Domino Diversions

For those of you who don't know me or what I do, I am a Domino Administrator and a Domino Developer.  I work for BinaryTree, as a Senior Messaging Engineer.  I am regularly working domain migrations related to rebranding, acquisitions, and divestitures.  In my role I regularly visit customer sites to consolidate domains, split into domains, or go through the process of renaming users and servers to new certifiers.  These projects can run from days to months depending on the size of the customer and the length of the engagement.

In doing this, I've had the opportunity to work on many different platforms with many different customer businesses.  As a result, I've encountered a number of different problems that exist within Domino and Lotus Notes related to these moves.  This allows the developer in me to build tools, updates and custom requests for our customers on a regular basis.  If these customer requests are viable enough, I will add them as a product enhancement to our tool we call CMT for Domains, Servers, Users and Desktops.  This tool is a conglomeration of a number of different agents and processes BinaryTree has built over the last ten years relating to various engagements and that are now built into a work flow related migrations.  If you are interested in learning more about the tool, contact our sales group.

I am curious to know if you as readers would be interested in me sharing my experiences with regards to the many different environments, encounters, and idiosyncrasies associated these moves.  I am considering a White paper on Domain Migration Best Practices and would appreciate your feedback if you think this is a viable topic of discussion.