Quest® Notes Migrator for Exchange
Version 4.1.4.15
Release Notes
February 2008
(Doc ID 059)
Contents
Welcome to Notes Migrator for Exchange
New in this Release
Resolved Issues and Enhancements
Known Issues
Upgrade and Compatibility
System Requirements
Global Operations
Getting Started
For More Information
Other Recent Releases
Quest Software's Notes Migrator for Exchange is a set of software applications designed to facilitate a variety of migration strategies for organizations moving from a Lotus Domino server, with Lotus Notes clients, to an Exchange 2000 or 2003 environment with Outlook clients. Notes Migrator for Exchange can:
- Extract user data from the Domino server to mailbox-enable user accounts in the Active Directory.
- Migrate mail, appointments, tasks, personal address books, personal distribution lists, and archives from the Notes environment to the Exchange environment and Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files.
- Set and remove mail-forwarding rules between Notes and Exchange to assure correct mail routing throughout the transition period.
All the features of Notes Migrator for Exchange are contained within four primary components:
- Notes Migration Manager: A central "console" application that coordinates most administrator-driven tasks and features. The Notes Migration Manager in turn contains an assortment of specialized subcomponent applications, called Wizards (listed separately below), that facilitate particular program features. In addition to its Wizards, the Notes Migration Manager helps you monitor and manage most of the information pertaining to a migration project: program defaults and server access credentials, the locations of Notes/Domino source data, exported data from the Domino directory, and ongoing migration statistics that track the status of a migration project.
- Self-Service Desktop Migrator: A separate application that end users can run (one user at a time) to migrate their own mail, PABs and archives. (An administrator may also run this Desktop Migrator on behalf of an end user, running under the user's credentials.)
- Notes Migration Scheduling Application: A separate command-line application that executes scheduled tasks. The program checks the SQL Server database to see whether any tasks have been scheduled to run since the last check, and then executes any such tasks.
- Migration Database Utility: A utility that prepares a set of data tables that in turn let the Data Migration Wizard read Notes mail files from two or more source servers in a single program run. Without this utility, the Wizard can read mail files from multiple paths, but only from a single Notes server.
- Log File Viewer: Simplifies the viewing and interpretation of Quest program log files, which are generated by most Quest applications to document process errors and warnings.
The Wizards that can be launched from Notes Migration Manager:
- NABs Discovery Wizard: Searches the Notes/Domino server to locate all Notes NABs (Name and Address Books). The Directory Export Wizard and Internet Domains Discovery Wizard will then extract critical directory information from the NABs, which in turn will be read by Quest provisioning, object-merging, and migration Wizards so they can perform their tasks.
- Internet Domains Discovery Wizard: Extracts all Internet domains it can find within the Notes' NABs (Name and Address Books) found by the NABs Discovery Wizard. These domains will then be used to generate address aliases for all users, so that Exchange can recognize and correctly route mail sent to users' old addresses.
- Directory Export Wizard: Gathers user information from the Domino server(s) to create SQL Server data tables that will provide critical input data to the Quest provisioning, object-merging, and migration Wizards.
- Collection Wizard: Lets you define the member contents of user and group collections. The provisioning, migration, and other features are applied to collections of users and groups, and the Collection Wizard is what defines these collections. You can add members to a collection by selecting objects from the SQL Server database, or by importing the contents of a .tsv (tab-separated-values format) file, or both.
- AD Groups Provisioning Wizard: Defines a task that will provision distribution groups (create group objects) within Active Directory from a designated group collection, and schedules the task to run at a particular time, or at a series of recurring times.
- Notes Data Locator Wizard: Defines a task that will locate data files in the Notes source for a particular user collection, or gather statistics from previously located data stores, and schedule the task to run at a particular time or at a series of recurring times.
- AD Object Merging Wizard: Consolidates duplicate objects in Active Directory by merging information from Exchange Contacts (generated by Microsoft's Exchange Connector for Notes) into corresponding users' AD accounts, and then deleting the Contacts, to create a single mail-enabled security object per user in AD.
- Send PAB Replicator Wizard: Sends a special email form to users within a particular user collection, that lets them replicate all of their PABs (personal address books) to a centralized Notes server directory, where the Data Migration Wizard will be able to find them and migrate them.
- Data Migration Wizard: Defines a task that can, for all users within a particular user collection:
• Mailbox-enable Exchange accounts.
• Migrate user data.
• Update mail-forwarding rules.
• Perform other related Notes and Exchange administrative functions.
- Self-Service Desktop Migration Statistics Collection Wizard: Gathers migration statistics written by the Self-Service Desktop Migrator, and loads the data into the SQL Server database, to help you track the progress of the migration project.
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New features in Version 4.1.4.15:
- RPC over HTTP protocol now available — The Data Migration Wizard can now use Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) within HTTP packets to communicate with the target Exchange Server. The RPC protocol may improve data throughput on a slower network, especially when migrating to Exchange 2007. This feature is enabled or disabled by the RPCUseHTTP= parameter, in the [Exchange] section of Global Defaults or Task Parameters. Other parameters in the [Exchange] section control various settings associated with the RPC protocol. (See the updated Program Parameters Reference for more details. All of the associated parameters are in the [Exchange] section, with parameter names beginning with "RPC.")
- "Friendlier" support for DocLinks migration options — The Data Migration Wizard now contains a new screen for an admin to specify how to migrate Notes DocLinks. Prior to this release, the choice of DocLinks destination format was controlled only by a program parameter in the Global Defaults, Task Parameters, and notesdtapp.ini file — as documented for release 4.1.3.14 (see "Proposion Portal support in migrated DocLinks"). But the Data Migration Wizard now contains a new screen, Specify How To Migrate Notes DocLinks, that lets you set and configure your choice during the program run. The new screen is documented in the NME User Guide and Help system that accompany this release.
- Domino 8.0 Support — Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports Notes Domino version 8.0 as a source server.
- Notes 8.0 Support — Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports Lotus Notes version 8.0 on the administrator's migration workstation, and on the desktops of users who will run the Self-Service Desktop Migrator.
- Support for Exchange 2007 SP1 and its Management Tools — Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports Exchange 2007 SP1 and its Management Tools on the administrator's migration workstation.
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Issues addressed in Version 4.1.4.15:
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CR #42919
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Contact Birth Year errors resolved: Code refinements have eliminated the occasional errors that occurred in migrated Birth Years when migrating Contacts. The migration process had erroneously migrated some Birth Years as "1970" regardless of the actual Birth Year in the Notes source.
