This has been my experience as well with 6.x but I actually got things working with 6.5 and the Exchange 2000 Migration Wizard. To be honest, I am rather shocked and amazed. Everything in my experience and everything that I have seen coming out of Microsoft contradicts this. More details to follow in a new thread.
> I can confirm from experience that the higher client does not work. I had to > downgrade the client to get it to interact with the migration wizard (E2K3 > version in my case). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Deckler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:03 a.m. > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Migrating from GroupWise 6.5 > > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
