I've been working on a set of tools to help migrate our exchange 5.5 data to the scalix 11.2 server.
Here is where I'm at:(Granted we are using the sxmigrate tool for mailbox data)
Created tool to migrate public distribution lists from exchange and populate scalix with them including members.(Works well enough)
Created tool to export Openldap user accounts and create the place holder accounts in scalix(we don't use Windows servers anymore here, so openldap and samba are it) (Works well enough)
Public Folder names and recreation(Needs more work)
Pull names from exchange and create them in scalix. With Mail to Public Folder presetup.
This Public Folder stuff is messy - there are two parts I need to clean up to be comfortable with it. First public folder hierarchy. The exchange data I've pulled out of exchange via ldap doesn't contain the Public folder owner, its ACL's or its hierarchy.
The hierarchy is the biggest issue- Exchange doesn't tell me what folder is Top or a sub folder. This becomes an issue really only when there are folders with the same name.
As emailing to a sub folder in exhange 5.5 is rarely done here since Its hard to figure out what its email address is.
So emailing the top level folders is really all thats necessary, ACL can be dealt with one on one with the owner. So has anyone used the exchange server tool dsexport? Would that dsexport export contain the data I'm looking for?
You ask why so much automation?
Well we have more than 130 email lists, with lots of people on them
We have more than 100 public folders too.