Novell Inc has made available a range of tools to help its Consulting Partners migrate their customers to NetWare 4.1 and NetWare Directory Services from Microsoft NT Server, Microsoft LAN Manager and IBM LAN Server. The special Migration Editon of the Novell Consulting Toolkit includes a migration tool, an SMB Server Message Block compatibility tool and additional client migration resources. Existing utilities to migrate users from Banyan Vines and NetWare 3 to NetWare 4 are also included in the toolkit. With the migration tool, according to Novell, files can be migrated directly across the network from the source server to the destination server, automatically converting user information, access rights and data. The Server Message Block NetWare Loadable Module is designed to enable users to continue to run applications without changing their client software during the migration. The idea is that network managers can avoid having to visoit each client workstation on the day of conversion, but can do it over a per-iod of time. Novell plans to offer migration workshops throughout the world for channel partners between February and April. The Migration Edition of the tool kit will be generally available to Novell Consulting Partners, Gold and Platinum partners at no charge; customers and others have to pay an annual fee.
