Category: Lotus Notes Domino

NEW CLASSES ADDED!! Notes/Domino 8.5 Upgrade Class – Beaverton OR Oct 6th and 7th and Seattle WA Oct 14th and 15th

 nd pot sept 09

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.

nd pot sept 09a

 

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.

Open Mic: Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5 – August 27, 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

nd pot sept 09

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.

nd pot sept 09a

 

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!!!

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

Sametime Wiki
Connections Wiki

Thinking Green? what does it mean? how does it apply?

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!

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

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

Get the tools you need to help train your users…. IBM offers a simple Reference cards for some of the iNotes interfaces. You can also get custom reference cards from Nevada Learning Series
  

 

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IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5

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….

  • Download a trial version of Lotus Notes, Domino Designer, and Domino Administrator clients 8
  • Download a trial version of Lotus Domino 8

    • 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.

    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.

    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 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.

    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

    ●        Mail

    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

    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”

     

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