10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact your Notes Migration

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10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Lotus Notes Migration

Peter Varhol | Principal | Technology Strategy Research

Joel Oleson | SharePoint Evangelist | Quest Software

Steve Walch | Product Manager | Quest Software

December 1, 2009

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Agenda

• Introduction

• SharePoint 2010 Preview

• Notes-to-SharePoint migration challenges

• 10 Ways SharePoint 2010 Will Impact Your Notes Migration

• Summary

• Q/A


SharePoint 2010 Preview

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010Ribbon UI

SharePoint Workspace

SharePoint Mobile

Office Client and Office Web App Integration

Standards Support

Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings

Social Bookmarking

Blogs and Wikis

My Sites

Activity Feeds

Profiles and Expertise

Org Browser

Enterprise Content Types

Metadata and Navigation

Document Sets

Multi-stage Disposition

Audio and Video Content Types

Remote Blob Storage

List Enhancements

Social Relevance

Phonetic Search

Navigation

FAST Integration

Enhanced Pipeline

PerformancePoint Services

Excel Services

Chart Web Part

Visio Services

Web Analytics

SQL Server Integration

PowerPivot

Business Connectivity Services

InfoPath Form Services

External Lists

Workflow

SharePoint Designer

Visual Studio

API Enhancements

REST/ATOM/RSS

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The SharePoint 2010 Lineup

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Enabling Technologies

• Spanning Intranet, Internet & Extranet scenarios, w/ specialty servers for Enterprise Search

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Notes-to-SharePoint Migration Headaches

• Too hard to migrate / rebuild custom applications

• Can SharePoint scale?

• Can’t go offline

• Workflow

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10 Ways SP 2010 Will Impact Notes Migration(in a good way)

1. Rebuilding Forms is easier

2. Improved workflow

3. Scalability

4. Offline capabilities

5. Enterprise metadata

6. The Cloud

7. Put your data in external lists

8. Office applications

9. Code portability and reuse

10. Sandboxing

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1. Rebuilding forms is much easier• InfoPath forms can be used for Lists (not just XML

documents)

• SharePoint Designer (ASPX) forms are more powerful

• Direct editing of forms reduces development time & cost

• Quest solution:– Current InfoPath form generation will be expanded to support Lists

– Similar support planned for SharePoint Designer (ASPX) forms

– Optional use of Quest Web Parts in SharePoint Designer forms

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2. Declarative workflow ready for prime time• SharePoint Designer Workflows are now powerful enough

for rebuilding most legacy Notes workflows

• More branching options, more workflow actions available

• SharePoint Designer Workflow portability

• SharePoint Designer granular control

• Quest solution:– Migrate workflow state

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3. Scaling to very large lists / views• List scale issues addressed

• Eliminates need to segment large databases into multiple lists or folders

• List throttling for better performance

• Quest solution:– Migrate databases

of any size

– New options for provisioning views

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4. Take your content offline (at last)

• SharePoint Workspaces provide offline access– Included in Professional Plus licensing

• Groove technology retargeted to support common scenarios without extra development

• Includes offline forms and (some) business logic

• Quest solution:– Generated forms,

etc., will optionally be offline compliant

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5. Enterprise metadata and tagging

• Metadata definitions shared between sites– Keyword fields– Taxonomies– Content Types

• Search by metadata– Predefined searches reduce the number of views– Search is much more scalable

• Quest solution:– Migrate any Notes metadata items– Validate and provision metadata fields– Migrate to enterprise content types

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6. SharePoint Online is ready for prime time

• Near functional parity between BPOS Standard and BPOS Dedicated

• More custom applications can be hosted• Lower cost of ownership

• Quest solution:– Today: migrate Notes applications to BPOS

Dedicated– Coming soon: migrate Notes applications to

BPOS Standard

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7. SharePoint is better front-end for external data

• New options for integrating with external data sources

• Relational databases appear as “external lists”

• SharePoint user interfaces can be the front end

• Quest solution:– Migrate data to SharePoint or SQL Server

– Migrate design (forms, views, etc.) to SharePoint

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8. Office integration for the new decade

• Office web applications

• Multi-user editing

• Improved workflow and offline capabilities

• Quest solution:– Migrate Notes docs to Word or InfoPath

– Support for complex schemas / templates

– Support for Content Controls

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9. Improvements in code portability & reuse• Built-in packaging for List portability

• Make code reuse easier and more manageable

• Helps with dev-test-deploy scenarios

• Quest solution:– Consolidate applications

with similar designs

– Automate code reuse

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10. Sandboxing• Departmental developers & power users can write code

• IT departments can deploy them with partial trust and fixed resource allocations

• Quest solution:– Migrated Notes

applications are easier to customize and safely deploy


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• Complete Solution

• Global Delivery and Support

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A Complete Notes Transition Solution

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Global Delivery & Support

• 20 million users migrated to Exchange, SharePoint & BPOS• People & offices around the globe to sell, deliver, support, develop • 335 partners worldwide

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• NMSP Discovery Edition– Full functionality of discovery, analysis, classification &

reporting features

– Can be used in production

– Free download, includes 30 days of free support

• Data collected during analysis becomes “home base” for performing actual migrations

• www.quest.com/notesanalysis

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Next Steps• Contact us about your Notes migration project:

– [email protected]

• Download a free trial of Notes Migrator for SharePoint & related materials:– www.quest.com/notesmigration

• Watch more live and on-demand product demos:– www.quest.com/notesdemos

• Follow us on our blogs:– Joel Oleson: www.sharepointjoel.com – Steve Walch: notes2sharepoint.org


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