GroupWise to Exchange migration....

[Cary Shultz]

Howdy All!

I have spent a good amount of time reading the documents
concerning GroupWise to Exchange migration. We are going
to setup a test lab to go through it a few times before we
actually do it.

Essentially what is going to happen is Friday the users
will be using Novell GroupWise but when they come back on
Monday they will be using Exchange ( and Outlook ).

Questions:

1) We have the production WIN2000 AD / Exchange 2000 side
setup. I have crated all of the user accounts. But I
have not created the mailboxes. *SHOULD* I do this before
the migration? I am unclear as to wheter this is
necessary. In the Exchange Migration Wizard it states
that the mailboxes "must exist" in order to import
personal e-mail mesages...that seems pretty clear to me,
but...

2) We are going to create a special OU in WIN2000 AD for
the GroupWise users ( called GroupWise ). It seems that
the Exchange Conmnector for Novell GroupWise **WILL**
create new objects ( a Contact ) in AD ( as it is designed
to do so ) so placing them in that special OU seems to
prudent thing to do. Using the AD Account CleanUp Tool
should help merge the duplicates...

3) There are somewhere near 50 users. I am aware -
through the reading - that should there be any GroupWise
mailboxes containing corrupt items it will stop the
migration. Is it a good idea, then, to do this in batches
of 10?

Thanks all,

Cary

[Neil Hobson]

My favourite technique when doing migrations (Notes, GroupWise, cc:Mail - it
really doesn't matter) is to do the following:

1. Get the relevant connector setup, and configure it to create contacts in
AD. These contacts will have the correct proxy addresses, e.g. GWISE,
NOTES, whatever. This way, you can route Internet email through Exchange,
which will forward Internet email across the relevant connector.

2. Run the migration wizard to import the GroupWise messages. The wizard
will match the proxy address that exists on the contact, and will
effectively turn the contact into a mailbox-enabled user (well, it deletes
the contact and creates the user account - it's not that magical!)

HTH,

--
Neil Hobson
Silversands

www.silversands.co.uk

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Perform migration of mailboxes from GroupWise to MS Exchange Server.This software allows single and multiple mailbox migration where users can save the migrated items to orphan .PST files or direct to MS Exchange Server user mailboxes.

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