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Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: Declarative Workflow

Notes SharePoint Blog — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:42:05 GMT

When people think of complex custom Notes applications they think of workflow. Workflow is an especially important consideration when migrating Notes applications because migration tools, which can do a great job migrating schema, content, security and forms, have a hard time translating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows. Notes workflows are almost always implemented as code attached to various buttons, form events, and agents. By contrast, the Microsoft platform encourages you to use declarative...(read more)

SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Migration Preview Available

Alex Kirillov — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:01:00 GMT

My team has been working hard on adding support for SharePoint 2010 to Migration Manager recently. Version 2.2 back in May enabled direct transition to SharePoint 2010 from SharePoint Portal Server 2003/WSS 2.0. Work is under way to add granular content migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 to the tool. This new functionality is coming later this year in Migration Manager for SharePoint 3.0.

And today I'd like to share an early preview of the upcoming SharePoint 2007-2010 migration features with the community. While the CTP build is far from being feature complete, you can try out site migration to SharePoint Server 2010 or SharePoint Foundation 2010, which will migrate over all of the site content (lists and document libraries), security settings (users, groups and permissions) and site metadata (site columns and content types).

Here is a list of what is not supported in the CTP build, but going to be supported in the final version:

Document/item versions - only the current version is migrated
Site look and feel - master pages, themes, navigation
Web parts and custom web pages
List views
List-level migration - you can only select sites for migration
Exclusions - cannot exlude sites and lists/libraries from a migration job
Scheduled migration
Post-migration synchronization

The nice thing about the SharePoint 2007-2010 migration in Migration Manager is that it works remotely with SharePoint 2010! No need to install the tool or an agent on the target server. All data transfers are done over firewall-friendly protocols (HTTP/S). You can even migrate to a SharePoint 2010 server hosted on the Internet (think Microsoft Online when it's updated to wave 14).

Download link:
http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/5667.aspx
Check out the quick evaluation guide (readme.doc) included in the download package.

Feedback:
Post your feedback, questions to the dev team here:
http://sharepointforall.com/forums/29.aspx
or just leave your feedback as a comment here...

Planning SharePoint Deployments with RACI

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:15:38 GMT

Body: One of the first things I did when I sat down with the project manager and service managers on a SharePoint deployment is RACI charts. I’m a big fan of them. It gets a lot of the arguments flushed out for who is responsible. More than that it shows accountability and who needs to be consulted and ultimately the informed. Sure no one wants to be left out, but some times it just needs to be spelled out clearly, so the teams and parties involved can understand how this virtual team is being built...(read more)

Notes to InfoPath Migration step by step

Notes SharePoint Blog — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:26:28 GMT

Here’s a great step-by-step “walk trough” that Notes migration presales guru Tim Fountain did recently regarding InfoPath migrations. Download here: [ Using an InfoPath form with Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint.docx ] Read More......(read more)

Reaching out to the SharePoint Portuguese Community

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:56:44 GMT

Body: In my continued pursuits to connect with the SharePoint community around the globe, and recent attempts to connect with SharePoint LATAM , I’m excited to announce two new venues… I’ll be speaking at TECHED Brasil ! Last year this was the largest Microsoft event in LATAM! This is my first Teched in South America, but my second speaking gig there (remember SPC Peru 2009? I do! ). I have two sessions lined up for Teched Brazil. It’s going to be great to finally connect with that community. Teched...(read more)

Migrate your Lotus Notes data to SQL Server (and anything else)

Notes SharePoint Blog — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:12:45 GMT

Any time you run a migration job in the Notes Migrator for SharePoint Designer or Command Line clients you have a chance to export the data to an intermediate XML data file. The original intention of this feature was to allow importing the data into SharePoint at a separate time by a separate person. We have seen customers implement a variety of solutions using this feature: Offshore team exports the data and on-site team imports it. Unattended process automatically imports all jobs placed in a particular...(read more)

MessageStats Report Pack for Lotus Notes

Notes SharePoint Blog — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:56:15 GMT

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 of email systems, includes a great new Lotus Notes Report Pack [ link ]. To steal a few lines from their data sheet: The MessageStats Report Pack for Lotus Notes extends MessageStats...(read more)

