Backups, Backups, Backups
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 9:01a Mitch Cohen This is a public service announcement
This past Friday I was sitting at my
desk working, when suddenly I found myself staring at a lovely
blue screen of death. When
I powered the machine back on I heard the tell tale click of a hard drive
that died. The good news is my data is all backed up, so beyond the
downtime until a new hard drive arrived, and the frustration of having
to rebuild the machine (I did have an image of the machine from when I
first got it, but after restoring it [read] Keywords: ibm
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I Will be Speaking at Admin2010
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 7:45a Mitch Cohen I am happy to announce that I will be speaking
at this years Admin2010
Conference in Boston. Admin2010
which is co-located with Developer2010
runs from May 12 to 14. A ticket to either conference entitles you
to attend sessions at both the Admin
and Developer
conferences.
Registration
is open, and the lowest rate is
available until March 12.
What am I speaking about? Here is my
abstract:
Expert techniques to customize Lotus
Connections Profiles
Populating Populat [read] Keywords: admin
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The Dangers of Running a Live Webcam
Fri, Feb 26th 2010 2:42p Mitch Cohen So the Snow
Cam (now offline) has been running
out my window for the last couple of days. You have to be careful
when running a live webcam or things like this happen.
Yesterday I got
in trouble for going outside with out a hat.
Today Carl
felt the need to capture some video and come up with his own interpretation
of the activities outside my house. Thanks Carl! [read] Keywords: application
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Making Google Analytics and Lotus Connections 2.5 Play Nicely Together
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 11:58a Mitch Cohen The other day I was working on integrating
Google
Analytics with an instance of
Lotus
Connections 2.5. This should be
a relatively simple exercise as you can easily customize
the Lotus Connections Footer,
and embed
the Google Analytics code there,
as the footer is rendered on every page.
Once I did this I found that Files and
Wikis no longer loaded, they instead rendered as blank pages. Removing
the Google
Analytics code from the footer
restored Files and Wikis to a working [read] Keywords: connections
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: The Correct Term is to Replicate!
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 11:56a Mitch Cohen I finally got around to catching up on
Google CEO Eric
Schmidt's address to the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona last
week. Pick it up at the 7:11 mark when he talks about cloud computing
and says:
"people always say I want to copy
from here to there it's the wrong terminology the right terminology
is to replicate"
I couldn't agree more, replication has
been a feature in Lotus
Notes for 2 decades now. [read] Keywords: ibm
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This Must Have been Invented by @jrobichaux
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 12:41p Mitch Cohen This is the latest innovation to appear
in the bathrooms at the office, I had never seen these before, but I bet
Julian
has had them installed in his house for years now :)
Here is an image of it
Purleve
hygienic door handle [read] Keywords: application
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Adding a Custom Profiles Field to Advanced Search (InfoCenter is Wrong)
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 6:49a Mitch Cohen This blog post answers a question that
was posed to me during my session at Lotusphere.
First a little background, SHOW303
was about customizing Lotus Connections, among other things we showed you
how to add your own custom fields in Profiles, as well as use a custom
resource bundle to add a nice label (and optionally add multi-language
support to the label) for your custom profile fields. For the complete
overview you can view slides
113-128 of the presentation.
So now the q [read] Keywords: connections
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An (unfortunately) Much Needed Tool for Duplicate Entries on Notes Calendars
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 4:33p Mitch Cohen If you have used or supported Notes Calendars
(or probably any other calendar) for any length of time you have
probably run in to problems with duplicate entries at some point, usually
they happen on heavily used calendars that are maintained by multiple individuals...
but they happen. Notes 8.5 introduced the
Repair Calendar Feature which
has been helpful. Today IBM made public their Tool
for finding and removing duplicate calendar entries
documented in Technote
1316738.
Questi [read] Keywords: agent
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Understanding Guest Accounts in LotusLive
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 11:02a Mitch Cohen This year Lotusphere Presentation's were
shared with attendees via LotusLive.
If you were a Lotusphere attendee who did not have an existing LotusLive
account you were granted Guest access to LotusLive
to be able to download presentation files.
Over the last few weeks I have seen
a number of comments about
LotusLive from #ls10 attendees
and it became clear that there was a lack of understanding about Guest
accounts and what services they entitled an individual to on LotusLive.
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New Book: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 - The Upgraders Guide
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 6:48a Mitch Cohen Packt
Publishing has just released
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1, authored
by Barry
Rosen, Bennie
Gibson, Brad
Schauf, David
Byrd, Dick
McCarrick, Joseph
Anderson, Tim
Speed.
