Cloud Google Migrator New Features
The latest releases of the Cloud Google Migrator bring many new enhancements and usability improvements to the tool, providing even more features to help you migrate your legacy Exchange or GroupWise system to Google Apps. Some of the new features are designed to help in some common problem scenarios, particularly first setup of the tool with GroupWise.
Statistics
In addition to these additions to aid with setup, progress reporting in the tool has also been enhanced. Statistics were always provided on a per user basis during a migration, but the new versions of the Cloud Google Migrator feature live migration statistics for all users. This provides an at a glance view of the current status of the migration and includes detail including the average rate of items exported, the size of messages (mail only) that have been exported and imported and the total number of each item processed. If more detail on individual users is required, including down to the individual item level, this is always available on a per-user basis by clicking on the statistics information provided for each user (not shown in these images).
Setup and Configuration
Occasionally, first-time setup and configuration can be a little tricky due to the settings required in all of the connected systems.
The latest builds of the tool help address this by adding an enhanced connection tester, and (in the case of GroupWise) to allow re-registration of essential system DLLs directly from within the tool. Sometimes, following the install of the GroupWise client, some of the system DLLs required by the migration tool are not registered correctly. This can now be corrected by navigating to ‘Tools->Re-Register GroupWise DLLs’. This will attempt to locate and register the files needed for the migration tool to work correctly. Of course, if the GroupWise client is not installed, or cannot be found, this is reported to the user.
The connection tester has also been enhanced to provide more feedback about more parts of the system to help accurately diagnose the status of connections between the migration system and the Google Apps domain. This includes attempts to connect to the various systems, the location of essential files and the checking of license details. Any problems are clearly highlighted in the connection tester, and give indications of how to fix the issue. This functionality is extremely useful for first-time setup and configuration of the tool, yet also helps those more experienced with the tool to setup a new migration quickly and effectively.
Recently used configuration files are now accessible directly from the application file menu, and both the configuration file in use and the latest imported user file (if used) are both displayed in the tool. If an organisation is running many migrations with different configuration files, or sets of users, this can prove extremely useful to keep track of the configuration files in use.
Of course, detailed configuration instructions come in the documentation included with the tool and provide much more information about to configure and use the tool, including a troubleshooting section should any difficulties arise.
For more information about the tool, please see our migration tool pages or contact us.
