How to Move from Google Mail to IBM Verse
by Volker Weber
Recently, I helped a company move from Google Apps to the IBM Connections Cloud. They were attracted by IBM Verse and were heavy users of Google Mail and they needed a new way to manage the flood of email that was coming in and impacting their productivity. They did their migration in mid-March.
What follows is a manual process for each mail file, via a mail client, leaving behind all contacts and calendars. You can't make this up.
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Repeat after me... cluster....
Now that was an easy one... ;)
'Then I created the 10 accounts'. I guess, scaling might be the issue here 😇
"If you want help with this process, I would recommend engaging one of our expert consultants in this area."
Don't!!!
That means, that the annouced migration tools are:
A Mac and Apple Mail.
That is BYOT (T=tools) migration.
The expert consultant probably brings his own Mac.
I recommend you all read Luis' original post. The quoted part gives a wrong impression.
"Things were made easy because this company only used the Google Mail portion of Google Apps."
So this was a very easy case where the manual process was the most efficient one. To take this as "the announced migration tools" is laughable.
Do I really have to point out that of course you can use your existing directory for user management? There is also a tool available to do an automated migration of user data.
The manual process may have been the most efficient, but it still left behind all contacts and calendars. If there is a tool, why not use it?
He didn't read my blog where the code is published to automate that :-)
Google, offering Google Takeout (nope, doesn't come with soya sauce), is a model citizen when you want to get your data OUT. Putting them into something NSF based is an exercise that is a set of clicks with a Notes client - if you stare down the manual rabbit hole - since Google nicely does vcard and ical. Or use the IBM experts who have scripts that the service people use.
Of course, if you don't (temporary) entertain a Notes client.....
Original article appears to be missing, was it withdrawn?
