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Admin2008 Europe -Amsterdam picture stream here  
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:51p Chris Miller
Here is the Admin2008 Europe (Amsterdam) picture stream via Flickr ... [read] Keywords: |
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Lotus Connections Proof of Technology hits St Louis 
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:51p Chris Miller
It is late notice that we just received, but there will be a PoT in St Louis on December 2nd and 3rd. The IBM® Lotus® Connections Proof of Technology (PoT) provides a hands-on experience for those nee ... [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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50% off certain Lotus licenses until year end it seems
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:55p Chris Miller
We were in a meeting today with the VP of Global Sales for Lotus and he reiterated an announcement that they are providing 50% off for gap licensing in Sametime Advanced, Lotus Connections and Quickr. ... [read] Keywords: connections
lotus
quickr
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Do we need primary contacts in Sametime or less friends?
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 7:51p Chris Miller
One of the oddities I saw in the new Standard 8.0.2 Notes client and coming in the 8.5 version also, is the integrated Sametime Primary Contacts feature. I don't see a reason for this feature. With ... [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
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Sys Admin Tips November 2008
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 7:51p Chris Miller
The November issue of Sys Admin Tips is out. Here is the topics for you non-subscribers left: * From the Editor: Chris' 0.0358000 ANG * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: HTTPS (SSL) and Sametime Meetings? * ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Network World on hosted Notes: License not Included
Wed, Nov 5th 2008 7:52p Chris Miller
The new Network World magazine just landed on my desk today (digitally and in print) and has an article by John Fontana as usual on Lotus technologies. The article is on the announcement of hosted Lo ... [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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Unpublished/unfinished Notes feature?
Mon, Oct 27th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
I have a blog reader that needs help, what developer wants to chime in for him? Hi Chris, Did you ever come across what appears to be an undocumented and unfinished Notes feature that has to do wi ... [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Certified Advanced Security Professional - ND8 (sharing following Mr Mooney)
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
Since Paul posted his (congrats to him!), yes it is a tough exam ... [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
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Connectria re-announces Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging (for over 9 years strong)
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 8:51p Chris Miller
I light of the recent IBM announcement that Ed pointed to (then later pulled for a couple days as a premature linkation), IBM is attempting to enter a market that Connectria and other Lotus partners ... [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
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Enterprise Twitter Solutions Part Duex - QikCom and Present.ly
Mon, Oct 13th 2008 8:53p Chris Miller
Is your organization understanding the values here? It is more than just chats between two people, it is seeing data and conversations flowing throughout your enterprise that can be searched, sorted, ... [read] Keywords: sametime
enterprise
twitter
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IBM new beta - Virtual Forbidden City
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
Don't ask, I just blog. Apparently SecondLife was not enough so IBM and the Palace Museum seem to have gone back in time and created a Forbidden City to celebrate the Chinese culture and explore by c ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Syncing your Notes Contacts to Lotus Bluehouse
Wed, Oct 8th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
This has a good side and bad side (as usual with me to point out). First, here are the steps required to allow you to sync your Notes contacts up to Lotus Bluehouse: I want to install sync for Lotus ... [read] Keywords: bluehouse
domino
lotus
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Anyone else want to connect in Lotus Bluehouse?
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
I wanted to test more of the capabilities of those in Lotus Bluehouse and having more connections helps in that. Also, you can add Bluehouse as a community in your Sametime client once you have an ac ... [read] Keywords: bluehouse
connections
lotus
sametime
community
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Enterprise Twitter solutions arrive, Sametime suffers or thrives?
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 1:54a Chris Miller
We all know that IBM has had their internal BlueTwit ability, but there was no enterprise driven Twitter like software until recently. Then 2 bigger ones came out of the gates. I hit a big thought at ... [read] Keywords: ibm
sametime
enterprise
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Sys Admin Tips Newsletter Sep 2008
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
The newsletter is out, get on over and read it or sign up already. This month I cover: Editorial on Websphere and the Lotus products Google Talk and multiple SMTP domains in Domino Choosing Domino a ... [read] Keywords: admin
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lotus
google
smtp
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IBM Master Inventor has his house Twitter from automation software
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
I ran across this by accident (another blog post) and it is an interview with Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Master Inventor. A huge position but humorously he took his home automation software, based on M ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested?
