Recover from migrated Groupwise Server

My company migrated from Groupwise and Netware to Exchange and windows about 2 years ago. We have since discarded the equipment it was on. So now I need to recover some email from 3 years ago. I tried to rebuild another server using Netware 6 but the server had multiple problems especially concerning connectively issues with my Microsoft network. Anyway i was able to install Netware 6.5 (never used upgrade) and Groupwise 6.0, (which was in use before migrating). So I have Groupwise 6, Netware 6.5, a backup copy of my previous Post office directory, and domain. Have not found a backup of NDS. I do have a copy of the previous SYS directory, not sure what files I could use to graft a previous nds to my newly installed system.
I am lost on to proceed. I want to be able to restore past Groupwise stored email and put them into something I could use should such a situation occur in the future. Can anybody help?
Thanks

frank2rotondi wrote:
>
> My company migrated from Groupwise and Netware to Exchange and windows
> about 2 years ago. We have since discarded the equipment it was on. So
> now I need to recover some email from 3 years ago. I tried to rebuild
> another server using Netware 6 but the server had multiple problems
> especially concerning connectively issues with my Microsoft network.
> Anyway i was able to install Netware 6.5 (never used upgrade) and
> Groupwise 6.0, (which was in use before migrating). So I have Groupwise
> 6, Netware 6.5, a backup copy of my previous Post office directory, and
> domain. Have not found a backup of NDS. I do have a copy of the
> previous SYS directory, not sure what files I could use to graft a
> previous nds to my newly installed system.
>
> I am lost on to proceed. I want to be able to restore past Groupwise
> stored email and put them into something I could use should such a
> situation occur in the future. Can anybody help?
>
> Thanks
>
>
Just copy the PO backup to the NW server and set the PO security to low. You
don't need to load an edir backup, just the PO backup should be fine.
Graft the GW objects following the doc
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/...k.html#adpbggx),
configure the POA object with the server ip address, after you finished
with the configuration rebuild the PO database and load the POA afterwards.
You should be able to connect using a GW account.
Hope that helps.
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