Here we are at the end of another day, and we're getting closer and closer to having the portal migration completely finished. Here's a recap for the day.
First thing this morning, we got the new portal online, ready for use. However, it was somewhat crippled because not all of the data has been migrated. Email was still in the process of migrating and calendar data has not been migrated due to some complications in the migration process. The look and feel has not been finalized, but it's getting close.
Around mid morning, we started receiving calls about problems with the new portal. Things like, tabs missing, channels missing, and password problems. We worked through those the best we could at the time.
After lunch, I was finally able to get a support ticket in with Sungard about our calendar import issues. We continue to converse back and forth the rest of the afternoon, troubleshooting the problem. Unfortunately, we were not able to come to a resolution, but we will continue work tomorrow and will hopefully have a fix soon.
This evening, I've recreated all the default layouts and applied them to the system. This should correct our disappearing tab problem. I also researched a method to use the built in email client in the portal, instead of the one that is provided with this version. This client is very similar to the one from the previous version of the portal and should look very familiar to you. Mail migration is about 75% complete.
Tomorrow morning, I'm planning a restart of the portal services early in the morning to repair some look and feel issues and to apply the change to the email application.
On the docket for tomorrow (Wednesday):
Calendar Migration
Channel Repairs
Look and feel refining
Other user issues
And on that note, it's time for bed. Too many nights with too little sleep.
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