Kevin
I'm on the road and do not have access to all my stuff but I think there
2 programs to run one convert.exe and the other wgscvt.exe.
If you go into regedit and look at the imail trees, you can figure out
pretty much how that is set up. there are two things to export from the
old box to the new one, Both are in the Domains portion. one is the
virtual portion and the other is the domain data. If you move it all
there's no problem, if you move them in sections, be sure to move the
matching set, the virtual and the domain name part.
If your doing the update on the old machine first, it's easy, copy the
whole tree and move it. there is a good kb article on that. I also got
an assist from the ipswitch folks. I had our backup mail server spool
incoming mail while I did the move and once we were up on the new box it
flowed in quite nicely. Don't forget to move the mail folders from the
old box to the new one.
Since you have a new box, fire up the new version and play with if till
your comfortable before upgrading the old one.
Look out for some impact from your web users, we were using
killerwebmail and the new version is slower. People bitched about it,
but for the most part are used to it now.
John
Kevin Stanford wrote:
Thank you John for your input. It is most appreciated!
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Moving to a new Server
Kevin
I did this about a year ago.
I did not upgrade the 8.22 version as we were worried that if the upgrade
did not work we would have no way back.
we were on NT4 with 8.22 and moved to a 2003 box and 2006 both using the
windows registry for user names.
I did a clean install on the new box and ran it for about a week with only
the root domain.
We have only one IP address assigned and I created the new instance with a
new IP address but the same name for the server.
I then migrated 2 virtural domains. I did this by simply copying the
registry entries for the domains and the directories. there is a utility to
run to update the address books within the domains. I can't remember the
name but I'm sure the archive has it. I vaguely remember another utility
also. I called ipswitch and got the 2 names.
That was it. we changed the dns records and they came right up.I ran these
for a week.
When I moved the rest,
I shut down the server, I copied the registry entries again for the
remaining domains, also the directories, shut down the old box, added the
old IP address to the new box and again ran the address update tool and it
worked perfectly.
I do think the safe way is to upgrade the old box to the same version, We
were on the same box since NT4 and maybe V 5.x of Ipswitch. I didn't want to
bring over years of garbage in the Imail directory so we simply moved the
registry entries and the domain directories.
I think in the upgrade the address book update is done for you.
I did the whole move in about 20 min. Don't forget to set the smtp to
listen on all ports. I did not do that and it took a while once live with
the whole world to figure out.
I also run Declude and again simply copied the directory. everything worked
fine
Hope this helps
Good luck
John
Kevin Stanford wrote:
I am getting ready to move Imail to a new server and want to make sure
I understand the procedure.
We are currently running Imail 8.22 on a Windows2000 server and we
want to move to Imail 2006.23 on a Windows2003 server. If I understand
correctly we will need to put 8.22 on the new machine then follow the
steps in Document IM-19980116-jb11.htm. And then "upgrade" to 2006.23.
Is my understanding correct? Also has anyone else done this and have
any suggestions?
I am not opposed to contracting this out if anyone is interested, if
so please contact me off list.
Thanks,
Kevin
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