In order to guarantee the highest quality of a successful data migration from phpBB and/or Simple Machines Forum, we will offer a complete migration service instead of the stand alone Forum Converter software.

One of the main reasons is that over the years, so many versions exists of both the Community Server CMS and the source systems, phpBB and SMF, so it has started to become a problem to support every scenario.

By offering a migration service, we can complete the data migration in our controlled environment with a better control of the migration process. The result will be a much more confident migration.

The new Forum Converter v1.7 has these new features:

• Added support for migrating the following user profile attributes; AIM, YIM, MSN, ICQ, Web Site, Signature, Occupation, Interests, Location and Avatar.
• Added functionality to merge duplicate users when duplicate emails are found.
• Added functionality to automatically add phpBB users that are in the Forums Administrator and Moderator groups to the Community Server counterparts.
• Added support for 64bit operating systems such as Windows Vista x64  and Windows Server 2003 x64

Firewalls

If you are accessing your phpBB database from behind a firewall, be ware of that you need to open up the ports that the MySQL server is listening to.

Web Hosting access

Your Web Hosting company maybe have a policy to not letting you access the DB Server directly from "outside". In that case you can ask them to open up that possibility.

Port number

In case of that your phpBB/MySQL server is not using the standard port number, you can specifiy the port number explicitly in the connection string by using the port argument: "port=nnnn"

Today we have released a new version of our Forum Converter.

The new v1.6 introduces a new, completely re-written conversion enging that support multi threaded operation.

This means that a migration will take 3-4 times shorter to complete, depending on the CPU capabilities the program is running on.

Also, support for the new Community Server 2007 is added.

• Upgraded Microsoft Enterprise Library to v3.0
• Fixed issues when not using default instance names in Community Server DB SQL Server.
• Fixed issues with topics containing null value.

A new version of the Forum Converter is released.

Change log:

• Added support for View count conversion.
• Added possibility to not use Encoding at all.

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