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BinaryTree the industry leading developer of software Migration tools to Lotus, Domino Domain migration tools, Exchange and Domino coexistence tools, and Domino Inspection tools, has made the INC 5000 list for the forth straight year in a row.

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Perry Hiltz September 2 2010 09:10:21 AM

In January of 2010, Binary Tree's entire Sales team met before the start of LotusSphere to discuss the coming year.  At that point in time the sales team numbered ten people.  Seven months later the Sales team met again, this time in Chicago.  The sales team has since grown to almost double the size, now nineteen.  We have expanded with offices in the UK, Sweden, and now also in Bangkok Thailand.

From LotusSphere 2010



From the Chicago 2010 Sales Summit



Great Job Team.  I'm proud to be a part of it.

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Perry Hiltz September 1 2010 09:55:38 PM

As you likely know, I work for Binary Tree.  While we are the leading standard for migration from multiple platforms to IBM Domino, we also send data the other way.  I like to think of Binary Tree as your email moving company.  We won't tell you where to buy your house but we can move your mail and data there for you.

We have implemented a partner certification program for partners to undertake the services side of our business.  In an effort to be help contribute to this process I completed my certification on our CMT for Exchange product today.  This makes me a Certified Support Specialist with CMT for Exchange.

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Perry Hiltz September 1 2010 01:40:01 PM

I have a question that I'm having a challenge finding an answer to.

With Windows based Lotus Notes client, if take the following URL and click on it, or launch it in a browser it will launch Notes and start the intended Database, in this case the local database of name.nsf.  

notes:///names.nsf

If I try this same thing on a Mac, what can I expect?  Should this work as well?

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Perry Hiltz August 24 2009 01:59:00 PM

BinaryTree the industry leading developer of software Migration tools to Lotus, Domino Domain migration tools, Exchange and Domino coexistence tools, and Domino Inspection tools, has made the INC 5000 list for the third straight year in a row.

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Perry Hiltz August 12 2009 09:41:32 AM

Join IBM, Microsoft, Google, and business partners for this conference in Munich, Germany.

Starts:	Tuesday November 03, 2009, 09:00AM
Ends:	Wednesday November 04, 2009, 06:00PM
Event Type:	Conference
Location:	The COMpentos WorldCafé Munich, BAVARIA DE
Price:	2 days (Nov 3rd and 4th 2009) 750 €     Special fee for early registration     by 31/07/09 690 € 1 day (Nov 3rd 2009) 600 € The fee includes attendance at all sessions, the evening event on 3rd Nov, participation in the WorldCafé on 4th Nov plus all catering. Our service for you Take advantage of this opportunity to share knowledge with the experts from the leading providers. Your admission ticket also serves as a voucher for a 4 hour consulting session on the subject of migration. For further information on packages that can be booked, please click here.
Website:	http://www.compentos.com/
Industry:	information technology and services
Keywords:	email, coexistence, migration, exchange, domino, google, messaging
Intended For:
Organization:

This two-day conference to be held in Munich will deal with the topic of migration and coexistence between the messaging systems currently on offer from Microsoft, IBM and Google.

COMpentos 2009 Migration & Coexistence:

• is a vendor-independent platform for IT operators, project managers and decision makers
• provides ad-free knowledge transfer at the highest level between vendors and companies
• enables professional pooling of experience between individual companies

The COMpentos WorldCafé

WorldCafé is a simple and effective method of bringing together a group of people for constructive discussions on a topic of common interest and thereby expanding the level of collective understanding.

The setting for a WorldCafé is very informal. The basic idea is to recreate the relaxed atmosphere of a street café in which people are able to converse freely and without inhibition.

An expert is assigned to each table to lead the conversation on a set topic. But what really matters is the exchange of views between the participants themselves.
Guest speakers

Michael Albrecht - Pentos AG, Senior System Architect

Session: 03.15 - 04.00 PM, Various coexistence scenarios between different messaging- and collaboration platforms
Worldcafé

Joining Pentos AG in 2008, Michael Albrecht heads the Microsoft Services division for the company. With his more than 14 years of professional experience as an IT project manager and executive for various large aerospace technology concerns, Michael Albrecht has gained very extensive knowledge in matters of business process management, IT service organization, ITIL and IT security.
In his position as the go-to contact for Microsoft at Pentos AG, his technical priorities are primarily focused on Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and social software.

