Migrator for Notes to Exchange 4.16.3 - Release Notes

Product licensing

Migrator for Notes to Exchange is a metered-use product that requires the application of a valid license key. An MNE license key is installed in the MNE Notes Migration Manager component.

Quest sells license keys for particular numbers of users to be migrated. When the limit is reached the software continues to function nominally for users that have already been migrated, but will not migrate additional users. The same license is used for all functions of a particular user (provisioning, forwarding, migration, etc.), and the user license count increments the first time any program function is applied to each user. That is, when any feature of any MNE component is applied to a particular user, all features of all components can be applied to the same user under the same license. Moreover, users can be re-migrated (if necessary) using the original licenses; re-migration does not require an additional license.

A trial license is intended to let you try the MNE software in your own environment, with your own data, to help you determine whether MNE’s capabilities are suitable to your needs. Under a trial license, the program stamps a "MIGRATION EVALUATION" prefix into the Subject of every migrated message, and also imposes the following limitations:

You can obtain your first or a subsequent license key by contacting a Quest Software sales representative. For either a trial or perpetual license, the key uses one of the following formats

where ###-##### or ###-###-### represents your unique license number. The file is sent to you from Quest Licensing as an email file attachment. Copy the license key file to your desktop, or to some other convenient location.

The product will install without a license key but will prompt you to apply a license key the first time you try to run the software. You are prompted to find and specify the license key file that Quest provided. Use the Browse feature to locate and specify the .dlv license file.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version, the automated upgrade process transfers the existing license key into the new version, so you do not need to re-install it. For new installations, the license installer only installs the new format license files (.dlv). The older format (.asc) is no longer supported.

IMPORTANT: Many environments require disabling User Account Control (UAC) to install the Quest license into MNE.

Getting started with MNE

Upgrade and installation instructions

IMPORTANT: If your setup includes the Microsoft redistributables, you can install them on your migration server. You must have a Microsoft SQL Server installed in your migration environment to use Migrator for Notes to Exchange.

NOTE: Migrator for Notes to Exchange requires access to the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL). If you have Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server 18.2 or later installed on your migration server you have met this requirement. If you do not have the Microsoft OLE DB Driver installed, you can use the download button in the Autorun utility to download the software.

IMPORTANT: MNE includes a wizard that scans the environment and determines whether it meets the system requirements for MNE. The MNE Prerequisites Checker verifies the required software and settings, connectivity, permissions, and access rights. • You can launch the wizard from the exit page of the MNE installer by selecting the Launch the Prerequisites Checker when setup exits check box before you click Finish: • You can also run the checker from your Windows Start menu under the Quest | Migrator for Notes to Exchange group. The Prerequisites Checker log file is written to the following location: %SystemDrive%\ProgramData\Quest\Prerequisites Checker.

Post upgrade steps

See Product licensing before trying to configure or run any MNE component.

IMPORTANT: Locale-specific configuration: If you are migrating from a non-English Notes environment, you must also configure the Data Migration Wizard and the SSDM with the appropriate non-English values for certain display elements. See Appendix A of the MNE Administration Guide for instructions, under “How Do I Configure MNE for My Non-English Notes Locales?”

You must configure the SSDM Scheduling Administration utility after upgrade.

If you plan to use the optional MNE task scheduling features, ensure that the MNE Task Scheduler is configured by following the instructions in Appendix A of the MNE Administration Guide, in the section “How Do I Schedule Tasks?”