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May 2009 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

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  • Is Twitter Killing Instant Messaging?

    As time goes on I become more and more of a fan/advocate/evangelist of twitter. It’s amazing how it’s been connecting me more realtime with people I’d never be in contact with, and allows me to really build community relationships. It’s really becoming powerful. It’s probably not fair to compare Twitter to live messenger, but I think it’s fair time that MS take a wake up call or two from the potential of twitter and how it will impact the enteprise. I know the SharePoint team has to take it seriously. Obviously I’m a HUGE MS Fan, and I’m not loosing my MS Religion. Twitter is not political, and I hope that it stays that way. 5 reasons why I’m spending less time invested with instant messaging and spending that time with Twitter… Instant messaging isn’t dead, especially in the corporation, but...

  • Mapping Notes Groups to SharePoint Groups

    Notes Migrator for SharePoint has always had a number of capabilities for migrating the security of your Notes applications to the equivalent security constructs in SharePoint. In particular we have had two distinct "group mapping" options: Map Domino Directory Groups in your application's ACL to Domain Groups (usually AD groups) Generate SharePoint Groups (with members) from Roles in your application's ACL In both of the above cases, the tool sets the permissions correctly for the site, list, or document you are provisioning. With Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2, we now support a third option: Generate SharePoint Groups (with members) from Domino Directory Groups in your application's ACL In other words, as indicated in the dotted line below, we are now crossing the...

  • New Zealand Comm SP Conf, Australia SharePoint Tour and TechEd Africa

    Have you heard about all the conferences going on in June? SharePoint Saturday’s across the U.S. and the SPTechConn. I’m grounded for the month of June. Staying in Seattle/Redmond, keeping myself busy with baby, family and NDA, doing a lot of writing, you should see the next paper in the Governance papers. July I’m back on the road… I just got off a conference call with the Quest folks helping organizing my Australian SharePoint tour following the New Zealand SharePoint Conference. I’m getting very excited about my next trip which will begin in Wellington at the New Zealand Community SharePoint Conference 2009. The speaker lineup is looking very impressive. If you’re in New Zealand and a SharePoint fan, I expect to see you there. :) The following week July 6-10, I’ll be making my way across...

  • WooHoo! It’s a boy! Updates and this week in SharePoint…

    Body: A number of significant things have happened in my life recently. #1 being the birth of my son Dean Kyle Oleson. My wife didn’t agree to SharePoint as his middle name, unlike Avi “MOSS is my middle name” from Israel. He’s been consuming my thoughts rightly so. Dean was born on May 22 at 3:20am. I did some twittering around his birth. The hundred or so that commented with congrats on both facebook and twitter, let me personally thank you :) Was great to see the community come together like that. I can now talk about “My Three Sons” an old school TV show. It’s great to be a dad again and you can bet he’ll be the best travelled baby as soon as he can get his passport. SP2 issue The other big announcement clogging the twitter pipes was an issue in SharePoint Server SP2 (Standard or Enterprise...

  • Webcast: Migrating Complex Notes Apps with Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

    Here is a web recording of migrating complex applications to SharePoint using Notes Migrator for SharePoint and then rapidly rebuilding the complex functionality using Quest's Web Parts for SharePoint: http://www.quest.com/events/listdetails.aspx?contentid=9604 . You can see the complete set of Notes integration/migration demos at www.quest.com/notesdemos . Read More...

  • Optimizing SharePoint SQL Databases and Top Performance Killers

    Body: I wanted to share a little bit more from my deck I delivered at Teched with Paul Learning. Had a great session, great attendance. What we got as a result was the need for more crossover information on SQL and SharePoint. I do recommend you start with this post on “ Understanding the SharePoint SQL Databases” on SharePointForAll which I put together as post to better explain how the data is spread out and to help better understand the differences between the different SharePoint databases. Performance and the various bottlenecks introduced by SharePoint leveraging SQL need to be better understood for us to optimize SQL for SharePoint. Beyond RAM which is often the first bottleneck for SQL systems to hit when running with SharePoint databases is disk I/O. It’s not the typical content database...

  • Large Scale SharePoint SQL Deck and Teched vs. SharePoint Conference

    I can’t complain about the opportunity to speak at Teched. I always look forward to it and it was great to see a lot of the “regulars” including a very long list of SharePoint MVPs. With my talk in the SQL track it was great to see a lot of new faces and find the SQL crossover track as a high value opportunity for the SharePoint community to embrace their SQL counterparts. It was a great session with SQL and SharePoint admins sharing a high value session on Scale. DAT307 Considerations for Large-Scale SharePoint Deployments on Microsoft SQL Server Presenters: Paul Learning, Joel Oleson Tue 5/12 | 1:00 PM-2:15 PM | Room 151 This session will identify architectural design considerations, provide prescriptive guidance and discuss best practices, based on real-world scenarios, around designing...