Ursula Bosch - LIS.TEC, Business Development

Worldcafé

Ursula Bosch is responsible for business development at LIS.TEC GmbH, an IBM Premium Partner specialized in software licensing. The business model helps IBM software customers lower their capital outlay for licenses.

Ms. Bosch previously held various Lotus consulting, training and partner management positions for IBM software.

Kai Gutzeit - Google Germany, Head of Google Enterprise DACH

Session: 11.00 - 12.00 AM, Google Apps
Worldcafé

Kai Gutzeit began his career with OKI Electric in Tokyo, Japan, where he was in charge of the Overseas Sales & Marketing division. For twelve years thereafter, he held different management positions in micro-electronics, telecommunications infrastructure and network solutions for various IT companies. After three years at Radware as Regional Sales Manager for Germany, he was then put in charge of distribution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as Regional Sales Director for Central Europe at Postini. Becoming head of Technical Support and Sales in April 2006, Kai Gutzeit further developed the business activities throughout the region.
Kai Gutzeit has been head of Google Enterprise DACH, Google Germany, since early 2008.

Andy Higgins - IMCollaboration, Inc., Consultant

Session: 04.30 - 05.15 PM, Lotus Sametime V8 interconnectivity with Microsoft OCS 2007
Worldcafé

Andy Higgins is a consultant with his company IMCollaboration, Inc. where he focuses on all types of interoperabilty and coexistence between email, Instant Messaging and Enterprise Content Management systems.
Formerly with IBM, employed as a competitive technical analyst, he has an excellent undestanding of not just IBM collaboration systems but those of the competitor's, such as Microsoft, Cisco and Google. Andy has worked with email systems for over 20 years and has worked a variety of jobs in that time including the Swiss Federal Office for Communications and Bank of America.
More recently Andy has concentrated on Instant Messaging and interoperability and Coexistence of services pertaining to IM.

Frank Hüttner - Pentos AG, Senior Consultant

Session: 03.15 - 04.00 PM, Various coexistence scenarios between different messaging- and collaboration platforms
Worldcafé

Frank Hüttner is an experienced Lotus Notes/ Domino infrastructure system architect and technical project manager working in Lotus Domino/ Notes Consulting since 1999.
His work is primarily focused on messaging and groupware administration, release updates, domain/ server migrations, Notes client integration into Citrix, real-time communication and migration/ coexistence for various messaging platforms. Frank Hüttner is also well-versed in Web 2.0, social networking, open source content management systems and (X)HTML/CSS frameworks.

Dr. Nikolaus Krasser - Pentos AG, Member of the Executive Board

Session: 10.15 - 11.00 AM, Aspects of different paths and goals
Worldcafé

After obtaining his doctorate in 1995, Dr. Krasser worked for Siemens and, as of 1998, at IBM/ Lotus. With four other business partners, Dr. Krasser ultimately founded Pentos AG in 2000.
His principal areas of expertise are knowledge management, Web 2.0 and optimizing business processes, especially as relates to human resources and IT, and he has brought numerous projects to successful fruition in these realms. His articles are always well-received by the press and he is regularly called on as an expert speaker at conferences.

Wolfgang Kuchelmeister - Pentos AG, Member of the Executive Board

Worldcafé
Workshop I: Profitability analysis for migration projects

Wolfgang Kuchelmeister, one of the founders of Pentos AG, has been conceptualizing and directing IT projects since 1998, drawing on a solid wealth of experience as a system architect for Lotus Domino/ Notes.
His main focus is on messaging and groupware infrastructure as well as the topics of coexistence and migration, including the design of interfaces to other systems. Wolfgang Kuchelmeister is also in charge of developing migration concepts and scenarios and putting them into practice.

Jörg Paczkowski - PROAKTIV AG, training manager

Session: 05.15 - 06.00 PM, Transformation management - migrating with success
Worldcafé

Dr. Jörg Paczkowski is a member of the executive board, head of the training team as well as an active trainer at PROAKTIV® MANAGEMENT AG.
His special subjects are - besides managing trainings - change, stress and project management.
He has been responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for more than 15 years in executive positions in different IT service companies and management consultancies. Furthermore he was an associate lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in St. Augustin.
He has an outstanding knowledge of the IT industry, management consultancy and the healthcare system.

