IdoNotes (and sleep) Lotus software administration, industry reviews and podcasts covering Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime, Quickr/Quickplace, Connections and tons more http://www.IdoNotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/ en-us Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:42 -0500 FREE Webcast - Understanding LDAP in Domino Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:06:42 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm Announcement Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm
The next date is set for the ConsultantInYourPocket webcasts!  Series 1 launched with a hour of Troubleshooting SMTP in Domino occurring on March 24.  Below is the second event.

You can now register immediately for Understanding LDAP in Domino for March 31 2010. Registration is open and here is what to expect:
Many enterprises overlook Domino as the key LDAP directory source.  Lotus Domino is a scalable LDAP directory source supporting clustering, aggregated and federated directory services.  Explore network and topology design tips that help to guide your decisions in architecture, management, and security. Take away  best practices on building an aggregated directory infrastructure with Directory Assistance or as a federated source. Walk away with an understanding of how to service all of the Lotus collaboration software securely and easily.


Make sure you get on over and register right away before the rest of the series 1 and new Series 2 opens up.  If you want pre-registration news, join the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right of the blog! ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast---understanding-ldap-in-domino.htm?opendocument&comments Do you use Blackberry Messenger? Big updates are coming according to RIM Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:13:45 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm Blackberry Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm RIM announced that as long as you are at versions 5.0.0.57 then you will see some exciting new changes coming in the next few days and weeks.

Insider sources say that time travel, the ability to make popcorn in your device and to cook bacon are imminent.  Yeah, I really have no clue but I am anxious to see what more features they include.

The next issue of the IdoNotes newsletter is coming up, don't forget to subscribe in the upper right.  If you are a new subscriber, the previous newsletter will show as a link in the sign up area. ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/do-you-use-blackberry-messenger--big-updates-are-coming-according-to-rim.htm?opendocument&comments March 2010 Sys Admin Tips is out Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:21:16 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm Technical Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm March 2010 issue I talk about filtering yourself (or not) and the following:

IN THIS ISSUE #56
* From the Editor: Chris' 0.0133167 FKP
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Move Sametime Server to Existing Domino Server
* Quick Tip: How Does a Consistent ACL Affect Local Replicas?
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: What is LotusLive iNotes Versus iNotes?

Don't forget to visit CertFX from the banner above and use the coupon code "IdoNotes" to get up to 25% OFF YOUR EXAMS ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/march-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm.htm?opendocument&comments FREE webcast: Troubleshooting SMTP in Domino Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:07:01 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/trackback?open&id=free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm Announcement Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm Registration is open and is filling fast already.
How often do you get stuck trying to find the best way to uncover ways to troubleshoot SMTP mail in your Lotus Domino Environment?  Dive into real-world examples and optimal settings for internal, external, and multi-domain SMTP configurations, anti-relay settings, extended SMTP settings, and more.  Explore the numerous notes.ini variables and see which ones to utilize for your current SMTP issues. Then explore effective solutions for many errors, such as refusal/error by receiving server, route not found, and RFC error codes.

Make sure you get on over and register right away before the rest of the series 1 and new Series 2 opens up.  If you want pre-registration news, join the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right of the blog! ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/free-webcast-troubleshooting-smtp-in-domino.htm?opendocument&comments Announcement: the spring 2010 webcast and training series Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/announcement-the-spring-2010-webcast-series.htm Announcement Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/announcement-the-spring-2010-webcast-series.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/announcement-the-spring-2010-webcast-series.htm happy to announce the launch of a massive spring 2010 webcast series covering all the topics you need to get up to date and in depth technical training, without ever leaving your desk!  Some of the webcasts will be free and others will be through a very minimal subscription and "a la carte" service.  Read the launch news now and get ready to block your calendars for this training event.

Look for speakers such as Gabriella Davis, Carl Tyler, Victor Toal, myself and even more.

This is an extension of the Consultant In Your Pocket book series. ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/announcement-the-spring-2010-webcast-series.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/announcement-the-spring-2010-webcast-series.htm?opendocument&comments "PassItAlong - share your expertise" product from IBM webcast thoughts and commentary Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:09:28 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Pass-It-Along-from-IBM-webcast-thoughts-and-commentary.htm Lotus Connections Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Pass-It-Along-from-IBM-webcast-thoughts-and-commentary.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Pass-It-Along-from-IBM-webcast-thoughts-and-commentary.htm Feb 2009 I mentioned the Pass It Along site that was in Alpahworks that I had tested and played around it.  Well today IBM had a webcast on Pass It Along meaning it has made it from Alphaworks to an actual possible product.

