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

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

Leave a Comment 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!

Leave a Comment 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

2 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

Meet me at the SharePoint Conference

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011

I will be at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) in Anaheim, CA October 3-6.  Quest is the premier sponsor for the show and I will be spending a lot of time at the booth. Our booth will have a kiosk dedicated to Notes to SharePoint migrations so please come by and see all that we [...]

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New Webcast: Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint Online in Office 365

Leave a Comment Posted by on September 23, 2011

I recently co-presented a web presentation with Notes integration/migration rock star Gary Devendorf.  I was very happy with the results and the amount of “beef” we managed to squeeze into a marketing event. See the recording here:  http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=15382

Analysis, Footage, Notes Migration Projects, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, Word

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