MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Importing users from a foreign directory
Use Domino Upgrade Services to extract information from a foreign directory source and import that information into the Domino Directory. When importing users to the Domino Directory, you must direct the Domino Upgrade Services to an external, or foreign, directory that will serve as the source for names to import. The foreign directory can be an application-specific post office directory, such as a cc:Mail post office directory or a Microsoft Exchange Address Book, or a standard LDAP directory that is not application-specific. Domino Upgrade Services import names and other basic user information from the source directory: secondary names, mail addresses, passwords, and so forth. The information from the source directory is copied to Person documents in the Domino Directory.

The administrator performing the migration should be familiar with the Domino Directory as well as the source directory.

The process of importing users consists of the following tasks: