RE: Migration from lotus notes
How about migrating from Exchange to Notes? Our company has been sold (watch f*ckedcompany.com) and the buyer is using Lotus Notes. We will have migrate all our mail to their mail system so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Wish us luck! -Original Message- From: Martin Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migration from lotus notes Which tool are you talking about? I migrated a few hundred users from Notes to Outlook last year, and it was almost completely painless. The users were so grateful they still bring me boxes of chocolates most weeks. :) -Original Message- From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 January 2002 22:48 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Migration from lotus notes Hey guys, has anyone had much success using the migration tool to move to exchange from notes? Any major issues or articles that have been really useful? Regards, Jason Dwyer List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Migration from lotus notes
Install the Notes Connector and replicate the address books and call it a day. I've gone the other direction, but not from Exchange to Notes. If there's any chance you'll be sold again in the future, I'd try to stay seperate or you'll be doing this again someday. Tom -Original Message- From: Dimitri Limanovski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migration from lotus notes How about migrating from Exchange to Notes? Our company has been sold (watch f*ckedcompany.com) and the buyer is using Lotus Notes. We will have migrate all our mail to their mail system so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Wish us luck! -Original Message- From: Martin Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migration from lotus notes Which tool are you talking about? I migrated a few hundred users from Notes to Outlook last year, and it was almost completely painless. The users were so grateful they still bring me boxes of chocolates most weeks. :) -Original Message- From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 January 2002 22:48 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Migration from lotus notes Hey guys, has anyone had much success using the migration tool to move to exchange from notes? Any major issues or articles that have been really useful? Regards, Jason Dwyer List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Migration from lotus notes
Martin, Thanks for your reply! Quitting was the first thing that ran through my mind however I simply can't afford it with current market situation. Your scenario is exactly what I've had in mind and probably will have to implement, unless someone knows of a better way. Read access to Exchange with mail forwarding from old Exchange email addresses to new Notes ones. Lotus Notes, here I come! P.S. Anyone knows of a good Notes mailing list? My only experience with Lotus software was cc:Mail couple of jobs ago and I cried of happiness when I got the hell out. God, Lotus makes awful software!! -Original Message- From: Martin Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 11:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migration from lotus notes Ah, I've been that direction too. My company had a short phase of temporary insanity (brought on by listening to the Gartner Group too much) and got part way into migrating from Exchange to Notes. Then came the revolution (really!). As you might expect, there are very few tools for migrating from Exchange to Notes. It's just not a direction reasonable people would choose to go, so that's no surprise. Of the few products that there are, only one works to the point of being useful, though it's still FAR from perfect. That was the product from Binary Tree (www.binarytree.com). It's almost a year since I used it, but at that point, it was still riddled with bugs and unbelievably slow. However, at least it moved the mailboxes across at least mainly intact and at least most of the time, which the other products didn't seem capable of. If I was put in a similar position again, the first thing I'd do is quit. Seriously. However, if you don't want to do that, I would very seriously recommend that you make no attempt to migrate user data. It just isn't worth the time and money and hassle, not just to you, but also to your users. Leave their Exchange data where it is, leave then with read access to it for reference, and start fresh with empty Notes mailboxes. Yes, they'll hate you for it, but then... they're going to hate you anyway for the migration, so what difference does it make? -Original Message- From: Dimitri Limanovski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 January 2002 15:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Migration from lotus notes How about migrating from Exchange to Notes? Our company has been sold (watch f*ckedcompany.com) and the buyer is using Lotus Notes. We will have migrate all our mail to their mail system so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this. Wish us luck! List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Migration from lotus notes
Title: RE: Migration from lotus notes Martin, Thanks for your reply! Quitting was the first thing that ran through my mind however I simply can't afford it with current market situation. Yeah, the mortgage company doesn't like it when you can't make payments for 2-3 months, while you hunt around for a better employer (always took me at LEAST 6 weeks to get a position), who doesn't mind that you up and quit over a difference in corporate purchasing policy. And can't collect unemployment compensation, since you voluntarily quit. etc. The theory is nice; reality is a bit more complex. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Migration from lotus notes
Which tool are you talking about? I migrated a few hundred users from Notes to Outlook last year, and it was almost completely painless. The users were so grateful they still bring me boxes of chocolates most weeks. :) -Original Message- From: Jason Dwyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 January 2002 22:48 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Migration from lotus notes Hey guys, has anyone had much success using the migration tool to move to exchange from notes? Any major issues or articles that have been really useful? Regards, Jason Dwyer List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
