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GroupWise 8 and Exchange 2003 connector
I have not tested this...is it possible to use the Exchange 2003 Groupwise connector to create a link between Exchange and Groupwise 8? I'm trying to determine what migration tools will work with Groupwise 8 other than the Quest groupwise migrator. This is a migration from Groupwise to Exchange.
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I believe your name is Scott from all of these posts. Your answers have been most helpful. I'm following up b/c I need final confirmation...it appears from your post and other questions you've chimed in on that if our organization is already on GroupWise 8 (as ours is) we can forget using the Exchange 2003 connector for GroupWise. If this is in fact true, then we really have no coexistence options for a migration other than something that Quest or Messaging Architects can provide. Even their solutions only offer a few weeks of some coexistence during a migration. There is no real solution for coexistence for GW8 to Exchange 2007 or 2010 for any length of time beyond a migration process that's confined to just a few weeks while data is copied, and even then it's not true coexistence other than the ability to copy data from one system to the other.
We must migrate...the decision is made. We haven't yet extended the Active Directory schema for Microsoft Exchange. Obviously we want to make the right choice on the exchange version we install since it's a one way, one time decision that cannot be reversed w/out totally redeploying the domain, which for us would be impossible with 1200 AD users. If it makes no difference, then we might as well start with Exchange 2010.
I believe your name is Scott from all of these posts. Your answers have been most helpful. I'm following up b/c I need final confirmation...it appears from your post and other questions you've chimed in on that if our organization is already on GroupWise 8 (as ours is) we can forget using the Exchange 2003 connector for GroupWise. If this is in fact true, then we really have no coexistence options for a migration other than something that Quest or Messaging Architects can provide. Even their solutions only offer a few weeks of some coexistence during a migration. There is no real solution for coexistence for GW8 to Exchange 2007 or 2010 for any length of time beyond a migration process that's confined to just a few weeks while data is copied, and even then it's not true coexistence other than the ability to copy data from one system to the other.
We must migrate...the decision is made. We haven't yet extended the Active Directory schema for Microsoft Exchange. Obviously we want to make the right choice on the exchange version we install since it's a one way, one time decision that cannot be reversed w/out totally redeploying the domain, which for us would be impossible with 1200 AD users. If it makes no difference, then we might as well start with Exchange 2010.
I'm glad you've not introduced Exchange to AD yet. The Novell gateway will work fine with GW8 and MSE 07 or 10 IF you install MSE 03 first with Forest Prep and Domain Prep followed by the Novell gateway. Once it is up and running and working with one or two test accounts that are MSE03 based, you introduce your first MSE07 or MSE10 server.
If you are able to do the above you cab co-exist fir as long as you like. My biggest project in 2009 saw us use the Novell gateway with MSE03 and MSE07 for seven months before the final cutover took place. I'm skunauatigtgdotnet fwiw.
Scott
If you are able to do the above you cab co-exist fir as long as you like. My biggest project in 2009 saw us use the Novell gateway with MSE03 and MSE07 for seven months before the final cutover took place. I'm skunauatigtgdotnet fwiw.
Scott
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