With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1,
IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated
platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications,
while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increasing Return on Investment
(ROI). You can create and share inf [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Yeah Right
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 2:13p Mitch Cohen 10 Hours sounds good, but Apple does seem
to have a way of overstating these things
Image from Mashable
I have an iPhone 3G according to Apples
device specifications this is
the battery life I should get, I find these numbers to way overstated from
reality. So I find the 10 hour number hard to believe. [read] Keywords: apple
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Sorry @idonotes but Poken was a Huge #fail at #ls10
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Mitch Cohen Do
you Poken? I tried to, and
apparently failed miserably at it. Chris
Miller has been talking
about Poken for a while now, he
even gave one away as a prize at the Fall 2009 meeting of the Tri
State Lotus User Group.
I was not convinced that Poken was the answer but decided to give it a
try anyway for Lotusphere 2010.
Don't get me wrong, the idea is a good
one, create your contact information, store it on the device, and exchange
contact information easily. The contact inform [read] Keywords: lotus
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Good Advice from Conan OBrien
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Mitch Cohen I am not really a fan of The
Tonight Show in fact those of
you who know me, know that most of the time I am fast asleep by the time
it starts. I did however watch the clip of Conan O'Brien signing
off the show for the last time. In his final words he included this
thought
To all the people
watching, I can never thank you enough for your kindness to me and I'll
think about it for the rest of my life. All I ask of you is one thing:
please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my [read] Keywords:
Farewell #LS10 and Thank You
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Mitch Cohen So here I am again, waiting for a flight
in MCO, almost awake for 24 hours ready to return home, and get back to
the normal routine. I can't wait to get home and see my wife and
kids, but at the same time it is always bittersweet leaving Lotusphere.
As always it will take me a few days
to really step away from the week, and get a little rest before I can really
put down in words a proper post or two with my thoughts and takeaways,
but like I did last
year, there are a number of peop [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere Check In
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Mitch Cohen Checking in to say hi, and report that
I am still alive and well. This might be the first time I sat down
all day so much to write about and so many pictures to post from Lotusphere
just no time!!
This afternoon Adrian Spender and I
presented SHOW303 all about configuring and customizing Lotus Connections.
I didn't realize it but apparently I had really been stressed over
our demos all week, which in the end all went well. I was really
surprised by my relief after the session.
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Recap (and Photos) of the 2010 Blogger Open
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:09a Mitch Cohen So once again we proved a theory of mine.
Take 50 people, deprive them of sleep for a week, throw in a little
alcohol, put them all on a mini-golf course and what could possibly go
wrong!
No seriously a good time was had by
all and no one one was harmed during the event.
Congratulations to Phil
Randolph the grand prize winner
with the lowest score (I believe it was a 40). Thanks to Research
in Motion for providing the grand
prize a Blackberry
Music Gateway. Also thanks
to [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Putting the S10 in LS10
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 4:07p Mitch Cohen One of the biggest challenges for me the
last couple of years is lugging my laptop around. My everyday machine
is a Lenovo T400, which serves me well, but with a 9 Cell battery weighs
in at 5lb 10oz, and takes up a fair amount of space in the back pack. I
mainly use my laptop at Lotusphere for blogging, and since I am using the
Notes based BlogSphere template for this blog, my blogging client is Lotus
notes.
This year I will be leaving the T400
home and instead bringing the new Len [read] Keywords: lotus
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Should we repeat the Lotusphere Blogger Open?
Fri, Dec 11th 2009 2:54p Mitch Cohen Last year following the very memorable
closing session of Lotusphere 2009 about 75 people headed over to the
Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course for
some Mini Golf. Here is my recap
of last years event. The
Flickr
Set from the Blogger Open is here.
I am trying to gauge interest in repeating
the event again this year, so please let me know via comment if you would
be interested in attending again this year. Of course if anyone is
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 11:32a Mitch Cohen I have thinking quite a bit about
Lotusphere, this years will be
the sixth one that I am attending. What a big difference from back
in 2005 when I arrived for the first time at
Lotusphere (more then a day late,
thanks to a snow storm blanketing the northeast of the United states, causing
me to miss the OGS and guest speaker Ray Ozzie) barely knowing a person
there. Being January 2005 it was before Twitter, and Facebook, and
I can only think of a could of handful of people who were blog [read] Keywords: ibm
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Upcoming DNS Changes to curiousmitch.com
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 7:27p Mitch Cohen Over the next few days I will be changing
the nameservers
for curiousmitch.com,
as well as a few other minor domain/DNS changes. None of these changes
should have any noticeable impact. While I believe I have all of
the steps mapped out for a seamless cut over, if you see anything broken
over the next couple of day please let me know.
Thanks [read] Keywords: wiki
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What Week Number is the Week Begining December 28, 2009?
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 7:57a Mitch Cohen One of the fun parts of my job is that
on any given day I speak to people all over the world, and in the process
I learn quite a bit about different ways people live, work, play or in
this case even look at a calendar differently all over the world.
Speak to most Americans (myself included)
and you will find that week numbers are not a particularly big deal, but
talk to many Europeans and you find that quite a bit of planning is done
based on week numbers.
