by Chris Miller at 12:10:57 PM on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
So the test server went to CF1 as Carl and I pointed out yesterday. So today I went through the download and install of Sametime 7.5 mobile. The server side was fairly painless. Went quick, found the Domino install and had only 3 clicks.
Now then, the rest is where I sat silly for a moment but then it all made sense. You must manually add Fallback MIME types to the httpd.cnf file in order for it to see the .jad file that is needed for the RIM installs. I was hitting the server with the browser before I realized this was a step to perform. A quick restart of HTTP and you are off.
They also suggest you create an easy to remember web redirect for users. I will do that later after testing. The code then did an OTA install fast and I launched the client direct from there to the server. It uses port 8082 so make sure firewalls are ready for that. I tried hitting another Sametime 7.5 server without CF1 on it and the connection failed every time no matter what port or connection type I selected. So the fixpack install is required for this to work right.
One other thing, you should go into the new Configuration-Sametime Mobile and set a couple default fields to make it easier for your user once they load the client. Sort of like creating a pre-populated sametime.ini for the device.
So the device list for now looks like this:
Now then, the rest is where I sat silly for a moment but then it all made sense. You must manually add Fallback MIME types to the httpd.cnf file in order for it to see the .jad file that is needed for the RIM installs. I was hitting the server with the browser before I realized this was a step to perform. A quick restart of HTTP and you are off.
They also suggest you create an easy to remember web redirect for users. I will do that later after testing. The code then did an OTA install fast and I launched the client direct from there to the server. It uses port 8082 so make sure firewalls are ready for that. I tried hitting another Sametime 7.5 server without CF1 on it and the connection failed every time no matter what port or connection type I selected. So the fixpack install is required for this to work right.
One other thing, you should go into the new Configuration-Sametime Mobile and set a couple default fields to make it easier for your user once they load the client. Sort of like creating a pre-populated sametime.ini for the device.
So the device list for now looks like this:
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 5 and 2003 SE
- Nokia Eseries
- RIM Blackberry 7100/8700 Series
by Chris Miller at 10:31:00 AM on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Lotus introduced Sametime 7.5 CF1 and Carl Tyler and I had the chance to download, read and play with the fresh fix set. We got on Skype to talk about some of the humor, tips and tricks wrapped around the fix in this podcastlet of just under 19 minutes of talk.
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by Chris Miller at 03:31:07 PM on Monday, October 30th, 2006
Carl went crazy with a string of posts today on Sametime 7.5 CF1. There was one minor discussion about utilizing the Eclipse framework to push out this change. Brett van Gelder points out before I could even get to typing that Lotus did not package the update this way. I imagine most of you do not have a site.xml in place for beginners to handle the updating.
From there the clients are not set to properly retrieve incremental releases from a central site. Forgiving all of the config areas on our part, the package that came from Lotus also uses forces an alternate directory for installation (Carl makes a good point in the comments on why they may have made this change) and was not wrapped with the proper feature and manifest files to move into the site.xml for automatic distribution. However, this screws with plug-ins it seems. We have found no documentation around this in the readme yet.
I thought that was one of the points, but I am not sure when we can expect this to be available. I would love to grab a fix from Lotus, update the site.xml section appropriately and let it fly so everyone gets the prompt that the updates are installed and do you wish to restart the Sametime Connect client now, or in 5 minutes as the documentation around it showed as an example.
From there the clients are not set to properly retrieve incremental releases from a central site. Forgiving all of the config areas on our part, the package that came from Lotus also uses forces an alternate directory for installation (Carl makes a good point in the comments on why they may have made this change) and was not wrapped with the proper feature and manifest files to move into the site.xml for automatic distribution. However, this screws with plug-ins it seems. We have found no documentation around this in the readme yet.
I thought that was one of the points, but I am not sure when we can expect this to be available. I would love to grab a fix from Lotus, update the site.xml section appropriately and let it fly so everyone gets the prompt that the updates are installed and do you wish to restart the Sametime Connect client now, or in 5 minutes as the documentation around it showed as an example.
by Chris Miller at 10:31:00 AM on Friday, October 27th, 2006
I was asked about this more than once this week at the seminar. Luckily Lotus had put together a technote on it but I had never ran across it I could recall. So for my records in the future and your reading, here is the technote on it.
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Meeting and community servers each have their own startup mechanisms, however, both are Windows NT service-based on Win32. The following is organized by the overall startup, and then the individual startup sequences of the two components.