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IBM (twice) and Oracle say Beehive yourself (and a pic)
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
Interesting twist. At Lotusphere (a time when we became able to talk about it it seems), they were busy showing off a slew of collaboration tools on the Innovations Lab. Beehive was one of those too ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
connections
ibm
lotus
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Sametime Meetings: The way to eat hard drive space
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 3:52a Chris Miller
A user had a small partition set for their operating system and never loaded and programs there. After cleaning up tons of temp files they wondered where some of the space was still being used and th ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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IBM says Do them, or yourself, whatever worls
Mon, Sep 22nd 2008 8:52p Chris Miller
While over at Collaboration University in London, we watched as new signs were being placed prominently on the wall. It was not clear what it was for. Then we started seeing some interesting videos ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LiveTwitting - how we will do Lotusphere2009
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 8:49p Chris Miller
In case some of you don't follow my Twitter stream, where I post most everything short during the day, there is a new Twitter tool I plan on using during Lotusphere. LiveTwitting allows you to set st ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
lotusphere2009
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Doesn’t anyone see an issue with this?
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 8:49p Chris Miller
After spending these past two weeks doing a third Collaboration University, one thing became apparent. The disparity between all the collaboration products system requirements. Let us look first ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
connections
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IdoNotes Episode 53 - Snappy Chappy Turtles in the Thames 
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 8:49p Chris Miller
SNAPPS own Rob and Julian join Gabriella of Turtle and myself for some announcements and commentary ... [read] Keywords: |
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IdoNotes Episode 52 - Can you spell WAS and Sametime?
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 9:54p Chris Miller
Sametime announcements from Collaboration University with Carl Tyler and myself ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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"Show and Tell" track at Lotusphere 2009 and a poll
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 8:03p Chris Miller
The powers that be have done an excellent job at enhancing the previous "Hands-on Lab" track. It is now reads as follows: Audience: Developers and administrators of all levels Due to the enormous pop ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
show and tell
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Collaboration University - Day 1 (updating all day)
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 8:48p Chris Miller
With the largest attendance in 3 years, we kicked off right on time this morning. There are over 1 million Sametime users represented and over 14 countries between attendees here and London. Amazing ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Anyone want to guess why all these 8.0.2 issues are appearing?
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 5:59p Chris Miller
Between blog postings, Tweets on Twitter and postings in the general Notes 8 forum on Notes.net, there seems to be some inconsistencies. I personally have not seen all these yet, but it raises an eye ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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Domino 8.5 new server commands, let’s peek
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 6:00p Chris Miller
So as I dig in more and more I have been finding more and more stuff. There are some more server commands that give a bunch more information for administrators" New and enhanced server commands include: Show Stat Mail - View new messaging statistics in the server console window when you enter this command. DAOS Prune - Forces objects in the Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) repository that are currently awaiting deletion to be deleted immediately, overriding any specified setting for d [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino 8.5 and dynamic groups!
Wed, Aug 27th 2008 6:00p Chris Miller
Woo hoo, yet another awesome change for 8.5 to make administrative overhead even less. The auto-populated groups feature uses pre-defined criteria to automatically determine and update group membe ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Technotes for 8.0.2 - yes they are here already
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 12:29p Chris Miller
I thought about typing but making a grid is so much easier. Some are carryovers meaning they were not fixed in 8.0.2 Number Document Title Status Updated Product 1316646 Upgrade Central: P ... [read] Keywords: document
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Blackberry Developers Conference opens registration 
Mon, Aug 25th 2008 1:50p Chris Miller
I got a ping from the wonderful folks at RIM to let you all know about this as it was being announced. There are savings for registering this week. The conference is from October 21-22, 2008 in San ... [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Notes 8.5 Basic removes the Admin and Designer ability, you must use Standard
Mon, Aug 25th 2008 8:50a Chris Miller
I was rummaging around some more doing the slidedeck I said I would create on Friday and uncovered this. While maybe not a secret, there are many that are unaware this is coming: The Notes basic conf ... [read] Keywords: admin
designer
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The Notes and Domino 8.5 Business Cases - some asked about it
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 12:50p Chris Miller
On PlanetLotus I saw the posting by Scott Cochrane on the business case for the Domino 8.5 upgrade. I have been pointing a few out this week but let's do a general rundown in random order (each busin ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes 8.5 client new feature is saving even more space!
