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Steve Walch's blog about his favorite migration tool and other things related to Lotus Notes migration projects

Monthly Archives: November 2010

Introducing the Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 beta program

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2010

Here we are with Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3.3  just out the door and we are already talking about the 6.0 beta!  For a variety of reasons, we were working on both releases in parallel for several months now.  The release is far from done, but the beta already includes some very cool stuff: Support [...]

Claims Based Authentication, Document Sets, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, PDF, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, Version 6.0

Recap of Domino.Doc migration features

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2010

We have had pretty darn good Domino.Doc migration features since the beginning, but until recently I have not blogged about it very much.  Now that we about to release support for migrating to SharePoint Document Sets in Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0, I thought it was time for a quick Domino.Doc feature roundup: Notes Migrator [...]

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CBTs available for Notes Migrator for SharePoint

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2010

Our EMEA support team (one of three global support centers where you can get awesome support on my product) has recently put together a series of Computer Based Training labs on installing and using Notes Migrator for SharePoint.  Of course their immediate objective was to better support customers who might be struggling with certain aspects [...]

Domino.Doc, Formulas, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, QuickPlace, Security, Training

Migrating Domino.Doc version histories (and unpublished documents) to SharePoint

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 22, 2010

Here is a screen shot of the new Domino.Doc selection options in Notes Migrator for SharePoint with the “versioning” parts highlighted in red: For backward compatibility, the defaults are “Latest Major Versions” and “Published Documents” only, which migrate just one copy of each document.  However, you now have the ability to request prior versions and [...]

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Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3.3 RTM

1 Comment Posted by on November 17, 2010

Version 5.3.3 of Notes Migrator for SharePoint has finally released and will be generally available next week on the Quest web site and SupportLink. This release contains a larger number of “big ticket” items – far more than would normally be in a minor point release.  Here is the high-level list, with links to detailed [...]

Notes Migrator for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Version 5.3

Writing more than 2000 Notes documents to a SharePoint 2007 list or library

2 Comments Posted by on November 17, 2010

It is fairly common knowledge now that SharePoint 2007 lists and libraries can hold millions of documents, but there is a practical limit of about 2000 documents in any one view or folder.  Such limitations are discussed extensively in this Microsoft article [link]. So how do you deal with this when migrating Notes documents to [...]

Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Formulas that deal with multi-valued items or multi-valued results

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 17, 2010

Everyone knows that Notes Migrator for SharePoint has the ability to run formulas (using the Lotus @Formula language) to transform data as you migrate it.  This feature is used for a variety of things ranging from concatenating two fields to translating status code field values to using an @DBLOOKUP to “join” data from a different [...]

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Migrating Notes keyword fields to SharePoint

2 Comments Posted by on November 17, 2010

Lotus Notes applications have a concept of “Keyword” fields which are basically text fields with a predefined set of possible legal values.  In a data entry form, these may appear as combo boxes, list boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, or pop-up dialogs.  In some cases, Notes developers will even write their own user interface for [...]

Formulas, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Migrating to SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata fields – Part 2

2 Comments Posted by on November 16, 2010

In Part 1 we talked about what the new Managed Metadata fields are good for, especially when migrating a Notes application.  Today we will look at how to configure them in a SharePoint 2010 list or library and how to use Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3.3 to migrate to them. Defining your managed metadata field [...]

Metadata, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Tech Notes, Version 5.3

Slowly but surely…

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 16, 2010

Please be patient as I gradually repost content from my old (crashed) blog site.  Rather than bulk load everything, I am taking the opportunity to review and update the posts as well as eliminate the ones no longer relevant.  But there are a lot of old tech notes and “how to”s that I know people [...]

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