Tchater maintenant avec le support
Tchattez avec un ingénieur du support

Migrator for Notes to Exchange 4.16.3 - Pre-Migration Planning Guide

About the Migrator for Notes to Exchange documentation Introduction Critical considerations Other strategic planning issues Appendix A: Known limitations of the migration process

Visit our online community

Other sources of information

The Quest Migrator for Notes to Exchange & Coexistence Manager for Notes community is an interactive online community dedicated to issues relating to:

•
Migration of email, identity and applications to the Windows Exchange platform, either on-premises or hosted Exchange platforms like Microsoft 365—including migrations from Exchange, GroupWise, and Notes.
•
Active Directory migrations.
•
Migrations from Notes application and Exchange public folders to Sharepoint.
•
Coexistence strategies and tools.

The community is designed to foster collaboration between Quest experts and users. It’ is a place where you can:

•
Learn about product releases and betas before anyone else.
•
Get access to Quest product leaders and subject matter experts on migration and coexistence.
•
Participate in discussion forums, share insights and ideas, and get common questions answered.

You can browse around the forums and the library at the Quest Migrator for Notes to Exchange & Coexistence Manager for Notes Community.

However, to take full advantage of the community, post new threads, respond to messages from others, and rate our documents and downloads, you can Register Now. If you already have a Quest account or are a member of another Quest community, Sign in. The Sign in and Register Now features are available from links on the Quest Communities home page at the Quest Communities home page.

Introduction

•
About Migrator for Notes to Exchange
•
Configuration requirements and account permissions
•
About Quest license keys

About Migrator for Notes to Exchange

Quest Migrator for Notes to Exchange (MNE) is a set of related software applications that facilitate a variety of migration strategies for organizations moving from a Domino server with Notes clients to an Exchange environment with Outlook clients or to hosted Exchange such as Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online).

Migrator for Notes to Exchange can:

•
Extract user data from the Domino server to mailbox-enabled user accounts in Active Directory.
•
Migrate mail, appointments, tasks, personal address books, personal distribution lists, and archives from the Notes environment to the Exchange environment and to Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files.
•
Set and remove mail-forwarding rules between Notes and Exchange to assure correct mail routing throughout the transition period.

MNE supports options that allow flexibility in devising and implementing suitable migration strategies for a variety of network configurations, circumstances, and preferences. For example, MNE supports common migration scenarios such as:

•
Migration to a local (on-premises) Exchange server.
•
Migration from Notes to Microsoft 365 (the cloud)
•
with provisioning to Microsoft 365 from existing local Active Directory (already synchronized to the local Domino directory).
•
with provisioning directly from the Domino directory to Microsoft 365.
•
Offline migration in which Notes source data, previously extracted from Notes to NSF or PST files, is migrated directly to the Exchange target.

An administrator can migrate user data in batches of 100 or so users at a time in a series of migration runs, including user archives, if user archives reside in (or are moved to) a centralized location. Migration is most efficient if you can migrate the data for your entire user population in batches.

You can run the MNE Data Migration Wizard on multiple migration servers in parallel for different user groups simultaneously. This way, you can employ multiple migration servers to migrate a particular data volume in a single weekend, whereas you would need multiple weekends to migrate the same volume using a single workstation.

MNE also includes a per-desktop migration program, the Self-Service Desktop Migrator (SSDM), so individual users (or administrators acting on their behalf) can migrate their own mail, calendar data, personal address books (PABs), and archives. If user archives are not centrally accessible, or if some local circumstance makes batch migration impractical, the per-desktop program is simple enough that most end users can run it themselves.

For example, encrypted mail can be migrated only by the SSDM since messages must be decrypted before migration and that requires per-user access credentials that are unavailable to the batch migrator. Some administrators might prefer to visit desktops individually to ensure a smooth transition for executives or for users who are uncomfortable attempting the tasks themselves.

An administrator can mix-and-match these strategies: migrating some users in batches, but migrating others individually at their desktops, while still other users can run the per-desktop tool themselves.

This chapter explains the purpose and capabilities of Migrator for Notes to Exchange and explains the requirements for its operating environment.