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 12:39p Chris Miller
Apparently, turned on by default, is the automatic compression of images pasted into documents, as shown in this screenshot: I went digging around and found this in the New Features area: Automatic ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino 8.5 is doing the disk space savings dance here
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 2:05p Chris Miller
We had been doing it in testing mode but went a little larger scale with the new DAOS (Domino Attachment Object Service). It works, right out of the box folks. Set up transaction logging make the OD ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes 8.5 stole my mouse, have you seen it?
Tue, Aug 19th 2008 10:33a Chris Miller
This has been seen and reported through the version, and was listed to be fixed in 8.0.2. However, in my 8.5 Standard client I am getting constant mouse freezes and loss of it even showing. Clean ma ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes 8.5 enhances forced plug-in installation
Mon, Aug 18th 2008 7:33a Chris Miller
Sametime has had this since 7.5, but Lotus was always missing it. Well here it comes in 8.5 Pushing down plug-ins that the user must restart and take advantage of is a welcome item. The user neve ... [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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Notes 8.5 brings yet another happy user change (building on yesterday)
Fri, Aug 15th 2008 9:59a Chris Miller
I went to add my signature to an email (which I don't do for every message) and received a pop-up that I needed to update and resave my preferences due to some changes. Hot damn when I saw these chan ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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Notes 8.5 is the default everything !
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 7:40a Chris Miller
I happily found this on the setup splash screen. Forget just email, Notes wants email, calendaring and contacts. ... [read] Keywords: calendaring
domino
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IBMr - I Build My Reputation won’t let me in to build mine
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 7:40a Chris Miller
I have now received a handful of emails saying I need to go to IBMr since I am well connected, but I can't get in. Ugh, a bummer a new site like this opens and I can't play !! Unlike other social net ... [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections isn’t playing nice with others
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 10:59a Chris Miller
I ran across a posting from Luis Benitez on how the Redwiki residents are showing the integration of Connections with some public social networking systems such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Skype. I tho ... [read] Keywords: connections
lotus
facebook
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linkedin
networking
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Too many Lotus Connections sites to Connect on?
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 6:59p Chris Miller
It seems that Lotus Connections has taken hold in the Lotus world and sites are popping up everywhere. Now where do you go? All of them? Here is the breakdown as I see it: Lotus Greenhouse - this ... [read] Keywords: connections
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New UC2 Publication looking for authors
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 1:19p Chris Miller
"Wellesley Information Services (WIS), the publisher of THE VIEW and The Sphere Journal, is seeking authors and advisors for a new online knowledgebase dedicated to IBM's UC² -related technologi ... [read] Keywords: connections
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Like J.K Rowling? her new book is up for pre-order
Fri, Aug 1st 2008 3:09p Chris Miller
They are actually introducing two versions. A Standard and a Collector's Edition. I know the kids are already asking since this is apparently commented on by "Professor Dumbledore" and is some sort o ... [read] Keywords: |
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July 2008 Sys Admin Tips Newsletter is out
Thu, Jul 31st 2008 11:09a Chris Miller
Topics for this month's newsletter include: IN THIS ISSUE * From the Editor: Chris' 0.021135 CAD * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Sametime Issue for the Blackberry * Overcoming Issues Using Lotus Sametime ... [read] Keywords: admin
domino
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Epilio did in 2 days (free) what Lotus hasn’t done for Sametime in 8 years
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 11:57a Chris Miller
Carl pinged me over the beloved Sametime Gateway before announcing it to the world so I could beat it up the new Sametime Buddylist Control Tool from Epilio (did I mention free). While it is strictly ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus to target 6 million Microsoft Exchange users
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 4:29a Chris Miller
Haven't seen this announcement? Of course you have. Lotus says it everyday in an attempt to get customers to migrate over to Domino. The same tools that are in place to migrate you in are the same ... [read] Keywords: domino
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exchange
exchange
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Warning and request to these awesome Notes 8 sidebar app developers
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 12:36p Chris Miller
