Novell 4.11 to NT4.0

We ran into a few problems during the last migration I did there were logon scripts and printer mappings that in certain cases had to be redone because they were too complicated.

Then after that we found that a lot of the computers were using invalid workgroups and had to be changed and joined to the NT domain.

You then have to ensure that the users are logging onto both the Netware network and the NT network.

I can't think of anything else after that, it was just a case of allowing time to copy the files across from the Netware Server to the NT server.

I'm not sure about applications, which ones specifically.

Cheers

DON'T DO IT!!!!!

By migrating to NT4.0 (and even W2000) you will lose a lot manageability, functionality and granularity. Leave NetWare for what it is good at - file serving and printing and Windows for what it is OK for - some applications.

NetWare is a true Network Operating System - NT is a glorified workstation......

I have done this alot. The biggest problem I have run into is with Groupwise (will mention later). NT has a novell migration tool built-in. You can use this if you want, it will migrate user accounts for you. You will need to setup GSNW (Gatewayservices for Netware) to be able to migrate data and users. If you don't have a lot of users, then don't run the migration tool, just recreate them. Map a drive to the Novell Server then copy the data to a drive on the NT box.

Don't worry about the management aspect differences between NT and Novell, the lack of headaches from maintaining Novell will payoff!

I have tried to migrate Groupwise to Exchange and had problems exporting accounts, addresses and pretty much everything else.