Offline Domino Migration to Exchange 2010, with Quest Notes Migrator to Exchange

Posted on October 12, 2011 by webmaster

Recently I was asked to show a company how to migrate from Domino to Exchange 2010 using Quest Notes Migrator to Exchange.    Having done a number of these migrations before, I was looking forward to drawing upon my past experiences to give them a good understanding of the process. The company had their own in-house IT staff who would be doing the actual migration, and only needed my help to setup a test environment, perform some test migrations, produce detailed … Continue reading →

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GroupWise Migrations to Exchange 2010 vs Quest GroupWise Coexistence Manager – thoughts …

Posted on August 3, 2011 by webmaster

Migrating off Novell GroupWise onto Microsoft Exchange 2010 has always presented a few challenges to overcome – especially if you are trying to produce a robust Migration Strategy on how to do it. Back in the days of Microsoft Exchange 2003 you could leverage the Microsoft GroupWise Connector to inter-connect the two systems, and this gave you the minimum two functions (in my opinion) required for a migration: Directory Synchronisation Mail Flow Plus, the luxury of an additional function – … Continue reading →

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Migrate Domino Mail-In Databases to Exchange 2010 Group Mailboxes – Random Notes from the Field

Posted on July 14, 2011 by webmaster

On a recent Domino R8.5 to Exchange 2010 email migration, using the Quest Notes Migrator to Exchange (QNME) tool, I had to migrate a large number of Domino Mail-In Databases to equivalent Exchange 2010 Group Mailboxes, whilst minimising any business impact.  Not an easy task. The Domino Mail-In Database migrations had been left until last, after all user mailbox migrations had been completed, with Mail-In Database access provided via user’s legacy Lotus Notes client.  Tip: for a Domino to Exchange … Continue reading →

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Decision Process for moving to the Exchange 2010 Cloud

Posted on July 7, 2011 by webmaster

Your company may be considering moving to a Hosted Exchange 2010 Cloud solution.    Technically, you need to be across the implications of this, and need to communicate back to the business what, if any, the risks are. Have a read of my article on this topic under a new Cloud section of this website. Go to Hosted Exchange 2010 Cloud Considerations for a read.   Comments are welcome, as keen to start a debate on this one.

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Emailmigrations.com Website Refresh

Posted on July 2, 2011 by webmaster

I was getting a bit tired of the orange colour scheme with the migrating birds header image, so I decided to change things around a bit.   Hope you like the new look, with some new social media widgets down the right hand side, a new colour scheme, and a new header image.   If you think you know which place in the world is shown in the header image, please let me know ! Please provide any general feedback on the … Continue reading →

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Emailmigrations.com changes Web Hosting Provider to BlueHost

Posted on July 2, 2011 by webmaster

Not strictly related to email migrations, but there has been some minor disruption over the last week as I changed web hosting providers from GoDaddy to BlueHost.   If you were trying to use the website during this period, I apologise for any disruption.    The website had begun to slip down the Google page rank scale, and after investigating why, I decided the best action was to move hosting providers.    Without going into too much detail, my previous hosting provider … Continue reading →

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Generating an SMTP WhiteList in Exchange 2010 via EMS Script

Posted on July 1, 2011 by webmaster

On a recent Domino to Exchange 2010 migration project the customer was using the an Edge Message layer product that had an SMTP Whitelist configured.   This allowed only email sent to (and from) authorised SMTP addresses to pass through the Edge Message layer.   The scenario described is not uncommon as some companies only allow a subset of their employees to use internet email from their internal mailbox.  A typical Edge Message layer may be running Postfix or Symantec MessageLabs, for … Continue reading →

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Domino to Exchange 2010 Email Migration vs Quest Mail Group Provisioning, Mail Group Ownership, and OWA ECP

Posted on June 22, 2011 by webmaster

When migrating from Domino to Exchange 2010 using the Quest Notes Migrator to Exchange tool, you can make use of Quest’s  Group Provisioning function.    This allows Distribution Lists in Domino to be migrated to Exchange 2010, and also allows for membership synchronization (1-way only from Domino to Exchange).  Read Quest’s detailed product documentation for full details of this feature. Note:  “Distribution List” and “Group” are interchangeable for this blog, in order to cover the same subject across both Domino and … Continue reading →

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Migrate Domino Mail-In Databases (Group Mailboxes) to Outlook 2010

Posted on June 9, 2011 by webmaster

When working on a recent email migration project from Domino r8.5 to Exchange 2010 (using Quest Notes Migrator and Quest CMN) I encountered a familiar challenge.   This was how to approach the migration of the customers 500 Domino Mail-In Databases across to Exchange 2010 ?  I had anticipated this being one of the more challenging parts of the email migration project, so I had persuaded everybody that this activity was best left to last – after all the Domino user … Continue reading →

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Domino Migration to Exchange – User Behaviour with Calendaring

Posted on January 29, 2011 by webmaster

On a recent email migration project from Domino r8 to Exchange 2007, I noted a pattern of behaviour amongst the user population with regard to support calls related to booking appointments in Outlook 2007. In Domino, when users made a calendar booking involving a Resource, they would use the Rooms&Resource Domino Database to make the booking in the actual Resource calendar, and then all other attendees would be invited at this point also.   The person making the booking did not … Continue reading →

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