Migration from Microsoft Outlook to Kolab

[Thinker Rix]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your time!

On 2014-03-14 13:59, Daniel Hoffend wrote:
> > But how about the other elements such as contacts, calendar and 
> tasks? Is there maybe a similar straight-forward solution for those, too?
>
> Just try to export the Contacts/Calendar as CSV or set of VCards and 
> try an import via the roundcube webgui.

Ok!

> for the Tasks. This can be complicated if not impossible cause webgui 
> doesn't support import/export of tasks and there's no protocol 
> (TaskDAV) or file type that has a common description how tasks are 
> beeing saved (compared to .ics or .vcd for calendar and contacts).
>
> It is possible that Outlook can export your tasks to a CSV file but 
> i'm nt sure if Kontact is able to import and convert them.
>
I see. This would be devastating for us, since we heavily work with 
tasks :-(
A single user of us has some hundred current tasks, let alone the 
completed ones. So I will have to find some solution whatsoever.
Maybe I can write a bash script that takes the .csv and transforms it in 
the way that Kolab handles the tasks?! Does anybody know how Kolab saves 
it's tasks?

>
> tbh. I would just install a kolab instance and start playing around 
> with it. You don't have to migrate today, so take your time, play 
> around with it until you're happy with it. There'll be more questions 
> once you start migrating anyway.

Yes, you are surely right, I will need to experiment, test and learn 
prior doing the real migration!
But what I try to do with my inquiry here currently is to learn about 
all the options and get some advices/tips/hints from users who might 
have done similar things before and can give me some starting point with 
my experiments. I am sure that there are more than one way and some 
might be better than others, so it can't harm to listen to your experiences.

> -- 
> Regards
> Daniel

Thank you for your help, Daniel!

Cheers
Thinker Rix

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