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October 2009 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

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  • SharePoint 2010 Admin Webcast Archive plus Q&A

    These last couple of days I’ve done a webcast on some of the new features and how it impacts administrators. The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration: A Day in the Life an archive is available including a PDF of the slides. Here’s the Q&A Asked: What about merging data from multiple collections into one? With the enhanced import and export packages merging lists, and sites gets much better. You can export lists and sites and combine them in a single site collection. A good blog from Russ at Microsoft on Import and Export in SharePoint 2010 Asked: is there a migration path from wss 2.0/MOSS 2003 to MOSS 2010? The migration path when using out of the box SharePoint is to go from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. For WSS 2.0 you would upgrade WSS 3.0 then WSS 4.0 then install...

  • High Availability Improvements in SharePoint 2010

    Body: If you’ve attended any of my presentations in the past, especially those covering high availability (HA) you might have noticed me biting my tongue. HA in SharePoint 2007 was a specialty of mine and while I made every attempt to simplify the options, I always got the impression that folks were more confused leaving my session than when they started. Some of that can be attributed to bad presentation skills, but I think the bigger problem is that HA options in 2007 were simply lacking and workarounds I described were complicated and full of holes. Enter SharePoint 2010. What really sucked when talking about SharePoint 2007 was not being able to talk about the improvements coming in 2010. Now that the SharePoint Conference is over and the NDA around the 2010 server products has been lifted...

  • SharePoint 2010 Webcast: The New World of SharePoint 2010 Administration

    During the SharePoint Conference, I shared a new presentation to a few hundred people on the cool and new features in SharePoint 2010 with a taste of the new life of the SharePoint Administrator. We had a great showing and a great discussion about the new features. You can see my Top 10 SharePoint 2010 favorites in my last post. Who: Quest Software, Inc. What: “ The New World of SharePoint Administration ” presented by Quest senior architect and SharePoint evangelist, Joel Oleson . Where: Register http://www.quest.com/NewWorldofSharePoint_MediaAlert When (Note Repeated): Wed., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. EDT (4PM PDT for me in Seattle) (This time/date thing calculated at http://www.timeanddate.com ) Place Time Place Time Place Time Addis Ababa Wed 11:00 PM Guatemala Wed 2:00 PM Nassau * Wed 4:00 PM Adelaide...

  • SharePoint 2010 NDA Secrets Revealed at #SPC09

    I’ve been held to NDA for the past couple of years. What a relief and joy it is to be able to speak openly about the great innovations in SharePoint 2010. This list is a mix and match of what I consider the big announcements, I’m sure this list could grow tons if it was taken at a feature by feature level, but I’ve tried to group these by what I consider investment areas that pay off and help justify both playing with the public beta and justify upgrading when you have the chance. 1. Social Media Investments – status integration with my sites, newsfeeds, my network, all that social media work around the my site. This was totally hush hush. I expect to see this area really expanded through the public beta in terms of best practices and community awareness. I hope to see some real effort from...

  • Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: InfoPath everywhere

    One of the biggest barriers to moving large numbers of Notes applications to SharePoint is the cost of rebuilding the complex applications. As covered previously [ link ] this cost is often overstated and can be mitigated by a good understanding of how to leverage out-of-box SharePoint features and code reuse, but it is still a very real issue. SharePoint 2010 contains many advances that will dramatically reduce the cost of application development and (even better) will allow tools such as Notes Migrator for SharePoint to do a lot more of the work for you. We will cover things such as improvements in declarative workflow, dynamic scalable views, ASPX pages and offline capabilities in other posts. But first I want to talk about InfoPath. InfoPath is, of course, Microsoft’s primary solution for...

  • SharePoint Conference #SPC09 Kick Off!

    Body: Wow! If you would have tried to describe to me what it would be like to have 7506 SharePoint people converge on Las Vegas, I still would have a hard time imagining it. But it’s real. Everywhere you turn you see a familiar face, someone with their twitter tag shirt on, or SharePoint bag, or that MVP or Community Lead or expert that you’ve been reading their blog for years. This event is like no other. So hard to put it to words. SPC started at the airport for me. Sitting at the gate was right to left, Jared Spitaro (Dir of Search & Fast)Tom Rizzo (Sr. Dir Product Mgmt) and the new SharePoint Workspace guy. Here’s a quick clip from these guys on stats for SharePoint Conference . Sunday morning I met up with @fabianwilliams and Christian Buckley. After breakfast we had a contingency...

  • Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: Go Offline

    I remember the SharePoint Conference three years ago where SharePoint 2007 was announced. I was in the Proposion Software booth (we had not been acquired by Quest yet) and had a chance to talk to a lot of Notes customers who were adopting (or at least looking at) SharePoint. There was a great deal of excitement there as most people were seeing SharePoint 2007 for the first time and they were very happy with what they saw. At the time, the two biggest reasons that people felt they could not move their Notes applications to SharePoint were (1) the lack of document level security and (2) the inability to implement even simple workflow logic. That week, the consensus was that Microsoft nailed both of these in a big way with SharePoint 2007. Sure enough, the next few years saw a new wave of Notes...

