Re: Putting anything Novell related on a Win2K3/Exchange03 server

From: Mark Walsh (MarkWalsh_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:05:02 -0800

GW5.5 is perfect for migration. GW4.1 to GW5.5 can all be migrated saftly.
It is GW6 migration that is unsupported by MS, but I have done one and it
worked fine. I am a CNE though, which helps.

This is mentioned in the link Mark Fugatt posted before.

Moving GW to Exchange5.5 on NT4 was the one that could give you the sort of
trouble you speak of. You won't have any problems of overwriting .DLL's or
other system files on Win2003.

"Christy W" wrote:

> AS in my case, we aren't using GroupWise 6. We are on GW5.5. The rumor is
> Novell products should never be put on an Exchange server because they
> contain older versions of files, and rewrite critical systems files. I am
> trying to find documentation to support this argument, but Mark's dopcument
> referes to GW6. Any other suggestions/comments?
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
> > Christy W wrote:
> > > All -
> > >
> > > I have IT consultants that help me at my law firm. We are in th
> > > emiddle of a migration from Novell to Exchange, and built two new
> > > Win2k3 servers - a DC and an Exchange 03 box. One of the IT
> > > consultants installed the Novell and GroupWise clients on the
> > > Exchange server indicating it was OK.
> >
> > I would never do that, and it is not necessary for a migration at all. See
> > Mark's reply for more help with how this ought to be done.
> >
> > > I since have discovered that
> > > this may be heavily frowned upon and cause problems down the road.
> > > Is there any documentation that discusses this? I can't seem to
> > > locate something specific on Microsoft's site. Any comments,
> > > opinions, or reference material links would be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >