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Upgrading Exchange 5.5
to Novell GroupWise® 6
www.novell.com
Tim Heywood
Technical Director
Live Data Computers Ltd.
[email protected]
Mark McManus
Systems Engineer
Novell, Inc., UK
[email protected]
Vision…one Net
A world where networks of all types—corporate and public,
intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as
one Net and securely connect employees, customers,
suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries
Mission
To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net
business solutions that enable people, processes, and
systems to work together and our customers to profit from
the opportunities of a networked world
Aims
• The objective of this session is to provide an
insight in to the tools available to assist you in
your migration from an existing M$Exchange
installation to a new Novell GroupWise® system
• To provide a little light relief from the stress
of thinking too hard
Why Upgrade from Exchange?
• GroupWise is easy to implement and works right
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out of the box
GroupWise is easy to administer, saving time,
money, and effort
GroupWise is easy to use, so it gets used often
GroupWise is easy to access—any time, anywhere
GroupWise is easy on your budget, reducing costs
while increasing productivity
» http://www.novell.com/competitive/gw/brief.html
Why Upgrade from Exchange?
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• Flexibility—Message Transfer Agent (MTAs) and
Post Office Agents (POAs) where you need them
• Reuse of existing hardware (file, print, and mail)
• All components are cluster-enabled
Why Upgrade from Exchange?
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• No need to implement Microsoft Active Directory
(MAD)—mandatory for Exchange 2000
• Cost—server-side software ‘free’
Why Upgrade from Exchange?
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• All messages are tracked, so you can ‘Always’ see
when someone got a message, read the message
and when they deleted it … Without having to
specify that you want tracking on
• WebAccess is much closer to the full client than
OWA, you can see, read move etc. from all of you
folders, NOT just the inbox
Why Upgrade from Exchange?
• Outlook Web Access (OWA)
with SSL
http://www.nowspeed.com
• OWA vulnerabilities
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Improved Manageability
• Only integrated collaboration environment to include
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support for wireless devices in the box
Standard license includes GroupWise client, web, and
wireless access
Web/wireless-only license provides access to deskless
workers for over 75% off standard license
Web and wireless interface is customizable via templates
Mailbox size limitation
Message size limitation
Monitor and agent console access via WAP and HTML
Critical event notification to cell phone or pager
Does This Fill you with Confidence?
Prerequisites
• Existing Exchange set-up
• Purchase GroupWise 6
• Plan how you will set up GroupWise
• Make sure your migration needs are
incorporated in your plan and be ready
for any post-migration problems
Planning the System
• Clarify and review the business’ communication needs
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Review the WAN/LAN infrastructure
Review the existing messaging infrastructure
Review of naming and configuration standards
• Design domain placement
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Alternative access methods (WEB, TCP/IP, caching mode)
Security
• Design post office placement, taking into consideration
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Users, resources, libraries, hardware requirements, scalability
Briefly plan document library configuration
Location, storage space considerations, indexing schedule
Planning the System
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Briefly plan gateways
Review implementation fundamentals
Determine critical success factors
Plan proof of concept
Plan pilot project principles
Prerequisites to migration
Plan message cleanup opportunities
Proactive maintenance—setting up scheduled
maintenance events to run automatically
• Plan automated mailbox cleanup features
Document Management—Features
• Don’t forget document management
Document Management—Planning
• Will you require extra post offices?
Internet Connectivity
• Plan the GroupWise Internet Agent (GWIA) location and
the routing to it
• Anti-Virus (AV) scanning: How and with what?
• Webaccess AV scanning? With encryption (SSL/HTTPS)?
How to Migrate
• Many ways…
• Some easy
• Some expensive
Best Way of All
• Install GroupWise (GW)
• Switch off Exchange
• Done
They don’t need all that stuff, do they?