Sametime startup/shutdown:
The Domino server task nSTAddin is responsible for starting and stopping the Windows NT service "Sametime Server" (STLaunch.exe). This task waits until a configuration item called SametimeBootstrapInitialized equals 1 in the notes.ini file. This configuration item is set to 1 by the servlet DominoBootstrapServlet. On normal shutdown, the bootstrap servlet will reset the value to 0. On forced shutdown, the next startup will probably already have the value 1 and the nSTAddin task will not wait. This is not catastrophic as long as you have not made custom port modifications to the EventServerPort, which is typically 9092.
STLaunch will start the Windows service Sametime Meeting Server (stmsservice.exe). Upon launching, this will wait for two minutes. The assumption being that the CPU and disk will be taxed while starting up the subtasks, so it waits a bit before proceeding.
STLaunch will next start the service ST Community Launch (STCommLaunch.exe). STLaunch does not monitor the stmsservice or STCommLaunch.
After Sametime has started, the nSTAddin task reports "Sametime Running" even if the services are shut down manually or abnormally (this is a known issue). The command "tell staddin quit" will cause the STLaunch service to shutdown. STLaunch will tell the Windows service for meeting and community to shutdown.
Continue Reading here" Startup Sequence of Sametime Services" »
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Meeting and community servers each have their own startup mechanisms, however, both are Windows NT service-based on Win32. The following is organized by the overall startup, and then the individual startup sequences of the two components.
Sametime startup/shutdown:
The Domino server task nSTAddin is responsible for starting and stopping the Windows NT service "Sametime Server" (STLaunch.exe). This task waits until a configuration item called SametimeBootstrapInitialized equals 1 in the notes.ini file. This configuration item is set to 1 by the servlet DominoBootstrapServlet. On normal shutdown, the bootstrap servlet will reset the value to 0. On forced shutdown, the next startup will probably already have the value 1 and the nSTAddin task will not wait. This is not catastrophic as long as you have not made custom port modifications to the EventServerPort, which is typically 9092.
STLaunch will start the Windows service Sametime Meeting Server (stmsservice.exe). Upon launching, this will wait for two minutes. The assumption being that the CPU and disk will be taxed while starting up the subtasks, so it waits a bit before proceeding.
STLaunch will next start the service ST Community Launch (STCommLaunch.exe). STLaunch does not monitor the stmsservice or STCommLaunch.
After Sametime has started, the nSTAddin task reports "Sametime Running" even if the services are shut down manually or abnormally (this is a known issue). The command "tell staddin quit" will cause the STLaunch service to shutdown. STLaunch will tell the Windows service for meeting and community to shutdown.
Continue Reading here" Startup Sequence of Sametime Services" »
by Chris Miller at 05:45:00 PM on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Today's goal was to build the environment, apply proper administration best practices (including monitoring), configure the Sametime 7.5 client (including policies and updates) and then a segway into mobile device support for Sametime. Including some first time shown screenshots of Sametime 7.5 natively on the Blackberry. Business card support looked nice. The black and blue font was there for the chat, but it says emoticon support will be there in addition.
Questions today revolved around firewalls, upgrades, client options and configurations and a slew of other items that applied to particular setups. It was good to see the whole Sametime plan come together in some of their eyes in how we started from the groundfloor and moved into architecture and deployment of the clients.
Overall, the group was eager to deploy 7.5 and we discussed and addressed some internal roadblocks. I mentioned custom IM policies and, as expected, most did not have that yet. Internet use and email policies, yes.
I started the discussion on mobile devices with Sametime 7.5 before handing off the final session to Paul Steel of RIM. He took everyone through the initial architecture and level setting. They were prepared with questions and hit him right away. Can't wait to see what the whole day tomorrow dedicated to Blackberry brings then.
Questions today revolved around firewalls, upgrades, client options and configurations and a slew of other items that applied to particular setups. It was good to see the whole Sametime plan come together in some of their eyes in how we started from the groundfloor and moved into architecture and deployment of the clients.
Overall, the group was eager to deploy 7.5 and we discussed and addressed some internal roadblocks. I mentioned custom IM policies and, as expected, most did not have that yet. Internet use and email policies, yes.
