NM: In what order are Mailbox folders migrated? (4313442)

Question

When migrating data from Domino to Exchange, how does Notes Migrator determine the order in which to migrate each folder?

Answer

When Notes Migrator starts migrating a mailbox, all folders are iterated and the message count in each folder is determined.  The folders are created as they are migrated, one after the other.

Migration of folders then occurs in the following order:

1. Contacts
2. Calendar
3. Drafts
4. Tasks
5. Inbox
6. Sent Items to Custom Folder (Sent Option A)
7. Personal folders. As a top level personal folder is migrated, all sub folders below that are migrated in order at that time.
8. Junk folder Trash (deleted items - optional)
9. Trash
10. Journals
11. Sent Items to Custom Folder (Sent Option B)
12. All documents/Unfiled;  are scanned to find any messages that are not filed into a folder. These documents are put into an 'Unfiled' folder in Exchange.

Notes Migrator processes personal folders in order of the modified date, oldest to the newest. The two exceptions to this are:

1. If the option to 'Migrate Sent Items Last' is checked it will process 'Sent Items' after every other folder and view has been migrated, aside from 'All Documents'.
2. The 'All Documents' folder is always processed at the end of the migration, after every other folder has been processed.

It's not always obvious what the folder order will be because there is no simple way in the Notes client to see the modified dates for the folders and views.

IMPORTANT: Folders with names containing "Alarms", 'Rules", "$MAPI", or "Group Calendars" are skipped. - Run the 'Fix Folders' agent prior to migrations

NOTE:  If the goal is to have the folders created first so they can be acted upon in Exchange while the migration is being performed. Then a two pass migration can be performed.  The first pass can performed of contacts only.  If there is a contact to be migrated,  the folders will be created even though there is not mail to be migrated.