Question : Migrating from Goldmine to Microsoft Exchange

Hello:

I saw this post on the sight:

"I'm looking for information about migrating from Goldmine to Microsoft Exchange. I have a client that uses Goldmine and they are considering getting off of Goldmine and moving to Microsoft Exchange (I could go into lots or reason and pros/cons but that's for another forum). We need to migrate emails, contacts and history. Does anyone know what would be involved, what tools are available or how I can get started researching this?"

Answer:
Email is easy enough.
Configure full Outlook to connect to the Goldmine POP3 server, suck the email out in to a pst file and then import that in to the mailbox.

My questions:
1) Does anyone have more info on this topic
2) How can this email workaround be done, more specifically, I don't quite understand what is needed.

Thanks,

Joseph

Answer : Migrating from Goldmine to Microsoft Exchange

Unless they have changed something, Microsoft CRM still uses Outlook and Exchange. CRM installs a plugin to Outlook to manage the email messages. It is all tightly integrated with one another.

Goldmine is basically a POP3 server. There should be instructions around somewhere on how to connect Outlook to Goldmine. Once you have the connection in place, most email should come out.

However, I will confess that the last Goldmine to Exchange migration I was involved in, there was a specialist doing the CRM bit - I was there to do Exchange.

Simon.