Microshat Exchange migration to Google CrApps

[clean2g]

Well I was asked to migrate the corporate email running on Exchange to Google Apps. All I have to say is, it sucks. Here is just a few of the issues I'm running into:

- Can't figure out how to migrate external contacts
- Can't create mail groups without users
- Can't create a mail group that forwards to another mail group
- Can't set individual accounts to forward as an admin
- Can't check if any of this will work because Exchange is still active and mx records will need to changed

I feel bad for the person who is going to upload all the mail, the process looks brutal. No idea what will happen to the BlackBerry enterprise server, it already freaks out with Exchange if you just update the Exchange server. Why can't people create software that works and that is cross-platform compatible? That's like the first rule you learn in programming, cross-platform compatibility. When you get to the price factor though, Google Apps > Exchange, it's free basically. Exchange costs are stupid, not to mention the overhead of hardware. Ugh, technology is a bitch.