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

Monthly Archives: March 2011

Getting started with Multiple SharePoint Environments

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 now allows you to manage connection information to multiple SharePoint environments. Previously, if your staging and production environments required (for example) different passwords you would have to change the password configured in the tool when you wanted switch between them. Now you can save a set of connections for every [...]

Getting Started with Migration via Native SharePoint 2010 Web Services

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 now allows you to migrate directly to SharePoint 2010 environments without needing to install the Notes Migrator for SharePoint Import Service (or any other Quest code) on your SharePoint front end servers.  This of course is a huge win for anyone who operates a highly secured SharePoint environment where asking [...]

Getting Started with new Analysis Features in version 6.0

Last Design Modified / Modified By.  We have now added Last Modified Date and Last Modified By to the detailed design analysis information we collect.  This is visible in the Design Element Details dialog and is also included in our export to XML files. Similarly, the Modified By information is now available in the Design [...]

Getting Started with Migration to Document Sets

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 now allow you to migrate to SharePoint 2010 Document Sets.  Document sets are a great way to keep multiple related files together as one logical document group.  In many respects, one can think of this as a new more-powerful type of folder.  Documents in the same document set may be [...]

Getting Started with Migrating to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 now allows you to migrate Notes documents to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents.  This is similar to the tool’s current ability to migrate to Microsoft Word (DOCX) and MIME documents provides another great way to store rich text content in a way that it is easy for users to view, take [...]

Understanding DEI and other complexity metrics

The analysis component of Notes Migrator for SharePoint calculates several complexity metrics for each database, including Microsoft’s Design Element Index (DEI) method.  These are described at a high level in the documentation, but we sure do get a lot of questions about exactly how those numbers are computed.  I will attempt to give an answer [...]

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 has RTM’ed

One of our most exciting releases ever has been “Released to Manufacturing” (or should I say “Released to Marketing”?)  Here again is the final New Features list straight from our release notes: Support for Document Sets (SharePoint 2010) Support for Managed Metadata fields (SharePoint 2010) Support for InfoPath List Forms (SharePoint 2010) Generate PDF documents [...]

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