Moving your users from Oracle Calendar 10g, 9.0.4 or CorporateTime to Exchange can be a hassle.
One of the biggest problems with moving your users from Steltor's CorporateTime (formerly known as CS&T / Netscape Calendar) or Oracle Calendar Server can be the change in default behavior.
In Exchange, there is no default processing for meeting invitations, while in CorporateTime they are automatically accepted as status Tentative. While Microsoft has announced this is coming in Exchange 2007, why wait for it when you can have it now?
As the screen capture above shows, Sumatra's Rhino Event Sink can change the defaults on an entire Exchange system to match CorporateTime behavior. We developed this technology based on feedback from several CorporateTime to Exchange migration sites, and have confirmed it in tests with users.
Rhino makes your Exchange system look like CorporateTime by:
- Automatically accepting all invitations as Tentative
- Leaving all invitations in the Inbox for users to make the final decision
For the Exchange Administrator Rhino:
- Is completely server-based, so you don't need to update clients
- Is simple to set-up
- Is configurable for other options
- Runs server-side so users don't need to be logged in
- Has a full-featured trial version (please, run this in your test lab before putting it on your production system)
Rhino can also:
- Automatically process all "All attendees have accepted" messages
- Clear all these messages from your Inbox
- Update availability and Free/Busy information
- Allow only Declines and Acceptances with messages into your INBOX.
The documentation is here in PDF format (we're adding MORE functionality even as you read this).
One of our founders wrote an article on Replicating Oracle Calendar In-Tray Functions in Outlook 2003 for Outlook Exchange. You might find it helpful.
Want to migrate Oracle Calendar to Exchange?
The Sumatra Team has been hard at work learning how to convert Oracle Calendar 10g, 9.0.4.x, and CorporateTime calendar servers to Exchange 2003.
And we've done it.
Your Oracle Calendar Server data can go from this:
To this:
If you can run UNICPOUTU on your Oracle
Collaboration MidTier server we can put your calendar data into Exchange
2003.
Drop Zyg a message (zyg AT sumatra DOTCOM).
In the meantime -- you can check out the documentation in PDF format.
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