Chapter 1. Introduction

Currently migrating for MS Exchange to the Zarafa Collaboration Platform is performed by importing .pst files to the Zarafa Server. It is also possible to export .pst files from Zarafa.

1.1. Zarafa Migration Tool

The Zarafa Migration Tool performs a migration by opening each user’s store in the data source (exchange.pst), travesing over the MAPI folder structure migrating each message and folder. This means that all data from the data source will be migrated, including mail, attachments, appointments, tasks, contacts etc. The Zarafa Migration Tool will also check if the message/folder already exists at the destination (a Zarafa Server or a .pst file) to avoid duplicates. The tool will not create users on the Zarafa Collaboration Platform, it assumes that the users to which the administrator wants to migrate data to already exist on the Zarafa Server.

1.1.1. Exchange to Zarafa Migration

The Zarafa Migration Tool can migrate multiple stores from one MS Exchange server to one Zarafa Server.

1.1.2. PST to Zarafa Migration

The Zarafa Migration Tool can import multiple .pst files to the stores of the users on the Zarafa Server. There are many ways to retrieve the .pst files with the users store. You might work with .pst files stored on clients separately, centrally stored on a server or use a groupware solution.

Microsoft has made a very useful tool, called “ExMerge”. With this .pst files can be imported into an Exchange mail server, and more importantly, allows one to export an Exchange mail server to .pst files. See the Knowledge Base article for the installation and configuration of Exmerge.

The Zarafa Migration Tool is then used in the next stage to import these .pst files into the Zarafa Server.

1.1.3. Zarafa to PST Migration

The Zarafa Migration Tool can export pst files from Zarafa server user stores. The tool will create one pst per user store.

1.1.4. Scalix to Zarafa Migration Tool

The Zarafa Migration Tool can migrate multiple stores from one Scalix server to one Zarafa Server. However, this can only be done with the zarafamigrationCmdLine.exe tool. See Chapter 3, Scalix Migration for more information on migrating from Scalix to Zarafa.