So a few weeks ago I st [read] Keywords: notes
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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly (Happy Thanksgiving)
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 4:41p Mitch Cohen Enjoy this one minute clip from the most
famous episode of WKRP
in Cincinnati "Turkeys Away"
WKRP Turkey Drop
from Mitch Cohen
on Vimeo.
For a little more context around the
episode you can read
A Thanksgiving classic: 'As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could
fly'
Happy Thanksgiving! [read] Keywords: application
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I Will be Speaking at Lotusphere 2010
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 7:58a Mitch Cohen I am excited to be speaking at Lotusphere
again this year. This year I am teamed up with Adrian Spender (blog
| twitter)who
is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM and the Development lead for Lotus
ConnectionsHome
Page and News components. Our Session is in
the Show
and Tell Track.
Putting *sparkle* in your Social applications! Customization
& Branding with the new Lotus Connections 2.5
Come and see how Lotus Connections 2.5 can be molded to
fit your needs. Don't just take [read] Keywords: connections
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Tweetdeck Catches Twhirl (at least for me)
Sun, Nov 22nd 2009 6:51p Mitch Cohen I was a long time user of Twhirl
as my twitter client, but a while back I switched to Tweetdeck,
and today according to my Tweetstats, Tweetdeck
caught up to Twhirl
as my most used client for updating Twitter.
I hope you enjoyed this completely useless
personal Twitter fact! [read] Keywords: twitter
Lotus Symphony Now Available on Keepod Devices
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 9:03a Mitch Cohen IBM,
VMware,
and Keepod
are announcing today the availability of Lotus Symphony for Keepod devices
allowing Symphony to run from the portable device without any installation
required on the host PC.
This portable version
of the software, packaged using VMware ThinApp and made possible through
an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement between IBM and NSEC,
can be launched directly from any Keepod device, without installing anything
on the PC and without leaving a footprint [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Want A Free Trip to Lotusphere? GSX is Giving One Away!
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 6:35a Mitch Cohen Sponsoring Tri
State LUG wasn't enough for my
friends at GSX.
Join us for a demo
of any GSX product and enter to win one of two fully paid packages to either
Lotusphere 2010 or WES 2010.
Everyone’s complaining about the economy still being down and traveling
budget being squeezed.
Well GSX decided to do something about it
Schedule a one-hour one-on-one demo with our US GSX Team between November
15th and December 15th 2009 and automatically enter to win one of tw [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Recap of Tri State LUG
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 6:58a Mitch Cohen This past Monday the Tri State Lotus User
Group held our first full day event in NYC, by all accounts the day was
a terrific success. Bob Picciano got the day off to a great start
delivering his Keynote, along with some terrific demos from Chris Crummey.
Chris
Miller live
blogged the keynote not to reiterate
the whole thing here, but two of the quotes that Chris captured in his
post stood out in my mind as I listened to the session.
There is never a
better time to be involved wit [read] Keywords: collaboration
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After Day1 I am wondering How Much do I Really Trust Google
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 7:27p Mitch Cohen So as I mentioned this morning I
enabled Location History on my Google Latitude Account.
This evening I decided to take a look at what my day looked like,
and well it looks something like this
Pretty accurate, as you can see I took
one route to my office and another one home. While the history feature
is private, looking at this map it really shows that someone could track
your movements if they got a hold of the data. (Just as a side note
when viewing your history in Latit [read] Keywords: application
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Perhaps the Best New Feature in TweetDeck 1.1.1 for the iPhone
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 7:58a Mitch Cohen Yesterday the Tweetdeck
1.1.1 iPhone update appeared in the App Store loaded with new features
including
-Support for Facebook
-Full Landscape mode support
-Video uploads (for iPhone 3Gs)
-Bit.ly Integration
-Ability to save a draft of a Tweet
-Add Location to Tweets
and more
But here is my favorite when you send
a Tweet you have the option to send it in the background
don't get too excited you still need
to leave TweetDeck open to allow the send to comple [read] Keywords: application
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Google Latitude gets Location History and Location Alerts
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 6:56a Mitch Cohen For those of you familiar with Google
Latitude which has been around
for a while now, it is a location service which you can use to display
your current location as well as the location of your connections. Until
yesterday there was not history available it just showed you where you
were at any given time. Yesterday Google announced two enhancements
to Latitude.
Location History you need to go to your
account and enable this feature if you want to use it, and history is private
no [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows I had the Bus Delivered!
Thu, Nov 5th 2009 12:11p Mitch Cohen The
Lotus Knows bus tour was nice
enough to make a stop at my office today. Here is the bus arriving
on site and being escorted by security to it's reserved
parking space.
and here is the bus parked and ready
for the team to come aboard
sorry Bruce,
I got to drive the bus!
and finally here is the Lotus team demoing
Sametime Unified Telephony to
the team on the bus
Thanks to IBM for a great morning on
the bus, which is now heading down to Phil [read] Keywords: ibm
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Has Planet Lotus Jumped the Shark?