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CR #45659
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SSDM MAPI credentials prompt error resolved: The SSDM's prompt for MAPI credentials now correctly accepts and processes all valid credentials.
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CR #50564
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Split-PDL reminders in Outlook Cached mode eliminated: Outlook no longer repeatedly reminds users of their split migrated PDLs upon every log-in. (A large PDL that exceeds Outlook's limit is automatically split by NME into two or more PDLs upon migration to Outlook PST. In prior NME releases, when Outlook was running in Cached mode, it reminded the user of any such split PDLs every time the user logged in. The reminders could be dismissed, but their repetition was annoying.)
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CR #49891
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Documentation elaboration for mail-in databases: The Notes Migrator for Exchange User Guide has been updated to include an elaborated explanation of how NME migrates Notes' mail-in databases. See new sections in chapter 2 (Strategic Planning Issues) and chapter 4 (How Do I...?).
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CR #49892
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Documentation elaboration for resource migration: The Notes Migrator for Exchange User Guide has been updated to include an elaborated explanation of how NME migrates Notes resources. See updated "Strategies for Migrating Resources" in chapter 2, and a new section to chapter 4 (How Do I...?).
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The following issues are known to exist at the time of this release.
General
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CR #49488
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The Directory Export Wizard generates a duplicate record for a user if the user's mail file path has been changed by Quest's Migration Database Utility.
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Off-Line Migration
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CR #30886
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When migrating off-line, the HTMLdoclinks program parameter, in the [General] section of the Data Migration Wizard's task parameters, must be set to 0 (zero). The HTMLdoclinks=0 setting tells the Wizard to migrate Notes doclinks as Notes-style doclinks, which can be opened in Exchange only if a Notes client is installed on the client workstation. By default (HTMLdoclinks=1), Notes doclinks would migrate to Exchange as HTML-style links, which can be opened in a web browser if the user is able to use iNotes, but that default setting will cause errors in an off-line migration.
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Other Known Issues
Most of the known limitations of any migration process are due to feature inconsistencies between the source and target environments. That is, features that are available in the Notes environment simply cannot be migrated to a target environment that does not offer the same or comparable features. Other limitations are due to feature incompatabilities, where similar features are available in both the source and target environments, but their implementations are so different that the migration may be impractical. In any case, most administators regard these sorts of limitations as trivial or incidental to an overall migration project.
Appendix A of the Notes Migrator for Exchange User Guide provides a complete list of all such known limitations of the migration process as facilitated by the current version of Quest's Notes Migrator for Exchange.
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There is no need to uninstall the previous version before installing the new version. The upgrade installation and setup will be fully automated, and will preserve any data already migrated by an earlier version, so that you may simply resume the migration process from wherever you left off with the previous version.
Important Notes:
- When upgrading from NME 4.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.1 or 4.1.2, a domain controller value must be specified and applied from the Active Directory screen in Notes Migration Manager. If a domain controller is not specified there, the Wizards will complain that they can't verify AD credentials (even though all three displayed values are valid).
- When upgrading from an earlier version, the Data Migration Wizard will not "remember" the settings on the DocLinks screen if the HTMLDocLinks= parameter (in the [General] section of Global Defaults) is set to 1. To resolve this problem, remove the HTMLDocLinks=1 parameter from the Global Defaults.
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Notes Migrator for Exchange requires the installation and configuration of several components on various machines: the source Domino server, the destination Exchange server, the admin's migration workstation (sometimes two or more admin workstations), and end-user client desktops. In addition to the Quest components, a migration requires the installation and proper configuration of other, non-Quest applications including the Domino and Exchange servers, Active Directory, and the Notes and Outlook clients. The full installation and configuration requirements are therefore more detailed than the requirements summary provided here. See the Notes Migrator for Exchange Quick-Start Guide for complete System Requirements, including tips for how to get multiple applications from different vendors to cooperate when installed on a single admin workstation.
This list specifies the basic minimum hardware and software requirements for Notes Migrator for Exchange version 4.1.4.15:
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On the Domino server:
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- Must be running Lotus Domino version 4.6.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, or 8.x.
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On the Exchange server:
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- Must be running Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 SP1, or Exchange 2003.
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On each administrator workstation (running the Notes Migrator for Exchange admin components):
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- Workstation OS must be Windows XP (32 bit) SP2 or higher, or Windows 2003 Server (32 bit) SP1 or higher. Notes Migrator for Exchange does not support a 64-bit OS.
- Workstation must be a separate machine from the Exchange server, but a member of the same domain as AD and Exchange, and meeting these minimum hardware requirements:
- 1+ GHz processor.
- 1GB memory.
- 20GB free disk space.
- Recommendations for improved performance, especially for high-volume migrations:
- 3+ GHz processor.
- 2GB memory.
- 1 Gbps NIC.
- 1 Gbps or faster network connections among all migration workstations and the Exchange and Domino servers.
- Required for migration to Exchange 2007 (only): Exchange 2007 or E2007 SP1 Management Tools (32-bit version), which in turn requires: .Net Framework 2.0, Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and Windows PowerShell. The 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 Management Tools is available (at this writing) at this Microsoft link, and see also Microsoft's installation instructions.
- Required for any Exchange 2003 administrative functions (only):
- Windows Admin Tools (adminpak.msi).
- Exchange System Manager (version to match the installed version of Exchange).
- Lotus Notes must be installed in single-user mode and configured. The Notes client version must be in the range 5.0.11 to 7.0.1 (inclusive), or 8.0.0, and must be able to open all the NSF files that you want to migrate. The client version should therefore match or be higher than the server version.
- Outlook 2002, 2003, or 2007 (2003 or 2007 recommended) must be installed. Outlook 2003 or 2007 is required to migrate multi-byte items or items from multiple character sets, or to migrate to pst files larger than 2 GB.
- The MAPI DLLs required to perform a migration must be those that are part of Outlook, not the downloadable Exchange 2007 "server" MAPI.
- Any antivirus software must be turned off prior to running the Quest admin applications, but may be restored after the program runs.
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SQL Server:
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- Access to a Microsoft SQL Server is required. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express is optionally included with Notes Migrator for Exchange (included with one of the two setup kits available for download). Alternatively, the program can use an existing (installed) Microsoft SQL Server version 2000 or 2005.
