Groupwise migration wizard problems

[stuartg.orion]

I can now choose the user to be migrated - Thanks NRC!

I submitted a bug for this:

Bug 18334 - The GroupWise Migration tool relies on the uid LDAP field which doesn't appear to always exist

[nrc]

Glad to help. We're working on these same issues. The sooner GW is gone the better.

We have some accounts with the uid attribute and some without. New accounts are created with uid, it's generally the older ones that are missing it.

Searching Novell's site I find this tech note which probably explains the reason.

TID-10088627 Message: "Printer authentication failed. Do you want to try again?" ( 03JUN2005)

The ConsoleOne admin tool creates a uid attribute entry. The old NWAdmin tool
does not.

The link also provides instructions for adding the uid field in bulk. But for GW
it would probably be appropriate to use cn for the migration instead of uid.

[nrc]

An update to the bug indicates this works in ZCSGroupwiseMigrationWizard-5.0.0_BETA2_1136. Any chance that fix could be applied to the 4.5 branch? We expect to migrate before 5.0 is scheduled to go gold.

[misleb]

Originally Posted by nrc

An update to the bug indicates this works in ZCSGroupwiseMigrationWizard-5.0.0_BETA2_1136. Any chance that fix could be applied to the 4.5 branch? We expect to migrate before 5.0 is scheduled to go gold.

Same here. As far as I can tell, the Groupwise migration tool for 4.5.6 is pretty much useless. I tried using the BETA2 tool, but it is incompatable (not surprisingly) with 4.5.6 server. We might just have to wait until this winter (break) and migrate to Zimbra 5.0. It is getting too close to the start of the next semester.

-matthew