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100,000 staffers to use online Exchange, SharePoint, OCS

jkruse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:33:00 GMT

From ComputerWorld….

Microsoft Corp. officially launched its Business Productivity Online Suite outside of the U.S. today, headlined by a deal with GlaxoSmithKline PLC as its first major customer for the hosted communications software suite.

The London-based drug maker is migrating 100,000 employees from IBM's Lotus Notes to Microsoft's hosted suite, which includes Exchange for e-mail, SharePoint, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting, all managed from Microsoft's own data centers.

More at http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9128760

OCS presence in Lotus Notes

jkruse — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:31:00 GMT

We have released a sample toolkit that is designed to enhance the adoption of Office Communicator and Office Communications Server 2007 within organisations using IBM Lotus Notes. This toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

1. Allow Notes users to immediately experience Office Communications Server 2007 technologies working in their own environment

2. Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Office Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4fee4f21-dd98-4a2f-bf8f-a17f4b85a06a&DisplayLang=en

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Transporter Suite updated - now includes POP/IMAP

jkruse — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:41:26 GMT

We've launched a new version of the Transporter Suite and now include connectors for generic POP/IMAP servers, in addition to Lotus Domino.

Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources.

For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address lists, mailboxes, personal mail archives, and applications from Lotus Domino 5, 6 or 7 to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

For generic POP/IMAP servers the suite contains a set of tools to bulk migrate mailboxes from any generic email servers that support the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol to mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007

Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en

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Sample Script to Help with Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007 Migration

jkruse — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:09:21 GMT

From You Had Me At EHLO...

For those who wish to script the migration from Lotus Domino to Exchange 2007, PowerShell can be extremely helpful. I wrote the below script for a few customers who wanted more extensive control over their migration, this script can be easily tweaked to meet individual needs.

Grab the script at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/09/24/447091.aspx

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Integrating LCS presence with Lotus Notes

jkruse — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:24:18 GMT

Have you ever wanted to embed LCS 2005 presence controls within Lotus Notes applications? Well I have good news for you - we've released an updated toolkit to include utilities, documentation and examples on how to do just that.

The Microsoft Office Communicator Integration Module for Lotus Notes is designed to enhance the adoption of Microsoft Office Communicator and Live Communications Server 2005 within organisations using IBM Lotus Notes. This toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

Allow Notes users to immediately experience Live Communications Server technologies working in their own environment
Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Live Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Download the toolkit from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dda49a15d-e953-46ed-9380-e2ad82285b72%26DisplayLang%3den

Some example screenshots are below....

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