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On user desktops (if running the Self-Service Desktop Migrator):
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- Must be running Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4; or Windows XP SP2 Professional Edition; or Windows Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate Editions.
- Must be running Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007.
- The MAPI DLLs required to perform a migration must be those that are part of Outlook, not the downloadable Exchange 2007 "server" MAPI.
- Must be running a Lotus Notes client: UNICODE support requires version 5.0.11, or 6.x, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, or 8.0.0. For version 4.6 clients you must contact Quest Technical Support for an alternate application that supports version 4.6.
- Any antivirus software must be turned off prior to running the desktop migrator, but may be restored after the program run.
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All machines:
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- Must have network access.
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This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English or non-ASCII configurations. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
The platforms and configurations supported in this release may use any time zone, character encoding, language, or locale configuration to operate this product. This product supports multi-locale operation and uses the Unicode character set internally to support simultaneous operation with multilingual data.
This product supports the migration of all mail, calendar data, and personal address books, regardless of the source language or character encoding, by converting the data from Notes' internal encoding to Unicode.
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Contents of the Release Package
The Notes Migrator for Exchange (NME) version 4.1.4.15 zip-bundled distribution file contains the following component applications, accessories and documentation files:
- Quest NME Setup Wizard (to install and configure the other components listed below)
- Quest NME components:
- Notes Migration Manager
- Wizards launched from Notes Migration Manager:
- NABs Discovery Wizard
- Internet Domains Discovery Wizard
- Directory Export Wizard
- Collection Wizard
- AD Groups Provisioning Wizard
- Notes Data Locator Wizard
- AD Object Merging Wizard
- Send PAB Replicator Wizard
- Data Migration Wizard
- Self-Service Desktop Migration Statistics Collection Wizard
- Self-Service Desktop Migrator
- Notes Migration Scheduling Application
- Migration Database Utility
- Log File Viewer
- Quest NME product documentation:
- Release Notes: NME Release Notes.html
- PDF-format documents:
- Quick-Start Guide: QStartGuide.pdf
- Notes Migrator for Exchange User Guide: NMEUserGuide.pdf
- Self-Service Desktop Migrator User Guide: SSDMUserGuide.pdf
- Program Parameters Reference: NME_Params_Ref.pdf
- On-line Help systems (compiled HTML Help files):
- For the Notes Migration Manager: notesmigmgr.chm
- For the Wizards launched from Notes Migration Manager: one *.chm Help file for each Wizard
- For the Migration Database Utility: migdbutil.chm
- For the Self-Service Desktop Migrator: notesdtapp.chm
- For the Log Viewer: wlogview.chm
Installation Instructions
Refer to the Notes Migrator for Exchange Quick-Start Guide for installation instructions.
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Updates to existing features in Version 4.1.3.14:
- Pre-/Post-Migration Emails to End Users - The Data Migration Wizard now lets you send personalized ("mail-merge") emails to users before or after they are migrated. Such notifications let you announce an upcoming migration, explain the implications to end users, and tell them what they can expect and what will be expected of them. See How Do I Send Pre- or Post-Migration Notification Emails to End Users? in chapter 4 of the updated User Guide for instructions to send pre- or post-migration emails to end users.
- Proposion Portal support in migrated DocLinks - The Data Migration Wizard and SSDM (desktop migrator) now support migration of Notes DocLinks to links in the Proposion Portal format. The existing HTMLdoclinks program parameter now supports the Proposion-format option in addition to the Notes-format and HTML-format options previously available.
... tells the Wizard to migrate DocLinks in the Proposion format. The options for Notes format (0) and HTML format (1) remain the same.
When HTMLdoclinks=2, you must also specify the name of the SharePoint server that contains the documents to which the Proposion links point:
[General]
SharePointServerName=<SharePointServerName>
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.3.14:
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CR #41736
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SSDM login problem for Outlook 2007 on Vista-Japanese: Repeated prompts for login credentials upon SSDM login to Outlook 2007 on Vista-Japanese appear related to the Windows Firewall. When the firewall prompts you to Allow or Cancel the SSDM's access attempt, choose Allow to dismiss the prompt and Outlook will thereafter accept the login credentials.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.2.13:
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CR #36199
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New parameter prevents incorrect aliases during mailbox-enabling: A new program parameter lets you control the time interval between two subfunctions of the Data Migration Wizard's mailbox-enabling process, which might otherwise cause PowerShell to generate incorrect aliases where Active Directory accounts are replicated among multiple servers. The Wizard disables mail for an account before it creates the mailbox, but the mail-enabled account can appear to still exist for a few seconds on any servers where the account is replicated. When PowerShell sees a not-yet-disabled account on the other server, it mistakenly treats the new mailbox as a duplicate, appending the digit "1" to the alias to differentiate it from the other account.
If your AD accounts are replicated on multiple servers, and you experience this "Alias1" problem when enabling mailboxes, use the CreateMailboxDelay parameter (in the [Active Directory] section), to force a delay between the mail-disabling function and the mailbox creation, to allow enough time for other servers to catch up and disable their replicated accounts. The parameter value defines a delay in seconds, in a valid range from 0 to 30000, and defaults to 0. For example:
[ActiveDirectory]
CreateMailboxDelay=15
... tells the Wizard to wait 15 seconds after mail-disabling an account before creating the associated mailbox. Quest in-house testing suggests the resolution of this problem may require a delay as long as 33 seconds, but often much shorter. Experiment with shorter values to determine the delay required in your own environment.
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Updates to existing features in Version 4.1.2.7:
- Microsoft Vista support for desktop migrator - The Self-Service Desktop Migrator can now run on user workstations running the Microsoft Vista operating system.
- Migration Database Utility - This new utility loads data-location information into the SQL Server database, so that the Data Migration Wizard can migrate mail files from two or more source servers. Without this utility, the Wizard can read mail files from multiple paths, but only from a single Notes server.
Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.2.7:
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CR #30720
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Erroneous SQLCMD error notations eliminated: Code refinements have eliminated erroneous SQLCMD errors that occurred upon running the Data Migration Wizard if SQLCMD was not specified in the Path. This refinement adds SQLCMD to the Path statement if it was not already included.
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CR #36361
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"Unable to enable object" errors eliminated: Code refinements have eliminated "Unable to enable object" errors that occurred during runs of the AD Groups Provisioning Wizard when the Wizard used certain external methods to create external contacts. The process inadvertently introduced an invalid SMTP address, but the code refinements now correct the address to preempt the error.
