Basic operating principles
Notes Migration Manager is the central console or “hub” program of Migrator for Notes to Exchange (MNE). Most of the other program features are configured, scheduled, and run from the Notes Migration Manager console. The primary features—directory data export, Notes data discovery, and locating, object provisioning in AD, data migration, and so on—are performed by separate wizard applications that are launched from screens in the Notes Migration Manager. Notes Migration Manager also provides features to help in the planning, monitoring, and administration of a migration project.
Navigation in Notes Migration Manager
A sidebar on the left side of the Notes Migration Manager window contains a list of the screens in the application. Each name in the list is a link that you click to display the associated screen. The screens are listed in the order in which they are typically used but can be viewed and used independently.
Some screen links appear grayed-out (unavailable) if the features require information that is not yet entered (in other screens).
About wizards and tasks
A migration process is a sequence of tasks to be performed, usually in a particular order. The process instructions in the Migrator for Notes to Exchange Scenarios Guide (chapters 2 and 3) illustrate how some migration tasks are performed by Migrator for Notes to Exchange, while others are performed manually or using other applications.
A wizard is a component application of Notes Migration Manager—specialized to perform a particular task such as exporting directory data, provisioning groups in Active Directory (AD), or defining a task to be run at another time. The Notes Migration Manager contains 10 wizards that perform or facilitate various steps or aspects of an overall migration process.
For example, the Notes Migration Manager includes the Data Migration Wizard that can migrate data for the users in a specific user collection, and also performs related administrative functions in Notes and Exchange. You can configure the wizard to mailbox-enable existing AD accounts, to set and remove mail forwarding, and so on. A task is a defined combination of functions with set parameters that dictate how the functions are performed.
All Notes Migration Manager wizards define tasks and all wizards can perform their tasks as soon as they are defined. Some wizards can schedule tasks to run at a later time or date, or to run at a recurring series of dates and times.