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 5:20a Mitch Cohen To the best of my knowledge Ted
McGinley has not started blogging
on Planet
Lotus, but I can't help feeling
that Planet
Lotus has Jumped
the Shark.
Before we get to far in to this, let
me say that I have all the respect in the world for Yancy
Lent (Creator of Planet
Lotus), and in the infancy of
my blog back in 2007 Planet
Lotus drove a lot of traffic
to my blog (and continues to do so today) which I really appreciate. 2007
was also was before the Twitter explosion.
Usin [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Support Statement - Some Good News
Sat, Oct 31st 2009 8:45p Mitch Cohen This is a very interesting and positive
Technote on Support for Lotus Connections
Lotus Connections
requires the use of several collateral products for its normal operations.
In particular, it requires IBM WebSphere Application Server, a database,
a repository for user information (typically an LDAP repository), and other
products depending on specific customer requirements.
Because the list
of "Supported Products" cannot reasonably describe all possible
configurations that a c [read] Keywords: connections
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We Just Call it Tri State LUG but really........
Fri, Oct 30th 2009 7:56a Mitch Cohen Last night I was thinking about the speakers
and the agenda
for our upcoming
event in NYC on November 9. When
we formed this group earlier this year we wanted to cover what is known
as the Tri State Region (New York, NJ and Connecticut). With just
over a week to go until the event we have attendees registered from at
least four (the three mentioned and Pennsylvania) maybe five
states and Speakers coming
from 2 Countries, 8 States, and 1
US Territory. So whatever
state, country, [read] Keywords: wiki
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Agenda for the November 9th Tri State LUG Meeting is up - Have you registered yet?
Thu, Oct 29th 2009 7:33a Mitch Cohen If you have not registered yet for our
full day meeting on November 9th stop reading this post and register
now!! Space is limited and we
are getting very close to waitlisting people.
OK Now that you have registered check
out our Agenda
Did I mention the event is FREE? Check
out the presenters we have lined up
Bop Picciano General Manager for Lotus
and WebSphere Portal Software will kicking off the day with out keynote.
We then have a full day of break out sessions p [read] Keywords: lotus
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Hello Google.. are you out there?
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 4:19p Mitch Cohen If you are running the Sametime
Gateway you might notice that
you lost your connection to Google Talk in the last week, and can't get
it back. The answer can be found in Technote
1408488 Customers using Lotus Sametime Gateway lost connection with Google
on October 21, 2009 and cannot re-establish it.
This issue was first
reported to Sametime Support on October 21, 2009. Sametime support established
the root cause to be a recent change to Hostnames Google used for their
incoming c [read] Keywords: ibm
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I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 8:51p Mitch Cohen Well actually not the rain but the Storm....
Blackberry
Storm that is
I went back at looked at my
first impressions of the Storm,
and how I felt after having
it for a week, and the reality
is it was all downhill from there. Even with frequent OS upgrades
to the device it remained slow, the rotation of the screen from portrait
to landscape was terrible and often had a mind of it's own, and I never
got used to the typing on it. Probably the most frustrating part
was the lack [read] Keywords: ibm
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Blackberry OS 5.0 and Why Apple Got it Right with the iPhone
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 9:57a Mitch Cohen You all probably know by now I love my
iPhone, not there aren't things that don't drive me crazy about it (beyond
just the poor battery life). Apple
does like to control every last aspect of the device and they can drive
us all crazy with their ridiculous App Store approval process (and
where is my iPhone app for Google Voice already?).
There is however one area where Apple
got it right is that they control the OS when they decide their OS is ready
for the device they release it via [read] Keywords: apple
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Goerge Costanza Never Considered this Scenario
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 9:20a Mitch Cohen (Note: Please do not read any more in to
this then the rambling's of a bitter
Mets fan who not only had to watch
the Yankees
clinch the ALCS last night but
do it with in 15 minutes of the Giants
losing. I don't really want
to see anyone hurt.)
George
Costanza once considers the possibility
of an entire baseball team being wiped out in a plane crash (The
Boyfriend Part 1)
GEORGE: You know
Keith, what I've always wondered, with all these ball clubs
flying around all season [read] Keywords: application
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Adding Default Features in Lotus Connections 2.5 Communities
Wed, Oct 14th 2009 12:02p Mitch Cohen One of the enhancements to Communities
in Lotus
Connections 2.5 is the ability
to have a Blog, Wiki, Activity, and/or Files component attached to a Community.
In this screen shot you see a default community with the default
Discussion Forum, Feeds and Bookmarks widgets.
A community manager can click on the
customize button and add one of the other features in to a community, you
will notice here we have four features to select from
In this example a Wiki was selecte [read] Keywords: connections
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Rob Novak Broke Twitter!
