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Open Mic: Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 – August 27, 2009
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on August 26, 2009
The IBM Open Mic calls are intended to provide you the opportunity to interact directly with the IBM Lab developing IBM software products, On Thursday August 27th 2009, at 10 am eastern US time, the Notes & Domino team will host an Open Mic call on “Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5″. Open Mic calls are Question & Answer sessions with a panel of subject matter experts from the Development & Technical Support teams.
For details about the Open Mic call, please see the invitation document:
Title: Open Mic: Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 – August 27, 2009
Dial-in numbers and the pass code are listed in both the document above and in the forum document below. NOTE: You will need a touch tone phone to be able to ask questions. You can submit your question in advance via our Notes/Domino 8 forum:
Title: Open Mic call Aug 27th 2009 on Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 [please post questions as responses to this document]
You can keep up to date with other upcoming Open Mic conference calls on our Lotus Technical Exchange landing page:
Title: Lotus Support Technical Exchange Events
During the Open Mic session August 27th, we will answer questions about upgrading your Domino server to release 8.5. Questions should be of general interest and by their nature help you install, configure, manage or optimize your software. We will collect questions, which have been posted to the forum and address as many as possible on the call. We will also take questions on the call, which have not been submitted in advance.
For this upcoming call, you may find it beneficial to review in advance some of the following materials:
Title: Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
Title: Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) [obtain a free copy here]
Title: Replay and Questions/Answers from Domino Configuration Tuner Open Mic calls on June 9 and 10, 2009
Please remember to book your calendar for this call. We look forward to talking with you!
The IBM Lotus Domino team
Notes/Domino 8.5 Upgrade Class – San Jose Sept 29th and 30th and San Francisco Oct 1st and 2nd
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on August 25, 2009
INTRODUCTION
Presentations and Hands-on Lab Exercises for a 1 or 2 day Proof of Technology (PoT), with materials focusing on Notes ® End User, Domino® Administration, and Domino Application Development enhancements in version 8.5.
OBJECTIVE
The Notes & Domino 8.5 Upgrade PoT is intended to provide the customer with an in-depth examination of the new capabilities of version 8.5 of the products. For existing customers, this exploration will help them assess the additional value and potential impact to their existing environment. For new customers, this exploration will not only give them a hands-on experience with a product new to them but it will also reinforce our advantages over the competition, such as the power of applications. At the conclusion of the Proof of Technology, the customer will leave with an excitement about the business problems this new version can help solve.
AUDIENCE
This Proof of Technology is targeted for IT Managers, Application Developers, System Administrators and Architects evaluating IBM Lotus Notes / Domino. No prerequisite knowledge of Notes or Domino is required; however, it is recommended that participants have an understanding of their business needs and current IT technologies.
COST
This session is offered free of charge. Complimentary refreshments including continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. However, participants
are responsible for their own business travel expenses.
SCHEDULE
For your convenience, registration and continental breakfast will begin at 8:00 AM. The session on day 1 will start at 8:30 AM and end at approximately
6:00 PM. On day 2, breakfast will start at 8:30 AM, the session will start at 9:00 AM and end at approximately 5:00 PM.
CONTACT FOR INFORMATION
This Proof of Technology is on a nomination process, please send me an email to register.
Domino and Domino Designer Wikis and more!!!
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on June 18, 2009
A Must Have… and thank you Dave…. virtually replaces Redbooks (but not completely!!)
Here are some great examples of content found in the wiki… sign up, read, participate, join in!! Learn!
Domino Wiki
Introduction to Lotus Notes
Learning Lotus Notes Client
Daos Best Practices
Domino Designer Wiki
Introduction to xPages
Learning Domino Development
Redbook Wiki: Domino Designer Best Practices
Other Great Wikis available
Thinking Green? what does it mean? how does it apply?
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Holli's Rambles, Lotus Notes Domino on April 23, 2009
Yesterday was Earth Day. I was inspired by a blog posting on IBM’s developerWorks to think about what it means to be Green…. aaah as Kermit would say… it ain’t easy… or is it? smiles..
When we think about Green in IT, we think of how we can reduce power, manage storage, we think of virtualization and cloud computing. As I am going around the PNW teaching ND8.5 upgrade classes for our customers to help them understand the value of an upgrade to our newest Domino infrastructure, I hear many stories about customers struggle with space and desires to consolidate servers. I talk to them about the introduction of DAOS.
When I managed the messaging environment for Bayer Pharmacuticals in Berkeley California, I reviewed using Single copy object stores (SCO). While this was a great introduction of a capability we leveraged in cc:Mail way back when, it still had points of failure due to the dependancies on single database management. It left you exposed to having 100′s of users dependant on one database. Databases can become corrupt, corruption leads to down time, which leads to 100′s of users DOWN! While this framework offered a promise to reduce storage, it offered a higher cost on end user down time, which can equal to a lot of money lost.
The rate and pace of data growth is growing expodentially. Companies need to review options that can offer shared resources without creating a risk to the organization and down time for end users. DAOS offers a distributed capability to allow end users to maintain mail but offset the file attachments to a file system. Once again reducing risk in that it will not be in a database format, but a flat file store. This allows for less risk with the capabilities of reducing data re-duplication.
Resources for DAOS
Paul Mooney’s excellent presentation on DAOS from Lotusphere
Lotus Domino goes Greener
Dowload the DAOS Estimator Tool version 1.4
What is ND8.5 DAOS
Liberate yourself and your budget from Microsoft’s grip!
