Detecting applications that send Active Mail

What kind of low-life application would create a document with an embedded form, anyway? Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.1 has a new feature to help find out! As part of our Design Analysis, we now detect which Notes databases have forms with t ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-27-08 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

5.0.1 is dead... Long live 5.1

The Notes Migrator for SharePoint dev team has been working on new stuff ever since 5.0 shipped in October. We had been planning on issuing a 5.0.1 patch release at the end of the month and then a bigger 5.1 release at the end of Q1 2009. What ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-22-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Why is this migration incredibly slow?

We came across an interesting support case with one of our best customers. On one particular server, even the simplest migrations (no big attachments or images, no OLE objects, no workflows kicking off) were taking forever - several minutes per ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-19-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Generating raw HTML (and XML)

When using Notes Migrator for SharePoint to migrate Notes rich text documents to SharePoint, you usually let the tool do all the work for you. Typically, you would tell the tool to extract your rich text "Body" item as HTML and map that t ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-18-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Can I use your tool to migrate from Lotus Notes to SQL Server?

I get this question from time to time. The answer is that we do not have that as an official tool feature, but our customers do it all the time anyway. When using this Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you can save the results to an intermediate XML ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-17-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Provisioning things in SharePoint

I use the word "provision" a lot when describing Notes Migrator for SharePoint. Every once in awhile, people ask me what I mean by that exactly, so I thought I had better clarify... In the context of our tool, "provision" mea ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-17-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

A new article about my product on CodePlex

Mohamed Faizal, one of the attendees of my two day Notes Migrator for SharePoint training in Singapore, decided to put the product through the paces himself and wrote up the results in a nice CodePlex article: [Migrating Lotus Notes (Domino) data ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-16-08 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Migrating Lotus Notes document Keywords

Thanks Curtis, for solving a long standing mystery for me. Lotus Notes maintains a "Keywords" property for every document (one of several attempts by Lotus to provide "knowledge management" features in the Notes platform). ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-15-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Hot and Cold

My time in Singapore included some hot moments. Although it is possible to live almost your entire life in air-conditioned offices, air-conditioned taxis and the continuous system of air-conditioned shopping malls down there, I chose to get out i ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-14-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

QuickPlace Analysis

In QuickPlace, many things that users would consider "design", including custom pages and custom fields, are actually stored as data documents. When doing a design analysis, Notes Migrator for SharePoint treats these things as design do ...[Read More]

Published: Dec-14-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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