Migrating from Scalix to Exchange

[rogier.de.groot]

First off - I don't make the decisions, I just have to execute them. So, I have to move data from a Scalix Community server to an Exchange server. I've searched the forum/knowledge base/etc but I can't seem to find much information about doing that. So I'll ask:
1) What to best/recommended way to move data from a Scalix Community server to an Exchange server.
And, for some other, related activities I'm working on:
2) Is there some API I could use to move data to/from a Scalix server using Java (or any other language, but preferably Java).

Thanks in advance,

Rogier de Groot

[Valerion]

To move the mail data, I'd get a IMAP client that reads the mailbox and writes on the remote end. To move Calendar/Contacts/Tasks/Notes, you'd probably need to use a PST.

If you want an API, download the Scalix Web Services API guide from the Documentation section, it describes how to do it in a REST way.

You can always try a commercial product for that too, I have seen some on the net

[philjohn]

All the data is available in IMAP folders so you can use JavaMail to read and write. It's a little more involved than simply accessing a REST URI and parsing XML, but allows you to get different mime parts of messages etc.

[les]

First off - I don't make the decisions, I just have to execute them. So, I have to move data from a Scalix Community server to an Exchange server. I've searched the forum/knowledge base/etc but I can't seem to find much information about doing that. So I'll ask:
1) What to best/recommended way to move data from a Scalix Community server to an Exchange server.

sorry to see your going that way ;)

i'd recommend pst file export and import. Sure you can find a commercial tool and pay bucketloads of money and you can probably find some imap tool to sync, but you still need the special folders out via pst. And by the time you figure out a way to manually do it all you probably spent more time on it than actually doing manual pst export/imports. ;)

I guess it depends on how many user you have also.

So manually export via outlook pst from scalix and then import into exchange. I'm not sure but exmerge is used to export pst's from exchange, it may also be able to import, in bulk, psts' back into exchange.
exmerge is an MS utility which is free.

Good luck.