I have seen some excellent sidebar applications for Notes 8 being generated recently, all with the developers starting their own update sites. Before I list them, here is the issue and warning: I nee ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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Proof that someone listens in my presentations
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 4:03p Chris Miller
Hi Chris I just wanted to show you that at least we learnt something in all the view's ;-) This "chris'ed" mailtemplate of my collegue Best Regards Marco ... [read] Keywords: |
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June Sys Admin Tips Newsletter is published
Wed, Jul 2nd 2008 2:45p Chris Miller
I know it was a week late, but my vacation had me in a delay in finalizing the content. So here is June 2008 with the following topics: IN THIS ISSUE * From the Editor * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Wh ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Web of Deception: Chapter 11 - The Return of Loki, Corporate Blunders and Bad Language
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 6:07p Chris Miller
This is chapter 11 in a round-robin story, titled "Web Of Deception". This chapter is the continuation of Francie's post right here. If you can remember the story through the writing styles of 10 different people, then continue on. ... [read] Keywords: |
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Creating multiple Notes 8 shortcuts
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 11:05a Chris Miller
One of the many things we realize as administrators, is that normal users do not have the same machine resources that we have on our machines we use daily. So how do we get around users that want Not ... [read] Keywords: domino
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ND8 Upgrade Seminar summary for San Francisco
Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 11:26a Chris Miller
After completing yet another city for the ND8 Upgrade Seminar, I am always surprised by the upgrade plans of the crowd and where they sit today. This was no different. Everyone was at least in the ... [read] Keywords: nd8
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NetworkWorld: IBM reaches out to colleges (but leaves out Lotus Notes?)
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 12:44p Chris Miller
In a recent NetworkWorld article titled "IBM's answer to IT skills crunch", it discusses all the new ways IBM is reaching out to universities to get them new tools and resources. Included were such i ... [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
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Clearing more air on Lotus Foundations
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 5:05p Chris Miller
While traveling, a saw Ed posted a Lotus Foundations blog entry that got some good comments and linked to some new Foundations blog sites. As part of one of the first resellers, I addressed many of t ... [read] Keywords: foundations
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IBM has a POT (Proof of Technology) seminar on Domino 8
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 5:05a Chris Miller
Apparently this is coming through or can be available to many cities. St Louis will be having one this week. It covers multiple days and has some hands-on. Now I directly asked if this was technica ... [read] Keywords: domino
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"Web 2.0 Goes to Work" meets previous "Work the Web" from Lotus
Fri, Jun 13th 2008 1:58p Chris Miller
IBM announced this week (as seen in many places including CollaborationMatters) a page dedicated to "Web 2.0 Goes to Work" using the web as a delivery platform. So I went back in the local machine ar ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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The one item that convinced my users to go to Notes 8.5 Beta 1
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 12:04p Chris Miller
Convincing the hard to convince to upgrade to a new beta is always fun here. Amazingly one little simple thing sold them. No it was not the alternate way the client starts showing a progress bar No ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Using TweetScan to keep up with unhappy Notes users
Mon, Jun 9th 2008 2:45p Chris Miller
I have been using TweetScan for some time now to poll Twitter for those that mention Lotus Notes in their tweets. What you find is amazing sometimes. Here is some excerpts. I have my scans set to e ... [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
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ILUG2008 Flickr pics are in the stream now
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 10:50p Chris Miller
Links to the pics are inside.. ... [read] Keywords: |
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ILUG2008 Opening Session review
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 11:24a Chris Miller
Besides Paul Mooney doing the outstanding comedic warmup, Nick Shellness took over as the first keynote speaker. As a former CEO at Lotus, he pulled out old slides to show how presentations he did pr ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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All is well, upgrade away and put that Domino 8 directory template on 6.5.4 servers
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 3:55p Chris Miller
Seems there was a misreading of the technotes surrounding the upgrade that was presented to the customer. It should read that you should not run older directory templates on Domino 8, not the Domino ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus says don’t upgrade from 6.5.4.to 8 ??
