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Outlook® to Novell GroupWise® Made Easy

With the Advansys® Formativ™Personal Outlook Migration Pack

© April 19, 2023 Novell Inc.2

Overview

Migrates Outlook 2000* accessible data to Novell GroupWise 6.02 or later

• Supports migration of:– Outlook Email – Appointments– Tasks– Notes– Contacts– Journals (& GW6.5 Category support)

• Migrate PST files &/or MS Exchange data• Requires Microsoft Outlook client• Powered by Advansys Formativ• It’s FREE from Advansys!

* Or later version


Design principles

• Direct Outlook client to Novell GroupWise client conversion process

• Leverages Outlook to interface to PST &/or Exchange data stores

• Can migrate stand-alone PST files


Concept diagram

Migrate

GroupWise Client+

Formativ

OutlookClient

GroupWise Data Store

Outlook PST file

Exchange Data

Store**

Workstation

** Does not need to be present for PST migration


Installation

• GroupWise 6.02 (or later) Windows client

• Outlook 2000 (or later) Windows client

• Install Advansys Formativ Express 1.6+– Also works with Runtime, Developer & Admin

• Install Personal Outlook Migration Pack

• A new toolbar button will appear in the GroupWise

client


Operation

• Click special GroupWise toolbar button to startmigration solution

• Select data types to migrate: – Email, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, Journals & Appointments

• Select date range &/or target GroupWise address book

• Undo support


Email

• Specify Outlook folder for migration– Subfolders are migrated

• Creates 'Outlook Migration’ folder under GroupWise root account

• Support for plain text, HTML messages & attachments

• Deleted messages are ignored

• Outlook Category support for GroupWise 6.5


Contacts

Unique contacts imported

Outlook Category support forGroupWise 6.5

Outlook Distribution Lists & Groupsnot supported


Appointments

Migration support:

Converted Outlook appointment alarms limited to 99 hours max.

Recurring Outlook appointments added as single GroupWise appointments

−Start date, end date, subject, location, −body & alarm time−All day events−Attachments (file or message type) supported−Outlook Categories with GroupWise 6.5


Tasks

Migration support: • Start date, due date, subject, priority & body

• Completion status

• Attachments (file or message type) supported

• Outlook Categories with GroupWise 6.5


Notes and journal items

Notes migration supported

Creates 'Outlook Migration/Journals’ folder

Journal items imported as email messages

Journal item summary shown in email body

Original Outlook item attached as MSG file


Migration considerations

• Outlook security update

• Check Outlook mailbox size to gauge potential processing time

• Embedded messages attached as MSG files– Access MSG files with Outlook MSG Viewer

• Contacts– Ensure correct MAPI service configuration

• Folder name conversion

• Run migration solution once only per account– Use Undo feature to reprocess same account


Free download!

Download Formativ Express & the Personal Outlook

Migration Pack from:

www.advansyscorp.com/formativ_download.htm


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