Migrate a Single User from GW7 to Exchange 2003
sinnwellr
Does anyone have experience migrating a single user from GroupWise 7 to
Exchange 2003? We have a business unit that we acquired several years
ago and no decision has been made to this point about merging the two
e-mail systems (we are GroupWise 7 and they are Exchange 2003). I have
just been asked about moving one of our employees to their business unit
and want to know my options.
My gut says that we should keep him on GroupWise because that is what
he knows and loves, then we can use this as a first crack in getting
GroupWise over there.
I have found a few Microsoft articles that reference setting up the API
gateway and migrating data through there, but everything mentioned is
either GroupWise 5.5 or 6.x. Also, based on our past experiences with
the API gateway we would like to avoid that if possible.
We have an implementation of the Novell GroupWise Gateway for Microsoft
Exchange, but that presumably does not help us in this situation.
Are there any utilities out there? Anything that could take a
GroupWise Native Archive and convert it to the Outlook equivalent? Even
if it was like an archive that he had to manually open from time to
time, I'm betting that would be good enough.
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Ryan Sinnwell
Enterprise Systems Analyst
The Weitz Company
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Tommy Mikkelsen
Then let it connect to the dark side.....
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Tommy Mikkelsen
IT Quality A/S, Denmark
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pspencer
Yes, I have lots of experience. The Microsoft articles that you refer
to basically involve setting up co-Existence between GW and Exchange.
They all refer to GW 6.5, but it works with GW7. It is just not
"officially" supported by Microsoft. The other thing to be aware is
that the Microsoft Connector for GroupWise comes with Exchange 2003 and
links in with the Novell API Gateway 4.1. The Newer Novell Gateway
for Exchange sort of replaces this Microsoft tool, but you are not going
to find it much better as a gateway. Too many issues and not nearly
enough documentation on the web.
Also, you can use the migration wizard from the Exchange 2003
installation to migrate a user from GW to Exchange (with or without
co-existence set up) . It works fine to migrate all of the users mail,
appointments, etc. Does not destroy the GW mailbox, so you can do a
dry run to see how it works. Does not migrate their personal address
books though.
The Wizard can create the user for you in Exchagne 2003, but it can
only create an Exchange 2003 Legacy account. If you are running
Exch2007, set up the user first, then migrate.
Hope that helps.
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pspencer
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