Exchange to GW8 migration

[kjhurni]

I am trying to see what the appropriate path for this migration would be.

Looking at the GW Docs page, there is a GW7 migrator, from Exchange.

Those docs for the GW7 Migration tool say:
NOTE:After you have finished migrating Exchange users to all GroupWise 7
post offices in a GroupWise 7 domain, and after users have imported
their Outlook PST files, you can then update that domain and its post
offices to GroupWise 8, as described in "Update" in the GroupWise 8
Installation Guide. Migrated users can then use the GroupWise 8 clients
to access their mailboxes.

The GroupWise Connector for Microsoft Outlook is not currently available
for GroupWise 8, as explained in the GroupWise 8 Readme. If you use the
GroupWise 7 version of the Outlook Connector to access a GroupWise 8
mailbox, you might encounter benign peculiarities with multiple contacts
folders, but otherwise, the GroupWise 7 version of the Outlook Connects
can be used to access a GroupWise 8 mailbox.


So, does that mean there is no way to go straight to GW8? Or are we
just waiting on a release of the migrator?

Or does it actually work against GW8 now?

For once I can help.

haha

The connector is diff. than the migrator. The connector (in version 7) was the piece of code that let you use the Outlook client against a GW server. Novell removed this in version 8. So if you only have version 8 back-end and client, you cannot use the Outlook client to access GroupWise natively (you could still use Outlook in like POP3 or something mode).

The migration utility/gateway is a diff. beast all together. It doesn't work/support Exchange 2007 and I've had a customer with issues with it keeping certain things in sync or "accessible" between Exchange 2007 and GW 7 and/or 8.