Kudos to Owen Allen @owenallen

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:39:23 GMT

Good luck to Owen Allen, Former Sr. Product Manager at Microsoft. My good SharePoint friend Owen Allen is on to bigger and better things. He was in the latest round of layoffs at Microsoft. He had been most recently working with the SharePoint Partner ISVs. That partner team was really stripped down with this latest round. He’s got a great attitude and is very upbeat. I wish him the best of luck. A couple of recent success stories from the MS Layoffs in the SharePoint World… who stayed in the SharePoint...(read more)

Twitter gives more than free speech to the world

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:58:18 GMT

I’ve been impressed a couple of times by what I’d consider significant events that a decade ago would have spread by someone creating a web page and then word of mouth gaining in strength through links and SEO (Search engine optimization) and months later a page might be relevant for the right search term. Might get passed around in email. I can’t hardly imagine how word of mouth would have spread this in the past for something that didn’t make it as “newsworthy.” Seeing the plight of the Iranians...(read more)

Best Fit template matching features

Notes SharePoint Blog — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:00:08 GMT

Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 contains the ability to do “best fit” design matching to help identify which applications are based on similar designs, regardless of whether or not they are currently inheriting from the same application template. This supports the “design consolidation” process which is crucial to reducing the cost/risk of large migration process. To start using this feature, you need to associate specific Notes templates to specific Technical Classes. We already had the ability...(read more)

Practical Powershell for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:21:03 GMT

Body: I’ve seen a lot of confusion with various people’s approaches to powershell. Customers are First there’s the aversion to powershell as a "language” and something that will take time, a class, and tons of ramp up. Many decide to put it off until they are forced to learn it for something. Let me give you some practical guidance so you can start to approach it and understand it’s not all that bad… As you work your way through this blog, you’ll also find resources from other bloggers that...(read more)

When to elevate

Notes SharePoint Blog — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:12:22 GMT

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 do not allow two Windows accounts to log in or access local Notes resources at the same time. If you run a process with elevated privileges (aka "Run As Administrator", aka...(read more)

Migrating to the SharePoint Online platform (BPOS)

Notes SharePoint Blog — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:25:00 GMT

If you are talking to Microsoft about getting off of Lotus Notes, I have no doubt that you are hearing about, and probably seriously considering, Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), also referred to as Microsoft Online (MSO). There is a Dedicated version (BPOS-D), which give large enterprises the opportunity to have private hosted servers dedicated to just them, and a Standard version (BPOS-S) for everyone else. SharePoint Online is, of course, part of these suites. There is a...(read more)

Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Coexistence

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:12:12 GMT

First you should see the official word by viewing the webcast from MS: Jean-Francois LeSaux, EPM Lead Architect, Microsoft Corporation, Project Server 2010 - Coexisting with SharePoint Server 2010 . Webcast Agenda: The Challenge Deployment Scenarios Pros and Cons Deployment Procedures Resources Then I want you to consider these arguments: Sure now Project is build on SharePoint Server Enterprise edition adding tons of value to the already existing service apps, BUT… If you have Project as a service...(read more)

What’s Next in SharePoint Land

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:31:07 GMT

I’ve been working with and watching the End User SharePoint model. While I don’t get a ton out of all of the articles, I do find his model is working. I have been able to monetize the blog to help cover some of my SharePoint user group and SharePoint Saturday and community travel which has been awesome. I hope that no one is really bothered by the SharePoint related ads or the occasional promotion of a webcast. I figure all that stuff is still good for the community as well. You’ll note that I’ve...(read more)

How to migrate to SharePoint Wiki pages

Notes SharePoint Blog — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:52:00 GMT

Notes Migrator for SharePoint has allowed for migration to SharePoint wiki pages for over a year now. Wiki pages were of mild interest in SharePoint 2007, but as described in my last post [ link ] they have evolved into an awesome target choice in SharePoint 2010. For example, you may have noticed that the Site Pages library in many of the new 2010 site templates is now a Wiki library. The following steps recap the basic steps and some of the advanced options for migrating Notes documents to Wiki...(read more)

Get FULL Access to SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Book Online

