This document provides an overview of migrating from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. It introduces the presenter and their website on the topic. The agenda covers an introduction, reasons for migration, expectations and challenges, analyzing the different components between Lotus Notes and SharePoint, and options for form design, development, reporting, and tools. Under expectations and challenges, it lists functionalities, data migration, user interface needs, and permission and training requirements. It then analyzes the various Lotus Notes databases, forms, views, reports, workflows and provides estimation questions. It outlines potential form design, development and reporting options in SharePoint. Finally, it recommends using migration tools to help preserve rich text, attachments, metadata and workflow history

1. About Me
 A SharePoint Technical Lead
 @Fewlines4Biju
 https://www.facebook.com/fewlines4biju
 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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6. Screenshots
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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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15. Any Questions?
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