Mon, Jun 2nd 2008 11:48a Chris Miller
After numerous cities with the ND8 Upgrade Seminar, where we show how to do numerous things, including upgrading your Domino Directory, in a supported fashion, before the domain is totally finished. ... [read] Keywords: domino
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May Sys Admin Tips Newsletter is out..
Fri, May 30th 2008 3:10p Chris Miller
I know I prompt you a reminder each month, but until they get RSS feeds in play, here is the link. This month I cover: IN THIS ISSUE * From the Editor: Chris' 0.0101527 GBP (ouch) * From the IdoNote ... [read] Keywords: admin
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ILUG, ND8 Upgrade Seminar and Collaboration University, whew!
Thu, May 29th 2008 11:08a Chris Miller
If you cannot figure out where to go for technical information and some excellent training between June and September, then you have been sleeping. Let's look at what is coming: ILUG2008 - a free ga ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
ilug
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Misconceptions in the Lotus Foundations Start launch propoganda
Tue, May 27th 2008 3:06p Chris Miller
Now that it is official (as noted by Stuart in CollaborationMatters.com today), IBM officially announced Lotus Foundations Start 1.0 in a press release. There are a few items we need to clear up (one ... [read] Keywords: foundations
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CIO Online - Adoption of corporate social networks remains sluggish
Fri, May 23rd 2008 12:42p Chris Miller
Exactly what one would expect, a quick article showing how the adoption rate of the actual employees in organizations is slow on the corporate social network software side. While companies are pushin ... [read] Keywords: network
networking
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Why the current Eclipse Update Sites in Domino sucks
Wed, May 21st 2008 3:06a Chris Miller
Easy, it doesn't work and is configured in the wrong place (NOTE: the actual template used rocks, hands down. The process is broken). I was prompted to write this after the article on DominoBlog.com ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Graphical display of my Facebook circle
Tue, May 20th 2008 11:19a Chris Miller
This is a cool tool I ran across that pulls your friends, group memberships and builds a diagram of such. It shows how interconnected and isolated our group is. Take a look, I can click anywhere and ... [read] Keywords: facebook
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Whoa - ODS 48 broke some items on the convert up
Mon, May 19th 2008 1:56p Chris Miller
Last week at the Notes Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar in London (recap here), we had an attendee report that some items broke on the upgrade in ODS. I simply stated that in all our testing, we had not seen ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
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ND8 Upgrade Seminar in London recap
Thu, May 15th 2008 4:41a Chris Miller
One more city down for the Notes Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar, with 2 North American cities left to go (San Francisco and Toronto). Once again I was not disappointed in what the attendees had to say and ... [read] Keywords: domino
nd8
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Guest blogger: Disappointments of a first timer to Lotusphere Comes to You St Louis
Mon, May 12th 2008 7:05a Chris Miller
Hi, I sent this posting over via email so it cold be pasted in. I went to the Lotusphere Comes to You in St Louis last week for my first time. I knew it was only a day review of what was explained t ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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my not well received thoughts on Lotus Connections for Blackberry
Fri, May 9th 2008 6:46a Chris Miller
Many of my fellow bloggers have posted and express excitement over Connections for Blackberry. I, unfortunately, do not share the same enthusiasm ... [read] Keywords: connections
lotus
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Notes 8.0.1 Standard on Citrix - can you count to 4 users only?