Steven Pivnik - BinaryTree, Co-CEO

Worldcafé

Since its establishment in 1993, Steven Pivnik has served at the helm of Binary Tree as Co-CEO. Under Mr. Pivnik‘s leadership, Binary Tree has significantly expanded its business globally, establishing itself as a leader in the messaging and collaboration market, with its focus not only in Lotus Notes & Domino, but also in the Microsoft and Google arenas. Mr. Pivnik‘s experience expands over 20 years in the technology business. Mr. Pivnik has been featured as a finalist for many awards like the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year or the INC. Entrepreneur of the Year.
Mr. Pivnik is currently active in industry affairs and Co-Author of several IBM Red Books.

Thomas Pfeufer - DB Systel, IT Communication Architect

Worldcafé
Workshop II: Project planning for migration and coexistence projects

Thomas Pfeufer is an IT Communication Architect for groupware and eMessaging at DB Systel, the IT service arm of the DB AG (German national railway), a full-service provider which develops and operates pioneering IT solutions. The unique strength of DB Systel lies in its extensive knowledge of the traffic and logistics market coupled with comprehensive know-how in data and information processing.
IT Communication handles the entire groupware and eMessaging sector, ranging from email and groupware to VoIP linking, videoconferencing and provision of the respective directory services.

Bernd Sailer - sqtm PSC GmbH, IT coach and consultant

Worldcafé

Bernd Sailer has been working for Microsoft Deutschland GmbH as an IT coach and consultant since 1999.
At the beginning he focused on Windows Network Services and Exchange Server. He then expanded his portfolio to the field of Unified Communications.
Since 2004 he also works as a licensing manager for Microsoft and is in charge of distribution, the DRM division and the Microsoft Partner program.

Jörg Schulz - VION IT Services, Head of the Messaging and Collaboration Team

Worldcafé

Jörg Schulz heads the Messaging and Collaboration Team of VION IT Services, the internal IT service provider for the VION Food Group, a global corporation in the food and ingredient industry with 33,000 employees. Schulz comes to this position after his stint as project manager successfully introducing Lotus Notes in all of VION Food Group’s locations in Germany. After training as an IT technician at Nixdorf Computer AG, Schulz first managed Nixdorf solutions for the retail and hotel sectors. He later shifted the focus of his duties to Intel-based servers and their operating systems. Schulz joined VION IT Services in 2000. Before managing the Lotus Notes Rollout Project for Lotus Domino, he was in charge of launching a desktop management solution, maintaining the Exchange messaging infrastructure as well as overall system operation throughout Germany.

Ralph Siepmann - IBM, IT Architect

Session: 02.15 - 03.15 PM, Lotus Domino Notes
Worldcafé

Ralph Siepmann has been with Lotus and later IBM since 1992. At the beginning of his IBM-career he worked at the technical support for Lotus/ Notes Domino in Munich and from 1995 on in the labs of Cambridge/ Massachusetts. From 1999 until 2004 he was employed at the Technology Center/ IBM Forum Munich.
His current job as Lotus IT Architect at the IBM Software Group covers the entire product range of Lotus software. His focus lies on innovative workstations, unified communication, Web 2.0 technologies and social networking.

Bernd Vellguth - Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Head of the IBM/ Notes Competence Center

Session: 12.15 - 01.15 PM, Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint 2007
Worldcafé

Bernd Vellguth heads the IBM/ Notes Competence Center at Microsoft Deutschland GmbH which deals with migration and integration issues between IBM/ Notes and Microsoft technologies. He is an expert in all matters of unified communications, knowledge management, portal/intranet applications and messaging. Bernd Vellguth holds regular executive briefings for Microsoft corporate clients and partners. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bernd Vellguth was a branch director for an IBM/Lotus Business partner and was also responsible for many Notes projects in this position.

Stephan Waltl - MicroGast, owner

Moderation

For more than a decade, Stephan Waltl was one of the most sought-after IBM Lotus trainers in the German-speaking world. After a radical departure in 2005, he has since become a creative catalyst and analyst on numerous innovative projects and events in any number of fields.
Yet his greatest strength remains the inspiring manner is which he communicates!
Thus making him the perfect choice for moderator of the COMpentos 2009.

