Real World Computing

Recently we've been undertaking a task to move from IBM Domino to Office 365 with particular emphasis on the mail system. One of the first big tasks is to move all of our corporate contacts from the Domino NAB over to the Contacts area of office 365. Corporate Contacts Corporate contacts, in this sense are contacts which are shared by the entire organisation. I'm not talking about actual users  who will have an Office 365 licence with your company or about personal contacts, who would normally reside in the personal address book. In our case, we had about 6500 corporate contacts who needed to be migrated. There's a contacts screen in Office 365 which is accessible from the Admin portal. It's under users, then contacts. Exporting from Domino In IBM Notes, open your company's address book and press Ctrl+A on people. If you have your staff and non-staff in the same address book, you'll probably want to sort by company and deselect all the staff. Ne

2017 marks the beginning of a massive shift in technology at work. We’re re-branding,  we’re moving office and we're changing our technology from IBM to Microsoft. It's going to be a wild ride and I hope that you’ll stay with the blog as I delve into the new world and try to figure out what works and what doesn't.  I've been on Notes/Domino since version 3.0 and I haven't used outlook at all, apart from a week in 1995 when I decided that I hated it (plus of course, the regular interactions with outlook die-hards where I've had to fix their computers). My personal favourite mail client is Gmail though I've been forcing myself to use Google’s inbox for the past three years. Of course I've used a lot of other web based mail systems over the years. IBM Connections Last year our company made the leap to IBM Verse and Connections.  It was a disaster. IBM connections is a very powerful and capable product marred by a terrible and inconsistent interfa