GroupWise to Exchange Migration - lessons learned from a failedmigration

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Novell actually designed the GW migration util because of several large Exch
to GW migrations. The very latest version is looking sweet and does a great
job.
Far better than any util out there taking GW to Exch.
Good Luck!!
Take Care.
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>>> On 8/25/2008 at 5:22 PM, in message <[email protected]>,
Paul
Caron<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hopefully Exchange 2003. Use the Exchange to GW migration tool from
> Novell
> - works great. Pitfalls? Be sure to locate the workstation(s) to do the
> migration as close as you can to the Exchange server. For example, I'm
> in
> the beginning phase of doing the same thing, from one organization that
> has
> Exchange. We're going to migrate them to our GroupWise. We can't run
> the
> software from our workstations - it has to be on a workstation in the
> source
> domain. (The login process assumes so and can't be supplied with a
> different
> domain to log into.
>
> You can do test migrations and see how the data looks coming over. If
> you're working with someone on the Exchange side, make sure that you can
> trust them. Make sure they don't sabotage your efforts (I'm currently
> dealing with this). Additionally, take no assumptions and catalog your
> accounts that you test the migration on - meaning - how many emails do
> they
> have in each of their folders? How many appointments, tasks, notes,
> etc.
> Make sure that you have the appropriate number after migration. In an
> earlier buggy release of the software, the migration looked fine and I
> had
> the IT guy verify - yup, looks good. Turns out he didn't fully inventory
> the user's accounts and we migrated about one third of the data. So do
> it
> yourself.
>
> GroupWise - make sure that you're running the latest GroupWise. Don't
> try
> to migrate from Outlook 2007 and go to GroupWise 6. The users will kill
> you.
>
>>>> On 8/25/2008 at 3:06 PM, tgerber<[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Ok it's great to hear that you are staying with GW, but how do I goabout
>
>> migrating away from Exchange to GW? I must make this as seamlessas
>> possible because I am also brand new with the company. Has anyonedone a
>> migration away from Exchange to GW and what were some of thepitfalls? We
>
>> need to be able to run parallel for awhile to ensure asmooth
> transistion.
>
>> I am a Novell person who has just come onboard to anAD shop yet we are
>> switching to GW. :-) Any assistance would beappreciated.--
>
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Restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image onto the SSD (instead of cloning the HDD) fixed accumulated problems but it took several days of work and problem solving. (The HDD’s hidden SYSTEM_DRV partition was full. Did that cause some of the problems?)
How to over-provision the SSD
“Over-provisioning” boosts an SSD’s sustained write performance by allocating temporary space. The Samsung Magician program will set this up -- but not on a drive with the Lenovo_Recovery “Q:” partition. Moving and resizing C: and Q: with GParted Live didn’t solve this. Instead it made me start all over restoring the factory disk image and the Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates. The solution (thanks, Samsung’s phone tech support!) is to use GParted or Windows Disk Management to shrink the C: partition. All it needs is some unallocated space between partitions anywhere on the SSD. (Samsung recommends 10%.) You don’t have to do anything to allocate that space to the purpose.
Partition alignment
For speed, you want the partitions aligned on a 4096 byte boundary. GParted will align them on a MiB boundary, which is more than adequate.
Windows restore points
The Windows installer is supposed to make system restore points but I found it started out with a broken configuration. So open System Properties, the System Protection tab, and check the “available drives” for any drives labelled “... (Missing)”. Turn off “system protection” (restore points) for the “missing” drives, then turn it on for the real C:.
Faster updates
After restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image, you must iterate installing Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates over and over until there aren’t any more to install. Fortunately this is faster on an SSD than an HDD. Save more time by having only one user account and no password so Windows reboot won’t stop for login. Also watch the taskbar for license dialogs that open up behind other windows but require your clicks to proceed.
Watch for stuck updates
Lenovo Update quietly gets stuck updating Intel WiFi & WiMax software. The fix is to download those installers from lenovo.com, run them, get an error message that it can’t install over the existing software, uninstall the WiFi & WiMax software, then run the installers again.
Restore from backup, or not?
At key points, I made system disk image backups of the SSD to the old HDD and tried restoring from a backup after the failed repartitioning experiment. But Windows Backup and Restore won’t restore a system image after booting from the destination drive’s recovery partition nor from the source drive’s recovery partition. Since my backup was on the HDD in the Ultradrive bay, I couldn’t boot from the Rescue & Recovery CD. The workaround was to make a bootable System Repair disk on a 512 MB USB key. Windows Backup and Restore then failed with another meaningless error, “The parameter is incorrect. Code: 0x80070057.” Apparently you have to remove the USB key right before starting the system restore operation but that yielded the error, "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." I’m not sure if that’s a symptom of removing the USB key or yet another problem with Windows Backup and Restore. Maybe it can’t restore to resized partitions? Windows Backup and Restore failed and burned hours of my time.
Fix the annoying request on bootup?
After you install Windows, all its updates, and Samsung Magician, you can use Magician to adjust system settings for SSD performance. Then you’ll find that Magician needs permission to “make changes to this computer” on every boot. Samsung tech support explained that you can then remove Magician from the startup list via msconfig.
Optimizations
Recomputing the “Windows Experience Index” might make the OS recognize the boot drive as an SSD and disable defrag for it. This didn’t work for me, so be sure to unschedule defrag. Also use msconfig to remove Digital Line Detect from the startup list and turn on “No GUI boot” (no Windows splash screen). Also use power plans Advanced Settings to never turn off the “hard disk.”
ThinkPad
Thumbs up. Easy to replace the HDD with an SSD and move the HDD into an Ultradrive caddy. Sturdy. Easy to work on. Well documented. Hardware that I didn't want to replace.
Microsoft Windows 7
Thumbs down. Buggy, fragile, over complicated, inadequate error messages, painstaking to install, difficult and time consuming to administer, poorly documented, accumulates gunk over time that causes problems, failed backup software, even a fresh install has scary event log errors.
Lenovo forums & support pages
Very helpful. Sometimes it's good to use Use Google to search them e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alenovo.com+"over+provision"
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Fine hardware. Some confusions around the Magician software. Great phone tech support. Web support doesn’t work.
References and more info
How To Geek, Lifehacker, Lifehacker, SSD Review, Newegg, Newegg, Anandtech, Storage Review.

I may have confused you: Lenovo provides two tools, 1) one makes DVDs that restore the original out-of-the-box factory image of the entire disk (i.e. System partition, C: + Q: partitions) and 2) Backup and Restore, which is the Lenovo user backup tool that does conventional full disk backups, i.e. with all user customizations, added programs and files. Since my system-generation-to-SSD saga hadn't created the the Q: partition correctly, my only alternative was to create a full up-t-date disk backup with the second Backup and Restore tool that include all the Windows + Lenovo updates, but didn't include extra programs and my user files. This fitted on 5 DVDs, which I will use if ever I reinstall the entire operating system.
Once you get above 100-150 GB of backup volume (I'm at 450 GB right now), the Lenovo Backup and Restore is very slow, so I use the much quicker Windows built-in Backup and Restore program to backup incrementally a system image and all files.

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