GroupWise and Exchange Migration Solution

Mitigate Risk and Ensure Email Migration Success

Netmail Migrator helps you move from Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange to Exchange 2010 or Office 365 with less impact on your organization. With its unique step-by-step migration capabilities, Netmail Migrator automates your email migration from GroupWise or Exchange and minimizes risk. Simply put, Netmail Migrator ensures email migration success for your GroupWise or Exchange migration.

Reduce the Complexity of Email Migrations

Netmail Migrator is an email migration tool for Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange that migrates your email, tasks, notes, future and recurring calendar appointments, personal address books, and more, while dramatically reducing the complexity of your email migration.

• SEAMLESS END-USER EXPERIENCE. Offers a seamless end-user experience by providing transparent access to email records through GroupWise WebAccess, Outlook, and Outlook Web App clients.
• AUTOMATIC PROVISIONING OF USERS. Gives organizations the ability to automatically provision users and distribution lists to GroupWise or Exchange, including system address books, user accounts, and distribution lists.
• REDUCES RISK, TIME, AND COST. Reduces the time and cost associated with email platform migrations.

Understand the issues driving the need for risk-free email migrations.

Why You Need to Reduce Email Migration Risk

The Drivers

A growing number of organizations are contemplating migrating from one email platform to another mail and collaboration platform, motivated by changes to vendor products as well as IT issues. Other drivers behind email migration projects are related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), a demand for more functionality and integration with desktop productivity applications, an aging email infrastructure, and more.

Email is a valuable and convenient business tool. However, if your email is not migrated correctly, it can be the source of hassle, wasted time, spiraling costs, and even risk to your business. The need to keep email working and available during an email migration should be a business priority for all organizations contemplating an email migration as email is now a mission-critical business resource.

The Problem

Email is an important business tool which demands high levels of security, performance, and availability.

For organizations without dedicated migration tools, email migrations can prove to be a major undertaking and the risk of failure is high.

The Consequences

Poorly-executed email migrations and inferior migration tools can result in unplanned downtime, reduced productivity, loss of business, and potentially put your organization at risk of losing important email records. 

According to Osterman Research, organizations typically experience an average of 53 minutes of unplanned downtime during a typical month or 10.6 hours over a period of a year. Email migrations can increase this risk substantially, so organizations undertaking an email migration need to carefully weigh the potential impact of email downtime on their business and choose their migration tools wisely. Failed migrations may not only bring about extended system downtime, but may also result in data loss.

The Solution

Your organization must complete the email migration as quickly and seamlessly as possible, limiting downtime.

Netmail Migrator from Messaging Architects is a stand-alone migration solution that helps organizations reduce the time and cost required to migrate users from Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange to Exchange 2010 or Office 365. This easy-to-use tool seamlessly migrates email, tasks, notes, future and recurring calendar appointments, personal address books, and more, with little to no downtime.

The Benefits

By migrating your email with Netmail Migrator, your organization will:

• Migrate business-critical email data quickly and easily without data loss
• Minimize downtime
• Reduce valuable time and expense
• Use powerful batch processing to provision 1 - 100,000+ end users
• Employ one easy-to-use tool to migrate all types of message data

Learn More about Netmail Migrator's Features and Benefits

Enhanced Migration Tools 

Netmail Migrator is an enhanced migration tool designed to help organizations migrate all of their email data.

• Migrates messages, attachments, native archives, address books, calendars, notes, tasks, distribution lists, proxy rights, and more.
• Powerful batch mode processing provides organizations with the ability to provision all users between email platforms at the same time.
• Migrates all, recurring, or future calendar events.
• Does not require physical access to the client site.
• Single tool migrates all types of message data. 
• Can be used to migrate 1 - 100,000+ mailboxes.

Seamless End-User Experience

Netmail Migrator is designed to offer a seamless end-user experience.

• Provides web-based search and administration interface, email client integration, and Outlook Web App or GroupWise WebAccess integration.
• Allows end users to perform federated searches across online email seamlessly with Outlook and GroupWise 8 email clients.

View Netmail Migrator's Technical Specifications

Technical Specifications

Netmail Archive Master or Worker Node Server Requirements

While all nodes are active in archiving and running jobs, the Master Node is responsible for overseeing a number of Worker Nodes and performing load balancing among them. (Note: This server may be virtualized; however, note that each instance of virtual server must be given the equivalent of the resources and capabilities described below.)

• Server-class Dual or Quad cores CPU (may be single CPU with Dual or Quad cores)
• 8 GB RAM
• 200 GB available on local disk (if disk not used as archive repository)
• Single IP address or teamed IP ports
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard version (64-bit) or better
• Outlook Client 2007 SP1 or 2003 SP3 + subsequent hot patches (32-bit version only)
• 64-bit OS on the node where the SAN luns are attached or archives are stored
• .Net 3.5 Framework

Index Server Requirements

The Index Server is responsible for the data-intensive classification of all archived items, including messages and attachments. Multiple instances of this server can be deployed based on total expected load. (Note: This server must not be virtualized.)

• Server-class Dual CPUs with Quad cores
• 32 GB of RAM
• 50 GB available on local disk (if disk is not used as index repository)
• 6 Hard Drives; Server-class, 15k RPM disks (may be internal RAID, SCSI or SAS drives, or external Fiber Channel)
• Single IP Address or Teamed IP Ports
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise version (64-bit)
• Microsoft .Net 2.0 64-bit Framework
• Visual C++ 2005 SP1 64-bit patch
• JAVA 5.0 64-bit Client

Novell eDirectory

• eDirectory 8.7.3 or higher

Active Directory

• Active Directory for Windows Server 2003 or 2008.

GroupWise Requirements

• GroupWise 6.5.6 or 7.0.1 (or higher) or 7.03 (or higher) for SOAP support
• GroupWise 32-bit Client

Exchange Requirements

• Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 or 2010 or Office 365
• Microsoft Outlook Client 2003 SP3 (and subsequent patches) or 2007 SP1 or 2010

Corporate / Personal Archive Viewer Requirements

• Internet Explorer 7 or higher
• Windows XP or higher
• Java Runtime Environment 5.0

GroupWise WebViewer / WebAccess Requirements

• Internet Explorer 7 or higher
• GroupWise WebAccess 7.0.3 or higher

Outlook Web Access / Outlook Web App / Netmail Search Requirements

• Internet Explorer 7 or higher
• Outlook Web Access 2003, 2007 or Outlook Web App (2010)

Discover What's New in the Latest Release of Netmail Migrator

Release 2010.1

Netmail Migrator is included with the latest release of Netmail Archive. Netmail Archive 2010.1 addresses the needs of organizations that are migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010 by providing advanced email archiving and eDiscovery features.

• Enhanced migration tools. Netmail Archive’s enhanced migration tools help organizations migrate from GroupWise or Exchange 2003/2007 to Exchange 2010.
• Multi-language Support. Netmail Archive now provides support for French to facilitate archiving and eDiscovery in large organizations with offices in various geographic locations.
• PST Management. Netmail PST Radar is a discovery tool that detects and locates PST files across the organization’s network. Integrated with Netmail Archive, Netmail PST Radar allows organizations to archive and manage all PST data in a centralized email archive.