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  • Ten Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Notes Migration

    Here is a link to my new white paper, hot off the presses: [ link ] Abstract: Many organizations are moving from Lotus Notes/Domino environments to Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint and Office. However, applications that are migrated from Notes to SharePoint may need to be rebuilt – typically an expensive and time consuming process. Even then, the new applications may not function as well as the legacy ones. But with the release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010, things have changed. This paper discusses 10 ways that SharePoint 2010 will change the game for enterprises of all sizes who want SharePoint to replace or enhance their Notes environments. You will learn about major platform and functionality improvements and discover how SharePoint 2010 simplifies...
    Posted to Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror by Notes SharePoint Blog on Thu, Sep 2 2010

  • Who is migrating to SharePoint 2010 today?

    Our product supports SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 equally well, so we often do not know when our customers are migrating to which platform. If you are actively migration your Notes applications to SharePoint 2010 today, I would love to hear from you. Which edition of 2010? (Foundations, Standard or Enterprise) What types of Notes applications are you migrating? What 2010 features are you leveraging? What tools are you using? Have your new apps gone into production (or when will they)? Are you and/or your users happy? Please send your comments to me at steve.walch @ quest.com. I won’t reveal any of your specific details without permission, of course, but I do promise to post the general trends I hear about here. Thanks! Read More...
    Posted to Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror by Notes SharePoint Blog on Thu, Sep 2 2010

  • Effective SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Q&A

    Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations Question and Answer Log: I like to capture the questions from a good webcast. Got a bunch of good ones today… If you missed the presentation you can get a recording and the slides here . Paul Asked: Are there major downsides to using SQL 2005 with SharePoint 2010? The downsides are the features in SQL 2008 that SharePoint 2010 takes advantage of. Starting with Mirroring, Remote Blob Storage, Backup Compression, Transparent Database Encryption, PowerPivot (see more below), Optimized Engine for performance, SQL Governor, etc... Dutch McGehee Asked: Can I get a copy of the powerpoint slides? Sure. http://www.quest.com/events/ListDetails.aspx?ContentID=12156 Question: What is the best non-destructive (to existing...

  • Simple migrations without tools

    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 Microsoft Access in this case to grab data from the Domino URL, massage it, and publish it to a SharePoint list. Way cool! You can do similar things using Excel and SharePoint Web Parts that read data from the same place. Gary and I have co-presented on a few occasions and these types of demos are very popular. And Notes developers are very happy to have a way to get started doing simple data migrations using these types of methods. As Gary well be the first to...
    Posted to Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror by Notes SharePoint Blog on Wed, Sep 1 2010

  • How Microsoft Is Doing Records Management

    SHAREPOINT 2010 WEBINAR How Microsoft Is Using SharePoint & Colligo for ECM & Records Management Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Eastern 4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris Join Microsoft guest speaker Nishan DeSilva on September 21st for the webinar: “How Microsoft Is Using SharePoint 2010 & Colligo for ECM & Records Management.” Nishan DeSilva is the Director of Information Management & Corporate Records Compliance at Microsoft. He will provide an inside look at how Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs Department (LCA) is leveraging SharePoint 2010 and Colligo Contributor to address compliance while empowering users to get their work done. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Microsoft’s strategy in LCA for information & records management How to effectively...

  • How to migrate to SharePoint Publishing Pages

    Many Notes applications were designed primarily to publish rich content to a wide audience. These often included some type of approval process, management of draft content, version control, etc. These are great examples of applications that may well to the “publishing” site templates available in SharePoint Server 2010 and MOSS 2007. Here, for example, is a rich text Notes document (with embedded images, attachments and doc links) that has been migrated to a 2010 “Publishing Portal” using Notes Migrator for SharePoint . If we put this page into edit mode, we can see that a great deal of out-of the-box functionality is available with no development required. Notes Migrator for SharePoint supports migrating any Notes content to publishing pages. This is a little more complex than doing other...
    Posted to Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror by Notes SharePoint Blog on Fri, Aug 27 2010

  • Free Webcast: Get to SharePoint 2010 – Strategies for Effective Upgrades and Migrations

    Wednesday, September 1 at 11:00 a.m. ET / 8:00 a.m. PT Did you know there are really at least 3 options for visual upgrade? Did you know there are some good scenarios for In-Place upgrade? Why is hybrid upgrade recommended for many deployments? This information and more on including guidance on why some may choose third party tools for upgrade and a demo from Ghazwan Kahari on the brand new 2010 Migration Manager tool. During this live webcast, Joel will explore the different steps you can take to get to SharePoint 2010, and share tips, tricks and best practices to save you time and money. Register now Read More...

  • SharePoint 2010 and SQL Hotfix Dependencies

    I did a webcast about a week ago about upgrading to SharePoint 2010. In it someone wrote on the chatboard that I had my SQL CU’s dependencies wrong. Rechecking my slides and the dependencies page for SharePoint 2010 with the July update. I’m finding it is a bit difficult to navigate for customers where the SQL person is not the same as the SharePoint person. The individual on the webcast was was on the right track that I should clarify this wild area of what do you really need to be running for SQL. I recently found that not only that preupgradecheck does not check the version of SQL, in many cases neither does it check the version of SQL in the prerequiste installer in the cases of some of the in-place upgrades. In some cases a new install will catch it during the provisioning of the farm...

