Features and Benefits

Quest GroupWise Migrator for Exchange provides an ideal solution for companies migrating from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange. It converts users' mail, calendars, tasks, personal address books and frequent contacts and stores them on users' new mailboxes on the Exchange server. It also migrates information stored in GroupWise archives into Microsoft Outlook personal stores. In addition, it:

Migrates data stored on GroupWise servers directly to corresponding mailboxes on an Exchange server

• Valuable information in e-mail messages is preserved. Users retain their folder structure and organization. They can reply to messages without needing to make any edits to addresses. Dates, times, senders, recipients and attachments are all preserved, maintaining the history of threaded conversations. Scheduled appointments and task lists are also retained.

Converts personal address books and frequent contacts into contacts stored on the Exchange Server

• GroupWise Migrator preserves key address book information such as phone numbers, fax numbers and mailing addresses. Users can continue to address messages using the 'nicknames' they previously defined, eliminating the need to recreate the information or use cumbersome procedures to export, edit and import address book data. This significantly lowers migration project costs by reducing help desk calls and lost productivity.

Converts personal distribution lists

• GroupWise Migrator eliminates the need for cumbersome export/import and data entry procedures by preserving key address book information such as phone and fax numbers, mailing addresses, nicknames and distribution lists.

Converts GroupWise archives into Outlook personal stores

• Archives contain valuable corporate data. Users can reply to messages without making any edits to the address(es). Calendar and task data in archives is also migrated to Outlook personal stores.

Operates as an end-user or administrator-driven program

• Administrators can migrate all data available to them without requiring any end user intervention. This includes all GroupWise server-based data, personal address books and frequent contacts. Server-based archives can also be migrated by the administrator. When archives reside on end-user workstations, GroupWise Migrator can be installed on a file server and includes an easy-to-use interface for end users. Nothing is installed on end-user workstations.

Automatically determines appropriate Internet addresses

• GroupWise Migrator automatically creates a table of user names, native GroupWise addresses and preferred Internet addresses that Administrators can review and edit using Microsoft Excel or Access. In addition, Exchange is configured to accept all alternative Internet addresses that GroupWise honored.