I started the discussion on mobile devices with Sametime 7.5 before handing off the final session to Paul Steel of RIM. He took everyone through the initial architecture and level setting. They were prepared with questions and hit him right away. Can't wait to see what the whole day tomorrow dedicated to Blackberry brings then.
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by Chris Miller at 08:56:15 PM on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
After presenting the session on the RTC Gateway, the response was stunned looks. Enterprises represented still have concerns over the business case that would have them opening and connecting to public providers. Security is always a concern and that issue was raised as there is no known (to me) message handler writers currently for SPIM and anti-viruses that are ready for the gateway. The ability to have your corporate name shown to other enterprises through the clearinghouse and to the public side opens need for an IM Policy to be written to cover what should be transferred and how you represent yourself. You can restrict who can access which channel (provider) but the actions of that person now directly reflect your organization. No more hiding behind screen names.
I have more to say on this topic but I am thinking of a series or podcast. Any takers on comments/interview of your thoughts in a podcast?
Dinner the first night was Wildfire, a pretty good local chain. Apparently they are expanding to other cities like Atlanta shortly. Besides the snowshowers that hit tonight, dinner was split among people trying to go to different places. We ended up at Momotaro, a Japanese restaurant for some sushi.
I have more to say on this topic but I am thinking of a series or podcast. Any takers on comments/interview of your thoughts in a podcast?
Dinner the first night was Wildfire, a pretty good local chain. Apparently they are expanding to other cities like Atlanta shortly. Besides the snowshowers that hit tonight, dinner was split among people trying to go to different places. We ended up at Momotaro, a Japanese restaurant for some sushi.
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by Chris Miller at 11:54:52 AM on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Now the humorous part is that the total hotel lost power this morning at around 7:15am. So that meant walking down the stirs from upper floors, power generators in the meeting room for the projector and laptops and candles on all the tables for some light. (it was quite cloudy and dreary outside) About halfway through the first session it all came back on.
I have had the link to the Real-Time Collaboration and Mobility Seminar on the side of my blog for some time. An excellent turnout for the first city with over 120,000 Sametime users represented with versions ranging from 3.0 to 7.5. Many did not have Sametime installed anywhere at this point.
After covering the bandwidth and basic server build session, many were left for lack of better words, stunned. You can consume unbelievable amounts of bandwidth with audio/video in place and configured for higher quality.
IBM took the stage to do two sessions (one in progress) on Web Conferencing and one on IM. They were built around the high end of show and tell, not just marketing, but not highly technical.
After lunch we jumped into plug-ins in the Sametime client. From building to deploying and where they get updated from. Peeked at a couple samples and showed some security concerns around them
Last session of the day was opening your environment to the public networks with the RTC Gateway. More on that shortly.
I have had the link to the Real-Time Collaboration and Mobility Seminar on the side of my blog for some time. An excellent turnout for the first city with over 120,000 Sametime users represented with versions ranging from 3.0 to 7.5. Many did not have Sametime installed anywhere at this point.
After covering the bandwidth and basic server build session, many were left for lack of better words, stunned. You can consume unbelievable amounts of bandwidth with audio/video in place and configured for higher quality.
IBM took the stage to do two sessions (one in progress) on Web Conferencing and one on IM. They were built around the high end of show and tell, not just marketing, but not highly technical.
After lunch we jumped into plug-ins in the Sametime client. From building to deploying and where they get updated from. Peeked at a couple samples and showed some security concerns around them
Last session of the day was opening your environment to the public networks with the RTC Gateway. More on that shortly.
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by Chris Miller at 03:43:26 PM on Friday, October 20th, 2006
It looks like the last day of software maintenance (without extensions bought) will be April 30 2007 for versions
This mean no phone support, electronic support and software program fixes. Spooky isn't it?
LEI is in there too for certain versions. You can find the announcement here
- 6.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 6.0.3
- 6.0.4
- 6.0.5
This mean no phone support, electronic support and software program fixes. Spooky isn't it?
LEI is in there too for certain versions. You can find the announcement here
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by Chris Miller at 09:42:12 AM on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
Ed showed off how IBM posted a "Blogs Go to Work" section right from the homepage. This in turn linked back to the IBM Blogging Guidelines. While it refers to when IBM started the wiki internally (around 2005) to discuss the guidelines, it doesn't say when the guidelines were officially established. But my point is some of the areas they cover have moved from random employees having a website, into main managers and executives that are even asked to document parts of their job and daily lives. I appreciated one section right away:
They are referring to a legal disclaimer that should be placed at your posting (or site) to let readers know that your opinions are not IBM's and are your own. I know I don't have one on mine. I think this gets into an interesting point about management of user activity outside of work. While using your employe's hardware to serve up a blog, in the logical sense, shows you are representing the company. Using outside hosting shows you are your own person, to an extent. IBM captures this by giving guidelines that state you should not negatively discuss or promote confidential information customers, the employer or co-workers directly in your postings.