Pass It Along is about peer to peer training and knowledge sharing.  It is not document management, but more of a mechanism to build connections of people around the content.  Experts are expected to self promote and being the knowledge transfer process.  The whole project is deployed inside IBM on the W3.
  • Topics are learning paths.  Short and to the point
  • Content is the actual wiki, file attachment or web resource
  • Knowledge paths let's you organize topics where they can be grouped for broader learning
  • Teams are the people with interest or expertise in the topic in question

Image:"PassItAlong - share your expertise" product from IBM webcast thoughts and commentary

Now here the overlap and separation begins from the other social software Lotus has in place.  There is linking, a more formal community that Lotus Connections offers, Q&A possibilities and the built paths.  The lacking parts is true profiles (that already exist in Connections), a true Activities area and loose document management.  You can invite others to participate in the topic via email with no directory integration.  You must comma delimit addresses to send invites.

Lessons learned on a subject are built in with the ability to describe the issue and the answers.  I can see the system being an advanced Q&A and even a helpdesk resource that builds over time.  Past that, having this as a stand-alone product would leave a large gap in content location, directory integration and activity management.  They mentioned hooking this to content in Learning Management Systems (LMS) yet the SSO and directory integration work still isn't there.

Case studies were given for companies using it to roll out education and training which would mean a large effort to get the Knowledge Path, Topics and content built into the system with heavy participation from Experts and Contributors for the learners. ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/Pass-It-Along-from-IBM-webcast-thoughts-and-commentary.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/Pass-It-Along-from-IBM-webcast-thoughts-and-commentary.htm?opendocument&comments February 2010 Sys Admin Tips is out Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:20:00 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/february-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm Technical Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/february-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/february-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm February 2010 issue I talk about the start of Lotusphere 2010 and the following:

IN THIS ISSUE #55
* From the Editor: Chris' 0.0518 XCD
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: ICM and iNotes Return
* Directory Independence has Been Pulled From Domino Plans
* Quick Tip: Multiple Attachments In iNotes Showing Incorrectly
* From the IdoNotes Mailbox: Which Domino Blog Template Should I Use?

Don't forget to visit CertFX from the banner above and use the coupon code "IdoNotes" to get up to 25% OFF YOUR EXAMS ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/february-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/february-2010-sys-admin-tips.htm?opendocument&comments Why not just blog it all? Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:58:49 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/why-not-just-blog-it-all.htm Rant Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/why-not-just-blog-it-all.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/why-not-just-blog-it-all.htm Twitter from Mitch Cohen on some of the blog changes at IdoNotes that I began mading last week.  Let me run through them here and hopefully give a better feel for my thoughts in more than 140 characters

Chris, so this blog is now nothing more than an advertisement for your e-mail only subscription newsletter?

Not at all.  I have only mentioned the newsletter twice since announcing the change, giving an idea of what content will start showing up in the newsletter material.  There will be plenty for the blog itself, outside of the podcasts.  Also, the newsletter is free.  So there is no "ads" in that manner.

If someone finds todays post in a month and they are not already subscribed, how do they access the content?

Subscribers will have access to all the archive content.  More on that is coming.  But access will be there.

so if it is all free.. why not just blog it?

There is the million dollar question.  I have been running in this mode for over 7 years and found that I never know who is reading some of the content or what topics they want to see more of.  The newsletter also allows me to expand in editorial without some of the searches and others intermingling the technical documents with the pure editorial.  Also, I can target many of the exclusives that I get right to the readers that want to see it the most and make sure you can take part,.  Instead of blasting it to thousands and then first come first serve.  I have found this to be an issue in the past and I like the idea of the most faithful readers getting the most benefit from the content.

This isn't just an experiment, but an evolving change of many things that are taking place right now across my sharing, reach and futures. ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/why-not-just-blog-it-all.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/why-not-just-blog-it-all.htm?opendocument&comments Sametime Mobile 8.5 on Blackberry review Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:36:09 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/sametime-mobile-8.5-on-blackberry-review.htm Sametime Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/sametime-mobile-8.5-on-blackberry-review.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/sametime-mobile-8.5-on-blackberry-review.htm
To read the story of the testing, results and the BES push planning, join the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right of the blog. ]]> http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/sametime-mobile-8.5-on-blackberry-review.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/sametime-mobile-8.5-on-blackberry-review.htm?opendocument&comments Choosing a Domino based wiki template Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:25:33 -0500 http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/choosing-a-domino-based-wiki-template.htm Domino 8 Chris Miller http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/choosing-a-domino-based-wiki-template.htm?opendocument&comments http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/choosing-a-domino-based-wiki-template.htm
  • DominoWiki
  • xspwiki (also on Domino)
  • MediaWiki
  • SocialText
  • Wikidot


    • As I type of the rest of this, I will be publishing it in the next newsletter.  Subscribe to the IdoNotes newsletter in the upper right corner of the blog to see what we chose and why. ]]>     http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dxcomments/choosing-a-domino-based-wiki-template.htm http://idonotes.com/IdoNotes/idonotes.nsf/dx/choosing-a-domino-based-wiki-template.htm?opendocument&comments