  • New case study: Total Petrochemicals Migrates from Notes to SharePoint...

    Here is a new case study that features a high profile migration project that used Notes Migrator for SharePoint (my product) and Quest's Web Parts for SharePoint together [ link ]. It is a great example of how using a good data migration tool as well as a rapid application development tool for rebuilding the non-standard user interfaces can reduce the cost of the overall migration project. There is one other thing I really liked in this case study: The customer cited “the ability to replay the migration scenarios as many times as needed to ensure good results” as one of the primary criteria for selecting a migration tool. This is something that we designed the Notes Migrator for SharePoint migration console was designed for from the beginning, but the value of it is not always clear. Our...

  • Case study in debugging InfoPath data migration jobs

    Notes Migrator for SharePoint has the ability migrate Notes documents to InfoPath data documents. As described in previous posts [ link ], this feature currently requires hand-editing an XML template file. It is one of the more complicated parts of the product and, frankly, it is all to easy to generate an XML document that InfoPath does not like. We will be making all this a lot easier in an upcoming patch release, but meanwhile some debugging tips are in order. The best way to resolve almost any problem here is to create a sample InfoPath document directly in your SharePoint document library and compare it line-by-line to an InfoPath document generated by Notes Migrator for SharePoint . To download the XML data documents to your local hard disk, right click on the documents in question in...

  • Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2 Beta is now available

    The Notes Migrator for SharePoint team has another release in the works and this time we are using Quest’s new SharePoint For All community site to run the beta program. The beta landing page http://sharepointforall.com/content/NMSP52Beta.aspx contains the details. The feature highlights are: Generate InfoPath Form Templates from Notes Forms Migrate Notes documents to Word 2007 documents Migrate Notes documents to Web Part pages (improved) Generate SharePoint Groups from ACL Groups Link Tracking Finalizer/Updater Of course I have already started discussing some of these features in detail on this blog, with more to come! Read More...

  • In search of a better threaded discussion user interface for SharePoint

    To put it is delicately as possible, the people who designed the user interface for the discussion list in SharePoint thought a bit differently about discussion threads than people in the Notes world. People who use Notes Migrator for SharePoint to migrate Notes discussion databases (or applications such as team rooms that contain discussion components) to SharePoint discussion lists are sometimes pretty disappointed at how discussions look and operate in SharePoint. You could make a case for it being better or worse, but the cogent point is that it is quite different and that can be a disruptive change. In the worst cases, this change can really detract from an end user's first impression if their new SharePoint environment. Quest Web Parts for SharePoint (a separate product, but highly...

  • Targeting MOSS "Publishing HTML" Columns

    Yes, Notes Migrator for SharePoint supports writing to SharePoint Publishing HTML columns. I actually wrote about this last week but, as someone was kind enoungh to point out to me, I sort of burried it inside an article with a completely different title. [ link ] Read More...

  • Update on “Cannot find… exportsettings.xml” error when restoring site with SharePoint Designer. Go get SP2.

    Remember the “Cannot find… exportsettings.xml” error when trying to restore a site with SharePoint Designer? The reason for the error was the default 25MB file size limitation for the CMP files used to store the backup. If you tried to use SharePoint Designer for site backup and ran into this error, you just have another reason [...] Read More...

  • Converting Notes forms to InfoPath form templates

    The Notes Migrator for SharePoint product team is finally getting into the business of migrating Notes application designs. For the first three years of the product's life, we have focused on awesome content migration, schema migration, security migration, application analysis, site/list provisioning, automation and project management. In other words, we have done everything but design migration. Well that's about to change! In Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.2 we will deliver that first of many planned design migration features: converting Notes forms to InfoPath form templates. As discussed previously, our product is already great at migrating Notes data documents to InfoPath XML data documents, but developers still had to design their InfoPath form templates from scratch. Now we...

  • SharePoint Performance and File Groups for Temp db, Search db, and Content dbs

    I just finished the Large SharePoint and SQL session at Teched. One of the things Paul demo'ed in the session was multiple files for the content database. In the past the temp db was the only database that was supported with file groups since SharePoint databases hadn't supported them. More recently with the testing that was done, file groups are now supported on search, temp, and content databases. I knew that search and temp db were supported, but didn't think that content was supported. That's legacy. Paul is right. (Sorry Paul.) Content database file groups are supported and this is clearly documented on " Technet article: Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)" updated April 23, 09. In the case study " Using Microsoft Office SharePoint...
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