementally into Windows 64 bit servers as they transition away Windows 32 bit.

“As customers begin to adopt Windows 64 bit Servers, we want them to know that Winzero offers the best of breed migration tools and the technical expertise they need to successfully migrate, cost-effectively, reducing downtime and ensuring ready access to their new 64 bit platforms” said Akos Sandor, chief technology officer, Winzero Technologies.

Availability
Winzero will add the new 64 bit password copy solution as a significant upgrade to their existing software line: DomainReconfigure, PasswordCopy and ServerMigrator, which include password migration options, starting June 30, 2008 to reduce security risks and ensure that a Windows server or domain migration is transparent to end-users.

PasswordCopy, ServerMigrator and DomainReconfigure with the 64 bit password copy feature will be available for purchase starting June 30th 2008 directly from Winzero or through Winzero's global resellers’ network.

About Winzero
Winzero Technologies is a leading provider of Microsoft Windows management software worldwide enabling customers to centralize and reduce repetitive administration, migration and ongoing day to day Windows management while benefitting from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies.

For more information, visit www.winzero.ca/VirtualConsultant.htm

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Media Contact:
JP Hann, Director of Marketing
Winzero Technologies
jphann@winzero.ca

Winzero Announces A New Spin On Software As A Service

Winzero Virtual Consultant Expands the Mold of Traditional Software Support and Consulting Services


Ottawa, Canada – June 05, 2008 -- Winzero Technologies, a leading developer of Microsoft Windows server migration software, today announced The Winzero Virtual Consultant, a service that provides access to a product consultant who can be engaged quickly and easily to assist with a wide variety of mission critical professional services and extend support tasks.

The virtual Consultant service is available using WebEx technology for remote desktop control - where the consultant can remotely see and act on the same screen using Winzero software products in real-time to efficiently perform domain migration, server migration projects or offer mission critical extended support. Whatever the need, the Virtual Consultant can walk the customer through it or just get the job done! Winzero customers gain access to the expertise of our consultants, software and product specialists without the cost associated with an onsite consultant.

"Our customers asked us to expand the mold of 'one-size-fits-all' reactive support and Professional Services offerings, to help them meet the needs of increasingly diverse, global and mission-critical IT projects," said Akos Sandor, Winzero VP of Microsoft Solutions. "Winzero listened and acted. Winzero Virtual Consultant delivers important new features and capabilities that make it easier to get the right support or consulting package at the right time in the right way. Virtual Consultant is an important step forward in enabling our customers to tap into a service delivery capability that our customers needed."

Virtual Consultant offerings include:

Winzero Virtual Domain Migration
The Winzero Virtual Domain Migration includes both the Winzero software and a virtual consultant from start to finish for any domain migration, domain reconfiguration or domain consolidation project of one thousand user accounts or less.
This is service available anywhere in the world where access to the internet provides reasonable bandwidth and connectivity.

Winzero Virtual Server Migration
Virtual Server Migration is a professional service offering that provides server data migration between two servers. No software is required to be purchased. The Winzero Virtual Consultant will perform the task using our WebEx Service and the Winzero ServerMigrator software from start to finish.

Winzero Virtual Extended Support
Winzero Virtual Extended Support is a fast and secure on-demand service for mission critical project support for customers using Winzero software anywhere in the world.

The Virtual Consultant portfolio gives customers the flexibility to select the right Virtual Consultant package for their level of technical expertise and the needs of their organization.

"I believe this is a positive step for Winzero and its customers. The increasing costs of doing business combined with a soft economy makes it more important than ever for IT to consider cost-effective solutions like Virtual Consultant," says JP Hann, Winzero Director of Marketing. "Our customers can reap benefits from increased IT resources, productivity, and lower project costs. At Winzero, we strive to drive down the costs and complexity of domain or server migration IT services, so that businesses can be more productive."

Winzero Virtual Consultant is available immediately to corporate and small to medium-size enterprises and public organizations with flexible options.

About Winzero
Winzero Technologies is a leading provider of Microsoft Windows management software worldwide enabling customers to centralize and reduce repetitive administration, migration and ongoing day to day Windows management while benefitting from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies.

For more information, visit www.winzero.ca/VirtualConsultant.htm

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Media Contact:
JP Hann, Director of Marketing
Winzero Technologies
jphann@winzero.ca

Winzero ServerMigrator Removes the Risk of Account Duplication

"Winzero establishes new standards for Windows server migration and sever consolidation"

Ottawa, Canada – April 17, 2008 -- Winzero Technologies, a leading developer of Microsoft Windows server migration software, today announced ServerMigrator 2007 v5.09 with support for local account conversion and new consolidation features enabling users to easily migrate or consolidate Windows file servers, without account duplication.

With the growing need to migrate or consolidate massive amounts of server data, IT departments have been turning to large specialized storage systems and server virtualization. ServerMigrator 2007 makes it easy to migrating data from many sources and consolidate data storage without time-consuming and technically cumbersome processes.

"The newly added features in the latest release of ServerMigrator 2007, automates the task of consolidating servers without losing security permissions by removing the risk of duplicate local server accounts. Since its release last year, customers have been asking for a version that specifically allows them to identify and rename local server accounts or convert local server accounts to domain accounts before moving server data to larger storage devices ." said Akos Sandor, VP of Microsoft Enterprise Solutions at Winzero.

"Today, we are pleased to announce ServerMigrator 2007 v5.09 which addresses this need and is a result of custom development by Winzero for GlaxoSmithKline and Reuters NYC." said JP Hann, Marketing Director at Winzero. "By combining customer requests and Winzero development efforts, we now provide a solution to our customers that makes data consolidation painless without the risk of account duplication."

New ServerMigrator features allow administrators to:
- Analyze and report duplicate server accounts;
- Rename or merge duplicate server accounts;
- Convert local server accounts to domain accounts;
- Maintain security after rename or conversion process;
- Ensure that the migration is transparent to end users.

About Winzero
Winzero Technologies is a leading provider of Microsoft Windows management software worldwide enabling customers to centralize and reduce repetitive administration, migration and ongoing day to day Windows management while benefitting from reduced risk and improved operational efficiencies.

For more information, please visit www.winzero.ca.

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Media Contact:
JP Hann, Director of Marketing
Winzero Technologies
jphann@winzero.ca