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

Monthly Archives: February 2011

All Database View/Report Columns

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 15, 2011

With each new release of Notes Migrator for SharePoint, we add new functionality and this usually means new database properties that you can view in the Migration Console.  For example, our new “Blocked / Oversized File Detection” feature gives you four new columns that you can add to any database view or report: With version [...]

Analysis, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Extracting all the users from a set of databases

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 15, 2011

The Extract Database Users tool (new in Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3) allows you to select one or more databases in any database view in the Migration Console and then extract all the user names contained in those databases.  This tool is useful for simply gaining an understanding of the users involved in a group [...]

Analysis, Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

MessageStats Report Pack for Lotus Notes

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 15, 2011

People love MessageStats.  In the three years since joining Quest, I have met many customers and partners who think of MessageStats as the Quest product, compared to which migration tools are a necessary evil to get a short-term project done. What many people do not know is that MessageStats, which reports from a wide variety [...]

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When to elevate

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 15, 2011

If you are running on Windows machines with User Account Control turned on, you may have noticed problems running the Notes client and Notes Migrator for SharePoint – or perhaps even two Notes Migrator for SharePoint clients – at the same time.   There are two keys to understanding what is going on here: Notes clients [...]

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Advice for teaching yourself Notes Migrator for SharePoint

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 10, 2011

Of course, the entire product is documented in our extensive user manual.  Since not everyone is inclined read such a manual end-to-end, and not everyone is able to take our official partner training courses, I am often asked to suggest other ways to learn how to get started with Notes Migrator for SharePoint and how [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Training

Generating Microsoft Word Documents

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 10, 2011

This feature allows you to generate Microsoft Word 2007 / 2010 (OpenXML) documents from Lotus Notes documents. Microsoft Word is a very flexible and powerful environment and NMSP supports a wide range of migration scenarios: 1. Migrate Notes rich text to new (blank) Word document – In this scenario the user wants to map the [...]

Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes, Word

Take Command of Your Notes Application Migration to SharePoint 2010

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 4, 2011

Here is a webcast I recorded in December that covers new SharePoint 2010 capabilities (and how to migrate to them from Lotus Notes).  Along the way, it shows off a number of new Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 features:  http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=13273 PS:  In case you missed it, the beta program Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 is [...]

Footage, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Version 6.0

Migrating Notes workflows that implement “dynamic” document security

2 Comments Posted by on February 4, 2011

We have discussed various issues about workflow in the past [link].  To make a long story short, there is no way to press a button and magically translate Notes code-based workflows to SharePoint declarative workflows, but Notes Migrator for SharePoint does an excellent job at migrating your workflow state.  Recently we have been getting a [...]

SharePoint 2010, Tech Notes, Workflow

Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: Declarative Workflow

1 Comment Posted by on February 3, 2011

When people think of complex custom Notes applications they think of workflow.  Workflow is an especially important consideration when migrating Notes applications because migration tools, which can do a great job migrating schema, content, security and forms, have a hard time translating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows. Notes workflows are almost always implemented as code [...]

SharePoint 2010, Workflow

Migrating workflow state and approval processes

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 1, 2011

As described previously, when migrating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows you are really switching from code-based workflows (logic encoded in button events, agents, etc.) to declarative workflows.  And using Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you can migrate your workflow state so you can preserve in-progress workflows between the two systems.  To achieve this, simply migrate the  [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes, Workflow

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