From Exchange to Groupwise

[jakess]

We will be moving from Exchange to GroupWise. Is there ways of exporting the Exchange mailboxes to a GroupWise server.

 

[Provogeek]

Here are some links to help you out;

A TID in Novell's knowledgebase on how to use the Exchange gateway to do the migration.

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10011719.htm

A guide from the CoolSolutions site on how to migrate

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/gwmag/features/a_migrating_from_exchange_gw.html

Third party tools that will make the migration easier.

http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/partners/migrationtools.html

Most of the migrations I have done my self have been small (under 500 users). Another way I have done the migration is to use the Outlook plugin for GroupWise. Just create teh PST backup of the users mail box, link Outlook to GroupWise, open the PST file and push the mail into the message store.

If you run into users that say they liked the Outlook interface better, let them use it, they only loos busy search and reoccuring appointments functionality (M$ wouldn't give Novell the API's for it).

Good luck in your migration and come back if you need any help. Brent Schmidt CNE,Network +
Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple

http://www.kiscc.com