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November 2009 - Quest SharePoint Experts Mirror

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  • Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 preserve use of Relational Databases

    I just finished reading an article on ITWorld talking about the Decline and fall of the relational database . It’s an analytical review of various data models, object models, and information architectures minus any solid conclusion. The article ends with what it calls a tentative conclusion as to it’s fall. “I do not think that any one of the above camps can deliver a killer blow to the pre-eminence of the relational database but taken together, I think they have enough momentum to topple the giant.” Sean McGrath suggests. SharePoint’s category in the article is “ The chaoticians : Promote the benefits of ex-post-facto information structuring.” In the same category is Google (for it’s search), Notes, and Autonomy. While I enjoy the principal of we’ll figure out how to make sense out of our...

  • Web event: 10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Lotus Notes Migration

    Joel Oleson and I are doing a very exciting web event on Tuesday hosted by Redmond Magazine and moderated by Peter Varhol. Webcast Overview: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 won’t arrive till next year, but now is the time to get ready for your migration from Lotus Notes. SharePoint 2010 has many improvements that will be of particular interest to organizations transitioning from Notes. Attend a webcast with Quest SharePoint Evangelist Joel Oleson and Lotus Notes expert Steve Walch and learn about the new platform’s capabilities, improvements that reduce the cost of redeveloping complex Notes applications, migration issues, and more. Date: 12/01/2009 Time: 11:00 am PT Register here: [ 10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Lotus Notes Migration ] Read More...

  • Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.3 feature list

    Not too many big splashy features this time. We intentionally took one release (about half the length of our 5.2 release) to round out the current feature set, improve the underlying plumbing, and fulfill a number of smaller customer/partner requests. Some improvements have been inspired by our experience with Microsoft SharePoint Online and other hosting partners. Hopefully, there will be something in there for everyone. In no particular order, here are the new and improved features: Detect blocked / oversized files at analysis time. In the Advanced Configuration Options, the maximum allowed attachment size and the list of disallowed file extensions can be defined. These settings will be used at Analysis time to report on which databases have blocked files. They will also be used at migration...

  • Share. SlideShare: Best Way to Share Presentations

    Body: In the spirit of Thanksgiving I wanted to give you some insight into one of the greatest places for sharing and discovering presentations. Now is the time to build community on SlideShare. A number of us have been using SlideShare.Net for nearly a year. Recent innovations have really put it over the top in terms of obvious business value. The audience on that site has grown significantly as well providing a great opportunity to get technology cross over audiences. I just got back from a trip to Europe where I presented at Teched Europe in Berlin, Moscow SharePoint User Group, Stockholm SharePoint Exchange Forum, UK SharePoint Day with the Experts and Bournemouth UK SharePoint User Group. All of those decks are now on SlideShare. My Recent Decks from Europe and Recent SharePoint Conference...

  • List Scale SharePoint 2010 Reality Check

    Body: By now you’ve heard that lists are more scalable. You’ve may have heard that you no longer have to worry about the 2000 item limits. What is the reality of this situation? There are a number of improvements that you should understand that make these lists more scalable, but I find statements like “No more 2000 items per view limits” can be easily misunderstood. While it’s understandable that both the new schema for the content database around lists is more scalable, the throttling and query limits are part of the solution to scale. One side of the equation in scale is better performing queries, and the other is the safety controls around making sure people don’t shoot themselves in the foot by running queries that are slow or can impact the system. The first option listed is to limit...

  • SharePoint 2010 Resources Mentioned in UK

    Body: I mentioned several handy resources today during my presentations at Quest Day with the Experts and Nottingham SUGUK. You will find these very handy as learning resources for SharePoint 2010. Coming Soon! SharePoint 2010 CommandLets directory http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com/Lists/PowerShellCmdLets Best learning resources on the web about SharePoint 2010 (posters) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(office.14).aspx Eric Harlan’s scanned beta evaluation guide – hmmm ??? – looking looking looking Published: 11/19/2009 11:04 AM Read More...

  • Schedule change for tomorrows webcast

    This is not about my product, rather it is a deep dive into how to use Notes people can (and do) use Quest Web Parts for SharePoint to dramatically reduce the cost of rebuilding the custom functionality you had in Notes but don’t get out-of-the-box in SharePoint. Please note that the demonstration -- "Five Ways to Rebuild Your Notes Applications" -- previously scheduled for 2:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 18 has been rescheduled for 11:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday, November 18. Remember, in this demonstration you will see five examples of how Quest Web Parts for SharePoint creates Notes-like, multi-threaded discussions in SharePoint, aggregates information from multiple calendars into a single view, and much more! If you were already registered for this demonstration, click here...

  • SQL and Storage Considerations for SharePoint 2010

    Body: I did a live webcast the other day for SharePointVCX talking about SharePoint 2010 and how it affects your SQL and Storage environment. The webcast was recorded and is now available on demand if you would like to watch it. (I believe you need to register to watch) If you’re like me and hate watching videos not created by professional video people I’ll do you a favor and summarize my discussion here: Big! - SharePoint Server 2010 is the biggest version of itself yet. It’s unbelievable the number of things they’ve rolled into SharePoint. In 2001 we had a very simple portal with some bad search and team sites. 2003 added mysites, people, and better search. 2007 saw ECM, Excel, BDC, InfoPath among others. Now in SharePoint 2010, Microsoft is not only keeping with tradition, but also capitalizing...

