Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: InfoPath everywhere

One of the biggest barriers to moving large numbers of Notes applications to SharePoint is the cost of rebuilding the complex applications. As covered previously [link] this cost is often overstated and can be mitigated by a good understanding of ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-20-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: Go Offline

I remember the SharePoint Conference three years ago where SharePoint 2007 was announced. I was in the Proposion Software booth (we had not been acquired by Quest yet) and had a chance to talk to a lot of Notes customers who were adopting (or at ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-19-09 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Visit me at the SharePoint Conference

At the airport now. Starting with this evening’s reception, I will be spending a good part of the week at the Quest Software booth (# 221) at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. Quest will be demoing 2010 versions of most of o ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-18-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

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 ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-16-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Automated provisioning of custom templates that use Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

Notes Migrator for SharePoint is great at provisioning lists, libraries or even entire SharePoint sites from your custom templates. This is incredibly useful when migrating lots of custom Notes applications that are based on the same Notes templa ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-16-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Calendar synchronization

About once a month, we get a question about migrating or synchronizing Notes calendars to SharePoint calendar lists. This was a surprise to me at first, as I assumed that most Notes calendars would be migrated to Exchange, but I realized that it ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-15-09 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Migrating Notes workflows that implement “dynamic” document security

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 Share ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-14-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Migrating workflow state and approval processes

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, y ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-13-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Enabling Windows Event Logging in Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2.1

We just released Notes Migrator for SharePoint version 5.2.1 last week. This is mostly a “roll up” of minor enhancements and bug fixes, but it did contain a couple small but cool features. One of these is a the ability to use the Windows Event L ...[Read More]

Published: Oct-12-09 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post