Thu, Oct 8th 2009 12:51p Mitch Cohen Or am I the only one who noticed that Twitter
Broke right around the time Rob
Novak was presenting at UKLUG.
Yes I am talking about THAT
SESSION you know the one with
the free beer Scotch.
Those of you familiar
with Rob's "Free Beer" series from ILUG know two things for sure.
One, you get a great demo and access to life-changing (eye-opening? maybe
hero-making!) code for free. Two, he's not kidding about the title. Join
Rob as he stands on all the SNAPPS guys' shoulders once again [read] Keywords: domino
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Announcing the Fall Tri State LUG Meeting with Keynote Speaker Bob Picciano on November 9th
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 11:32a Mitch Cohen I am pleased to announce the Fall meeting
of the Tri
State Lotus User Group taking
place on November 9, 2009 in New York City, and featuring a Keynote address
by Lotus General Manager Bob Picciano.
NEW MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT! Next meeting
will be an all-day meeting on November 9, 2009 in New York City. Lotus
General Manager Bob Picciano will be presenting the keynote, and we will
have an exciting lineup of speakers throughout the day!
The rest of the agenda will be available sh [read] Keywords: lotus
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I wonder how many of Saskatchewan's 1,023,810 residents use Lotus Connections 2.0.1
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 8:36a Mitch Cohen I came across
Technote 4024553 Profiles: Time does not change when time zone changed
to Saskatchewan,which explains
an issue in Profiles when a user sets their Local Time Zone to Saskatchewan,
the time displays incorrectly.
Problem Description:
1. Log into the Lotus Connections component Profiles.
2. Select the tab "Edit Profile".
3. In the tab "Contact Information", select the time zone Saskatchewan
from the dropdown
list under the label "Time zone".
4. Click the butto [read] Keywords: connections
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Have you noticed the recent changes in the Lotus Greenhouse?
Tue, Sep 29th 2009 7:49a Mitch Cohen There have been two recent changes announced
for the Lotus
Greenhouse one related to Lotus
Connections the other related to Quickr
Begining October 7th, 2009 if you use
Quickr places in the Greenhouse you will need to access you place at least
once every 3 months, on October 7th any places not accessed since May 1
will be removed. (This would seem to make sense for the Greenhouse as quite
a bit of the activity there is for testing)
Starting October
7,2009 we will be removing an [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows It's Been a Good Week
Thu, Sep 24th 2009 11:36a Mitch Cohen A look back at LoLA and some of the events
that took place over the last few days.
Tuesday morning started with the launch
of the Lotus
Knows web site, and the launch
of Lotus Advertising in the Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe
Following the LoLA Opening Session I
was invited to attend Bob Picciano's press briefing. In addition to officially
announcing the launch of Lotus Connections 2.5,
Bob talked about the Lotus Knows campaign and some of the places wher [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows the lyrics to LoLA (and lots of other things)
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 8:32a Mitch Cohen Take your pick you can have this
song or this
song stuck in your head for the
rest of the day..... you are welcome!
The Lotus Knows campaign enters it's
next phase today and tomorrow. The
Lotus Knows site while available
today officially goes live tomorrow, while the advertising campaign kicks
off today. Over the next few weeks you should begin to see Lotus
Knows advertising in selected airports, trains, and other selected print
and online destinations.
The Lotus Knows bus [read] Keywords: lotus
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Collaboration University - Chicago
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 8:22p Mitch Cohen It was a busy week in Chicago for Collaboration
University. I presented
two sessions, one on Installing & Configuring Lotus Connections 2.5,
and the second Stuart McIntytre's session on Customizing Lotus Connections.
I am pretty excited about the level of interest in Lotus Connections
that I experienced at CU this year, there was lots of good discussion and
questions both during the sessions and afterwards. Great to see so
many people working with Connections.
While I went to [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Boston Area Tweetup - Monday September 21
Thu, Sep 17th 2009 10:53a Mitch Cohen If you are in the Boston area next week
join us for a Tweetup
on Monday September 21. We are meeting at 8 PM In the lobby of The
Charles Hotel in Harvard
Square. I have never been
to the Charles Hotel, but it must be OK because the hotel Tweets!
Last week I Tweeted
The Next day the Hotel followed me and
responded
So follow the Charles
Hotel on Twitter, and Join us
in Boston on Monday night [read] Keywords: php
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What Kind of Week Has It Been
Wed, Sep 9th 2009 10:59p Mitch Cohen Where to begin
Labor day weekend in our house means
we are celebrating Molly's
Birthday which we did on Saturday,
and then thought we would find some fun family activity for the remainder
of the long weekend. Well things did not work out as we planned,
but we have had quite the interesting week.
