Filtered Index

Over the past couple of months, I have been involved with migrating remote NetWare servers to Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES2) Linux. During this time, there are some lessons that have been learned that hopefully this article will be able to help you, the reader, perform your own migrations more smoothly and avoid some of the pitfalls we encountered.

A few weeks ago Novell launched a guide on Upgrading from NetWare to OES2SP1 Linux. This guide contains information on using Migration tools, doing rolling cluster upgrades, OES Linux 3rd party services, and much more.

In order to make The Novell Training webinar series more effective, please provide your feedback. Visit the following link to complete a short 2 minute survey and to receive the recordings of May's Novell Cool Success Webinar.

Novell Workgroup ISV Partner Call

Join Novell Technical Sales Specialists and Partners as we increase our knowledge and awareness of ISV partners that add value to our Workgroup Solutions. We will be holding bi-weekly conference calls with selected partners who will explain their products and services to us. We invite you to join us on these calls. The next call will be:

April 13
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST

Novell will feature SEP Software and Tim Wagner, who is the President of SEP Software LLC along with Dan Lietz, Technical Director at Gracon Services will show you how to backup your NetWare Server and easily restore it to OES2!

Tips & tricks for using the Novell migration tools and problems you may encounter when migrating from NetWare to OES2 SP1.

Migrating from Windows to OES 2 SP1 does not provide a simple, straightforward GUI to migrate all the services. File Share migration uses a nice GUI utility, everything is manual and command line based. Not overly difficult, really. There are a few things to that need to be considered before you can start. There are specifics, but here's what I used and suggest to make sure that you don't hit any road blocks.