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Admin2006 Vienna - BOF Experts Panel live blogging
by Chris Miller at 05:26:39 AM on Thursday, November 30th, 2006
I had the pleasure of sitting with Andy and Rob of Technotics, Susan Bulloch of IBM for a four person panel BOF to answer whatever questions they had across all areas.  This is what we had to cover (minus a couple):
  • how to deep fry a turkey
  • change users SMTP domain name across 17 acquired companies
  • whitelisting servers
  • Sametime error codes for users dropping connectivity
  • set update flag in local address book
  • multi language notes clients?
  • strip attachments from NDR's?
  • port failover in a clustered server - teaming NIC cards as solution at hardware level
  • migration of domains by moving everyone into the new domain and then recertifying
  • server_transinfo_range  proper setting?
  • Nomad questions on the uninstall/U3 and performance speed issues on USB
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Live Blogging: Ed and Mary Beth talk about Hannover
by Chris Miller at 04:36:28 AM on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Ed started out telling the audience that some screenshots/slides were changed since the product has changed since the time the slides were updated.  Ed covered marketshare and where it stands now.

Mary Beth took the stage and did a quick hand count of versions being ran.  There was 5.0.12 up through 7.0.2 in the room.  However, the overwhelming majority ran 6.5.x.  When I say majority, like 85% of the room.  She also asked who customized their current mail template.  A good half the room raised their hand

One of the objectives was Functional Themes
  • New User experience
  • Composite application support
  • Stronger integration with Portal, Workplace, DB2 and 3rd party

She moved into the new UI right away.  The integrated presentation editor was quite cool, but she headed right over into mail.  Ok, my honest impression, the first view of the inbox/mailfile looks pretty darn close to what it is now except for colors and smoothing.  I saw a few people in the back row just sigh until the following, then things changed with the demo and eyebrows came up.

Saying that (repeating, saying that):
  • First the bookmark bar is gone and replaced with a "open" button.  You can then doc that open list and get the old icons/bookmarks from previous versions.  I think most people for upgrades will choose to dock the bar.
  • The toolbars in the Actions and Tools changed quite a bit.  There is an advanced ability for power/business users that comes disabled by default.  You will have to enable this.  Context sensitive toolbars will only be on by default.  You will need to enable the rest.  Even custom ones will need to be reenabled in the client.
  • The darn thumbnail bar was more than cool and helped find windows faster, even with searching.  I loved that new feature and had not seen it yet.
  • The ability to move the preview from bottom to right was a nice Outlook touch.
  • A new Filter/Clear All Filters button
  • There is a new mail8.ntf mail template.  Message markings are on by default and the sender and subject are brought together.  With this being in a template, you can still make and modify what you wish.
  • Size of messages is still in K but is now rounded numbers
  • The lightening bolt in the bottom left still exists!
  • Mail threading shows in the inbox and shows the thread count to the far left
  • The right side bar includes activities, day at a glance and even the Sametime contacts enabled as plug-ins for you.  With policies you can even control if users get the sidebar or not.  Then even which they get as part of the policy.  There is even a RSS reader you can float and open feeds in browsers (see below)
  • The Sametime contacts includes the full Sametime 7.5 client since the Eclipse base is the same
  • You can then write any of your own Eclipse plug-ins
  • The Notes embedded browser is gone, gone I say, gone!!  You get whatever rendering engine you have as default
  • A lot of the calendar UI looks the same from first glance.  Saying that, action buttons are moved to the left bar so everything you need to do is on the left.
  • The ability to see/manage others calendars is moved to the lower left including group calendars
  • The personal address book has had the UI changed and some of the functionality
  • Inline spell checking

Questions:
  • can I select which address I use when I have multiple addresses listed for personal contacts?  Not in advance, but while composing?
  • Can I prepopulate RSS feeds to users?
  • Is the Workspace gone?  I saw bookmarks...

Ed then took back over the stage
  • All applications will run in Notes 8, repeating, yes all applications will run in Notes 8 he had on the first slide
  • This is one of the first to be Eclipse based product
  • They recognize that it is now a heavier rich client than before (this means eats memory)
  • There seems to be a Sametime Next server in the slide, not sure what that was
  • They are planning a Win32 client that will be a bridging the gap client to go from Notes 7 to Notes 8 giving you some of the new functionality, while not making the jump to the Eclipse platform
  • More usability testing has been done on this release that any previous release
  • Public beta looks like first quarter 2007, while there is the private beta now
  • This is the foundation for Notes for the next 16 years.  They say this meaning Notes has been around for 16 already, not that things won't change and grow for the next 16
  • A strong statement about "openness" using the Eclipse and WCT base
  • Productivity tools will be rolled in for the ODF support.  Integrated menus, lightweight
  • Activity-centric collaboration is back.  I didn't get it a year or more ago when they started down the path and struggle to follow what it means now.  I see it as a conglomeration of documents, chats, emails and such grouped by activity or project.  Glorified TeamRooms that have been properly managed?  It is just me, but for once, ok, more than once, it is an area I have not gotten the term or drive yet