Thu, May 8th 2008 8:27a Chris Miller
So the internal NOC team here uses Neoware thin clients to connect to the Citrix 4.5 server. Today the Windows guys decide to upgrade to 8.0.1 Standard and find that each user was, as expected, using ... [read] Keywords: connect
domino
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I fixed my feed to PlanetLotus and upgraded the blog server (see missed posts)
Wed, May 7th 2008 12:01p Chris Miller
Since everyone gets this one, you missed my rant about ATT and their sucky free wireless mesh they put here in St Louis. You also missed my recap of Admin2008 plus pictures. Lastly, the blog server ... [read] Keywords: planetlotus
server
wireless
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ATTMetroFree can bite me as it blocks Notes traffic
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:11a Chris Miller
Our city allowed AT&T to come in and fire up a free wireless mesh downtown that covers like 8x8 square blocks. Something like that. There is 2 mesh networks available. The first one they offer, ... [read] Keywords: notes
wireless
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Sametime Unyte as Saas or crash?
Fri, May 2nd 2008 9:28p Chris Miller
I got this little tidbit in email today and had some thoughts: Good news for your business! Now, IBM can help you make a splash in the software as a service (SaaS) market. For the first time ever, IBM ... [read] Keywords: ibm
sametime
email
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Admin2008 Days 2 and 3 plus pictures
Fri, May 2nd 2008 4:55p Chris Miller
:: Abstract not available :: [read] Keywords: |
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Admin2008 Day 1
Thu, May 1st 2008 9:29a Chris Miller
There are enough opening session remarks already blogged. But here is what I gathered from talking to attendees all week. Even though we are entering Domino 8.0.1, most have not made the full move t ... [read] Keywords: domino
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IdoNotes Episode 51 - Lotusphere 2008 picture review
Sat, Apr 26th 2008 5:24a Chris Miller
Lotusphere 2008 picture review across music from Drop Trio ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Sys Admin Tips April 2008 is out
Sat, Apr 26th 2008 5:24a Chris Miller
Hot from the printing presses, get your copy here for free! IN THIS ISSUE * From the Editor: Chris' 26.1942 UZS * Sponsored by BCC * From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Is There Really a Pubnames.ntf Fix for ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Visually trending talk of Lotus Notes on Twitter
Thu, Apr 24th 2008 6:05p Chris Miller
I ran across a tool called Twist which gives a graph of how many times words or phrases are used in Twitter. For fun, I did Lotus Notes versus Microsoft Exchange (using just Exchange gave every insta ... [read] Keywords: domino
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notes
exchange
exchange
microsoft
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Do your users understand a stoplight signal?
Wed, Apr 23rd 2008 11:29p Chris Miller
If they happen to be able to know what to do when they see green, yellow and red, then this should be simple. From the words of one of our customers Lotus could not have made seeing quota limits any ... [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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IdoNotes Episode 50 - Lotus Foundations podcast
Mon, Apr 21st 2008 5:44a Chris Miller
When PlanetLotus was down a while ago, l posted a podcast with Kevin Cavanaugh (Vice President Messaging & Collaboration, Lotus Software Group) on Lotus Foundations. I will have plenty of thing ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
foundations
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planetlotus
podcast
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Taking S/MIME out to pasture
Fri, Apr 18th 2008 1:23p Chris Miller
I sent a Twitter yesterday on how I was overlooking the obvious in setting up some secure mail between two sites. They wanted to use S/MIME. Did both run Notes? No. That would have been easy with s ... [read] Keywords: domino
notes
twitter
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Lotus Bluehouse makes me blue
Mon, Apr 14th 2008 3:26p Chris Miller
So I have been in the beta thingy for Lotus Bluehouse and they just upgraded to Iteration 11. I even did a great podcast with Martha and Satwik in Episode 49. Overall the site has performed well wit ... [read] Keywords: bluehouse
lotus
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Lotusphere Comes To You (the online version)
Thu, Apr 10th 2008 2:02p Chris Miller
LotusUserGroup.org is hosting Lotusphere Comes to You Online. This is an online event series featuring updated presentations from Lotusphere 2008 and even one or two new sessions. Designed to bring an ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Is Sametime 8 in Notes 8.0.1 burnt toast, half baked or a perfect loaf?
