Migration from Microsoft Outlook to Kolab

[Henning]

Hi,

Doesn't Outlook provide some export calendar/addressbook feature? I'm
nearly 100% sure that is does.

ActiveSync works well (from kolab-side), I never tried Outlook 2013, but
it is said to work as well.

In my opinion AS is not the best approach for migration processes.

I think you should stick with IMAP, which is very solid, for mail
migration and do an export-to-file and import-file-in-roundcubemail for
addressbooks and calendars.

Henning

Am 14.03.2014 17:25, schrieb Thinker Rix:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> Thank you again for your time!
> 
> On 2014-03-14 16:32, Christoph Hartlmueller wrote:
>> RE: Migration from Microsoft Outlook to Kolab
>>
>>
>>     *From:* Thinker Rix <thinkerix at rocketmail.com>
>>     On 2014-03-14 15:13, Aleksander Machniak wrote:
>>>     On 03/14/2014 02:11 PM, Thinker Rix wrote:
>>>>     Christoph, thank you very much for this idea of yours!
>>>>     I found this: https://kolab.org/about/syncroton and as far as I
>>>>     understand, Kolab can accept ActiveSync connections.As far as I
>>>>     know,
>>>>     ActiveSync is a MS program, which I can install on windows and
>>>>     it should
>>>>     work also with Outlook 2003, isn't it? So with other words: I
>>>>     could just
>>>>     connect with ActiveSync and sync all my stuff to Kolab and I am
>>>>     done?!?!?
>>>>     If that would be true, it would be wonderful and amazingly easy!
>>>>
>>>>     Is anybody reading who can confirm this/ has already done that
>>>>     and has
>>>>     some experience on it to share with us?
>>>     I can confirm Outlook 2013 (not 2003) works with Kolab using
>>>     ActiveSync
>>>     protocol. You don't need to install any programs for that.
>>
>>     Great, thank you for the confirmation!
>>     Unfortunately I made a mistake and wrote Outlook 2003, although we
>>     are using 2007. So please allow me to ask again: Do you know if it
>>     works with 200*7*, too? Or only as of 2013?
>>
>>>       I didn't
>>>     however try to move events/tasks/contacts from one account to
>>>     another.
>>
>>     I do not understand that; when syncing is done, aren't the data
>>     copied to both places, isn't that the very essence of syncing? So
>>     that after syncing I would just dump the Outlook and continue
>>     accessing my data on Kolab via Roundcube and/or another client
>>     such als Kontact?
>>     Or do you mean that you just connect to Kolab via ActiveSync so to
>>     receive your email via ActiveSync - but not the
>>     calendar/tasks/contacts which continue to live on your local Outlook?
>>
>> You need Outlook 2013. Older Outlook version only sync with a
>> full-blown Microsoft Exchange Servers (The ActiveSync Server the
>> "small" brother of the Exchange Server and is mostly used to sync
>> mobile devices).
>>
> 
> Ok!
> 
>>  So the work flow is the following:
>>
>> 1. Backup your pst file(s) and setup a test Kolab server.
>>
>> 2. Open your pst-files using Outlook 2013. Check if data looks ok, but
>> going from Outlook 2007 => 2013 should be ok
>>
>> 3. Connect your Outlook 2013 to the Active Sync (Syncroton) Server of
>> Kolab (see for example here:
>> https://portal.smartertools.com/kb/a2808/setting-up-outlook-2013-using-microsoft-exchange-activesync.aspx
>> ). You do not need to install anything for this, Kolab comes with the
>> ActiveSync server. Thanks Aleksander, good to know Kolab works with
>> Outlook 2013.
>>
>> => you now see your Kolab data in outlook.
>>
>> 4. Now you move all data within Outlook 2013 to the Kolab account.
>>
> 
> Christoph, thank you very much for this detailed step-to-step guide!! It
> will help a lot!
> 
>> In case you do not have Outlook2013, maybe you can get a
>> test/evaluation version since you only need to do this once. Once your
>> data is in Kolab, you can use any other Client.
>>
> 
> Yes, indeed, a quick web search showed that MS has a trial version of
> Outlook. Thanks for the hint!
> 
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Christoph
>>
> 
> Sure it does, thank you very much!
> 
> How do you expect this method that we just described here with the
> alternative way to go via the third party plugin called Bynari? What do
> you think will perform better in terms of migration and the non-loss of
> data during the translation from A to B?
> 
> Best regards and again: Thank you!
> 
> Thinker Rix
> 
> 
> 
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