Comprehensive document about migration planning for the many organisations moving off of Lotus Notes Domino …
This document presents a difference architecture process that creates a high-level reference architecture for a Lotus Domino to Microsoft technologies migration. You can use this document as a framework/reference point to build out a solution as you consider a migration from Lotus Domino technologies to Microsoft technologies. As part of the broader Microsoft Migration Planning Process, this material is used in the third and fourth phases of the Microsoft Migration Planning Process (formerly called the Application Analysis Envisioning Process or AAEP) with a goal of providing a standard set of components, tools, and design elements to be used during the envisioning and planning processes of a Lotus Domino migration.
Source: Microsoft.com
This made me laugh out loud for two reasons:
1. As we know, the MS “migration” is to move the mail and pursuade the customer that no-one actually uses domino, so they’re faster rewriting from Scratch in this years MS Collaboration platform – Sharepoint. I think. When is Sharepoint designer coming, or do people still have to hack things up ?
Case in point: 70 thousand user bank in the UK. They were “successfully” migrated to Exchange v5.5 (and subsequently upgraded to 2003). Their 2003 infrastructure has been in “intensive care” for over a year (their words not mine) and have been officially told the only way they can increase stabililty to “acceptible” levels (again their words) is to upgrade to Exchange 2007, and 64-bit windows.
That obviously is about as popular as a fart in a spacesuit…
2. The page listed SIXTY separate operating systems – and some of those entries were generalisations. Only two on that list were actually non-micrsoft. So MS have at least 58 (and probably way more) variants of operating systems kicking around. That list in full:
Supported Operating Systems:
Apple Mac OS X;
Macintosh;
TabletPC;
Windows 2000;
Windows 2000 Advanced Server;
Windows 2000 Professional Edition;
Windows 2000 Server;
Windows 2000 Service Pack 2;
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3;
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4;
Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2003 Itanium-based editions;
Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86);
Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86);
Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition;
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86);
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition;
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86);
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition ;
Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions;
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1;
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 for Itanium-based Systems;
Windows Server 2003 x64 editions;
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86);
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for 64-Bit Itanium-Based Systems;
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition;
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86);
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems;
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition;
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86);
Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition; Windows Server 2003, Web Edition;
Windows Vista;
Windows Vista Business;
Windows Vista Business 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Business N;
Windows Vista Enterprise;
Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Home Basic;
Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Home Basic N;
Windows Vista Home Premium;
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition;
Windows Vista Starter;
Windows Vista Starter N;
Windows Vista Ultimate; Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit edition;
Windows XP; Windows XP 64-bit;
Windows XP Embedded; Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 1;
Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 ;
Windows XP for Itanium-based Systems Version 2003;
Windows XP Home Edition ;
Windows XP Home Edition N;
Windows XP Media Center Edition;
Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition (Itanium) ;
Windows XP Professional 64-Bit Edition (Itanium) 2003;
Windows XP Professional Edition ;
Windows XP Professional N;
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition ;
Windows XP Service Pack 1;
Windows XP Service Pack 2;
Windows XP Starter Edition;
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Amazing.
Its amazing that you can download just about any Linux O/S for free from the net, in both 32 bit and 64 bit variants, and all will provide the features that the “SBS” servers will.
So why have 58 variants on “Windows” ? Is this to justify the marketing department having more people than MS have programmers ?
🙂
—* Bill
Bill,
“As we know, the MS “migration” is to move the mail and pursuade the customer that no-one actually uses domino, so they’re faster rewriting from Scratch in this years MS Collaboration platform – Sharepoint. I think. When is Sharepoint designer coming, or do people still have to hack things up ?”
Please wake up Bill, we are beyong the pursuation stage with migration. The “if” question is not the main of my discussions these days; it is the “how” and the “when”. It’s not email only either (ofcourse). Yes it does take careful planning and tough decision as organisation do not want to move *all* their *legacy* over to a / any new platform. rewriting is not what this is about and neither is the availability / use of SharePoint designer …
“Case in point: 70 thousand user bank in the UK. They were “successfully” migrated to Exchange v5.5 (and subsequently upgraded to 2003). Their 2003 infrastructure has been in “intensive care” for over a year (their words not mine) and have been officially told the only way they can increase stabililty to “acceptible” levels (again their words) is to upgrade to Exchange 2007, and 64-bit windows.”
I simply can nnot respond to this example as I am not familiar with this case. I can tell you about a bank with 60.000 or an organsiation with 100.000 users that are very satisfied with the availability and functionality of their email platform. Anyway, it is very important to understand such a client and the context in which they made their statement(s). I am very certain that Microsoft and the business partners are able to support this organsiation to the best of their ability and that choice of Exchange version is not a goal in itsself …
And yes what a list of OSses huh
Windows Vista now officialy available 🙂
My guess is that Microsoft doesn’t believe in a one fits all solution …