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GroupWise to Exchange Migration Tips

GroupWise Migrator for Exchange™ provides an ideal solution for companies migrating from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange. It converts users' mail, calendars, tasks, personal address books and frequent contacts and stores them on users' new mailboxes on the Exchange server. It also migrates information stored in GroupWise Archives into personal stores used by Microsoft Outlook.  

GroupWise to Exchange Migration Conversion steps
Features:
Benefits:
Migrates data stored on GroupWise servers directly to corresponding mailboxes on an Exchange server.
 
Valuable information in e-mail messages is preserved. Users retain their folder structure organization. They can reply to messages without needing to make any edits to addresses. Dates, times, senders, recipients, attachments are all preserved, maintaining the history of threaded conversations. Scheduled appointments and Task Lists are also retained.
Converts personal address books and frequent contacts into contacts stored on the Exchange Server. GroupWise Migrator for Exchange™ preserves key address book information such as phone numbers, fax numbers, and mailing addresses. Users can continue to address messages using the 'nicknames' they previously defined, eliminating the need to recreate the information or use cumbersome procedures to export, edit, and import address book data. This significantly lowers migration project costs by reducing help desk calls and lost productivity.
Converts personal distribution lists.
 
Personal distribution lists are often used by managers and others to communicate with a group of employees. Preserving these lists and their associated nicknames means users do not have to manually re-enter them.
Converts GroupWise archives into Outlook personal stores. Archives contain valuable corporate data. Users can reply to messages without making any edits to the address(es). Calendar and task data in archives is also migrated to Outlook personal stores.
Automatically determines appropriate Internet addresses for all users using an automated directory export from the GroupWise directory and the GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA).
 
All migrated data has usable Internet addresses making it replyable. GroupWise Migrator for Exchange™ creates a table of user names, native GroupWise addresses, and preferred Internet addresses. The administrator can choose to review and edit the automatically created table using common Windows programs such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access.
Operates as an end-user or administrator-driven program. Administrators can migrate all data available to them without requiring any end user intervention. This includes all GroupWise server-based data, personal address books, and frequent contacts. Server-based archives can also be migrated by the administrator. When archives reside on end-user workstations, GroupWise Migrator for Exchange™ can be installed on a file server and includes an easy to use interface for end users. Nothing is installed on end user workstations.
Includes a tool that automatically sets required proxy rights. Significantly lowers migration costs by automatically setting the proxy rights.

 

 
Exchange Migration plan for moving forward:
 
  1. Perform Due Diligence on your network via Remote Terminal Service ( Next Week)
  2. Identify existing components - users, groups, login variables
  3. Document proposed AD structure
  4. Project kickoff meeting (Friday)
  5. Install Windows Server 2003 (Friday Night)
  6. Install Active Directory (Friday Night)
  7. Configure, Patch and Connect (Friday Night)
  8. Review Event Log, resolve any errors (Friday Night)
  9. Connect AD environment to existing Windows 2000 (Friday Night)
  10. Identify existing printers (Saturday)
  11. Identify existing components in Exchange (Saturday)
  12. Build Exchange, configure, patch(Saturday)
  13. Install and configure virus software,Spam solution and Fax Software(Saturday)
  14. Configure OWA in DMZ(Saturday)
  15. Verify Installation (Saturday)
  16. Perform Mailbox Move (Saturday)
  17. Install Outlook 2003 on all desktops. (Saturday - Sunday)
  18. Review Event Log, resolve any errors (Sunday) 
  19. Setup Test workstation/perform testing (Sunday)
  20. On-Site to handle any issues with the migration (Monday)
The above steps are only an estimate of work needed to be perform a successful migration. After we perform the Due Diligence Intercore will have a more definite outline in MS Project to fully detail the breadth of work needed to perform the migration . This Due Diligence will identify issues that we can resolve before the migration is performed.
 
Call us after you have reviewed these steps with Management and are ready to move forward to the next step.

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