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CR #38471
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All migrated recurring appointments now work in Outlook 2007: Code refinements have corrected a processing error that left some recurring appointments invisible and/or inaccessible in Outlook 2007 when they were set to occur in the last week of a month. A processing value for this circumstance that worked correctly in Outlook 2003 is not recognized in Outlook 2007, so the appointments did not appear in the Outlook 2007 calendar, and could not be opened when viewed "by Category." The refinement in this release uses a different value to signify the last week of a month.
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CR #40123
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Directory Export Unable to import Objects errors eliminated: Code refinements have eliminated the Unable to import Objects errors that occurred when the Directory Export Wizard was loading data into the SQL Server database.
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CR #40282
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SSDM conflict with desktop-search apps resolved: Code refinements have resolved compatability issues between the SSDM and desktop-search applications, which had caused some PST filenames to be corrupted. The System Requirements prohibition against desktop-search apps (added in ver 4.1.1.60 — see below, CR #40283) has been removed.
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CR #40331
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User Collections features in Notes Migration Manager now appear in proper sequence: The navigation sidebar in the Notes Migration Manager now shows the User Collections features in a sequence where the Send PAB Replicator screen correctly precedes the Locate Notes Data Stores screen. In most cases the Send PAB Replicator feature would be used before Locate Notes Data Stores, but in previous versions the two appeared in reverse order in the navigation sidebar.
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CR #41442
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Best reply option for Keep blocking vs. Unblock Security Alert from Windows Firewall: When a user runs an SSDM migration on a workstation with the Microsoft Vista operating system, Windows Firewall may post a Security Alert that offers a choice between Keep blocking and Unblock. The alert, and the user's reply to it, are irrelevant to the migration process. The Unblock option would prompt the user for administrator credentials, so the Keep blocking option is the easiest way to dismiss the alert. This information has now been added to the SSDM User Guide (page 21 in Doc ID 256).
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.64:
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CR #41019
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NSD error resolved: Code enhancements have resolved an NSD error that occurred only when migrating calendar data within a particular NSF file for a particular migrating organization.
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CR #41115
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Erroneous Warning eliminated: Code refinements have eliminated an erroneous program Warning: "Unexpected NULL passed for parameter."
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CR #41116
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Erroneous "out of memory" error message on Domino server console eliminated: Code refinements have eliminated an erroneous "out of memory" error message that appeared on the Domino server console after a valid syntax error occurred due to corrupted data in the Notes source. The original valid error message will still appear, but the "out of memory" message is now eliminated.
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CR #25974
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Offline migration process documented: The NME User Guide has been updated to document the process for offline migration. See in chapter 4: "How Do I Perform an Offline Migration?"
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CR #36092
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Personalized ("mail-merge") notification email templates documented: The NME User Guide has been updated to document the creation and editing of "merge" template files used by the Data Migration Manager to generate personalized notification emails to end users upon their migration (the "You've been migrated!" and "Welcome to Exchange!" emails). See in chapter 4: "How Do I Create or Edit a Template for Personalized User-Notification Emails?"
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CR #36116
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"Create Collection" button documented: The NME User Guide and Notes Migration Manager Help file now document the "Create Collection" button that appears on the Manage Users screen of Notes Migration Manager.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.61:
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CR #40619
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Merging, mailbox-enabling and provisioning groups when a single forest contains domains with different top-level domain names: The base DN in an ADSI search had previously been too specific for GCs that contain objects due to transitive trust, but the admin now has the option of not specifying a base DN at all.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.60:
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CR #35677
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Replies to migrated meeting invitations in Outlook 2007 now enabled: Code enhancements have now enabled the reply options to a migrated meeting invitation in Outlook 2007. This was not an issue for Outlook 2003, which processes meeting invitations differently from Outlook 2007.
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CR #36488
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"Constraint violation" errors resolved: A code enhancement has resolved the constraint-violation errors that occurred when attempting group provisioning on a domain with Windows 2000 domain controllers.
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CR #37639
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AD group provisioning errors resolved: A code enhancement has resolved group provisioning errors that previously occurred when the last character in a truncated samaccountname string happened to be an invalid samaccountname character.
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CR #40283
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SSDM conflict with antivirus and desktop-search apps documented: The NME User Guide and SSDM User Guide have been updated to note that some SSDM functions are incompatible with antivirus and desktop-search applications, and to document how to repair corrupted PST file names that may result if desktop-search apps are not disabled prior to running the SSDM. System Requirements in the Quick-Start Guide, NME User Guide, and Release Notes have been updated to note that such apps should be disabled prior to running the SSDM.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.44:
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CR #32600
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Improved processing of source data: Code refinements now improve the NME components' processing of particular character strings in source data.
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CR #33522
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Calendar items migration is faster: Code refinements have eliminated the long processing delays that sometimes occurred when migrating certain types of Calendar data.
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CR #33945
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"You have been migrated" messages: End users' "You have been migrated" messages (generated by the Data Migration Wizard) now appear in Notes as they should.
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CR #34356
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Previously unreported object-merge errors are now reported: A particular type of mail-enabling error in the AD Object Merging Wizard, which previously was not reported in the program log, is now correctly noted as an error in the log file.
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CR #34722
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Directory Export Wizard re-run errors resolved: Code refinements have eliminated errors that occurred when a subsequent run of the Directory Export Wizard attempted to load changed or new attributes.
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CR #35685
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Directory Export Wizard group export errors resolved: Code refinements have eliminated a particular type of error in the Directory Export Wizard, which occurred when attempting to export groups data.
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CR #35896
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PowerShell calls to create linked mailboxes: Notes Migrator for Exchange now calls PowerShell commands to support linked mailboxes in the Exchange 2007/AD environment.
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CR #36023
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"Could not load patch SQL file" error resolved: The SQL script called by the Setup utility now correctly sets the product version number, which eliminates the error.