Sunday morning Jack who had come down
with a nasty cough over the weekend woke up wheezing and breathing very
rapidly, so we took him in to see the pediatrician. After a couple
of tre [read] Keywords: facebook
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TDI, Identity vs General Purpose Edition (GPE)
Wed, Sep 2nd 2009 9:55a Mitch Cohen Ed
Brill blogged the other day that the
TDI Entitlement with Domino will be upgraded
to TDI 7.0 when Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Ships later this
year (currently projected to ship in early October)
A look at the TDI
Product Page reveals that TDI comes in two flavors
Johan Varno - a TDI Architect at IBM was kind enough to
provide this explanation, and clarification on the Domino Entitlement
"There's some uncertainty regarding
the two flavors of TDI that was introduced in TDI v6 [read] Keywords: domino
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(Imagine My Surprise) Downloading Lotus Connections 2.5
Tue, Sep 1st 2009 12:18p Mitch Cohen A word of caution to anyone who might be
downloading and installing Lotus Connections 2.5 and using DB2
According to Technote
7016547 IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 System Requirements
if you are using DB2 you need DB2 9.5 FP3 (or you can use DB2 9.1
FP6), but if you are downloading a fresh install from Passport it provides
DB2 9.5 (I happen to be dealing with Windows here)
When you take a look at the version
you have downloaded you find that it is
arch=i386
bldlevel=20 [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5 - manadatory fix for Activities
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 12:12p Mitch Cohen If you are installing or upgrading to Lotus
Connections 2.5 remember to check Fix Central the first fixes are appearing
now
Remember if you are upgrading you need
to
replace any earlier versions of the Update Installer for Lotus Connections
with the 2.5 release.
Direct
Link for Connections 2.5 Fixes [read] Keywords: connections
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How Lotus is Adding Value with Lotus Connections
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 9:56a Mitch Cohen Hopefully you already know that Lotus
Connections 2.5 shipped this morning.
Lotus continues to add value in to the Lotus Connections package
at no additional cost. Lets take a look at just a few of the value
adds bundled in with Connections 2.5
Wikis
- in the 2.0.1 release Lotus introduced Integration
of Connections with 3rd party Wiki vendors
which they continue to support in Connections 2.5. Connections 2.5
also introduces a full blown Wiki of it's own. Cost for the Wiki
comp [read] Keywords: connections
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Fix Central is ready for Lotus Connections 2.5 Are you?
Thu, Aug 27th 2009 7:42p Mitch Cohen I was on Fix Central looking for some fixes
for Connections 2.0.1 and I noticed that Fix Central has been update for
Lotus Connections 2.5 which ships tomorrow
As of now there are no fixed for Connections
2.5
Are you ready for Lotus Connections
2.5? My test environment is prepped and ready at 2.0.1 to start testing
the upgrade as soon as the code is available for download tomorrow.
Direct
Link for Lotus Connections 2.5 Fixes [read] Keywords: connections
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Notes 8.5.1 if you (or your users) like Red for Unread you are gonna love this!
Tue, Aug 25th 2009 2:22p Mitch Cohen One of the biggest user complaints I have
heard from long time Notes users when being upgraded to Notes 8.x was the
change in color of their Unread mail. In Notes 7.x and prior unread
messages always appeared in the color Red
in their inbox. Beginning in Notes 8.0 Unread mail was changed to
Bold Black.
Sure there was a work
round available to change Unread mail back to Red,
but it was not a great solution for a large deployment.. Now in Notes 8.5.1
the choice between Bold [read] Keywords: ldd
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Whats new in Notes 8.5.1 for Lotus Connections 2.5
Mon, Aug 24th 2009 9:16p Mitch Cohen With
Lotus Connections 2.5 Shipping this week,
now is a good time to look at what is in the Notes 8.5.1 Client for Connections
2.5. Since Notes 8.0 Activities
has been integrated in to the Notes Client. Notes 8.5 introduced
Off Line Activities allowing you to work on a local copy and synchronize
with the server when connected. In Notes 8.5 and earlier when installing
you had the option to install Activites as a component (this is a screen
shot from the Notes 8.5 Installer)
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Lotus Connections 2.5 Shipping on August 28th!
Tue, Aug 18th 2009 5:21a Mitch Cohen IBM announced today that
Lotus Connections 2.5 will ship
on August 28th, yep just 10 days from now!. Beta 2 of Connections
2.5 is running in the Lotus
Greenhouse now, allowing you to
check out all of the enhancements and new features before it even ships.
Some of the changes in 2.5 include
Addition of File Sharing
Addition of Wikis
Dogear is renamed 'Bookmarks'
Communities are enhanced to allow the
inclusion of an Activity, Wiki, or Blog as part of a Community
Homepage c [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows you need to Jam! (Updated)
Mon, Aug 17th 2009 10:44a Mitch Cohen Updated: The Jam is 8/19-8/22 (not 8/21
as previously stated)
The
Lotus Knows Jam kicks off on Wednesday
August 19th at 8 AM EST and runs through Saturday August 22 at 8AM
EST. This is your chance to contribute to and influence the
Lotus Knows Marketing campaign
Register
for the Jam here. (If you
are already a registered ideajam
User no need to register again you can use your existing ID) [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Knows you need to Jam!
