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

Exporting attachments and generated files to the file system

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 20, 2012

In case you missed it:  in Session 6 of my Partner Training webcast series, I introduced a free utility for reorganizing the intermediate files that Notes Migrator for SharePoint writes to disk.  Not everyone was clear on what such a utility was good for, so I thought I should elaborate: Every once in a while, [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Notes Migrator for SharePoint and Quest Web Parts collaborate to deliver support for migrating Notes Sections

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 18, 2012

The best kept secret in Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.1 is that we added full support for migrating Notes sections.  That’s right, I’m talking about the expand/collapse sections with the little triangles in Notes rich text items.  When we migrate any rich text that contains such sections, we generate DIV tags for the section headers [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Version 6.1, Web Parts

Do you require more in-depth design analysis?

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 24, 2012

After you have completed your Notes application analysis with Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you will probably discover that some of your complex Notes applications will require custom development on SharePoint.  To help you clarify the level of development required and assist the developers performing the actual conversion, we recommend Teamstudio Analyzer for the in-depth design [...]

Analysis, Design Migration

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.1 Reviewers Guide

2 Comments Posted by on February 19, 2012

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.1 is a significant product release that pushes the product further in three important areas:  Design Migration, Content Migration and Pre-Migration Analysis.  This release will be “Generally Available” on the Quest web site in a few days.  If you were in the beta program you already have the final build (6.1.0.626).  [...]

Analysis, Content Types, Design Migration, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes, Version 6.1

Suggested RFP / POC points for a Notes to SharePoint migration tool

Leave a Comment Posted by on February 10, 2012

There sure are a lot of organizations conducting Notes-to-SharePoint pilot projects, migration tool “bake offs”, POC projects, and RFPs these days!  I often get asked for my suggestions as to what tool criteria people should include in their formal evaluations.  It turns out that the details are very important; there are a number of tools [...]

Notes Migration Projects, Tech Notes

Lotusphere bound

4 Comments Posted by on January 11, 2012

I will be heading to Lotusphere next week for the first time in a couple years.  It should be a blast to see the many familiar faces once again.  Let me know if you plan to be there and would like to meet up in person.

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Notes Migrator for SharePoint Partner Training Webinar Series – Recordings now available!

2 Comments Posted by on December 21, 2011

My seven week Partner Training webcast series is now complete!  This is the most in-depth training for Notes Migrator for SharePoint delivered to-date and includes coverage of new 6.1 features as well as most existing features.  The 12 hours of riveting content have been recorded in HD and it is all free for you to watch [...]

Training

How to send a sample Notes document to Quest support

Leave a Comment Posted by on December 20, 2011

If you contact Quest support with a migration job problem, they are likely to ask you for the migration job, a log file, and a sample Notes database.  Sending the sample Notes database is often problematic because (1) it is on the server, (2) it is too big to send by e-mail, (3) contains proprietary [...]

Tech Notes

Webcast recording on Migrating Notes Applications to SharePoint with Fewer Development Resources

3 Comments Posted by on December 5, 2011

Last week I recorded a webcast with SharePoint Technical Strategist Ira Fuchs from Microsoft.  We talked about fully leveraging the awesome “declarative development” capabilities in SharePoint and InfoPath for rebuilding complex Notes applications.   75% of the presentation was about the concepts in Ira’s book for “Creating Enterprise Class Applications in SharePoint without Code”.  The rest [...]

Design Migration, InfoPath, Training

Introducing the Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.1 beta program

8 Comments Posted by on October 29, 2011

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.1 is a significant product release that pushes the product further in three important areas:  Design Migration, Content Migration and Pre-Migration Analysis.  Design Migration Migrate Notes Views to SharePoint Views Content Type Generation New Column Provisioning Options Provision Calculated columns Provision Lookup Fields Content Migration Migrate by Form Used Improved Content [...]

Claims Based Authentication, Content Types, Design Migration, Formulas, Notes Migrator for SharePoint

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