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Updates to existing features in ver 4.1.1.30:
- Support for Notes Custom Attributes - The Directory Export Wizard can now export Notes custom attributes, so the Collection Wizard can use the attributes as a basis for member selection to various collections. The CustomAttr[#] program parameter(s), in the [Notes] section of Global Defaults, let you define which of Notes' custom attributes you want the Directory Export Wizard to capture:
[Notes]
CustomAttr1=Name_of_a_Notes_Attrib
CustomAttr2=Name_of_Another_Notes_Attrib
CustomAttr3=Name_of_Some_Other_Notes_Attrib
CustomAttr4=Name_of_Yet_Another_Notes_Attrib
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You may define as many as ten attributes to capture, CustomAttr1 through CustomAttr10. The Directory Export Wizard will then export the data values associated with the defined attributes, and save them in the exported data table in the SQL Server database, so the information will be available to the Collection Wizard. Note that these CustomAttr[#] parameters must be defined in the Global Defaults — not (only) in the Directory Export Wizard's task parameters.
In the Collection Wizard, any such defined custom attribute may be designated as a basis for member selection for a particular collection. For example, you might create a collection by selecting only members whose Attrib_4 value equals "XYZ." In the Add Members screen, the defined custom attributes will appear in the Attribute drop-down list box as additional selectable options.
Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.30:
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CR #31204
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Directory Export of empty source field in group member record: The Directory Export Wizard will now uneventfully process a Notes group member when the source record contains an empty field. That condition in earlier releases introduced performance issues that are now resolved by this code enhancement.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.29:
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CR #26064
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"Welcome to Exchange" message: The "Welcome to Exchange" message, which sometimes did not display properly in some Outlook 2007 and Outlook Web Access clients, now appears as it should.
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CR #26083
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SSDM in Silent mode with command-line flags: The SSDM now runs correctly in Silent mode when executed with command-line flags.
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CR #28550
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Data Migration Wizard and SSDM resiliency: The Data Migration Wizard and SSDM have been refined to better handle a particular rare circumstance in a customer's NSF file.
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CR #29506
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AD Object Merge Wizard timing issue: A task-execution timing issue in the AD Object Merge Wizard that had caused program failures has now been resolved. Two timing controls have been added to the code, as program parameters in the [ActiveDirectory] section of Global Defaults and Task Parameters:
- MailEnableAttempts=[#]
Determines the maximum number of times the AD Object Merge Wizard will attempt to mail-enable an object in AD before giving up and logging a failure error. The default is 3, but the parameter will accept any value in the range 1 to 1000, inclusive.
- MailEnableRetryWaitSeconds=[##]
Determines the number of seconds the AD Object Merge Wizard will wait between attempts to mail-enable an object in AD. The default is 30, but the parameter will accept any value in the range 1 to 30000 (30000 seconds = 500 minutes), inclusive.
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CR #30612
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Migration without a Domino server for users with file-system PABs: The Data Migration Wizard can now migrate users whose PABs are all in the file system, when there is no Domino server.
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CR #30830
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Document support for Notes client 7.0.0 and 7.0.1: The System Requirements in the Notes Migrator for Exchange Quick-Start Guide and User Guide, and in these Release Notes, now specify support for Notes client versions 7.0.0 and 7.0.1. Earlier releases mistakenly cited support for version "7.x," which Quest cannot logically certify since it cannot yet test the versions beyond 7.0.1 that have not yet been released.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.23:
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CR #27656
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Migration of embedded MIME images: Embedded MIME images now migrate properly.
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Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.21:
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CR #24780
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Elimination of Outlook Calendar duplicates: Calendar parent objects for meetings in the Notes source no longer migrate as meetings themselves, which had caused some inadvertent meeting duplicates in Outlook.
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Updates to existing features in ver 4.1.1.18:
- Migration of calendar and task folder ACLs, and of delegation rights ("send of behalf of") - The Data Migration Wizard and Self-Service Desktop Migrator both now migrate calendar and task folder ACLs, and the Data Migration Wizard can also migrate Notes' "send on behalf of" delegation rights. Migration of delegation rights is enabled by default, but can be disabled by publicDelegates=0 in the [General] section of the Global Defaults or Task Parameters.
- Support for MS Daylight Savings Time patch - Notes Migrator for Exchange now correctly migrates items, including recurring Calendar events, regardless of whether the Microsoft 2007 Daylight Savings Time (DST) patch has been installed on the admin's migration workstation.
Important Note: Even with this new support for the DST patch, an admin should run a correction script from Lotus to correct appointment times in the source before migrating any data with Notes Migrator for Exchange. The Lotus script should be run on the Domino server, on every source mail file in the organization, to fix the appointment times on recurring calendar items affected by the DST change: appointments that fall between March 11 and 31, 2007, and those that fall between October 28 and November 3, 2007. If the Lotus script is not run before the migration, the migrated items will appear an hour later than originally scheduled, even though the items will display the correct timezone (with "-old" appended) due to the NME 4.1.1 enhancement.
- Support for Outlook 2007 - All Wizards and other component applications of Notes Migrator for Exchange now support Outlook 2007.
Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.1.18:
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CR #22474
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Directory Export generation of aliases for manually entered domains: The Directory Export Wizard now generates TargetAliases (into the SQL Server database table) for domains that are manually added to the Domains table in the Discover Notes Info Configuration screen of Notes Migration Manager.
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CR #22480
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Migration of duplicate PABs and archives from SSDM eliminated: The Data Migration Wizard no longer attempts to migrate PABs and archives that have already been migrated by the Self-Service Desktop Migrator. The SSDM Statistics Collection Wizard still adds PABs and archives migrated by the SSDM to the Locate Notes Data Stores form, as before, but in prior releases the Data Migration Wizard attempted to migrate the duplicates.
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CR #22481
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Preservation of keyfilename value in notes.ini after launch of SSDM: In the last release, the Self-Service Desktop Migrator would overwrite the keyfilename value (which corresponds to the Notes User ID file name), but that value is now preserved.
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CR #22482
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Provisioning larger numbers of groups: The AD Groups Provisioning Wizard can now provision larger numbers of groups.
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CR #22485
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Group provisioning issues in Exchange 2007 resolved: In some network configurations, groups that had been provisioned into AD for an Exchange 2007 target environment were not mail-enabled as they should have been. This problem is now fixed.
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CR #22834
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MboxFromContact program parameter restored: This parameter in the [Active Directory] section of Global Defaults and Task Parameters had been inadvertently disabled in the preceding version, but is now restored. MboxFromContact tells the Data Migration Wizard whether to convert a contact into a mailbox when mailbox enabling. This feature is off (0) by default, since in a typical scenario no contacts should remain after the AD Object Merging Wizard has run (to merge contacts into existing AD objects). The parameter permits the enabling of the feature by MBoxFromContact=1, for some rare circumstances where the option is preferrable.