Mon, Aug 17th 2009 9:01a Mitch Cohen The
Lotus Knows Jam kicks off on Wednesday
August 19th at 8 AM EST and runs through Friday August 21 at 8AM EST. This
is your chance to contribute to and influence the Lotus Knows Marketing
campaign
Register
for the Jam here. (If you
are already a registered ideajam
User no need to register again you can use your existing ID) [read] Keywords: ibm
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You Get What you Pay For? I Don't Think So! (IamLUG Recap)
Mon, Aug 10th 2009 8:58a Mitch Cohen Whoever said "You get what you pay
for" clearly never anticipated an event like IamLUG.
Looking back on the event last week
first off I can't say enough about the job done by Chris
Miller, Francie
Tanner, and the rest of the
IamLUG team. IamLUG
ran as smoothly as any event that had the benefits of a dedicated conference
organizer, while being run by people who actually organized the event as
an additional responsibility to their day jobs. Then we get to the price
to attend FREE! [read] Keywords:
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Lotus Greenhouse is now running Lotus Connections 2.5 Beta 2 (R.I.P Dogear)
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 7:49p Mitch Cohen If you are interested in Lotus Connections
2.5 the Lotus
Greenhouse implementation of Connections
has been upgraded to 2.5 Beta 2. One of the changes you will notice
from Beta 1 to Beta 2 is the term Dogear is no longer used in Lotus Connections.
The Social Bookmarking service previously known as "Dogear"
is now named "Bookmarks" a term which makes the features purpose
just a little more obvious.
If you want to connect with me in the
Greenhouse
here is my Profile. If you do [read] Keywords: connections
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#LC3FR
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 6:59p Mitch Cohen A conversation occurred on Twitter over
the last couple of days about a hashtag for Lotus Connections feature requests
and other suggestions. After going through a few choices we agreed
on #LC3FR.
Luis Benitez was kind enough to ask
the members of the Connections Product management team
to monitor the hashtag as well.
This of course is not an official IBM
way to request features in Connections, but it is a way for us to exchange
some ideas publicly and share them with some of the [read] Keywords: connections
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GSX Day @ IamLUG
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 3:27p Mitch Cohen As if IamLUG wasn't enough GSX
decided to bring GSX
day to America. This event
held in Nice, France in the past made the IamLUG experience that much better.
There were 30 attendees at GSX day, some like myself already customers
of GSX, others were perspective customers, and a few just to take in a
third day of excellent content while still in St. Louis.
Chris Miller, Mary Beth Raven, Paul
Mooney, and Eileen Fitzgerald all presented, Mary Beth wins the award for
best session title w [read] Keywords: domino
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IamLUG Day 2 Recap (Free Beer)
Thu, Aug 6th 2009 1:45a Mitch Cohen Catching up on blogging, here is the IamLUG
day 2 (Tuesday) recap.
Bright an early Tuesday morning I presented
Connecting
the dots of Lotus Connections,
in a tough time slot up against Mary Beth Ravens What's
coming in Notes 8.5.1 and why
session (and the early hour) it was presented to a small, but enthusiastic
crowd. Following a quick meeting I managed to catch the second half
of Scott Hooks session A
universal use case for the business value of the Lotus collaboration suite.
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IamLUG Day 1 recap and OGS Photos
Tue, Aug 4th 2009 12:42a Mitch Cohen Wrapping up a busy day 1 at IamLUG, and
getting ready for an early start tomorrow, I present my Lotus Connections
session is at 8:15 tomorrow morning.
First the pictures I was missing from
this mornings OGS
Here is Chris Miller opening up IamLUG
in case you doubted that "Booty
Sweat" was actually included in the OGS, well here is a screenshot
Kevin Cavanaugh delivering the keynote
One of the concepts shown for the upcoming
"Lotus Knows" marke [read] Keywords: collaboration
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I Feel a Sense of Entitlement!
Fri, Jul 31st 2009 8:42a Mitch Cohen I have blogged here on a number of occasions
about Tivoli
Directory Integrator (TDI), most
of my work around TDI has been related to
Lotus Connections, where TDI is
used to populate the Profiles
database. What appears to
be a fairly well kept secret though is that if you have ND8
licenses you are entitled to use TDI.
When you download software check off
the box to "see associated products at no additional charge"
and among other things you will find
TDI
So y [read] Keywords: connections
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Tri State Lotus User Group July Meeting recap
Thu, Jul 23rd 2009 7:56p Mitch Cohen This past Tuesday night was the second
gathering of the newly formed Tri
State Lotus User Group. In
keeping with the Tri State name of our group after holding our inaugural
meeting in NYC,
we moved to Newark,
NJ for the July gathering.
