My brain is officially full. Lots of information from the Q&A session on Migrating Domino and Groupwise to Exchange. Not much on Groupwise, so fortunately most of the discussions were about Domino.
Firstly, the Microsoft Application Analysis tool is now depreciated, because the results were not always accurate and didn't provide good information. So, it's been dropped from the Transport Suite and there's no plans to re-release it. MS recommends partnering with BinaryTree or Quest, whom have better tool sets.
The Transport Suite 2007 is apparently more reliable that Exchange Connector 2003. The way they got that improvement was by dropping API based mail transport and using SMTP to transport the mail! :-)
There are still a lot of issues for long term co-existence. One specific one which causes problems is by having a recurring appointment with attendees from both sides of the connectors. Both sides will receive and process the message OK, but if the meeting owner updates the meeting, those changes won't flow across properly. (Apparently, the BinaryTree toolset has a fix for this issue too - MS doesn't)
There's a lot of other issues which are in the presentation slides. Most of them are noted, but not fixed. Because of the problems, the trend nowdays is to migrate as quickly as possible - usually by moving the user across with an empty, or only one week's historical mail, then migrating the rest of the data soon after.
There are a lot of gotchas as far as migration goes and consolidation. Too many to mention here, but don't forget to ask me about them when I get back.
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