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:37:25 GMT

Rough Cuts on Safari Books Online allow you to read books as they are being written. My book SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating is ready to go to the printer so now is a perfect time to check it out and read up on Upgrade. This won’t last long. The code below is good for 45 day access to the book online as a sneak peak. Rather than just share the cards at special events, I want my readers to have full access to the book to check it out first for themselves. Use Coupon Code...(read more)

Visual Upgrade Drill Down

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:15:14 GMT

I was recently working through the information that is published and reading up on the latest content on upgrade. More has been written. As I’ve worked through the information I came across tidbits here and there that I believe are essentially to planning the real options that are available. It’s true that not everyone will want their site administrators to decide when the upgrade for their sites will happen. These options will come in handy when you’re trying to combine the binary upgrade and the...(read more)

Upgrading Custom Field Types

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:54:36 GMT

Found this bit of information buried in a larger document. I’ve found it’s valuable in upgrades. Feel free to ignore it if it doesn’t relate to you. I recently had a conversation with the tech doc folks for the protocol docs and they told me, Yeah. If you can help bring visibility to content that’s buried that you think is important… go for it. [Feel free to cut and paste and link back to us]. Here’s one of those cases. In the MSDN article on “ How to: Create a Custom Field Type ” “If you have a...(read more)

SharePoint 2010 Unattached Content Database Recovery: Not Recovery, Just Export

Restore Point. SharePoint. — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:25:37 GMT

When SharePoint 2010 early sneak preview was first published by the product team, one of the big wow’s were the new granular content restore capabilities, available right there in Central Administration. While this is certainly an improvement compared to earlier version of SharePoint, I still cannot call this functionality “granular content restore”. Let’s walk through [...] Read More......(read more)

I’m running the SharePoint Track at SharePoint TEC Europe Oct 4-6 2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:16:42 GMT

Body: The Experts Conference Europe SharePoint 2010 It’s time to start planning your fall conference line up, so it’s there when you get back from your summer break. One of the key ones to add to your calendar is in Düsseldorf, Germany 4-6 October 2010. TEC – The Experts Conference – is the key event for deep dives. It’s the premier event to drill down and really get to know the experts. In this three day conference you’ll have better access to more experts in sessions designed to be more like chalk...(read more)

I’m Speaking at Sweden SharePoint Exchange Forum #SEF2010

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:08:40 GMT

18-19 October 2010 Where: Clarion Hotel, Skanstull Södermalm, Stockholm Who Organizes it? Goran Husman SharePoint MVP in Sweden of HumanData Get more information from the site: http://www.seforum.se/Pages/default.aspx (Yep it’s on SharePoint!) Tel: 08-5100 1200 | www.humandata.se | Kontakt: beatrice.husman@humandata.se More information in Swedish: De 30 första som anmäler sig före 30 juni får ett presentkort på brunch på Clarion Hotel. Välkommen till SEF 2010! SEF är den främsta konferensen i Norden...(read more)

I’m speaking at SPTechCon 2010 Boston in October

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:58:11 GMT

Keynotes: Bill English and Steve Fox Speaker Bios Course Catalog Info on the conference: The SharePoint Technology Conference, October 20-22 in Cambridge, MA, is the world's premier independent event for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server technology and services. The format includes 80+ technical classes, workshops and breakout classes with content geared to IT professionals, business managers and developers. It features a dozen Microsoft MVPs, 35 expert MS speakers and solutions from 50+ exhibitors...(read more)

Updated SharePoint Patching Recommendations for KB38444

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:06:48 GMT

Over the weekend there were a number of stories about some challenges with a critical patch. I posted a blog “ SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations ” suggesting that you may want to wait until more detail was available. Now we have the feedback and detail. The SharePoint Team has responded with a blog titled “ Installing KB938444 ” tracking a small number of customers who have the issue after installing the patch via windows update. The small business server folks also have a post...(read more)

SharePoint Vulnerability and Hotfix Recommendations

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:58:48 GMT

Body: SharePoint has been pretty luck over the years to avoid the focus of hackers and those looking to create exploits. About a month ago a vulnerability was reported for SharePoint relating to a possible exploit of a 0day elevation of priviledges via a DOS attack to help. The workaround at the time was to disable the help feature in SharePoint. V1.0 (April 29, 2010): Advisory published. V2.0 (June 8, 2010): Advisory updated to reflect publication of security bulletin. Microsoft responded by Microsoft...(read more)