Option 3 – HCL Directory Sync For AD to Domino, if you are brave, you could battle your way through HCL Domino Directory Sync. You would still need to decommission Binary Tree Coex and DirSync but switch to making your Group updates in AD and then back-sync them to Domino. You need to set up […]
Decommission Binary Tree DirSync and Coexistence – Part 2
Decommission DirSync New Users Depending on how your new joiner process is structured, you are most likely initiating user creation in Active Directory or an HR system that is populating Active Directory and other systems. Therefore, a new joiner request is already most likely being sent to the Notes Admin team or an automation process. […]
Decommission Binary Tree DirSync and Coexistence – Part 1
Now is the time Now would be a good time to bite the bullet and remove coexistence from your environment. Here we will talk about how you could achieve this. Why? Because on 1 September 2024 Quest announced that they will no longer support the Binary Tree Coexistence, Migration and Directory Synchronisation tools for HCL […]
Working with the on-premises AD Recycle Bin
Generally in day to day identity management you would not often need to resort to the Active Directory Recycle Bin, but when you do, typically it is a high priority request and you find yourself having to reacquaint yourself with the commands you need. Accidental deletion scenarios Where we have seen the need to restore […]
Technical Limitations of Migrating IBM Domino Rooms to Exchange
Recently we observed an issue with Domino Rooms that we migrated to Exchange/Office 365. In short, appointments contained within cannot be cancelled or re-scheduled and always remain as zombie reservations (unless manually cleaned up). Coexistence This is addition to coexistence issues experienced with Rooms. You have to set Microsoft Rich Text to disabled for the […]
The Groups Dilemma – post migration
Today a client that we had previously migrated off Lotus Notes asked us about applying Groups to their Shared Mailboxes in Office 365 but ensuring that the Shared Mailbox Owners had the ability modify those Groups to provide access. This blog very much goes hand in hand with this blog I wrote on Shared Mailboxes, […]
NeroBlanco Lotus Notes to O365 MaaS
We’re often asked why our Migration as a service offering is more advantageous than any on-premises solution an organisation could wish to deploy. Typically if a company has decided to host their email in the Microsoft cloud they have already familiarised & accepted all the certifications which Microsoft abides by in their services, like […]
The Banker Technology Projects of the Year Awards 2017
Did you know, Nero Blanco has a long-lasting relationship with HPe (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), BT (Binary Tree) & HSBC? For the last 4 years we have been the leading technology consultancy, developing and customising the back bone of the migration and coexistence environment for HSBC’s 300,000 mailboxes. From the pilot stage of the Mercury programme […]
Enhance Notes and Outlook Coexistence – Policy Suggestions
Introduction Recommendations for new customers moving to Microsoft Outlook from IBM Lotus Notes. Despite the presence of 3rd Party Coexistence solutions such as Binary Tree Coexistence Manager for Notes the rescheduling of repeating meetings is still not able to be resolved in certain scenarios. Specifically: “this and all future instances”, and to a lesser importance […]
Migrating Personal Contacts from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook
Introduction This document is a short form version containing the basic steps to help a fairly competent basic user that has some IT skills to complete the task of exporting their Lotus Notes personal contacts and importing them into Microsoft Outlook. This document should definitely be sufficient for an IT Support Person or Helpdesk consultant. […]
Domino SMTP connection round robin
Domino has its own internal processing or ideas on how it implements TTL for DNS entries on SMTP Connection documents (where “Connection type:” is SMTP), which is frustrating as it doesnt always conform to what is out in the wild which you have diligently configured in DNS. Therefore if you are attempting to transfer messages over […]
Outlook “Quick Wins”
Often in the world of Notes to Exchange migrations we run into resistance at all levels at the organisation, but never more so than the incumbent Messaging Admins themselves. The best way around this is sell this as a new skill to learn at the opportunity to become dual skilled at two Messaging Platforms. If […]
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