Each of Topflight's ten locations were already connected via VPNs, and MCS was familiar enough with their environment to accurately gauge what solutions would work. MCS began researching this project right away. Topflight’s current closed email system did not have an export feature, so Doug Kinzinger, the MCS Network Engineer assigned to the migration knew he’d have his work cut out for him.

“The developers of Topflight’s proprietary email system offered no support at first, suggesting a fee of $800 eventually to migrate the data.  I said ‘no thanks’ to this and found my own way to transfer their messages.”, Doug stated

Doug found a disabled feature in their system and was able to enable IMAP support.  With this, he was able to export each user's email data.

“IMAP support is pretty common, but their software had it disabled, almost as if they implemented it but never finished developing the feature. I was able to turn it on and pull their emails into Exchange.”

Additionally, MCS deployed GFI’s FAXmaker software for consolidated, Exchange-based faxing.  Easily receiving over a hundred faxes a day with all of their locations, Topflight has improved efficiency and reduced paper usage.  Also, Topflight has eliminated the need and additional expense for dedicated fax lines at each facility.  This allows them to save hundreds of dollars a year on extra, unecessary phone bills.

Topflight also wanted shared calendaring and contacts. MCS created public folders within Exchange to allow better collaboration and scheduling.