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 5:17p Chris Miller
One of our customers made a point today with a wonderful comment on something they noticed in their testing of the 8.0.1 administrator client: Looks half-baked to me for an 8.0.1 client with supposed ... [read] Keywords: notes
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International Notes Hater day? Someone has humor
Mon, Apr 7th 2008 9:05p Chris Miller
Apparently May 13th is the day, they are even selling merchandise for it. ... [read] Keywords: notes
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Bug in the Sametime Advanced installer - Applianceware version
Thu, Apr 3rd 2008 3:02a Chris Miller
If you attempt to run the ApplianceWare installer on Linux for Sametime Advanced, you will notice that the plugins for Websphere fail, which in turn breaks the entire install of course. Some examinat ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Copenhagen upgrade conference in reivew
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:48p Chris Miller
Surprise, disappointment, amazement, laughter. We got every reaction possible. Andy and myself fended off countless questions from a fully packed house. The extra seats we planned open were taken b ... [read] Keywords: |
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News all over Europe TV - Google bids to buy Microsoft
Tue, Apr 1st 2008 3:20p Chris Miller
While here at the Notes and Domino 8 Upgrade Seminar, it was the main topic at all the tables over breakfast and then as people came into the room. What would it mean? What happens to the desktop? ... [read] Keywords: domino
, notes
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Sending blanket emails with @DoNotReply.com in them?
Mon, Mar 31st 2008 10:24a Chris Miller
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"Update Status after login" error in 8.0.1 - close to solving
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 10:42p Chris Miller
Every time the client goes into a standby (not hibernation but definitely where Windows closes the screen down and stops spinning the disk, the error shows. I let a machine sit and then logging in g ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Remove your DNS Blacklists? One spam provider says so
Fri, Mar 28th 2008 12:41p Chris Miller
Our customers have forwarded a blog posting from Mayflower Software that suggests you remove DNS blacklists and then let their software handle everything for spam. While there is one valid point, add ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Sharepoint is the new Lotus Notes - CMS Watch reports
Thu, Mar 27th 2008 12:11p Chris Miller
I was forwarded this article, which I am not buying, and you can't even see the whole report without purchase. BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2008--Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is rep ... [read] Keywords: domino
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We started going topless at meetings, try it
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 4:16p Chris Miller
In big meetings we make sure we never brought cell phones in, not even on vibrate mode. But now, what the heck, go topless. Frustrated by distracted workers so plugged in that they tune out in the mi ... [read] Keywords: |
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NotesPing as a server setup tool?
Mon, Mar 24th 2008 1:56p Chris Miller
Another interesting bout with unknown causes of server setup failures on an additional Domino server. We were setting up a hosted server, that was to get the necessary data through a private connecti ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Understanding the new AOL IM filtering rates
Fri, Mar 21st 2008 10:25a Chris Miller
Some of you hopefully read the posts and technotes regarding the new filtering rates that AOL has deployed against chats coming through the Clearinghouse. Well I started getting emails and pings aski ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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March Sys Admin newsletter is out.
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 12:35p Chris Miller
Get yours today hot off the presses! IN THIS ISSUE * From the Editor: Chris' .4630821 VGS * From the IDoNotes Mailbox: Bringing Together Multiple Sametime Services * Part 2 of 3: Domino Monitoring a ... [read] Keywords: admin
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(Dis) connecting from extst.ibm.com is easy to do, since you cant connect
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 5:25p Chris Miller
Some of the IBM bloggers (Chris Pepin and Adam G) have recently posted on how strong and wonderful the external Sametime server, known as extst.ibm.com, for IBM is. Now let's clarify a few things. ... [read] Keywords: connect
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PrimeTimeRewind.TV is interesting (so far)
Tue, Mar 18th 2008 10:20p Chris Miller
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