VM migration to Server Edition

[SAToronto]

We are migrating 7 V2s into a server solution. Is there a way to be able to restore all users mailboxes....greetings..settings and so on? In the past my vendor has always says it never works... I have 450 users to migrate and I would like it to be seamless

TIA

WP

 

[tlpeter]

I would say no as you will have more work on the recovery than on the migration itself.
Greetings is not a real problem but messages -> don't do it.
Tell the customer that on migration day they have to empty there mailboxes and you need to disable vm for that day.
Please don't even try to do this.
If they do not cleam up there mailbox than it is there problem and not yours.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[John563]

Are you going from Windows VMPro to the Linux VMPro? If so, I just did this with 8.0 and it went very well. Hopefully this all still applies with 7.

Copy the Accounts and Greetings folders, then run these commands in powershell from the backup folders. These should get the file names to match properly. we are prepending a period to the text files and making them all lower case. We also need to make all the greetings are lower case.
Get-ChildItem -recurse -force | Where-Object { $_.Extension -eq ".TXT"} | rename-item -newname {"." + $_.Name.ToLower()}
Get-ChildItem -recurse -force | Where-Object { $_.Extension -eq ".WAV"} | rename-item -newname {$_.Name.ToLower()}

Make sure all your user accounts have had their mailboxes created in server edition. Stop VMPro and copy the modified files over and replace. You will have to enable root in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the sshd service to using WINSCP to copy and replace files.

 

[tlpeter]

There is no need for root access anymore for a while already.
The Administrator account should have access to the folders within VMPro.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[John563]

Ahh, I see. The files will copy, just not update the permissions/time stamp. Good to know.