ge 2007. There were a few ways to do this. I could have left both servers=
up and sharing data between each other for some time or I could have broug=
ht both servers up, synchronized the data and then dropped the legacy Group=
Wise but I decided to just make a clean break for it. I felt that if I had=
synchronized Novell GroupWise/eDirectory, considering the state that it wa=
s in at the time, I would have introduced too many issues into our new envi=
ronment. I simply created everyone new mailboxes on Exchange, exported eve=
ryone's mailboxes from GroupWise and then imported them into Exchange. The=
only issue you'll have problems with are address book/calendar entries bet=
ween differing systems. I mitigated this by training, and then retraining =
on Outlook. Figure out a way to get the messages out and then into whateve=
r you choose, and you should be fine. Also, be sure to prompt everyone to =
clean up their mailboxes somewhat before the cutover.
Thanks
Jomar McDonald
Director of Technology
The Frances Xavier Warde School
751 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60610
W: 312-798-4064
F: 312-337-7180
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From: A forum for independent school educators [mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.=
EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Taffee
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:42 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Switching Email Systems
We are considering switching email systems. From what to what is not as imp=
ortant to me at this point as hearing from you as to what lengths you have =
gone to in migrating user data.
While most of our faculty and staff use our current application only for em=
ail, it does have an integrated calendar and address book function. And man=
y users have tons of legacy data they've saved on the email server.
I'd just as soon cut loose most of the legacy data, but you know what packr=
ats some of us can be! :-)
So for those of you who have made this transition, what did you do with the=
old data? Did the Tech Department attempt to migrate it for users? Were us=
ers instructed how to migrate? Did you leave both systems up for awhile as =
the transition took place?
Did you just have people start all over afresh?
They don't call email a "sticky app" without reason!
s
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Treat each piece of paper as precious and reduce waste - don't print electr=
onic documents.
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Steve Taffee 650.470.7725 (office)
Director of Technology 415.613.6684 (mobile)
Castilleja School 650.326.8036 (fax)
1310 Bryant Street steve_taffee@castilleja.org
Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.castilleja.org | taffee.edublogs.org
Women Learning, Women Leading
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