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Updates to existing features in ver 4.1.0.12:
- Wizard "memory" - All of the Wizards now "remember" program settings, and recall them from one run to the next on any given workstation.
- Enhanced mail-forwarding controls - Mail-fowarding features that were previously controlled only by program parameters are now more easily configured from the Data Migration Wizard's primary user interface. The associated options have also been expanded and reorganized for greater admin control over these features.
- Enhanced "silent mode" for Self-Service Desktop Migrator - The Self-Service Desktop Migrator now permits greater admin control over which screens and which fields will appear to the user in the GUI, and the values that will prevail for fields that are hidden from the user. These program customizations are accomplished by a set of program parameters, documented in Chapter 4 of the Notes Migrator for Exchange User Guide.
- Differentiation of Notes mail-in databases - The Directory Export Wizard now recognizes mail-in databases as distinct from other (user) mailboxes, and identifies them as such in Notes Migration Manager, in the Object Type column of the Objects found table.
- Improved data-table rendering in Notes Migration Manager screens - Improvements in the fundamental table-rendering functions of Notes Migration Manager help the program resize all of its data tables better, load data contents quicker, and handle very large collections more efficiently than in previous releases.
- New Remove NAB button in the Find NABs screen - A Remove NAB button has been added to the Find NABs screen in Notes Migration Manager, so an admin can remove a NAB from the displayed list of NAB data sources. The new button lets an admin exclude a particular NAB from consideration as a source of information used by other Quest programs to provision Active Directory, identify users and other objects for migration, and facilitate accurate mail-forwarding for the duration of the migration.
- Improved data management in SQL Server database - The widths of several fields have been expanded to better accommodate longer data values, and the code has been amended to better handle any field overruns that may still occur. An overrun no longer interrupts a program run, but is now simply reported as program Warnings in the log file.
- Restored migration summary statistics in log file - The Data Migration Wizard now reports a summary of its migration statistics at the end of its program log file, as the corresponding batch-migration application did prior to version 4.0.
- Recognition of Notes DJXMail template - The Data Migration Wizard now recognizes and migrates the DJXMail template, popular in Japan, as a standard mail template.
New features in ver 4.1.0.12:
- Exchange 2007 support - Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports migration to Exchange 2007, and mailbox creation with PowerShell for Exchange 2007 servers.
- Notes 7 support - Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports migration from Notes version 7.
- Mail-merge user-notification emails - The Data Migration Wizard can now generate mail-merge emails to end users, to notify them (in their Notes mailboxes) that they've been migrated, and/or to welcome them to Exchange and Outlook (in their new Outlook mailboxes). The features let you customize the Subject and From fields, and designate a suitable template for the message body.
- Preservation of Notes ACLs - NSF database ACLs are now mapped to each Exchange folder. Any ACLs that are set for the migrated NSF are applied to all the folders in the Exchange mailbox.
- Preservation of Notes follow-up flags - The migration process now preserves, in Outlook, any follow-up flags in the Notes source.
- Multiple-user selection in Notes Migration Manager - The Manage Users and Manage Groups screens now let you define a new collection by selecting multiple members for inclusion from the Collection members table. To define a multi-member collection: Press and hold the Ctrl key while clicking on each additional member you want to add, and then click Create Collection.
- New Program Parameters documentation - The Program Parameters Reference, previously available only by separate download, is now included in the primary product kit and installed with the other PDF-format documentation.
- Log files now document system information - Notes Migrator for Exchange applications now log system information at the top of each log file, as appropriate (per application): versions of the Outlook and Notes clients installed on the migration workstation, versions of the Domino and Exchange servers, and versions of the Notes clients. This feature will help Quest Support staff recreate a problem, to analyze and solve it.
- Term licenses - Notes Migrator for Exchange now supports limited-term, fully-functional licenses ("term licenses"), in addition to demo (trial) licenses and perpetual fully-functional licenses.
Issues Addressed in Version 4.1.0.12:
- Data Migration Wizard now finds Sent and Draft items (resolves CaseID 476493-1): The Data Migration Wizard and Self-Service Desktop Migrator now recheck the Sent and Drafts views of the Notes source, by an alternate method, if their first method finds no Sent or Drafts items. This solves a problem that occurred in some configurations where the applications appeared to not "see" items in the Sent and Drafts views, and therefore did not migrate them.
- Data Locator Wizard now correctly locates on second run via MailFilePath (resolves CaseID 478078-1): A coding error in the Data Locator Wizard has been corrected to eliminate a rare problem whereby the Wizard failed to re-import a local NSF file when the Wizard was run a second time using the MailFilePath method to locate the file.
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- Improved handling of calendar items (resolves Case ID 468360): The Data Migration Wizard now correctly migrates certain types of calendar items so that they can be opened in Outlook.
- Tagging of migrated PAB entries with Notes source folder category is now optional (resolves Case ID 471049): A new program parameter has been defined in the [PAB] section of Global Defaults and Task Parameters, to make the tagging optional.
[PAB]
SourceFolderCategory=1
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... tells the Data Migration Wizard to tag migrated PAB entries with the Notes source folder category, as it always did in prior releases. By default (0) the Wizard will not tag migrated PAB entries.
- Timezone differentials in QSCHED functions at some European sites are now resolved (resolves Case ID 486011): The QSCHED application now runs tasks in local time, the same as they were scheduled.
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- Removing forwarding when not migrating data no longer generates errors: Exchange-to-Notes mail-forwarding rules can now be removed in an independent run of the Data Migration Wizard (without migrating data), without generating any errors to the log as in prior releases.
- Data Migration Wizard now falls back to a more generic language resource to name Outlook folders if it cannot find the folder names for a more specific language variant (resolves Case ID 470682): The Global Defaults, Task Parameters, and notesdtapp.ini file contain sections that specify migrated Outlook folder names, per language, and the Data Migration Wizard refers to those resources when naming new Outlook folders. But if the specified locale is associated with a particular variant of a language--for example, French as spoken in France vs. Canada vs. Belgium, etc.--and the Wizard can't find a section for that variant, then it will instead consult a section for a more generic level of the language. In Quebec, for example, if the Wizard can't find a section for [FRC] (Canadian French), it will instead use the folder names specified in [FR] (generic French). In previous releases, the Wizard would default to English-language folder names if it couldn't find a section for a particular language variant.