Domino 8 moves back into new server feature mode
  • Tighter integration into Portal
  • Client provisioning for Eclipse
  • Optional message retraction (server-based)  How they snuck that in is funny
  • Instantaneous Out-of-office responses
  • Spamguru
  • Holy cow Batman, it is DB2 once again with general availability
  • tons of other security, directory and admin enhancements (according to slides)
  • Expeditor is the new client and Notes is the plug-in to the client
  • Sametime integration and licensing.....  the Sametime 7.5 client is a plug-in but they are unsure if the IMLU carries forward, but the plan is chat and presence

Future roadmap
  • Allow Notes users to be defined in non-Domino LDAP
  • more admin enhancements
  • Native 64-bit Domino Beta at Domino "Next" GA.  32-bit will continue on
  • Each 64-bit platform will be a new Domino platform?  planning issue

So a good but quiet audience participation session.  Some questions at the end from people and one comment following the recent thread of Ed's blog about fixing what is there first.  Mary Beth's blog has a lot more screen shots from the past two weeks, I suggest you head over.  I linked it above.

P.S. Jason Collier felt it was necessary to help me type as we both paid attention and tried to type and keep up to get you the whole session.  Now go buy a test.
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I popped up in a eWeek article this week..
by Chris Miller at 03:20:10 PM on Monday, November 27th, 2006
I had the link forwarded to me..
"IBM has worked with the Google Maps API so you can highlight everyone on your buddy list and show where they are currently located on the map," said Chris Miller, director of messaging and collaboration at Connectria, a St. Louis-based messaging integrator. Miller has clients who have taken open-source code integrations with their directory servers to show the organizational hierarchy of their IM buddies. "This cuts down the time they have needed to find someone for a particular job," he said.
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Here in Vienna for Admin2006
by Chris Miller at 02:47:09 PM on Monday, November 27th, 2006
For those of you not here for this conference, I will be live blogging as much as possible, as well as providing feedback for the attendees.  While arriving Saturday, Sunday became a recovery and relax day.  Today (Monday) was all sightseeing before the string of 9 or so sessions I have begin.  You can find them all on the site right here.

I will have pictures up shortly as I took more than a bunch today out seeing the City of Vienna.
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SNTT: Working with that hard to setup remote server
by Chris Miller at 06:11:00 AM on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
As we fired up a new customer server remotely over in China, it had terrible bandwidth and connection issues.  It could telnet to the Notes port on the US based Domino server, see the server in DNS and IP, but when Notes popped up it had the worst time trying to connect and would time out too fast. Image:SNTT: Working with that hard to setup remote server

So there is a couple ways to handle this.  As commented before, there is no documentation of what format or data should be included for the setup selection of choosing local media.  We have played around with it to some success, but it should be much cleaner.  So we copied down the names.nsf, admin4.nsf and the notes.ini from a freshly installed and working server.  A quick change of the id file and paths and the server came right up.  You could note the CleanSetup=1 in the notes.ini but I wanted everything built, not just to tell it that the setup.nsf database was placed and removed.

You used to be able to create profiles, pre-configured in the setup.nsf database and place that on numerous servers.  it doesn't like that in the newer code streams.
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A podcast interview of the Taking Notes guys (cross-casting)
by Chris Miller at 11:10:07 AM on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Chris Miller interviews the notorious Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux of Taking Notes in this cross-cast. We cover why Taking Notes took off, some of their better interviews, talks of Lotusphere 2007 and a slew of other items in this 20 minute or so interview.

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Sametime (RTC) Gateway info again..
by Chris Miller at 01:37:30 PM on Monday, November 20th, 2006
I hesitated last time to talk about site.xml and feature updates.  They snuck a fix into the RTC Gateway installer that you need to apply to your clients again to get Yahoo and Google to work correctly.  This is something that will frustrate you if not done in advance.

This is exactly what should have been done for the CF1 patch that came out, but now you have it.  I would either read more on how to configure or build the site.xml, including all formatting or I see there is a session on it at Lotusphere in using your Domino server to push and become a site update server for your Eclipse updates.
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Announcing the Sametime Gateway ( yes they changed the name for RTC Gateway)
by Chris Miller at 10:34:53 AM on Monday, November 20th, 2006
You should start to see the website updated on Lotus and I got the ok to change my slides for Admin2006 and the Real-Time Collaboration and Mobility Seminar.  They wanted to make the name more synonymous and part of the Sametime family.  Makes sense.  I hear rumblings of a fixpack for both Sametime and the gateway coming too.
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So let’s talk RTC Gateway
by Chris Miller at 01:27:58 PM on Friday, November 17th, 2006
I had to gather my thoughts on it with all the pings/emails/podcasting and such.  With much discussion about why they picked WebSphere, will it ever run on Domino, why does it require so much hardware out there, we need to focus on the real issue, installation and deployment.  We can blow that smoke till we are blue (bad choice of colors with IBM involved) in the face.  Currently, there is no talks of any other path for RTC than what you see.  It takes whatever hardware it takes.  Now, I am not saying I agree here either.  This area is not the topic of the debate at the moment.  But more like how do we get this thing running?  So I started compiling a checklist.  Not of the step by step, I worked enough helping build those during the beta and they are documented now.  But more of key items to consider and this you should/shouldn't do.  Off we go on revision 1 below.  It was too big to leave on the main page in entirety.  Just click the Read More that is to follow and you get the info on the following:
  • Installation
  • Security
  • Management