Product components

Migrator for Notes to Exchange contains these primary components:

•
Notes Migration Manager: A central console application that coordinates most administrator-driven tasks and features. The Notes Migration Manager contains an assortment of specialized component applications, called wizards, that facilitate particular program features. In addition to wizards, the Notes Migration Manager helps you monitor and manage most of the information pertaining to a migration project such as program defaults and server access credentials, locations of Notes/Domino source data, exported data from the Domino directory, and migration statistics.
•
Notes Migration Scheduling Application: A separate command-line application that runs scheduled tasks. The program checks the SQL Server database to see whether any tasks have been scheduled to run since the last check and runs any tasks it finds.
•
Microsoft 365 Account Pooling Utility: A utility that helps you manage a pooled collection of Microsoft 365 administrative accounts to handle the Microsoft-imposed throttling limits that can slow data transmission to Microsoft 365. Since the Microsoft throttling limitations are applied per administrative account, this utility coordinates multiple accounts to run simultaneously to multiply the throttled throughput rate by the number of accounts in the pool.
•
Self-Service Desktop Migrator (SSDM): A separate application that end users can run (one user at a time) to migrate their own mail, PABs, and archives. An administrator can also run the Desktop Migrator on behalf of an end user, running under the user credentials.
The SSDM user interface is available in English and French. The SSDM User Guide is available in English, and French. By default, the SSDM interface and help are displayed in the language specified in the operating system settings (language and locale). You can use the DisplayLanguage parameter to specify a language.
•
SSDM Scheduling Administration Utility: A utility that lets an administrator regulate the end-user ability to run the Self-Service Desktop Migrator (SSDM) to avoid processing bottlenecks that can occur if too many users use the SSDM simultaneously.
•
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 are:

•
NABs Discovery Wizard: Searches the Notes/Domino server to locate all Notes NABs (Name and Address Books). The Directory Export Wizard and the Internet Domains Discovery Wizard extract critical directory data from the NABs which is read by the provisioning and migration wizards to perform their tasks.
•
Internet Domains Discovery Wizard: Extracts all Internet domains it can find in the Notes NABs (Name and Address Books) found by the NABs Discovery Wizard. The domains are used to generate address aliases for all users so that Exchange can recognize and route the mail sent to old user addresses.
•
Directory Export Wizard: Gathers user information from the Domino servers to create SQL data tables that is critical input for the MNE provisioning and migration wizards. You can perform the export task immediately following configuration or schedule the task to run at a later time.
•
Collection Wizard: Lets you define the member contents of user and group collections. A collection is a batch of users or groups—a defined subset of users—to be migrated or groups to be provisioned. Provisioning, migration, and other functions are applied to collections of users and groups. The Collection Wizard defines the collections. You can add members to a collection by selecting objects from the SQL Server database, by importing the contents of a .tsv (tab-separated-values format) file, or both.
•
Groups Provisioning Wizard: Defines a task that provisions the distribution groups (creates group objects) in local Active Directory, or in Microsoft 365, from a designated group collection and schedules the task to run at a specific time, or at a series of recurring times.
•
Notes Data Locator Wizard: Defines a task that locates data files in the Notes source for a user collection, or gathers statistics from previously located data stores, and schedules the task to run at a specific time or at a series of recurring times.
•
Provisioning Wizard: Provisions Notes users into Active Directory as mail-enabled objects. The wizard consolidates duplicate entities in AD by merging information from Exchange contacts into corresponding AD user accounts, and deletes the contacts to leave a single mail-enabled security object per user in AD. (Quest CMN Directory Connector generates the contacts during a directory update when corresponding objects already exist in AD.)
•
Send PAB Replicator Wizard: Sends a special email form to users within a user collection that lets the users copy all their PABs (personal address books) to a centralized Notes server directory where the Data Migration Wizard can find and migrate them.
•
Data Migration Wizard: Defines a task for all users within a user collection that can do the following:
•
Mailbox-enable Exchange accounts.
•
Migrate user data.
•
Update mail-forwarding rules.
•
Perform related Notes and Exchange administrative functions.
Migrator for Notes to Exchange copies data from Notes as Unicode and inserts data into Exchange as Unicode. Any data that has a specific character set (MIME data) in the Notes source retains that character set after migration. The migration features do not convert MIME data into Unicode.
•
Self-Service Desktop Migration Statistics Collection Wizard: Gathers migration statistics written by the Self-Service Desktop Migrator (SSDM) and loads the data into the SQL Server database to help you track migration project progress. The wizard can perform the data-gathering task immediately following its configuration or you can schedule the task to run at a later time.
Documents connexes

The document was helpful.

Sélectionner une évaluation

I easily found the information I needed.

Sélectionner une évaluation