  • Aptillon SharePoint Consulting Genius

    Today in SharePoint News… Something huge happened. In the past you’d be impressed with a couple of MVPs/Experts putting their minds together and coming up with a product or a couple joining forces to write a book or get together to do some training or what have you. The brain power in this group Todd Baginski, Darrin Bishop, Dan Holme, Gary Lapointe, David Mann, Matt McDermott, and Maurice Prather is extreme. What they all have in common is they are really nice guys, who are not afraid of hard work. All are and have been consultants in the SharePoint world for many years. They all are very senior consultants working in SharePoint a total of over 50 years combined. The design is they are the principal consultants and now they are open for business. They’ve already got consultants and the work...

  • Really, A SharePoint Training Cruise?

    When Peter Abreu was asking me whether I’d be interested in presenting on a SharePoint Cruise I said…. Of Course!!! What we didn’t know was if people would want to receive their training on a cruise. I think it’s a very clever idea. I think others would want to provide training in this way as well. So now we need the proof. Here’s a survey to gather interest. I personally would love to get training in this way as well. If MCM was on a 2-3 week cruise, I can’t imagine it being delivered in a better atmosphere. Food is close. Company is accessible, and sleep is not far away either. Let us know what you think… SharePoint Tech Cruise Survey Read More...

  • Updated Guidance on SharePoint 2010 Upgrade and the FAB 40 application templates

    I’ve been telling people that Microsoft would be providing some guidance, and some of that guidance has come. Samantha Robertson a technical writer on the SharePoint team who is the author for much of the upgrade content on 2007 and 2010 on TechNet often without credit has posted some guidance. Her post is titled “SharePoint 2010 Products: Upgrade and the Fabulous 40 Application Templates” It’s broken down into a couple of categories. The information on… Upgrade Guidance 1. What to do with the .stp files – STP is no longer an supported extension for template files. The new format is the .wsp which is the same as it was for the solutions. Now we have client solutions, and even saving a site as a template in SharePoint will generate a .wsp file. Samantha includes the steps for recreating your...

  • SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Decision Tree

    Body: I love it when the community comes together. You can see the twitter discussion with Todd Klindt, Rick Taylor and Benjamin Athawes (on his blog) that resulted in a few different decision trees to help us better discuss the recommendations of In Place Upgrade vs. Database attach and really one of my favorites, the hybrid. In this recommendation decision tree, you’ll I rarely recommend in place without combining with database attach to mitigate the risks of full disk and other issues not captured by preupgrade check or in the prerequiste assessments such as SQL related patching issues. The only case is in the smallest of deployments where people are using the basic install which I don’t recommend anyway. Love to get your feedback on this. I threw in the Third party migration & tools...

  • We’re Serious - Don’t Modify Your Database or Face Consequences

    Today in SharePoint land there was a forum post about what’s ok and not ok around modifying the database. It’s been a long standing position by the SharePoint team to keep your paws out of the database, but recent rules added into the preupgradecheck go further to make sure the schema is in the expected state. Trevor states: Can you upgrade to SharePoint 2007 SP2? The database timer job includes an index defrag in it. Also, reading or writing to SharePoint databases will throw you into an unsupported state. > Please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861829%28office.12%29.aspx Benjamin explains: I wrote a blog post a while back which details some information regarded supported operations on MOSS databases at http://mossblogger.blogspot.com/2010/06/administration-supported-database...

  • Remove/Deactivate a missing feature for a cleaner upgrade

    If you’re running across this blog it’s possible you’re missing a feature or working on upgrade. There are multiple ways to detect missing features including the WssAnalyzeFeatures tool from MSDN and PreUpgradeCheck. Check out Gilham’s blog on removing missing features for more detail and tools. Stsadm –o Preupgradecheck (Installed with SharePoint 2007 SP2) In Features you’ll find the ID (GUID) and the word “missing” Snippet from preupgrade check .htm report: Name = [Unknown], Feature id = [bbe9def7-2fe9-a0b1-d712-aa128c837ebe], Reference count = [1], Scope = [Web], Status = [Missing] If the site is still working as it should and you just want to clean things up you can remove the feature. First you can uninstall the feature (it has to be there to uninstall it, we’ll see that in a second.)...

  • Free Webcast: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010

    Dux Raymond Sy and Joel Oleson are teaming up for a webcast you shouldn’t miss… Register now… Friday, August 20, 2010 10am PT, San Francisco 6pm - London | 1pm - New York | Sat, Aug 21th at 3am - Sydney | Sat, Aug 21th at 2am - Tokyo | Sat, Aug 21th at 1am - Beijing | 10:30pm - Mumbai Presented by: Joel Oleson , Dux Raymond Sy Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is touted as the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. It's a big leap from previous versions with its wide array of new features and capabilities. To make the most out of SharePoint 2010, join SharePoint experts and O'Reilly authors Joel Oleson and Dux Raymond Sy as they share their experiences and unique insights into best practices in upgrading and migrating to...
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