Coming back to reality, there are only very few things in an admin's list of things that come close to a server migration. My 10-year veteran admin friend thinks there's nothing like a server migration to make your day! For him, migration involves a huge checklist and a wasted weekend. But if you use Openfire, you can retain your happy-go-lucky charm and get the job done before your users return from lunch.
Migration is actually a small subset of a bigger problem. There are a couple of situations that can very well be described as an admin's worst nightmare:
1. Moving over to Openfire: Ok, so this isn't totally a waste of effort—you do get a quality IM server at the end of the day. But exporting all of the users, their settings, and their rosters and then importing them into the new server can be quite a hassle.
2. Moving from one Openfire server to another: So your old server is slowly bleeding to death. You love the beast but you've got to cut it loose. Not only...