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GroupWise to Exchange - 21.Sep.2007 9:49:35 AM

Zer0 G

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I am relatively new to these forums only having posted a few times. I am in the process of migrating a GroupWise 6.5.4 email system to Exchange 2007. I wanted to just share my experience with he rest of the community in case there are some admins out there doing the same thing.

The migration tool I am using is Quest Migration utility to help with the bulk transfer of email and archives and the Quest Archive Software to reduce the amount of email transferred over.

I plan on keeping this post up to date during our migration as best as I can with any information I come across.

For those of you who are more experienced with a migration this post may read as very trivial but believe me when I tell you that there are several new Exchange Admins that will get very frustrated with a GroupWise to Exchange migration.

Today's big discovery is the use of the "Get-Group" command in the ems(exchange management shell)
Enable Distribution Groups in Bulk per Organizational Unit.

Open the Command Shell
Type in the command: get-group -organizationalunit <OU> | Enable-DistributionGroup

If the OU has a space in it, (example: Distribution Group), you must use quotation

get-group -organizationalunit �Distribution Group� | Enable-DistributionGroup

This should enable all of the distribution groups you had to either create by hand or the groups that the quest software did not successfully complete

< Message edited by Zer0 G -- 21.Sep.2007 9:54:35 AM >

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RE: GroupWise to Exchange - 18.Oct.2007 9:35:11 AM

skydive

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Hi,

I'm working on a project of migrating 70 Groupwise users to Exchange 2007, so far i've only heard people talking about Quest software for a tool, is there is any non third party tools that we can use for free? Exchange 2003 had built in Migration Tool, what about 2k7? does it have anything like it?

Thank you all!

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RE: GroupWise to Exchange - 18.Oct.2007 3:41:30 PM

fozzie95

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We are in the middle of doing a proof of concept for a migration from GroupWise 7.0 to Exchange 2007. I was wondering if the tools are the same does the migration tool in 2007 work just like in 2003? any information that anyone can provide would be very helpful

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RE: GroupWise to Exchange - 18.Oct.2007 3:55:59 PM

skydive

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One thing i noticed that E2k7 does not have the Groupwise connector! how will it connect to groupwise then even if there was a migration tool like Exchange 2003?

My best bet now other than using third party software is to install a temp exchange 2003 with groupwise connector, import from groupwise to exchange/pst then restore to Exchange 2007!

I hope we find more professional solutions.

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RE: GroupWise to Exchange - 17.Jan.2008 2:10:11 PM