Re: NW Messenger on NW 6.5
Michael Rae
on eDir accounts not the GW accounts. Not sure what advice I can offer for
you going from Netware to OES2 but in theory the server side is pretty much
just an agent that references the data in eDirectory and it had eDirectory
objects so if you delete the msg objects and start over the users will lose
their contacts and such.
I would try installing the on Msg server on OES2 and the only problem is
going to be the client logging in esp if the IP address has changed from the
old NW server to OES2 server, to "setup from scratch" would invol;ve just
deleting the edir objects for the messenger system and running the install
on the OES2 server with as mentioned, you won't remove the accounts, just
the individuel settings for the accounts as the account login is simply the
eDir account. Unless you are doing away with the Netware server, you can
keep running the Messenger server on Netware and move it to OES after you
get everything else migrated as I assume you are migrating a GW server too?
Moving GW to OES has enough issues to handle and if you can move parts at a
time, you might not stress out nearly as bad.
Messenger isn't tied into GroupWise but when GroupWise is present it becomes
GroupWise Messenger while it used without GW, it's known as Novell Messenger
and the GW client is simply Messenger aware. I'm pulling that from memory
from something from Novell I read a long time ago, if anyone knows better
feel free to correct me!
I'm looking at moving from NetWare to OES but in baby steps, I have a dozen
servers, some email, most just file services servers so I can't move all at
once and everything is going to be moved in small steps, for GroupWise I
first get my OES going, get the master replica to it, move my GW domain,
move a post office, then a GWIA, Webaccess, and so on but I would recommend
that you have ALL the answers before jumping into OES2 with in my case I
intend to spread it out over at least 4 months.
"dschaldedfg" <dscha...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> I have a couple of questions relating against NW Messenger/GW Messenger.
> Are they the same products? I am preparing to do a NW 6.5 to OES2
> migration this weekend and one of the programs that I was not sure of is
> the messenger program that is running on their NW 6.5 server, is that
> the same as the GW messenger, and is there a migration strategy in place
> or would it be better to simply run the install on OES2 and set up the
> users from scratch? Also is this product tied into the GW system itself
> (7.0.2HP) Thank you, and sorry for the confusions.
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> DS
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