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Notes Migrator for SharePoint

Migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365 with No Data Loss

It can be expensive and taxing to maintain Notes applications while the rest of your environment switches to Microsoft technologies. That's why, when it comes to migrating Notes to SharePoint and Office 365, many organizations are looking to Quest for help. 

With Notes Migrator for SharePoint, you can migrate Lotus Notes, QuickPlace/Quickr and Domino.Doc applications to SharePoint on-premises, online and hybrid environments, with high data fidelity, minimal downtime and fewer development resources than you thought possible. You’ll be able to reduce the risk of data loss and a failed project with Notes Migrator’s detailed pre-migration analysis. Stay in command of your transition with an intuitive management console, while your complex applications migrate quickly and seamlessly, reducing project costs and your stress level.

Features

  • Scan & Plan – Discover Notes databases, classify applications and analyze their usage and complexity to determine which applications are unused, as well as where custom development is necessary
  • Rules-based Automation Assign new target locations and migration jobs using a customizable rules-based engine in order to finish migration jobs faster, and reduce the chance of error
  • Power Provision – Provision new SharePoint lists, libraries, sites and sub-sites automatically based on your Notes, Domino.Doc or QuickPlace/Quickr infrastructure, to reduce IT burden
  • Extreme Data Fidelity – Migrate Notes rich text and complex application data with no loss in fidelity in order to ensure a smooth transition for end users
  • Dynamic Document Destinations – Choose from a variety of migration options for applications, beyond just lists and libraries, that best achieve business objectives:
    • Migrate to SharePoint wiki pages, basic pages and content publishing pages when end users need an intuitive, page-oriented experience
    • Migrate to Microsoft Word, PDF or HTML documents to archive content in a practical format
    • Migrate Notes documents to InfoPath XML documents, web part pages or custom Microsoft Word template for applications requiring custom form layouts
  • Complex App Accelerator – Accurately determine migration requirements by detecting which Notes forms are being used as content types and which applications include complex data features. Now you can:
    • Migrate Notes schemas to custom lists or content types
    • Minimize the need for costly development resources by using native SharePoint features to migrate complex application content, including approval status, versioning and in-process workflow state
    • Move Notes form designs to InfoPath form libraries or InfoPath list forms, and Notes views to SharePoint views
    • Simplify complex migrations by migrating Notes data to SQL Server tables

Sys Reqs

NMSP Client Memory:

  • At least 1 GB of RAM is recommended for running migration jobs and doing small analysis projects. For large analysis projects or bulk migrations involving over hundreds of databases, we recommend at least 4 GB of RAM.
  • Windows Identity Foundation is required on the NMSP Client for the Office 365 Authentication environment type.  Windows Identity Foundation is not supported on Windows XP.

Notes Data Extraction:

  • Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 2008
  • Lotus Notes 5.04 client or higher (may connect to remote Notes 3.0 or higher servers on any platform). Conversion of native embedded images requires Notes 6.x or higher.
  •  .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
 

SharePoint Data Load using using native web services:

  • Any SharePoint 2010 server with web services enabled
 

SharePoint Data Load using Quest Import Service:

  • Windows 2003, Windows 7 or Windows 2008
  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, or SharePoint 2010
  • .NET Framework 3.5
  • Administrator access on the SharePoint server, database and site collection
 

NMSP Console

  • Notes Migrator for SharePoint Console is a MMC Snap-in so Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0 is required to run the Console. This is part of Vista and is now included in recent Windows Service packs, but if need it you can download it here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907265.
  • The Notes Migrator for SharePoint Console requires that the free Microsoft ReportViewer 2008 be installed in order to display and export reports. If this component is not installed, the Discovery, Analysis and Migration reporting options will be not enabled. The ReportViewer may be downloaded from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6AE0AA19-3E6C-474C-9D57-05B2347456B1&displaylang=en
  • For creating custom report templates (RDLC files), you need a third party report designer. Microsoft's Visual Studio Report Designer is currently the only report designer supported as the RDLC editor. The Express versions are not supported however. For more information about this report designer and how to build reports using it, please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157166.aspx
  • The NMSP Console uses a local Notes database as its Repository in order to store data that is gathered through analysis and user input. The Setup Wizard that is run after the Console is installed will create this database for you.
  • For large discovery and analysis projects involving hundreds of databases, we strongly recommend more memory than the minimum described above. Having 4 GB or more of RAM available is desirable for this type of project.
 

Link Tracking Service

The Link Tracking Service uses a SQL Server 2005 or 2008 database to keep track of documents that have been migrated to SharePoint and intra-document references. If you choose to install the Link Tracking Service you will be prompted to create a new database or upgrade an existing one during the install process. If you plan to migrate Notes documents to multiple front-end SharePoint servers, you may wish to direct each Link Tracking instance to the same shared database so intra-document links will work correctly in as many cases as possible.

If this is your first Notes Migrator for SharePoint Services installation, you should create a new database on the SQL Server instance of your choice. This will require that the account used to run the installation program has sufficient rights to create new databases. After the database is created, SQL Server administrators can adjust the security settings of the database to control who can write to it (anyone migrating documents , as well as the Central Administration service account) and who can read it (anyone who might want to traverse an intra-document link).

 

Import Service

The Import Service is deployed as a stand-alone IIS web site and thus needs to be configured with a unique port number and/or host header on your server. While it is possible to carefully arrange host headers such that the Import Service and various SharePoint site can coexist on the same machine with the same port number, it is more common to simply assign a unique port number to the Import Service. In either event, it will be important that anyone using remote Notes Migrator for SharePoint or the Desktop clients have access to the Import Service and is not blocked by any firewall software. The Import Service is a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and thus allows a variety of transport protocols and security options. In particular you can decide to leverage SSL or use session level encryption.

Note:This list shows only the most basic requirements; it is meant to define the supported versions of the source and target systems, as well as summarize the nature of the required environment. Additional requirements must be satisfied for an actual installation and configuration; these are fully documented in the product installation guide.

Languages Supported:

  • US English

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Migration Console

Migration Console

The migration console allows you to look across many Notes databases across many servers and manage the entire migration process.

Pre-Migration Analysis

Pre-Migration Analysis

The Notes Migrator for SharePoint free analysis tool shows Notes design, data and usage details.

Auto Classification System

Auto Classification System

The Notes Migrator classification system is a rules-based engine that you can use to automatically classify the databases in your environment.

Design Analysis and Template Comparison

Design Analysis and Template Comparison

Notes Migrator for SharePoint provides a high-level summary of the design details and enables you to drill down into all the specifics if needed.

Reports and Charts

Reports and Charts

Notes Migrator contains a variety of useful reports and charts and provides a wizard to create your own.

Simplify Your QuickPlace Migration

Simplify Your QuickPlace Migration

The migration console allows you to migrate multiple QuickPlace databases at one time, automatically map rooms and sub-rooms to the appropriate SharePoint target, and provision SharePoint sites, sub-sites and members.

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