  • Visit me at the SharePoint Conference

    At the airport now. Starting with this evening’s reception, I will be spending a good part of the week at the Quest Software booth (# 221) at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. Quest will be demoing 2010 versions of most of our SharePoint products, including my product Notes Migrator for SharePoint . At the risk of spoiling the surprise, everything you know and love in version 5.2 works on SharePoint 2010: migration to lists, libraries, Word docs, InfoPath and content pages plus all the design migration and automated site provisioning. But that is just the beginning! We have a lot of ideas about how companies migrating off at Notes platform will be able to leverage the new capabilities in SharePoint 2010, and how our tool will help you take full advantage of them. As much as...

  • Office Web Apps Technical Beta

    The Office Web Apps Team has begun passively inviting many people to the Technical Preview of Office Web Apps through Sky Drive and Windows Live. See a Demo of Office Web Apps Check out the Office Web Apps team blog – lots of good posts. I encourage people to sign up to get notifications for Office 2010 and Office Web Apps through Office the Movie. The details below are slowly being rolled out to select audiences and those invited through the office beta so you might or might not see the option to sign up. Here’s how it will work if you’ve been invited… The Office Web application Technical Beta is currently available via SkyDrive to selected people. To get started: 1. Log into www.skydrive.live.com using your Windows Live ID. 2. Upload a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file (OneNote Coming soon!...

  • Understanding DEI and other complexity metrics

    The analysis component of Notes Migrator for SharePoint calculates several complexity metrics for each database, including Microsoft’s Design Element Index (DEI) method. These are described at a high level in the documentation, but we sure do get a lot of questions about exactly how those numbers are computed. I will attempt to give an answer here, and then at the end of the article I will describe why you should NOT take these numbers too seriously. Microsoft’s DEI method is really simple. (As I have said many times, it is currently TOO simple.) We just count up each type of each element and decide which DEI column it goes into, according to Microsoft’s guidance. switch (Type) { case "Form" : if (Net < 2) return 1; if (Net < 5) return 2; if (Net < 11) return 3; if (Net <...

  • Automated provisioning of custom templates that use Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

    Notes Migrator for SharePoint is great at provisioning lists, libraries or even entire SharePoint sites from your custom templates. This is incredibly useful when migrating lots of custom Notes applications that are based on the same Notes template (or at least share a common design). For example, I have one customer who has 10,000 team sites based on a completely customized Notes template and is migrating them to 10,000 SharePoint sites based on a highly customized site template. Now that’s code reuse! Quest’s Web Parts for SharePoint product is one great way to build those custom application templates. As described previously [ link ] this tool has been very popular for companies wanting to “replatform” their custom Notes applications because the web parts help to reproduce much of the functionality...

  • Calendar synchronization

    About once a month, we get a question about migrating or synchronizing Notes calendars to SharePoint calendar lists. This was a surprise to me at first, as I assumed that most Notes calendars would be migrated to Exchange, but I realized that it does make sense. Many people want to use SharePoint as the portal for bringing together information from various sources and shared calendars contain information that many users can benefit from. Clearly Microsoft has made SharePoint the place for team collaboration and team calendars are certainly part of that. The answer is yes, Notes Migrator for SharePoint migrates Notes calendars (private or shared) to SharePoint calendar lists. This includes full support for repeating meetings and other calendaring details. Notes Migrator for SharePoint also allows...

  • Migrating Notes workflows that implement “dynamic” document security

    We have discussed various issues about workflow in the past [ link ]. To make a long story short, there is no way to press a button and magically translate Notes code-based workflows to SharePoint declarative workflows, but Notes Migrator for SharePoint does an excellent job at migrating your workflow state. Recently we have been getting a few questions about how people should handle workflows that automatically change the security of the document as it moves through various workflow stages. For example, imagine a Notes application that lets an “Author” add or update travel requests until they are ready to submit it. Once the request is submitted, however, the Author can no longer make changes and it us up to her “Manager” to approve it, reject it, or make further changes. Real-world Notes...

  • Do the SharePoint Dance!

    One thing I *really* like about blogging is the debates that go on in the blogosphere. I love a good debate, as long as it doesn’t get personal. I mean come on. Your blog is your own, say what you want… we all live in the land of freedom of speech of the provided by the Internet. Does SharePoint Suck or does it rock?? Should we be comparing the product written 5 years ago to the latest open source or google sites? I don’t think it’s fair, but the comparisons will continue. I do hope to have some of these open debates after SPC, when my tongue gets loosed. Bil Simser “ SharePoint FUD is spreading far wide and fast ” and his arch nemesis Bjorn Furuknap “ SharePoint sucks and here’s why (part 1 in a continued series)” are at it again with some great mud slinging, but not at each other. It’s a...

  • Migrating workflow state and approval processes

    As described previously, when migrating Notes workflows to SharePoint workflows you are really switching from code-based workflows (logic encoded in button events, agents, etc.) to declarative workflows. And using Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you can migrate your workflow state so you can preserve in-progress workflows between the two systems. To achieve this, simply migrate the (status fields, next review, due date, whatever) as data columns in your list items, InfoPath documents, Word documents, etc. Depending on how you designed your workflow, you may be done at that point, or you may need to customize it. The relevant part is that when the workflow starts up for newly written list items, it should be designed to examine these columns and “advance” to the right state. For example, the...
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