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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

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

How should I connect? How do I link? Which solutions do I need to install?

5 Comments Posted by on August 14, 2011

[Note: I am updating this old post to reflect the latest migration options in Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0.1.  Specifically, the "Lightweight Migration Service" is no longer needed.] Connection options Notes Migrator for SharePoint 6.0 now supports two very different ways to connect to SharePoint sites in order to migrate content to them.  1. Quest Import [...]

Link Tracking, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online, Tech Notes

Migration basics: Migrating to Document Libraries

4 Comments Posted by on July 25, 2011

From the perspective of a migration specialist, a library is very similar to a list. The main difference is that in a library, each “document” is an actual binary file with various data properties associated with it. Therefore, migrating a Notes database to a SharePoint document library could be as simple as extracting binary file [...]

Document Libraries, Document Sets, Domino.Doc, InfoPath, PDF, Tech Notes, Word

Lists, Libraries and Pages

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 22, 2011

There are three basic ways to store content in SharePoint: lists, libraries, and pages. Each of these has a number of interesting variations, but it is important to understand the differences between these three fundamental types so you can best decide what you want to migrate to. Each type is described briefly here; subsequent posts [...]

Document Libraries, Notes Migration Projects, Tech Notes, Training

Office 365 launches… Now read the white paper!

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 6, 2011

Last week, Microsoft  announced the launch of Office 365.  One week before that, my awesome new white paper, “Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online”, went live on the Quest web site. Here is a sneak peek at the table of contents: IntroductionPre-Migration Analysis    Introduction    Discovering All of Your Notes Databases    [...]

Notes Migration Projects, SharePoint Online, Tech Notes

Utilizing Content Types during a Notes to SharePoint migration (Part 2)

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 25, 2011

Part 1 of this article [link] describes how SharePoint Content Types might be useful when migrating multiple Notes “document types” to a single SharePoint List, Document Library, or InfoPath Forms Library.  Now we will take a look at how this can be accomplished using our tool, Notes Migrator for SharePoint. First a recap of the [...]

Content Types, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Utilizing Content Types during a Notes to SharePoint migration – Part 1

1 Comment Posted by on June 23, 2011

Content Types are a very powerful way to express the concept of “document types” or “business objects” in SharePoint.  In the Notes world, it is quite common to design an application that has multiple types of documents in it.  Even though Notes databases are unstructured and (by design) lack any type of schema, good Notes [...]

Content Types, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

Overriding Document Metadata while migrating

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 6, 2011

Notes Migrator for SharePoint is capable of migrating various pieces of document metadata to SharePoint.  For example when you enable the “Preserve Created Modified dates” “Preserve Created Modified identities” “Map Document Level Security” and “Preserve Response Hierarchies” features, the appropriate document metadata is translated and used while writing documents to SharePoint. While these capabilities are [...]

Link Tracking, Metadata, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Tech Notes

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