Exchange Migration Quick Checklist

Mailboxes

From Exchange Server: _______________________________________________

To GroupWise Post Office: ____________________________________________

• Plan the migration for users on the Exchange server listed above, including Exchange Gateway setup if necessary, and creation of User objects and eDirectory contexts as needed. You can list users and contexts on the Exchange Migration Planning Worksheet.

  See Planning Your Migration from Exchange to GroupWise

• Install the Migration Utility on the Exchange server or other machine. For best performance, install it on the Exchange server.

  See Installing the Migration Utility.

• Make sure that the Outlook Collaboration Data Objects module is installed where you installed the Migration Utility.

  See Checking for the Outlook Collaboration Data Objects Module

• Set up administrative access to the Exchange server.

  See Designating a Service Account Administrator on Exchange 5.5 or Ensuring Administrative Rights on Exchange 2000/2003.

• Set up mailbox access in the Exchange system.

  See Setting Up a MAPI Profile.

• Before your first migration session, configure GroupWise so that users can successfully reply to and forward messages after they are migrated.

  See Establishing the GroupWise Internet Domain Name

• Migrate users from the Exchange server to the GroupWise post office listed above.

  See Migrating Exchange Mailboxes.

• After your last mailbox migration session, migrate distribution lists/groups and public folders in one migration session each.

Distribution Lists/Groups

After migrating all mailboxes:

• Use any convenient machine for this Migration Utility session.
• Map drives to all locations of the .uct files created during mailbox migrations.
• Migrate the Exchange distribution lists/groups into your GroupWise system.

  See Migrating Exchange Distribution Lists/Groups.

Public Folders

After migrating all mailboxes and distribution lists/groups:

• Use any convenient machine for this Migration Utility session.
• Migrate the Exchange public folders into your GroupWise system.

  See Migrating Exchange Public Folders.