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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Microsoft SharePoint: Understanding Application Complexity and the Value of Consolidation and Automation

    Here is a new white paper by yours truly: http://www.quest.com/documents/landing.aspx?id=9746&prod=352 . In some ways, this paper is a direct challenge to the four-quadrant system and Design Element Index (DEI) algorithms that have been floating around recently for understanding the complexity of Notes applications. Even though Notes Migrator for SharePoint implements some of these methodologies, I have a strong belief that such complexity calculations do not adequately address the practical question of which applications are going to be easy to migrate and which ones are going to be difficult. What organizations really need is a way to rank applications according to how much effort will be required to migrate them to SharePoint and to recognize the rare cases where SharePoint may not be...
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