OK people, let me spell this out for you since you seem to be having a brain seizure.
The subject "Migrating from GroupWise 6.5" means that I am migrating a client from GroupWise 6.5 to Exchange, specifically Exchange 2000. My apologies, I thought that would be obvious given that this is an Exchange list. My fault, I should have been more specific. Now the reason that this question about the 5.2.6 client comes up in relation to GroupWise 6.5 is that Microsoft indicates that the GroupWise 6.5 client does not work with the Exchange Migration Wizard. I actually have not tested this completely but will before the end of the week. I decided to go with a known entity, the GroupWise 5.2.6 client, the recommended client from Microsoft. So, from preliminary testing, you have to run the 5.2.6 client to interact with the Exchange Migration Wizard but it also has to interact with the GroupWise 6.5 PO, hence the question to the list. Now, thanks entirely to myself and no thanks to the sarcastic peanut gallery, I have solved this issue and am more than happy to pass along my findings in the hope that someone else may benefit from this knowledge. I was able to get the 5.2.6 client working against the 6.5 PO by removing the checkbox to enforce a minimum client on the GroupWise PO and by doing some file copying. What I did was to install the standard GroupWise 5.2.6 client on a workstation. However, running it against the GroupWise 6.5 PO generated an error, something to the effect that "Your PO does not have the correct views for this client". So, I went into the "ofviews\win" directory on the client and copied the non-duplicate files to the "ofviews\win" directory of the GroupWise 6.5 PO. I did not replace any .vew or .ini files and while I have not tested it, I would not recommend that you replace any of the 6.5 files with 5.x files. Thus far, I have tested this successfully connecting in DIRECT mode to the GW PO. The GW 5.2.6 client works and the Exchange Migration Wizard works. One item of note is that the extraction seems to be taking an inordinately long amount of time. While previous experience has shown DIRECT to be faster in the extraction versus CLIENT/SERVER, I am going to test CLIENT/SERVER next. And then I am going to test using a GroupWise 6.5 client instead of the 5.2.6 client but I do not anticipate that will work. If anyone has some specific experience on this and knows for sure, I'd appreciate a heads-up so that I can avoid wasting time. Since this is the first GroupWise 6.5 migration that I have done and from the lack of any useful information from the list perhaps one of the very first or very few, I'll keep the list updated with information on how this goes and any caveats or issues I encounter. > I'd like to modify that a bit if I could... ;o) > > <pimp-slap decklertheheckler> > > You are aware that this is an Exchange list right? > > </pimp-slap decklertheheckler> > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:29 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Migrating from GroupWise 6.5 > > In times like these, IRC commands like "/pimp-slap <user>" would be real > handy. > > Eric Fretz > > L-3 Communications > ComCept Division > 2800 Discovery Blvd. > Rockwall, TX 75032 > tel: 972.772.7501 > fax: 972.772.7510 > > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