The evening kicked off with Declan Lynch
"Xplaining XPages"
Declan did an outstanding job sharing
his considerable knowledge of XPages, in what turned out to be a very interactive
session with lots of questions from the audience through [read] Keywords: collaboration
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DAOS... Problem Solved
Mon, Jul 13th 2009 8:23p Mitch Cohen I have been running the DAOS estimator
for a while on my production servers, a lengthy process when your mail
file has 6000+ mail files, but hey it is worth it when you look at a potential
to save a couple of Terabyte.... yes you read that correctly saving a couple
of Terabytes by enabling DAOS.
We have a quasi production server in
other words it is my mail server and gets upgraded rather frequently
(it is currently running 8.5
IF5, but with this issue behind
us is likely to be run [read] Keywords: domino
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One Week the next TriStateLug Meeting (and the stakes have been raised)
Mon, Jul 13th 2009 9:20a Mitch Cohen Have you registered
yet for the next meeting of the
Tri-State Lotus User Group? We have a great agenda with session on XPages
and Sametime
8.5. If that is not enough
to get you to register co-organizer Jim
Casale has extracted a promise
from both myself and Kathleen
based on attendance.
The challenge goes like this if we have
more then 25 attendees Kathleen bakes cookies for the meeting, 50 attendees
I will wear a tie, 75 attendees I will wear a suit and tie (I don't know
where [read] Keywords: lotus
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Happy Second Blogiversary
Thu, Jul 9th 2009 7:28a Mitch Cohen Where does the time go? Seems like
just yesterday when at the 2007 version of Collaboration
University I started blogging,.
Join me for a piece of blogiversary cake, and drop a comment if there
is a topic you would like to see me blog about. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Connections @ Collaboration University
Wed, Jul 8th 2009 8:25p Mitch Cohen As previously
announced Stuart
McIntyre and I will be teaming
up to deliver session on Lotus Connections at Collaboration
University. No the presentation
will not be 500
slides, probably won't even come
close to the 400 slides that Show302
consumed at Lotusphere, but we
will deliver some great content around best practices, configuration and
customization of Lotus Connections. If there is a specific area of
interest you would like to see covered by all means let us know we will
do [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Joins us at the Tri State Lotus User Group meeting on July 21 (XPages and Sametime 8.5)
Mon, Jun 29th 2009 8:58p Mitch Cohen The Tri State Lotus User Group announced
the next meeting for July 21, 2009. Registration and networking at
5:30 PM and two outstanding presentation from 6:00 PM to 8 PM. Declan
Lynch will be presenting on XPages,
Declan literally wrote
the book on XPages so who better
to present. Akiba
Saeedi of IBM will provide an
update on Sametime 8.5. If you want a glimpse of the new features
in Sametime 8.5 which will ship later this year this is the session for
you.
Check out the Tri
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Folder View Preferences lost in Quickr 8.2 (and how to find them)
Thu, Jun 25th 2009 7:20a Mitch Cohen In Quickr 8.1 once a user set their preference
for a view it was saved for them via a Cookie so every time they returned
to that view it was sorted and showing the desired number of entries as
the user last viewed it.
In Quickr 8.2 the "Folder Setting
Cookie Feature" is turned off by default
For performance
reasons, the folder settings cookie feature is turned OFF by default as
of Lotus Quickr 8.2.
You can turn this feature back on by
adding the following to qpconfig.xml
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Sametime Gateway 8.0.2 HF1 available for Download adds OCS Support
Tue, Jun 2nd 2009 7:03p Mitch Cohen HF1
for Sametime Gateway 8.0.2 is
now available for download. HF1 requires WAS be upgraded to 6.1.0.23
(8.0.2 ran on on WAS 6.1.0.19) you can download
the WAS Fix Pack here.
The download from Fix
Central contains a PDF with the
full upgrade instructions
The upgrade basically consists of
1. Upgrading the Database
2. Upgrading WAS
3. Manually copying over new .Jar files
4. Installing SIP Container fixes
5. Deploying new Gateway EAR and WAR
Files
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Quickr 8.2 for Domino is now available
Sun, May 31st 2009 3:22p Mitch Cohen Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Domino is now available
for download on the Passport Advantage site.
IBM
Lotus Quickr 8.2 enhances end-user experience and streamlines infrastructure
requirements
Lotus
Quickr services for Lotus Domino version 8.2 download document [read] Keywords: document
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Webcast on Sametime Resolver, Notes IM, and LDAP Performance
Wed, May 27th 2009 8:00p Mitch Cohen My good friend Andy
Yiu, will be presenting
a Webcast on June 10th at 10 AM Eastern time.
Sametime quickfind,
Notes Inbox awareness, and many other features can generate a substantial
number of name resolutions requests. These requests can severely impact
performance and capacity in a production environment. Join us on Wednesday,
June 10, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT (14:00 GMT) in this IBM Webcast as we
talk about several recommendations and solutions you can implement today
to reduce [read] Keywords: ibm
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