  • Web event tomorrow: Migrating Notes Documents to Microsoft Word (in SharePoint, or course)

    I have been working on some cool demos for most of the day today. Why do I always leave it for the last minute? Anyway, I think you will be impressed with what we can do to a Word document these days. Register at http://www.quest.com/notesdemos for this and other web events. Here is the agenda: Easily Migrate Notes Documents to Word Documents and Custom Word Templates, Thursday, November 12 at 11:00am EST Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint can generate Microsoft Word 2007 (DOCX) documents from Lotus Notes Rich Text documents. Notes documents can be formatted as generic Word documents or documents based on custom Word templates. Read More...

  • Ten Things DBAs will LOVE in SharePoint 2010 #TEE09

    I did a session yesterday on SharePoint in the SQL track at Teched Europe in Berlin. I included Todd Klindt, who also speaks a lot on SQL and SharePoint so we could really reach both the SQL and SharePoint Audience. We had a packed room with nearly 50/50 SQL and SharePoint Crowds. We had over a third with 1TB plus environments and a few SharePoint newbies. In the session I really wanted to give a sneak peak of the SharePoint 2010 databases at the same time address the gap between SharePoint Admins and SQL dbas. 1. Built in Support for Secondary database for SQL Mirroring (WooHoo! – Demo’d by Zlatan Dzinic in my session.) 2 More Scalable Database Schema in Config and Content Database – content database schema is better designed for scale (see #4) 3 Support for File Groups for Content Databases...

  • Upcoming Events

    Body: Hey everybody. 2 cool things going down soon. 1. Quest Software is hosting a Day with the Experts featuring Joel Oleson, Nick Swan, and yours truly on the 19th Nov in London. RSVP at http://www.quest-software.co.uk/SPDaywithExperts-London-MW . Space is limited! Only 30+ seats left. 2. Later that night we’ll be heading out to Nottingham (home of Robin Hood) from London to speak to the SharePoint User Group. To get there we will be hosting the first ever #SharePint on a train (#ShareTrain) and I’m paying! Since I love trains and drinks this should be an awesome experience! Hope to see you there! RSVP at http://suguk.org/forums/1/21213/ShowThread.aspx Published: 11/9/2009 5:17 PM Read More...

  • SharePoint 2010 Training

    Now that SPC is over it seems there is a flurry of blogs, books, and training that is all lining up to help us get smarter about SharePoint 2010. Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 Ignite for Developers/Admins f or Partners (Final locations appear completely booked.) Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! (Apparently the link is currently down with 404, the Amsterdam training was this week, the Berlin training is in the next couple of weeks, with Bangalore to follow. There are plans for a virtual ignite…) SharePoint 2010 Training (SharePoint Ignite) for SharePoint 2007 partners. Check out details and reqs at http://bit.ly/ayRJD Europe U2U Introducing SharePoint 2010 Training at U2U - Jan Tielens' Bloggings Combined Knowledge (Europe, Aus...

  • Upcoming NOT to MISS SharePoint Webcasts

    The Secrets to Successfully Migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint Wednesday, November 18th, 2009, 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST / 4:00 PM London / 5:00 PM Paris Register Exchange Public Folders are being replaced by SharePoint in many organizations, because it is a better choice for document sharing and collaboration applications. Once you’ve made the decision to migrate to SharePoint, how do you ensure a successful project from both the content migration and end-user adoption points of view? Attend this practical "How To" webinar to learn the secrets of designing and implementing a complete end-to-end solution for migrating from public folders to SharePoint. Join Adam Woodruff, SharePoint Solutions Architect at Quest Software and Barry Jinks, Founder and CEO of Colligo Networks...

  • Is Gradual Upgrade in SharePoint 2010 Really Dead? How is Upgrade Better?

    In the Upgrade to SharePoint 2007 there were 3 popular methods. In Place, Gradual, and Database Attach. In place was a scenario that many of us took as a no starter and many of us even went so far as to say NEVER do it. Now the message is there are two methods for upgrade. In place and Database attach. Despite the fact that gradual upgrade as we knew it is dead, what we got from gradual upgrade we still have. What do I mean? There is NO supported method to run both the 2007 and 2010 bits side by side. That’s true. So definitely not side by side installations. There is also no Central Admin UI for upgrade groups of sites with gradual method. So why would I say, it really has just taken a new form. Essentially the new gradual upgrade is visual upgrade. The mistake that was being made was people...

  • Automatically provisioning lists that use the qDiscussion web part

    A few months ago I shared my excitement about the new Discussion web part from Quest [ link ]. To recap, customers switching from the Notes discussions (in the Discussion template, QuickPlaces, Team Rooms, or custom applications) to the SharePoint’s standard Discussion Board template have a few nasty problems: The user interface is quite different: No twistees, No threaded tree-view, like you had in Notes. Instead you view the parent documents in a flat view and then you open a page that shows the entire thread. Only the top-level documents have subject lines. If your Notes users entered unique subjects on the response documents (I know I always did – in many cases I typed my entire thought in the subject line and left the body blank), then you have data loss! Quest’s qDiscussion web part solves...
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