There is no direct method for importing a Novell GroupWise Personal Address Book into Outlook. You can move your Personal Address Book from a GroupWise client to Exchange with the following process:

Export the Personal Address Book from GroupWise

1. Start the GroupWise client program
2. Go to Tools menu, click Address Book
3. On File menu, click Export
4. In Export Question dialog box, click Entire Address Book
5. Type a name for your address book, specify a location where you wish to save it and click Save to save the address book as a .nab file.

Important: .nab file is a text file in the comma separated values (CSV) format, it may be opened and verified in Notepad or any other text editor application.

Import Personal Address Book from GroupWise to Outlook

1. Start Outlook Express
2. On the File menu, click Import and Export
3. Click Import from another program or file and then click Next
4. Click Comma Separated Values (Windows) and click Next
5. Locate the file that you want to import and click Next
6. Click the folder to which you want to import your Personal Address Book and click Next
7. Map the fields for your Contacts folder layout and click Finish. For detailed information about mapping fields, click Microsoft Outlook Help on the Help menu, type how to map fields in Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard and click Search to view the topic.

This way the GroupWise Personal Address Book is imported to your Outlook Contacts folder.

When you start Microsoft Outlook, you might receive an error message (mentioned below):

Unable to open default mail folders. MAPI was unable to load the Gwmspi.dll.

This behavior can occur in MS Outlook if the Mail profile contains services for Novell GroupWise, but Outlook is unable to connect to this resource.

In order to resolve this issue, create an Outlook profile that does not include any services for Novell GroupWise.

This kind of incomplete migration might result in more errors and problems, therefore, migrate from GroupWise to Exchange with the help of Kernel for GroupWise to Exchange. This software takes minimum time to migrate GroupWise mailboxes to Exchange and assures of 0% data loss.

While migrating from Novell GroupWise 5.5 by using the Microsoft Exchange Migration Wizard, the migration wizard may generate a Dr. Watson event. Therefore, if you are running the Migration Wizard on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server-based computer, the following event may be logged:

Event Type: Information

Event Source: DrWatson

Event Category: None

Event ID: 4097

Description:

The application, mailmig.exe, generated an application error. The error occurred on MM/DD/YYYY at HH:MM:SS The exception was c0000005 at address 672817E5.

This event gets generated after you type the path to the Novell GroupWise 5.x domain, account name and password and then click Next to start the GroupWise startup process. If you run the Migration Wizard on Windows 2000 Server-based computer, the Migration Wizard disappears from the screen and Dr. Watson event is logged in the Windows 2000 Event Viewer. While working on Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0 based computer, the Dr. Watson event is displayed on the screen.

The reason behind the occurrence of this issue is that the GroupWise Client 5.5.3 Gwcmb1.dll file returns unexpected results that cause the Migration Wizard to stop working. Although the Mailmig.exe file generated an application error, the Mailmig.exe file is not the cause of this issue.

In order to resolve this issue, you need to downgrade the GroupWise Client that is installed on the migration server to one of the following versions: 5.5, 5.5.1 or 5.5.2. Now if in case you come across any issues while replying to migrated messages from GroupWise 5.5 it may be necessary to use GroupWise Client 5.2.x.

Migrating from GroupWise to Exchange is a gruesome task and to ease the entire process we offer Kernel for Novell GroupWise to Exchange software. The software is secure, accurate as well as reliable to migrate GroupWise to Exchange Server. User mailboxes of Novell GroupWise are converted and saved to Exchange User Mailboxes on MS Exchange Server.

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When you try migrating email messages from Novell GroupWise 5.5 post office on a computer that is running the Internet Addressing (GWIA) component and the GroupWise 5.2 client, the addresses for the migrated messages may appear truncated or shortened.

The main reason behind this issue is that GroupWise 5.2 client cannot translate the GWIA addresses because this functionality was added in GroupWise version 5.5.

Therefore this issue can be dealt only with the help of third party migration solution. Additionally, The Novell GroupWise Version 5.5 client is not supported in the MS Exchange Migration Wizard.

Third party GroupWise to Exchange migration software utilities support migration of GroupWise address books to PST format readable on Exchange server. Kernel for GroupWise to Exchange is an eminent GroupWise to PST migration solution that allows you to export GroupWise mail folders and address books to the personal folders (.pst) in MS Outlook.

Novell GroupWise Remote is a functionally great as it works in Caching mode or on-line mode connecting directly to your Postoffice. Similarly GroupWise WebAccess is great too. Although, the problem with the two is same, that both cannot take your Archives with you and access them remotely. Let’s discuss how can we make GroupWise Archives portable and create an absolute path using Windows internals, so GroupWise can see the absolute path.

You can use iFolder to carry your GroupWise Archives:

1. Copy your current Archives from its location (see the current location under Tools > Options > Environment > File Location > Archive Directory) to the new folder on iFolder such as i:\archives
2. Go back to GroupWise to change the location of archives to the newly created folder with all archive files copied in it already
3. If in case GroupWise asks you whether you want to re-associate your archive with new folder, click Yes
4. While connecting to your PC or laptop the other time, allow archive folder to synchronize
5. After the sync is finished, run GroupWise to check all the archived emails as well as your current online mailbox are present.

The location of the archive folder remains in the GroupWise database. This means that your path to archive folder is “absolute” which cannot be changed from one PC to another. To resolve this problem, you need to use a few Windows tricks to fool GroupWise so it thinks that your archives reside in I:\archives on both systems.

You can trick Windows by SHARING the Archives folder, then going to your Networking Neighborhood and mapping I: to that “share.” This makes your drive letter I: like an absolute connection to that folder. Do this on both (or all) systems and your GroupWise Remote at home or on your laptop and your Local GroupWise at work should see and be able to use Archives at the same time.

Migrating from GroupWise to Exchange is a gruesome task and to ease the entire process we offer Kernel for Novell GroupWise to Exchange software. The software is secure, accurate as well as reliable to migrate GroupWise to Exchange Server. User mailboxes of Novell GroupWise are converted and saved to Exchange User Mailboxes on MS Exchange Server.

Download the free evaluation version of Kernel for Novell GroupWise to Exchange from http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/migrate-groupwise-to-exchange.html