Alternatively, an administrator could create a new section in the Global Defaults and/or notesdtapp.ini for the particular language variant associated with his or her locale. The three-letter section name must conform to the TLA (three-letter acronym) defined by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/winxp/langtla.mspx.
- Data Migration Wizard no longer provisions disabled aliases: The Wizard now provisions into AD only the aliases that are enabled in the SQL Server database. Any aliases marked in the database as disabled will not be provisioned.
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- Data Migration Wizard now correctly migrates calendar update items that have not yet been accepted or declined: In previous releases, such update items were lost for any recipient who had not accepted or declined the update prior to migration.
- Admin can now optionally suppress displays of item-count estimates on Self-Service Desktop Migrator Progress screen (resolves Case ID 465117): Two new program parameters in the [General] section of notesdtapp.ini let you suppress the display of estimated item counts:
... tells the Wizard to display "Processed M item(s)" instead of "Processed M of N item(s)."
... tells the Wizard to not update the title, and to suppress the percent value in the progress bar.
The defaults for these parameters (1 in both cases) tell the Wizard to show the full "Processed M of N item(s)," update the title, and show the percent value in the progress bar.
- Data Migration Wizard now supports mapping a single Notes attribute to multiple MAPI attributes. (resolves Case ID 468451).
- Documentation Updates: All product documentation, both the printable PDF guides and the on-line Help systems, have been updated to address feedback from customers and Quest support staff. The updates include new material to elaborate on certain topics, clarifications and sidebar notes where appropriate, refinements to the System Requirements, and corrections of a few typographical errors.
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- Self-Service Desktop Migrator now supports migration of non-ASCII characters from pre-5.0.11 versions of Notes client: When converting Notes rich text to MS RTF, pre-5.0.11 versions of nxrtf.dll convert non-ASCII characters to question marks. These two new features permit the migration of non-ASCII characters--for example, Chinese or Thai characters--by two different methods. One feature tells the program to use a later version of nxrtf.dll, if available. If a later version of nxrtf.dll is not available, the other feature can manually correct the conversion limitation of a pre-5.0.11 nxrtf.dll. Both features are controlled by program parameters in the [Notes] section of notesdtapp.ini:
- UseAppNxrtfDLL=<#>: Binary parameter (0 or 1), determines whether the program will try to use a more recent compatible version of nxrtf.dll (if available) to convert Notes rich text to MS RTF. This feature permits the migration of non-ASCII characters by telling the program to use a later version of nxrtf.dll. This feature is on (1) by default, but can be disabled by UseAppNxrtfDLL=0.
The alternate (more recent) version of nxrtf.dll must reside in the same directory as the Self-Service Desktop Migrator program file, and its major version must be the same as the major version of nnotes.dll. You may find a 5.0.11 version of nxrtf.dll in the Notes program directory (for example, c:\lotus\notes\) of a known 5.0.11 client installation.
If the program finds no newer version of nxrtf.dll that meets the conditions noted above, it will use the nxrtf.dll found in the PATH. If no 5.0.11 or later version of nxrtf.dll is available, see QuoteNonAsciiCharsInRTF below for an alternate solution to the problem.
- QuoteNonAsciiCharsInRTF=<#>: Binary parameter (0 or 1), determines whether the program will quote non-ASCII characters in Notes rich text to preserve them during conversion to Microsoft RTF by versions of nxrtf.dll older than 5.0.11. This feature is on (1) by default, but can be disabled by QuoteNonAsciiCharsInRTF=0. The parameter is ignored if the prevailing version of nxrtf.dll is 5.0.11 or higher.
- Data Migration Wizard now supports journal migration from Notes R6.5.5: An internal code refinement in the Data Migration Wizard now permits the migration of journals from a Notes R6.5.5 client.
- Data Migration Wizard now supports up to 64K of aliases when creating a mailbox: The added capacity lets the program conceivably add more than 2,000 to 3,000 aliases per mailbox.
- Notes Data Locator Wizard now supports rediscovery of a mail file with a quota that has changed since the Wizard first discovered the file: In previous releases the Wizard would generate an error when the quota of a previously located mail file was changed, and then the Wizard was run again to locate the file again.
- RTF content handling improved in Self-Service Desktop Migrator: This internal code enhancement corrects a problem that occurred in previous releases, in which the Desktop Migrator misinterpreted certain conditions within RTF content to mistakenly truncate a message body.
- All documentation has been updated: All three PDF documents and all on-line Help systems have been updated with elaborations, additions, and corrections to accommodate recent feature additions and enhancements, recent changes to system requirements, and recent documentation feedback from engineers and support staff.
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- Data Migration Wizard and Self-Service Desktop Migrator now support migration of images (resolves Case ID 453745): A new program parameter has been added for both batch migrations and per-desktop migrations (in the [Exchange] section of Global Defaults, Task Parameters, and notesdtapp.ini) that now permits the selective enabling/disabling of Microsoft's RTF conversion, which strips embedded images from migrated mail, appointments, and tasks.
The RewriteRTF parameter value is a single digit, 0-7 (default 7), that specifies which (if any) of migrating mail, appointment, and task items the Wizard should pass through Microsoft's rich-text converter. The Microsoft RTF conversion in many cases will refine the exported compound document format from Notes' own converter, but can now be disabled if the preservation of embedded images is more important than the format refinement. However, not processing the RTF will result in Calendar/Tasks not synchronizing with Windows Mobile 2005 devices. The parameter value must be a single digit in the range 0 to 7, to indicate which item types should be processed by Microsoft's RTF conversion:
0: None
1: Mail Only
2: Appts Only
3: Mail + Appts
4: Tasks Only
5: Mail + Tasks
6: Appts + Tasks
7: Mail + Appts + Tasks
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- Directory Export Wizard now supports export from NSF files larger than 2 GB: A database creation script associated with the Directory Export Wizard has been enhanced to permit correct statistics gathering from NSF files larger than 2.0 GB.
- Data Migration Wizard now permits migration of certain NSF files (resolves Case ID 453449): A code refinement now eliminates errors that previously caused fatal application errors for certain NSF files.
- Data Migration Wizard now migrates certain DocLinks (resolves Case ID 457836): The DocLinks buffer associated with migrating Notes DocLinks has been amended to permit the uneventful migration of NSF files containing DocLinks.
- Data Migration Wizard and Self-Service Desktop Migrator now both support migration of Journals: A code refinement in the Data Migration Wizard now permits migration of Journals, as the Desktop Migrator has in previous releases.
