Extracting Information from Collabra Share

The Collabra Share source extractor imports forums and categories into Microsoft Exchange Server as public folders and subfolders. Documents within forums are converted to messages, and any attached files are migrated with the document as message attachments. Message threads are migrated to Microsoft Exchange Server as messages with the original title as the conversation topic.

The source extractor migrates the following forum and category properties:

Collabra forum	Microsoft Exchange Server public folder
Forum name	Public folder name
Default permissions	None, Author, Publishing Editor
Category name	Subfolder name

• The source extractor doesn't migrate the following information:
• Encrypted forums and documents. You must decrypt forums and documents by using Collabra Share before running the Migration Wizard. For more information on decrypting forums, see "Decrypting Collabra Share Forums" later in this chapter.
• Forum membership lists and permissions. You need to recreate these items in Microsoft Exchange Server.
• Message template information.
• Drafts of forum documents. You need to post documents in forums before they can be migrated.

Note   Forums can be located outside the Collabra Share database directory structure at the administrator's discretion. However, the Migration Wizard does not detect forums outside the Collabra directory structure. To migrate these forums, run the Migration Wizard a second time and type the path to their location.