Registration
You can register directly for COMpentos 2009 using the online form.
Contact

• Bettina Martinz
• Email: compentos@pentos.com
• Fax: +49 89 54493737
• Fon: +49 89 54493730

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Perry Hiltz August 7 2009 08:24:41 AM

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Perry Hiltz August 6 2009 03:51:07 PM

I've recently started working with our Lotus Notes developers to re-write a user hierarchical rename process from a C++ API call to a  move in hierarchy in LotusScript.  I have to say that while I'm very excited about the Administration Process objects, the documentation and examples in the help are less than stellar even in the ND 8.5 designer client.  One of the keys to making this dynamic was to be able to pass variables for the user's current certifier and the one we are moving to.

               Set adminp = s.CreateAdministrationProcess(doc.OldAdminSvr(0)) ' server that we can create adminp requests                
               adminp.CertifierFile =certfile ' certifier file we are going to use to update user
               adminp.CertifierPassword =certpass ' password for file above
               adminp.UseCertificateAuthority = False ' Using CA then change to true
               adminp.CertificateAuthorityOrg = currentCert.Abbreviated 'This line was needed to identify the old certifier.
               
               adminPNoteId adminp.MoveUserInHierarchyRequest(oldUserName, newcertifier.abbreviated, False)

All of the above we found and worked great.  The request was submitted to the Administrative process.  When issued the following:

                adminPNoteId = adminp.MoveUserInHierarchyComplete(adminPNoteId )

to complete the process it still used the old certifier and the old password.  Even though the process completed successfully, we didn't really do anything.  So no where did the documentation state this but after a few hours of trying 20 million different things we found that if we reset the CertifierFile and CertifierPassword objects to the new values (certifier we are moving to) it worked.  So we added the following:

               adminp.CertifierFile = newcertfile ' file we are going to use to update user
               adminp.CertifierPassword = newcertpass ' password for file
               adminPNoteId adminp.MoveUserInHierarchyComplete(adminPNoteId )

Low and behold the rename completed and next was the waiting for the user to accept the new name.  Next is build in dynamics to use the CA Process if it is available.

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Perry Hiltz July 21 2009 02:43:51 PM

Binary Tree Demonstrates Upgraded Line of Products for Migrating to the Microsoft Platform at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference - BinaryTree releases CMT for Sharepoint 2.0, CMT for Exchange 3.0, CMT for Inspector 3.8 and CMT for Coexistence with ZAPP 2.1 http://ping.fm/byBqg

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Perry Hiltz July 16 2009 01:21:01 PM

BinaryTree has released two software release upgrades.  

CMT for Coexistence with ZApp provides seamless, high-fidelity email and calendar coexistence between IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange
CMT for Coexistence with ZApp™ acts as a traffic cop on the Domino server by identifying message types and automatically “massaging” them to produce the intended results.  It enables your Outlook users to see and act on Notes graphic links, buttons, forms, and other email-enabled applications, and it keeps even custom and complex recurring calendar events in sync between your Notes and Outlook users.

If you need Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange to coexist and play nice, you are facing a serious challenge.  No matter which root cause landed you in this situation, be it a merger, acquisition, an executive initiative to change platforms, or a cloud computing/Software as a Service (SaaS) initiative, setting up coexistence that you and your users will be satisfied with is not as straightforward as implementing the Microsoft Transporter Suite

For more information on CMT For Coexistence visit http://www.binarytree.com/products/cmtco.aspx

CMT Inspector for Lotus Notes (Enterprise Edition) enables organizations to analyze their email and applications to properly plan Domino upgrades, consolidations, and migrations
Plan your Lotus Domino upgrade, consolidation, or migration with our robust Lotus Notes analysis and reporting software, CMT Inspector for Lotus Notes (Enterprise Edition). Gather detailed information about your Domino servers, email users, and on the design and data characteristics of Domino databases. This robust software enables you to examine Domino in unprecedented detail, equipping you with vital knowledge to ensure success.

For more information on CMT Inspector visit http://www.binarytree.com/products/cmtio.aspx

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Perry Hiltz July 8 2009 08:13:14 AM