MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Converting bulletin boards to a Notes discussion database
Select this check box on the Conversion Settings pane of the cc:Mail Upgrade Advanced Settings dialog box to convert bulletin boards in the specified cc:Mail post office to a Notes discussion database. All of the bulletin boards in a given post office are migrated to a single Notes discussion database on the Mail server, called cc:Mail Migrated Bulletin Boards (CCNOTBB.NSF). Each migrated bulletin board becomes a category within the database. After migration, users can open this database and sort by category to see the names of the migrated cc:Mail Bulletin Boards.

Only bulletin boards that contain at least one message are migrated. Empty cc:Mail bulletin boards do not migrate. Duplicate messages are migrated only once, so that messages sent to multiple Bulletin Boards appear in only one Notes Category.

Converting bulletin boards requires a considerable amount of time and slows the progress of the migration. However, you only need to convert bulletin boards once for each post office. To enhance performance when migrating bulletin boards, enable the option when migrating a single user, and then register that user. If you enable bulletin board conversion for multiple users, the conversion process is repeated for each of the selected users.

You cannot migrate bulletin boards for mobile cc:Mail users. Mobile users can either archive the bulletin board messages they want to keep or create a local replica of the Notes discussion database after migration.

For networks that employ the cc:Mail MTA to provide coexistence between cc:Mail and Domino, use the Bulletin Board Conversion component of the cc:Mail MTA to automatically synchronize bulletin boards.

The cc:Mail MTA creates a Notes discussion database named CCMTABBX.NSF (using the template CCMTABBX.NTF). By contrast, the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service migrates bulletin boards to a database named CCNOTBB.NSF (using the template CCNOTBB.NTF). These two databases are separate and do not share information. If you intend to use the cc:Mail MTA for bulletin board synchronization during lengthy migrations in which cc:Mail and Lotus Notes need to coexist and be synchronized with each other, do not use the migration option "Convert bulletin boards." If you do not intend to maintain a cc:Mail and Lotus Notes mixed environment, you can use the bulletin board conversion option to do a one-time conversion of bulletin boards.

For more information about administering cc:Mail bulletin boards and Notes discussion databases when using the cc:Mail MTA, see the topic Synchronizing cc:Mail bulletin boards and Notes discussion databases.

Migrating subscription bulletin boards

cc:Mail Release 8 supports subscription bulletin boards. Subscription bulletin boards differ from regular community bulletin boards in that only users on a restricted member list have access to the bulletin board.

By default, the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service does not convert subscription bulletin boards to Notes databases. Before you can migrate a subscription bulletin board, you must first add the cc:Mail post office to the member list for the bulletin board as follows:

1. Using WinAdmin, select the Bulletin Boards tab.

2. Select the name of the subscription bulletin board to migrate.

3. Add the cc:Mail post office to the member list for the bulletin board.


Note Completing this procedure gives all users on the specified post office access to the bulletin board.

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