- Obfuscated passwords: All passwords that are written to log files and program parameters are now obfuscated.
- Directory Export Wizard performance enhancements: The Directory Export Wizard now uses enhanced importing and query methods to import data stores and data store owners, which dramatically improve program performance when running the Wizard after an earlier run has already loaded some data into the SQL Server database.
- Elimination of excessive trivial warnings: An internal code method that previously generated excessive (but trivial) warning messages during the reformatting of MS RTF message bodies, and left excessive temp files in the %temp% directory, has been improved. The warnings and excessive temp files no longer occur.
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- Support for Notes systems with no global domain document: The Directory Export Wizard can now be run for a Notes system with no global domain document.
- Context sensitivity for on-line Helps: The on-line Help systems for all product Wizards and other applications are now context-sensitive, to display the pertinent Help topic relative to the current display when a user call for the Help.
- Support for the multi-user install configuration: The Self-Service Desktop Migrator now supports the multi-user install configuration. To enable this support, edit the notesinipath parameter in the [Notes] section of notesdtapp.ini. For example:
[Notes]
notesinipath=h:\notesclient\notes.ini
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- Exported data now includes Notes Short Name: The Notes Directory Exporter now captures the Notes Short Name and loads its values into the UserId column of the SQL Server database. The Notes Short Name is often a useful value to use when matching objects in the AD Object Merge Wizard.
- Erroneous attachment timestamps: The Data Migration Wizard can now process attachments with erroneous 31st-century timestamps (erroneously assigned in Notes environment) without crashing.
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- Free/Busy synchronization from Notes to Exchange through Notes Connector: The legacyExchangeDN can now be maintained through merging and mailbox-enabling, to support free/busy synchronization from Notes to Exchange through the Notes Connector. To remove the free-busy properties to stop Exchange from looking in Notes for users' free-busy information, you must select Remove Forwarding in the Exchange Administrative Operations. This also removes the free/busy forwarding, and is required even if mail-forwarding is not set. If you need free/busy synchronization through the Connector, set the following configuration setting:
[ActiveDirectory]
AlwaysUseOldExchDn=1
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The default value for this parameter is 0, which is appropriate for sites that do not require free/busy synchronization through the Connector.
- More options for gathering Notes PABs onto central server: The PAB Replicator Wizard now offers a choice of three forms to send to users to automate their copying PABs to a centralized location:
- PabReplicator.CopyToServer: Copies PABs to the specified Domino server directory; does not use mail file. (This is the same form that shipped with the initial release of 4.0.)
- PabReplicator.CopyOrSyncToMailFile: Copies PAB entries to mail file, or performs iNotes sync if available. Works with iNotes and non-iNotes mail files.
- PabReplicator.SyncToMailFile: Performs iNotes sync; works only with iNotes mail files.
- The AD Object Merge Wizard is now compatible with SQL Server 2000.
- Support for Blackberry Devices: The data-migration process has been enhanced so that migrated calendar data will now synchronize with Blackberry devices.
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- Project-Based User Interface: The interface to Notes Migrator for Exchange has changed. All components that are run from the migration workstation are now launched from a single console, called the Notes Migration Manager. The Notes Migration Manager is organized to lead you through your migration tasks, providing easy access to all the information and tools you need to get the job done.
The "Project View" of Notes Migration Manager provides a high-level view of the status of your migration project, showing you at a glance how many users have migrated, your overall data migration rates, and more. Other forms let you set default settings for reuse from component to component, and from one migration run to another. The Notes Migration Manager is also the platform for launching the various Wizards that perform the critical discovery, provisioning and migration tasks. Other forms let you monitor recent runs, schedule tasks, and view reports and logs.
- Reporting: Notes Migrator for Exchange now generates a number of reports to make your pre-migration planning easier, and to keep you on top of your ongoing migration. After you run through the data gathering steps, you can review reports that describe your Notes environment: what Notes servers you have, what domains you are using, what users and resources and groups you have, where they reside, and how much data they have to migrate. These reports can help you plan both your migration strategy and your storage needs on the Exchange side. As your migration progresses, other reports summarize who and what have been migrated, which Notes data stores have been migrated, and what groups have been provisioned to Active Directory.
- Task Scheduling: Notes Migrator for Exchange now includes the ability to schedule migration operations that you want to run periodically, or at a later time. This lets you develop a periodic schedule of Notes directory exports followed by group provisioning runs, for example, to keep your Notes and Exchange distribution lists synchronized. It also lets you configure a data migration run during your work day, but schedule it to run after hours when network and server loads are low.
- Central Database Shared by Migration Workstations: A central database, stored on a Microsoft SQL Server, is now used for the primary storage of all migration data. Notes Migrator for Exchange version 4.0 requires access to a Microsoft SQL server. You may use your existing SQL Server 2005 or 2000, or install a new SQL server. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express is bundled with the full installation kit for Notes Migrator for Exchange. To use a preexisting SQL Server, you must have the SQL Native client installed on each migration workstation.
- Collections: To provide flexibility, the mailboxes to be migrated and the groups to be provisioned are grouped into collections. When migration tasks are performed on many users or groups, a collection is used to define the set of users or groups. These collections are stored in the central database, and replace the UsersToMigrate.TSV and GroupsToProvision.TXT files that were used in earlier versions of Notes Migrator for Exchange. Collections are defined with the Collection Wizard, which can either import a list from a TSV file or generate a collection based on SQL queries into the central database.
- Licensing: Notes Migrator for Exchange now requires an activation key when you purchase the product or arrange for an evaluation trial. You will not be able to migrate more users than you are licensed to migrate, although any user who has already been counted against the license limit may be re-migrated any number of times.
- Enhancements to existing Notes Migrator for Exchange features:
- Log Viewer features:
- You can now optionally avoid contacting the Internet when using the Log Viewer at sites that do not have Internet access. This will provide a performance enhancement for sites that are blocked from the Internet.
- The Log Viewer now provides more detailed reports, an ordered listing of errors, with user list and the solution details from the solution website.
- Group provisioning enhancements:
- Collections of groups may now be provisioned to the Active Directory container of your choice.
- You may now use the provisioning GUI to choose the type and scope of AD group to create when provisioning groups in Active Directory
- Resources can now automatically be assigned the MAPI parameters that make the resource mailboxes act as Exchange resources during migration.
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