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Lotus Notes to SharePoint Migration
1. About Me
A SharePoint Technical Lead
@Fewlines4Biju
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fewlines4biju@gmail.com
http://www.EnjoySharePoint.com
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Why Migration?
Expectation & Challenges
Different components
Analysis
Different Options for Form Design
Different Options for Development & Reporting
Tools?
Any Question? Thank You !!!
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3. Why Migration Required?
People are addicted towards web based collaboration platform, addicted
towards Mobile, tablet etc.
People want to take advantages of Office applications
World is moving very fast but Lotus Notes is Idle now, No new Features added
Licensing factor, In SP no client license or software required.
Can not do Collaboration, Enterprise Search etc.
No Life cycle management: Unused databases unnecessary in the lotus notes
server, but in SharePoint it can not.
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4. Expectations & Challenges
Expectations:
- Functionalities
- Data: Single line text data, rich text box data, embedded objects, attachment etc.
- Good UI
- System Information:
Created Date, Created By
Modified Date, Modified By.
Challenges:
- Design should be accepted by the end users
- Will we lose any data?
- Perfect tool or ways to migrate the rich data as it is.
- Recreate the application
- Permission levels
- Trained to the team like administrators.
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5. Different Components
Lotus Notes
Domino Directory
Mailboxes
Application Database
Notes Templates
Lotus Notes Client
SharePoint
Active Directory
Exchange
List, Document library, Discussion
Borard, Workflow, InfoPath etc.
List Template, Site
Template etc.
Various Broswers like IE,
Chrome or Mozilla etc.
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8. Analysis
How many Lotus Notes Databases?
Approx. Size of Data per database and overall in all databases
Frequency of Data usages
Do you want to archive some data?
How many forms have been used and complexity of form? Review &
Understand Lotus Notes Forms:
How many fields in the form
What are the data types of all the fields? Single line or Multiline or Richtextbox etc.
Will SharePoint support all?
Does it contains lots of calculations?
Show hide based on Security group?
Level of validation presented
Does it contains workflow, lookup fields, reports, exports etc.?
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9. Analysis cont…
Reporting:
How many views it contains? Understand Views and Complexity.
Does it require any extra reporting like export to excel?
How many workflows attached? And Complexity of workflow
Do you care of data? Or you want to show few data in some databases?
Finally Estimation
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10. Form Design Options
Out of box list or document library
InfoPath forms
HTML, JavaScript & jQuery
.aspx forms with C# if more complex
FORM7, Bootstrap, AngularJS
KWizCom Forms & Infowise Ultimate forms etc.
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11. Different Options for Development &
Reporting
SharePoint designer for workflow
Reporting: Client technologies like JavaScript Object model or jQuery Object
model or RestAPI
Can you Visual Studio Solution depends on permissions.
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12. Tools
• Should we use tool, Answer is
Simple : YES
• Lots of Tools available: Quest,
surfray , Avepoint, BinaryTree etc.
• Tools will be helpful in migrating
Rich text, attachments, preserved
created by, modified by, Workflow
history etc
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Lotus Notes: name of the Client application installed on user desktop. Needed to access the Lotus Notes mailboxes and applications
Lotus Domino: name of the Server. Hosts and runs Lotus Notes applications and messaging components