Today we release the Microsoft Transporter Suite 2007 for Lotus Domino. It is publically available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/collaboration/default.mspx . Customers, Partners and consultants can download the released...

Last Tuesday I received a forwarded email, alerting me that IBM has posted an official statement wrt Microsoft’s latest connector & their supported policy. Initially the talk centered on “what this means, and what we should do…” After thinking...

Busy Day…Week…Year… Today, Microsoft publicly announces a new set of tools to make the transition from Lotus to Microsoft easier. The announcement details: · A new set of coexistence and migration tools (Microsoft’s Transporter Suite 2007 for Lotus...

After the release of the public beta last week, I thought it would be fun/good to have an open Live meeting to allow everyone to meet the team, do some demos, and answer some questions. So consider this your invitation to join us in a review of this recent...

The fall of ‘05 was an interesting time for our team. We had been pulling long hours for several months working on several projects (getting ready for the initial release of the messaging tools, revamp of the Application Analyzer, and starting work on...

Check the temp folder for a dxanotes.txt file to see if the information is being extracted. Also, the following technotes may be helpful: 902459 Active Directory cannot replicate the object to the Lotus Notes directory when you configure the Exchange...

Hello everyone. I am Kahren Allakhverdyan and I am in charge of Software Testing on Todd Wanke's team. I joined Microsoft eight years ago and have been with the Exchange team since. During this time I have been working on almost all messaging migration...

Since Application Analyzer 2006 (AA06) was released, we received some comments on Database usage report generated by AA06 that we want to address in this blog. Current design of AA06 collects two properties from DB: “DATAMOD” and “NONDATAMOD” and use...

As part of our new Collaboration blog I wanted to introduce myself as the Technical Director responsible for Microsoft’s Notes Migration development team. I have had an exciting 10+yrs career here at Microsoft: from the mid 90’s as an early architect...

Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino requires MSDE Release A to create reports. This is a free download available here . MSDE has a 2GB report limitation. When performing an analysis, you have the option to append the results to an existing...

Often, companies are in a scenario where they need to concurrently support both Domino and Exchange servers (and Notes and Outlook clients). The Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes tool that was released last December has been updated to improve the fidelity...

You may be wondering to yourself, what’s new about directory migration in the Transporter Suite? Well, I’m glad you asked. There were a couple of things that we were trying to accomplish in the area of directory. First of all, it occurred to us that you...

After what looks to be a long break, I want to make sure folks know we are still alive and well!!! From a team perspective, we have really been cranking hard on our tools, doubling down our efforts, helping customers with their migrations and doing...

There isn’t transport stack in the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino. We have switched the transport stack from using the Exchange Development Kit Gateway from the Connector for Lotus Notes which was available in Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000...

Where do the majority of apps fall that you see in your quadrant framework? The question nearly every Enterprise customer asks me during my speaking engagements & executive briefings. They say: "The tools look good, the framework is good, the process...

Does the Exchange Migration Wizard 2005 for Lotus Notes support the migration of local Lotus Notes Mail Archive Databases? The MigWiz does not support migrating local Notes mail archive databases currently. You have two options in this scenario: ...

A really cool feature of Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino (heretofor referred to as AA06) is the ability to customize the XML file that the tool uses for determining the databases & directories that are excluded from the scan, the quadrants...

Posted by Erik Ashby discussing recent comments about the Application Analyzer beta. Ever since the announcement of the application tools mid January, there have been a number of articles and blogs in the different communities about these tools...

Wow, Tuesday’s webcast was great ! Tons of interest and fantastic questions. Plus it was fun to take a break for a couple of hours during these final weeks before we ship and show off the Transporter a little. If you missed Tuesday’s webcast overview...

Yes, as the team releases the beta of 2007 tools, I am here in Orlando suffering through all the sunlight and warmth... I've been attending Lotusphere since it started 14 years ago, but only as a Microsoft employee for the last two. Last year was shortly...

Hello it’s Lou again, I’d like to thank Omar Castillo Rodriguez for his work on this topic. “In Office 2007 here are your two options for OLE- 1. Use the registry key that we need modify to enable Outlook 2007 to permit the access to OLE Objects...

Hi again! We talked briefly before about what was new with directory migration, but you may well ask what have you done for me lately? Well I’ll tell you. Directory migration wasn’t the only place we made improvements, mail migration also got some love...

Last week I had an interesting discussion based on some questions raised in customer roundtable about mail coexistence. Basically they were wondering if there was some design points around duration of a co-existence (Sort of a ‘Best-if-used-by’ idea)...

I am excited to let people know that we released a private beta of the Data Migrator 2006, which is a tool focused on migrating data from Notes databases to SharePoint Products and Technologies. We already have several customers trying the tool and migrating...

As mentioned previously there are three options for converting document links from Domino to Exchange; RTF, OLE, and URL. The URL shortcut option for Doc Link conversion is the customer preferred option since most customers like the URL simplicity and...