Planning To Migrate Gateway Aliases; Preparing To Migrate Gateway Aliases; Performing The Gateway Alias Migration - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

for overriding the current e-mail address format, as described in
Internet Addressing Settings," on page
users' preferred Internet domain names based on their existing gateway aliases.
Section 45.3.1, "Planning to Migrate Gateway Aliases," on page 728
Section 45.3.2, "Preparing to Migrate Gateway Aliases," on page 728
Section 45.3.3, "Performing the Gateway Alias Migration," on page 728
Section 45.3.4, "Verifying the Gateway Alias Migration," on page 730

45.3.1 Planning to Migrate Gateway Aliases

You can migrate SMTP gateway aliases by individual user, by post office, by domain, or for your
entire GroupWise system. Migrating at the post office level is recommended, although you can test
the process by migrating individual users. Assess the gateway aliases in your GroupWise system and
decide how you want to organize the migration process.
The Gateway Alias Migration utility runs most efficiently if you are connected to the domain that
owns the users whose aliases you are migrating. This reduces network traffic between domains
during the migration process.
The Gateway Alias Migration utility requires that you connect to a GroupWise 7 or later domain,
although you can select users from 6.x and 5.x domains for migration. If you still have 4.x domains,
you can migrate aliases by connecting to the GroupWise System object before connecting to a
domain.
Determine the domains you need to connect to as you perform the migration.

45.3.2 Preparing to Migrate Gateway Aliases

Before starting the SMTP gateway alias migration process:
Validate each domain database (
any orphaned aliases that might exist. See
Databases," on page
Create a current backup of each domain database before performing the migration. See
Section 31.1, "Backing Up a Domain," on page 423

45.3.3 Performing the Gateway Alias Migration

To run the Gateway Alias Migration utility in ConsoleOne:
1 If you want to migrate all gateway aliases in your GroupWise system, connect to the primary
domain in the GroupWise View.
or
If you want to migrate the gateway aliases in a particular domain or post office, connect to the
domain where the aliases are located.
2 Browse to and select the object representing the set of gateway aliases that you want to migrate
(GroupWise system, domain, post office, or user).
3 Click Tools > GroupWise Utilities > Gateway Alias Migration.
728 GroupWise 8 Administration Guide
247. The Gateway Alias Migration utility can also update
wpdomain.db
Section 26.1, "Validating Domain or Post Office
393.
Section 14.7.2, "Changing a User's
) that you will connect to in order to clean up