demonstratio
Migration Options
• User-based
• Concurrent unconnected systems
• Microsoft GroupWise gateway for Exchange
• Novell GroupWise Exchange gateways
User-Based Migration
• User archives, or back-ups, own mail and
appointments using Outlook client
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information is saved to a .PST file
• Opens swanky new GW Client and imports using
GWEXARCH.EXE
• Little-known tool, GWMSARCH.EXE, imports from
old MSMail backup files
GWEXARCH.EXE
• Known problems
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While migrating a recurring appointment/task, only the first
instance is migrated
Password-protected .PST files cannot be migrated using the
command-line option
Password of the .PST file is validated only at the time of
migration
If dropping of attachments is enabled, the start date of task
messages will not appear correctly
The migrated message contains display names of the recipients;
in order to reply, recipients must be manually added from the
GroupWise address book
Exchange
Client
archive
GroupWise
GWEXARCH
.PST file
GWEXARCH.EXE
demonstratio
Concurrent Systems
• Install both clients and have Exchange as a
reference
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sucks
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as bad as it sounds
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says this is the most efficient migration
method, so…
Exchange
GroupWise
YUCK
Concurrent Hybrid
• A short-term hybrid that gets everyone up and
running on GW very quickly
 Afterward,
use GWEXARCH.EXE to migrate data as
required
• Those who REALLY need their data keep what
they require, and the rest…
Exchange
GroupWise
ArchivER
Read-only
archive
GroupWise
client
MS GroupWise Gateway
• Designed to work in reverse
• Helps with co-existence, but not migration away
from Exchange
MS GroupWise Gateway
• Limitations
 Requires
the setup of a GW API gateway
 Does not handle Internet addressing correctly
 eDirectory information cannot be imported
• Advantages
 Uses
“Advanced Exchange API” (they just forgot
to tell anyone else about these features)
• Busy search works from Outlook
• Address synchronization on very large systems is faster
Exchange
GroupWise
MS GroupWise
gateway
DATA REMAINS
ON THE EXCHANGE
SERVER
Outlook
GroupWise
Client
client
GroupWise Exchange Gateway
• Which one?
• Exchange Gateway v1
• Exchange Gateway v2 (Beta)
GroupWise Exchange Gateway
• Version 1 strengths
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bugs are known
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gateway
does work
GroupWise Exchange Gateway
• Version 1
 Tips
• Set GroupWise database type as 4.x not 5
• If not displayed in NWadmn32 look at the gateway object in
Novell ConsoleOne® and set the type to Exchange Gateway
• Use an early version of GW5.5 EP and apply the latest patch
to get all of the GroupWise snap-ins for NWAdmn32
• Not able to run as a service
GroupWise Exchange Gateway
• Version 2 (beta)
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run as an application (/appl)
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run as an NT/W2k service
GroupWise Exchange Gateway 2
• Connect GroupWise systems
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to Exchange 5.5 and 2000
Systems
Users on the Exchange side
can busy-search users of
GroupWise, and vice-versa
Administrators have flexible
control of who shows up in
which systems address books
Improved interface and
administration
The gateway runs as an NT
service
The gateway can be
monitored via HTTP
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Open-standard support
Internet addressing
HTML formatting
S/MIME pass-through messaging (sign
and encrypt messages between systems)
• GroupWise 6 support
• Gateway supports GroupWise 5.5,
5.5ep, and GroupWise 6
Exchange
GroupWise
Novell Exchange
Gateway
Outlook
GroupWise
Client
Client
Other Products
• Mail shuttle
http://www.compusven.com/
• E-mail shuttle for e-mail migration from Exchange 5.5 to
GroupWise
• Price for 100 users for the e-mail shuttle for Exchange 5.5
to GroupWise is $10,945 (US dollars)—This price includes
the migration software for inboxes, personal file folders,
attachments, calendars, and personal contacts, plus one
year of software support for seven support tickets
Terms
• GroupWise
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Archive
GroupWise Remote
Hit The Road
Personal Address Book
Personal Group / DL
Name Completion
Trash
Work in Progress
Shared Folders
Posted Message
Appointment
Busy Search
Alarm
Discussion Thread View
Proxy
Auto Date
Outlook
PST
Off line Folders
Synchronize
Contacts
Distribution List
Check names
Deleted Items
Drafts
Public Folders
Post in this Folder
Meeting Request
Attendee Availability
Reminder
View by Conversation Topic
Delegate
Appointment Recurrence
Terms … Lengthy?
• GroupWise
 Rules
Outlook
Out of Office Assistant and
Rules Wizard
Demo Time
• We have an Exchange server on NT/W2k
(one laptop)
• We have a GroupWise system
on (NetWare, W2k, whatever)
(second laptop)
Links and References
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http://support.novell.com
http://www.compusven.com
http://beta.novell.com
http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/gw_exchange.html
http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/tco.html
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q274/8/32.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q274/8/33.asp
http://www.nowspeed.com
http://www.nexic.com
http://www.leegarner.com/html/gwiasig.html