I try to follow that theory in my blog postings. But what I am thinking and asking you, is how many enterprises have a blogging policy? There was Internet use policies, email use policies and some are now getting smart and introducing IM usage policies. So now we move into blogging and podcasting policies. How many of you are prepared to write guidelines around these new areas of technology?
UPDATE: Humorously as soon as I posted this I found this article like 5 minutes later on how lawsuits not only ask for emails anymore, but all forms of corporate and employee data, including blogs and even PDA's.
"Managers and executives take note: This standard disclaimer does not by itself exempt IBM managers and executives from a special responsibility when blogging. By virtue of their position, they must consider whether personal thoughts they publish may be misunderstood as expressing IBM positions. And a manager should assume that his or her team will read what is written. A blog is not the place to communicate IBM policies to IBM employees"
They are referring to a legal disclaimer that should be placed at your posting (or site) to let readers know that your opinions are not IBM's and are your own. I know I don't have one on mine. I think this gets into an interesting point about management of user activity outside of work. While using your employe's hardware to serve up a blog, in the logical sense, shows you are representing the company. Using outside hosting shows you are your own person, to an extent. IBM captures this by giving guidelines that state you should not negatively discuss or promote confidential information customers, the employer or co-workers directly in your postings.
I try to follow that theory in my blog postings. But what I am thinking and asking you, is how many enterprises have a blogging policy? There was Internet use policies, email use policies and some are now getting smart and introducing IM usage policies. So now we move into blogging and podcasting policies. How many of you are prepared to write guidelines around these new areas of technology?
UPDATE: Humorously as soon as I posted this I found this article like 5 minutes later on how lawsuits not only ask for emails anymore, but all forms of corporate and employee data, including blogs and even PDA's.
by Chris Miller at 02:57:48 PM on Monday, October 16th, 2006
Update: Image 2 won and is in place...
Many thanks to Eric for the image choice for my iTunes podcast feed. While he doesn't have his personal website up, you can reach him over here for some design expertise (yes it will cost). So let us vote on image 1 or 2. I like image 2 better since it has a slant to it.
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by Chris Miller at 12:40:08 PM on Thursday, October 12th, 2006
For those of you that are currently running a SIP gateway and want to prepare to move to the RTC, a technote gives the first indication of what is to come.
So you will need another piece of hardware to replace the current Sametime SIP gateway, or just reuse the one you have with an outage. Keep in mind the outage could be a couple days as you provision with AOL to get connected directly. DNS and domain management will be a key to you deploying the RTC Gateway successfully.
The Real-Time Collaboration Gateway is an extensible platform built on WebSphere® Application Server, and allows various real-time collaboration communities such as IBM Lotus Sametime and public instant messaging (IM) services to share presence and exchange text-based instant messages with each other. The Real-Time Collaboration Gateway receives messages from one or more communities, checks their legitimacy, translates them if necessary, and forwards them to their destination.
So you will need another piece of hardware to replace the current Sametime SIP gateway, or just reuse the one you have with an outage. Keep in mind the outage could be a couple days as you provision with AOL to get connected directly. DNS and domain management will be a key to you deploying the RTC Gateway successfully.
by Chris Miller at 08:41:23 AM on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
This month's LotusUserGroup newsletter addresses Sametime policies in 7.5 in an interview with Carl Tyler and Paul Mooney. We mention Magnatunes, a quick debug for LDAP and where to place those user full-text indexes.
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by Chris Miller at 08:00:00 PM on Friday, October 6th, 2006
Read the link here, a Friday afternoon game for Lotus Notes
by Chris Miller at 12:46:39 PM on Friday, October 6th, 2006
I can't say how important this information is when running a blog for a long period of time. The blog database can get huge with all this information in it. Long ago I swapped out my stats to make local replication and size easier.
All the blogs I host on DominoBlog I have pushed toward this configuration when they first went live or we found out this trick from Steve. I would say almost 3 years ago.
