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HCL Sametime® Administration Guide 12.0.1
Migrating and Upgrading
This section provides information on migrating data from an earlier release to Sametime 12.
Planning for migration to Sametime 12
Sametime 12 requires a new product install and migration of data from your previous version. Do not uninstall the previous version until the V12 installation is finalized and working as expected.
Migrating contact lists

HCL Sametime® Administration Guide 12.0.1
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- What's new
  HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium 12.0.1 provide many new features, enhancements and fixes to servers and clients. Additional releases to version 12.0.1 also provides updates to the product.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing the servers for Sametime and Sametime Premium.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the HCL Sametime server. Configuration tasks are dependent on the deployment environment.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing your HCL Sametime environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering on Sametime environments.
- Troubleshooting
  This section provides information on troubleshooting and supporting Sametime environments.
- Uninstalling Sametime
  In the event that Sametime must be removed, follow the procedure for the platform that Sametime is installed on.
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating data from an earlier release to Sametime 12.
  - Planning for migration to Sametime 12
    Sametime 12 requires a new product install and migration of data from your previous version. Do not uninstall the previous version until the V12 installation is finalized and working as expected.
  - Upgrading to a new version or applying a fixpack
    Newer versions and fix packs contain new features and fixes. You do not need to remove your current Sametime 12 installation when upgrading to a new version.
- Notices

Migrating contact lists

Before you begin

Review the Planning for migration to Sametime 12 topic.

About this task

In Sametime 9.x, 10.x and 11.x, vpuserinfo.nsf stores all the contact list for users. Before you can migrate contact lists to MongoDB, you must first convert the vpuserinfo.nsf data to LDAP using the Stnamechange utility on your current deployment environment.

Procedure

On the Sametime server being migrated, decompress the notes-migration.zip file to the server's program directory where the Sametime 12 product image was placed.
You must run this command from the Sametime server's program directory where the sametime.ini and notes.ini files exist.
For Linux, run the following commands to setup the environment. Otherwise, skip to the nex step. and perform the migration task.
```
source ./setenv.sh
```
Run the following command to move your contact list to MongoDB. Before the migration begins, you are prompted for locations and options.
- Linux
```
./notes-migration.sh
```
- Windows
```
notes-migration.bat
```

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