Monday, October 13, 2008

Switching Email Systems

We are considering switching email systems. From what to what is not as i=
mportant to me at this point as hearing from you as to what lengths you h=
ave gone to in migrating user data.

While most of our faculty and staff use our current application only for =
email, it does have an integrated calendar and address book function. And=
many 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 pac=
krats some of us can be! :-)

So for those of you who have made this transition, what did you do with t=
he old data? Did the Tech Department attempt to migrate it for users? Wer=
e users instructed how to migrate? Did you leave both systems up for awhi=
le as the transition took place?
Did you just have people start all over afresh?

They don't call email a "sticky app" without reason!

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