What's new in Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange version 4.15.0? (4291761)

Migrator for Notes to Exchange (MNE) v4.15.0 is due to be released on the 29th of June. This MNE version includes some changes compared to previous versions.

- Product licensing changes:

• Customers upgrading existing licensed MNE servers DO NOT need to obtain a  new license file in order to upgrade. Click here to see further details.

- Platform support changes:

• The SSDM no longer supports Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.
• Version 4.15.0 supports Windows Server 2016.

- Upgrading from older version to MNE 4.15.0:

• Default install location has changed in MNE 4.15.0 from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\Migrator for Notes to Exchange" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Quest\Migrator for Notes to Exchange".
• The MNE 4.15.0 installer will copy configuration files from the old install to the new install location.

- Improvements to O365 migrations:

• In order to avoid the propagation delay issues experienced on previous versions, MNE 4.15.0 includes the following two cmdlets in the MNE PowerShell module: 

These cmdlets grants/revokes the migration account Full Access to the mailboxes of all the users in an MNE user collection. This will also apply to any pool accounts when using the admin account pool feature.

Note: The mailbox data migration should not be started until at least half an hour after access to the O365 mailboxes has been granted.

Click here to get further details about this process.

• When MNE version 4.15.0 detects a MAPI session disconnect, it will close the existing MAPI session and then it will attempt to open a new MAPI session WITHOUT terminating the migappworker.exe process. If it is able to successfully open a new MAPI session, it will resume the migration starting with the message it was working on when it encountered the failure.

Note: The [Exchange] MAPIErrorsToRetry setting is the setting used to specify errors that could indicate that the MAPI session has been disconnected. Only errors from this list will result in an attempt to reconnect the MAPI session. It is important that ONLY recoverable errors are added to the MAPIErrorsToRetry list. For example, DO NOT add error 8004010F “MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND” to this list. Errors of this type WILL NOT go away simply by starting a new MAPI session.

- Improvements to the selection of folders and views to be migrated:

• Previous versions of MNE attempted to migrate all folders and views from the Notes mail file except for those that had explicitly been excluded using a static [Filters] list. MNE came with a default list of filters, but over time this default list has become out of date, and it was only ever valid for use with English mail files. As a result, a migration with default program settings resulted in a messy folder structure, containing strange folder names. Another side effect of this issue was that orphaned messages were migrated to one of these strange folders, instead of the default “All Documents” folder that they are supposed to be migrated to. It was left up to the end user to generate a complete list of filter values that would result in a ‘clean’ migration. Click here to get further details regarding this enhancement.

• In MNE 4.15.0 there is should be no need to open the configuration screen on the SSDM Scheduling Administration utility. The Scheduling Config XML and Collection Wizard paths have been removed. Instead of using static configured paths, we now determine the correct path at run time based on the actual install location of the product. Additionally the Web Service Location path has been corrected to match the path that is recommended in the product documentation:

• Previous versions of MNE would mailbox-enable mail-in databases in Exchange as regular user mailboxes. If customers wished to provision a mail-in database as a Shared Mailbox, they had to either mailbox-enable it with MNE first as a regular user mailbox, then manually convert the mailbox to a shared mailbox OR they had to manually mailbox-enable the mailbox as a shared mailbox. MNE version 4.15.0 now mailbox-enables all mail-in databases as shared mailboxes.