Notes SharePoint Blog

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.

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 [...]

People love MessageStats.  In the three years since joining Quest, I have met many customers and partners who think of MessageStats as the Quest product, compared to which migration tools are a necessary evil to get a short-term project done. What many people do not know is that MessageStats, which reports from a wide variety [...]

If you are running on Windows machines with User Account Control turned on, you may have noticed problems running the Notes client and Notes Migrator for SharePoint – or perhaps even two Notes Migrator for SharePoint clients – at the same time.   There are two keys to understanding what is going on here: Notes clients [...]

I recorded an interview with Hilton Giesenow of The MOSS Show, which is one of the most popular SharePoint podcast shows on the web.  As many of you already know, Hilton’s interviews are pretty in depth, so if you want to listen to an hour of Steve on the way to work today, download this: [...]

Please be patient as I gradually repost content from my old (crashed) blog site.  Rather than bulk load everything, I am taking the opportunity to review and update the posts as well as eliminate the ones no longer relevant.  But there are a lot of old tech notes and “how to”s that I know people [...]

Migration tools are great (especially mine) but we don’t want to ever forget about the simple migration scenarios that you get for free from the Microsoft platform.  Here is a cool video [link] from Microsoft’s Gary Devendorf showing you how to extract data from Notes using the good old ReadViewEntries Domino URL commands.  Gary uses [...]

A new article by yours truly has come out on CTO Edge: http://www.ctoedge.com/content/migrating-lotus-notes-applications-microsoft-sharepoint Also, a very nice podcast by Joel Oleson on What’s New For Administrators in SharePoint 2010 here: http://www.themossshow.com/2010/08/episode-25-whats-new-for-administrators-in-sharepoint-2010-with-joel-oleson/ Enjoy!

My hosting company (VPSLAND.COM) failed me again with more hardware problems.  Rather than wait to see if my old site will come back to life, I have decided to bite the bullet and move to a different provider regardless.  So here I am on WordPress.  It will be nice to be on a real blog [...]