Where's The Groupwise Migration Tool?

[bluecc]

Forgive me if I'm completely missing this but I can't find the Groupwise migration tool anywhere. We're testing a domain and want to migrate 1 or 2 accounts before fully committing.

It's essential we be able to test this before making a full switch.

[p24t]

According to jholder:

Groupwise Migration Tool: location??

The only way to get it is from support - some licensing issue. You may want to talk to a sales rep about that, especially if it's that important to you.

[gnyce]

Contact Sales, you'll need to sign an NDA, then get from Support (at least that is how it worked for me). I've used it, as have others - see posts from rgraves in the Migration forum, he has some good info in there. Last one I used was 5.0.3... for some reason the 5.0.5/6 version of the GW migration tool did not allow me to select users to migrate. You'll need the Edir LDAP working for it to function properly...

[nrc]

Be aware that migrating one or two accounts may not give you a clear view of all the problems you may encounter migrating a large installation. Based on the state of the GroupWise migration tool as of a couple of weeks ago I think we'd have been better off using imapsync and manually exporting calendars.

[gnyce]

yeah, I read your post of a few days ago. We're running GW 6.5, and I've had some bad experiences with the IMAP portion (in the GWIA at least) - we actually have it turned off (except for 1 user). Our number of accounts are far far less than you, and of the few people that we've moved, it has seemed to go 'ok'. Of course, I say that, but the people I've moved are not heavy calendar users...

[nrc]

Originally Posted by gnyce

yeah, I read your post of a few days ago. We're running GW 6.5, and I've had some bad experiences with the IMAP portion (in the GWIA at least) - we actually have it turned off (except for 1 user). Our number of accounts are far far less than you, and of the few people that we've moved, it has seemed to go 'ok'. Of course, I say that, but the people I've moved are not heavy calendar users...

I think it's true that part of the problem with GroupWise migration is "Garbage Out/Garbage In". We've seen cases where you can't successfully get a message out of IMAP. The difference is that imapsync has generally failed more gracefully in those cases than the migration tool does when it can't digest something GroupWise gives it (or perhaps fails to give it).

If you're doing few enough users that you'll be working with them individually and confirm that they're happy with the results the migration tool produces it's probably manageable. It will also help if your users tend to have reasonably sized mailboxes without a lot of giant attachments.

[bluecc]

I emailed sales and still haven't gotten any reply let alone and help on getting the migration tool to test. Any suggestions everyone? We can't test a migration without it