This talk covers the lessons learned while migrating 2500 users to a new email server for the Northshore School District (NSD). Email server migration consists of data and process inventory and clean up, selecting the new email server, initial data migration, running a pilot test, final data migration, and post migration tasks. This presentation will cover these aspects, what worked and did not work, and what should have been done differently to make the migration run smoother using examples from migrating the email server at NSD.

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Chris “Ski” Kacoroski has been a systems administrator since 1982, worked at the Northshore School District since 2002, and a member of LOPSA’s board since 2009. When not dealing with technology, he enjoys spending time with his family and volunteering for King County Search and Rescue.

As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/

There will also be several CACert assurers present.

The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the
University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the
EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.