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino, Social Networking on March 3, 2009
IBM’s Project Liberate
Negotiate a better enterprise agreement
Ever wanted to be the big hero and save the company millions of dollars? Well… I have a secret… we have seen drastic calculations regarding saving across the board for evaluating the Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, leveraging what you have in your organization, vs what Microsoft is bundling in their agreenments. IBM offers a site that can help you understand how doing an evaluation of your environment could save you money.
Customers with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements might be able to save up to 40% or more on the cost of their renewal through this “no-charge” evaluation of their current Enterprise Agreement.
Click here for more information on IBM’s Project Liberate
If you are interested in setting up a conversation with one of our consultants, please feel free to contact me directly @ holli.konig@us.ibm.com and I will assist in getting you to the right people for your organization.
The VIEW Magazine and a free article on Green and DAOS
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on February 16, 2009
When was the last time you reviewed The View? They are the same ones that conduct the Admin and Lotus Developer conferences. The view has been around for EVER and consistantly produced high quality, deep dive, technical articles on topics that provided value in managing and developing in my Lotus environment.
They use to send them to me for distribution at all of the User Group meetings for free. Now that we have gone mostly virtual.. I wanted to give them a good plug here and share with you that their most recent free article is a great one on Maximize the Green Benefits of Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) for Notes and Domino 8.5
Build your training materials for iNotes
Posted by holliwagner in Education, Lotus Notes Domino on February 16, 2009
iNotes Community resources
Wiki
Forum
Blogs
- Using IBM Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0 Reference Card
- IBM Lotus iNotes 8.0.2 Reference Card for Ultralite Mode
- IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 Reference Card for Ultralite Mode
- Introducing IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.1 Web Access Lite Mode
- New Features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Full Mode
- Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
- Tips for being productive with Lotus Notes and iNotes
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5
Posted by holliwagner in Lotus Notes Domino on February 9, 2009
Are you interested in trying Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5? Try out an evaluation? Did you know that you can get a copy off of the Lotus website? There are so many improvements that are added in this version…. please feel free to check it out….
Also see articles from the Lotus Developers Domain
Lotus Notes 8.5 marks a major milestone in the Lotus Notes history and is a significant release in terms of new features, appearance, programmability, and functionality.
IIBM Lotus iNotes 8.5 includes many new features. This second article in the series covers two distinct topics: new Lotus Domino administration policy capabilities and improvements available in lite mode.
In this article, the first in a multipart series, we cover the new features in Lotus iNotes 8.5 full mode and examine its Web 2.0 related features in particular depth.
In this tutorial, learn how to use XPages and Themes, new technologies in Lotus Domino 8.5, to increase flexibility, control.
Some of the notable improvments for Lotus Notes 8.5
● General
4 Open button
4 Tab and Window Management
4 In-line spell check
4 MIME rendering
4 Intelligent addressing
4 Multi-level undo
4 Consolidated Preferences
4 Windows-style selection
4 Side-bar for plug ins (RSS Feed reader, day at a glance)
4 Search Center
4 Productivity Editors
4 Advanced Menus
● Calendar
4 Free-time lookup
4 Unprocessed calendar entries
4 Federated Calendars
4 Conversation threads
4 Vertical preview
4 Message recall
4 Out of Office improvements
● Contacts
4 Recent collaborations
4 Recent contacts
4 Business Card view
4 Contact delegation
4 Synchronize contacts automatically
● Instant Messaging
4 Rich text, emoticons, screen capture, spell check, chat history
Some of the notable improvments for Lotus Domino 8.5
● Client Administration
4 Message Recall
4 Lotus Domino hosted provisioning of Lotus Notes 8
4 Policy Management enhancements
4 Database Redirect – Redirect bookmarks after database moves and deletes
● Performance and Efficiency improvements
4 Out-of-office service
4 Automatic Inbox cleanup
4 Design note compression
4 On-demand collation
4 AdminP performance gains
4 Domino Attachment and Object Store (DAOS)
● Directory & Security
4 Internet account lockout due to password entry failure
4 Entitlement to IBM Tivoli® Directory Integrator for use with Lotus Domino
4 Stronger 4096 bit encryption keys and simplified key rollover
4 Authentication/authorization-only secondary directories
4 Improved configuration for directory assistance LDAP directories
4 Directory lint (DirLint)
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino makes the news with BIG NUMBERS
Posted by holliwagner in Lotus Notes Domino, Uncategorized on January 16, 2009
With a fresh face, integrated collaboration and enterprise applications, multi platform including Apple client, federated calendaring, open security, RAD capabilities stronger than ever, open standards, social awareness, open documents, heavy focus on Green initative with virtualization and tight integration with the web and the desktop, who can blame people for choosing Lotus Notes and Domino for their Collaborative Desktop… see the article below from CNN Money…
CNN Money “Global Businesses Choosing Lotus Software”
Hands on Tutorials and Trial Softwares for Self Education
Posted by holliwagner in Lotus Notes Domino, Education on January 9, 2009
Did you know that IBM offers resources for Self Education? These tutorials offer you walk thru lab exercises that step you thru creation and understanding of the topic. Links are available to download trial software if you are not currently using the required software for the exercises.
Most of these are targeted to Developers. But my moto is “Administrators must know something about developement and Develepors must know about Administration…” so Admins don’t be afraid to try these out…. there is huge value in explanding your knowledge to understanding how the applications work.
Here is the latest posted lab
XPages, Themes, and Mashups in IBM Lotus Domino Web application development
For more information see the Technical Library for Lotus…. but you should also know that there are tons of tutorials for all of the IBM Software brands…. so interested in Tivoli Monitoring for transaction Performance… it is there!
Happy Learning …Holli