I see they did blue-wash the template and trim it down (I still use a whole database from the DominoBlog 3.0.2 template for my stats database). From there you can create your own reports or just use the views that were provided. Apparently there is a document refresh that needs to take place when converting over, which for me will take quite some time. I am thinking about just archiving out the old one and using the new stat database. Makes more sense in a way.
All the blogs I host on DominoBlog I have pushed toward this configuration when they first went live or we found out this trick from Steve. I would say almost 3 years ago.
I see they did blue-wash the template and trim it down (I still use a whole database from the DominoBlog 3.0.2 template for my stats database). From there you can create your own reports or just use the views that were provided. Apparently there is a document refresh that needs to take place when converting over, which for me will take quite some time. I am thinking about just archiving out the old one and using the new stat database. Makes more sense in a way.
by Chris Miller at 10:02:00 AM on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
There has been talk out there of how to do Nomad for installations and some tips on using Admin. I took this a bit further a few months ago when playing with Nomad over the versions/fixes. Admin.exe was an easy part to rectify, after you remembered you needed some ntf files (events4, domadmin) to make it happy. But let's add in more of the fun tools and you get a real client you can take around:
Remote Server Setup
Java Console
Server.Load
Notes Peek
Notes Ping
Designer
Now I cannot go and give away all the little secrets, but you get a great headstart here.
Do not try and install Nomad straight from the downloadable code, you must unpack it first. I am hearing rumblings of those trying to install with the flags right from the exe file, which does nothing but install onto your local machine. I quite image that Susan Bulloch will have many more comments on that thought.
Remote Server Setup
Java Console
Server.Load
Notes Peek
Notes Ping
Designer
Now I cannot go and give away all the little secrets, but you get a great headstart here.
Do not try and install Nomad straight from the downloadable code, you must unpack it first. I am hearing rumblings of those trying to install with the flags right from the exe file, which does nothing but install onto your local machine. I quite image that Susan Bulloch will have many more comments on that thought.
by Chris Miller at 11:12:23 AM on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
If you are still having issues or getting an error on iTunes, then delete and add the subscription again. It comes down just fine now!
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by Chris Miller at 10:27:01 AM on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
While those of us in Firefox land apparently have to wait (it is under development), IBM now has the Support Toolbar for the brands to integrate into your browser. Amazingly, Firefox extensions come out in the world like running water, so hopefully you don't have to wait long.
It might have come out a while ago, but I just ran across it. You can even look down into specific brands, like Lotus to search only those site areas. That is the key thing.
It might have come out a while ago, but I just ran across it. You can even look down into specific brands, like Lotus to search only those site areas. That is the key thing.
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by Chris Miller at 07:40:24 PM on Monday, October 2nd, 2006
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by Chris Miller at 11:34:57 AM on Monday, October 2nd, 2006
I finally got my RSS woes worked out thanks to some help form the boys at Taking Notes podcast. Yes that means Bruce. It seems we use the same template but I had some category info and other tweaks to make to get it just right to meet their standards.
You will find the link on the left to subscribe, so off we go full run at it..
You will find the link on the left to subscribe, so off we go full run at it..
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One dog, a Puggle. He eats anything that includes stuffing. Anything
Music:
Non-stop. At my desk, in my car, walking to work and back to my car downtown. In the house there is a crazy zoned set-up for you home automation geeks.
I am a self-proclaimed MP3 fiend, to which I have tried rehab 4 billion times to no avail. Next is the MP3 hard-drive for the car that I found. Now what kind of music you ask? I will never tell.
Languages:
- Incredibly fast English
- Very slow Spanish
- Emoticon-ese
- Learning Korean
- HTML
- Advanced Sarcasm
Geek class special abilities:
- Notes/Domino overdrive
- Workplace
- Sametime
- Active Directory (huh? kidding)
- Quickplace
- LMS, LVC and the other L's of elearning
- Windoze junk
- MS Exchange versions
- LAN
- TCPIP
- Server Iron
- Yeah, yeah it goes on some
Skills:
Get back to you here
Spells:
Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.
Character Bio:
This will take far more time than I have today. I will start with I was born and still live in St. Louis, MO. Even though for a couple years I was never, ever here and always on the road, this is smack in the middle of the US. Everything is just a few hour flight. That part is nice. No beach/ocean/coast isn't the best. But with the travel I make up for it.
Looking to find me in person? Here is where I am and will be.
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