Continue Reading here" So let's talk RTC Gateway" »
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Sametime 7.5 Admin servlet bug found (we think)
by Chris Miller at 12:21:00 AM on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Scenario: While doing demonstrations today I proceeded to log into 2 different Sametime 7.5 admin clients via IE at the simultaneously.  Login was successful on both.  However, while viewing Monitoring-Logins for live user polling, the two windows got reversed info.  Interesting if you manage multiple servers and are trying to watch load.  You might be seeing the wrong numbers if you are accessing multiple servers at one time.  I did this twice and got the same result after closing and reopening new browser sessions entirely. Here are the screenshots

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A podcastlet with Bruce Elgort, Carl Tyler and myself on the RTC Gateway going gold (iTunes and here)
by Chris Miller at 01:30:00 AM on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Listen to Bruce Elgort from the west coast, Carl Tyler from the east and Chris Miller visiting Canada discuss the surprise announcement of the Real-time Collaboration (RTC) Gateway going gold. Learn what hardware, software and networking goes into this before you get started. We also level set some expectations for those of you that are eager to get playing in how you have to go about deploying it.

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Stop the presses, the RTC Gateway is official! I have tons of comments
by Chris Miller at 03:34:31 PM on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Adam talks about it here

developerWorks talk about it right here
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Real-Time Collaboration and Mobility Seminar - Toronto Day 1 end and Day 2
by Chris Miller at 02:54:32 PM on Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
The plug-in session moved along well.  Everyone is still waiting for IBM to give some good samples it seems.  No representative here said they were developing their own.  I think people will get moving whenever the Plug-in Catalog opens and there are trials, freeware and paid choices.  I know there is the iscoord softphone out there and the obligatory IBM samples.

People were very interested about the future of the RTC Gateway and how it will fit into most enterprise deployments once again.  Looking at some of the IBM webpages and info with them proved beneficial for discussions.

Dinner was back at East, a Thai/Chinese/Pan-Asian restaurant I enjoyed last time here.

We spent this morning building the infrastructure with eager eyes to see architectural diagrams, sample deployments and suggestions.  Questions were flowing in this session around mux deployments, clustering and load balancing.  We jumped into configuring and deploying the client and the areas they have to manually control as Lotus policies haven't jumped to that point.  If you weigh what you control as the administrator versus what the user can do, they win at this point.

Since Sametime 7.5 went live with mobile (see my postings last week here and here) the live demo went over well.  The viewer used for the Blackberry is a bit slow, but n-way chat, business cards, status, emoticons and chat history (yes on the device) was well received.  Everyone there was bound for Blackberry and not Windows Mobile at this time.
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Real-Time Collaboration and Mobility Seminar - Toronto Day 1 (opening)
by Chris Miller at 01:25:00 PM on Monday, November 13th, 2006
A little change from Chicago a couple weeks ago.  Sizes of installations go from 35 to ~140,000 users for Sametime.  There is a couple still sprinkled in that are in the planning stages so I hope they get to take a lot away from the seminar.  Versions installed run from 3.1 to 7.5.
After covering the bandwidth and basic server build session again, many were left for lack of better words, stunned.  A few were there to gain some more insight into the whole bandwidth area.  I am beginning to see a trend develop that I bet will continue.  Getting a handle on what they need to support a fully implemented Sametime 7.5 environment including all features and functions.

IBM once again took the stage with a local person from Toronto that did a good job.  We lost Internet for a moment in the first session but recovered and continued on after lunch.  He had local servers which assisted in the outage.

Next up is plug-ins and I am curious to see what ideas this group has for expanding them into their deployments.  I will let you know shortly.
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Sametime 7.5 Mobile oddity we are seeing (gif to prove it)
by Chris Miller at 10:43:26 AM on Thursday, November 9th, 2006
While in the client, I expand my buddylist to see who in the group is online.  Yes this group is from the same list I share with the desktop.  But people show offline when they are there:

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So that is a weird thing to me when I see and can chat with them.
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Sametime 7.5 Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 device issues
by Chris Miller at 03:34:24 PM on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
PROBLEM: Ok we learned a couple things about the Mobile install for Windows Mobile on a XV6700.  The user here was smart and installed it on the memory card instead of the local device.  It installed and dropped the icon but would never launch.  Nothing, no click.

SOLUTION:  We removed it from there and installed to the local device and it came right on.

PROBLEM: Each time he closed a chat or Sametime with the 'x' in the upper right corner it kept dropping him back to the page where you had to specify the hostname and port.

SOLUTION: I found that I only created a profile for the Blackberry users and not the Nokia/Windows users.  I created that profile and it fixed that issue.
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A Sametime review and score in the news
by Chris Miller at 08:51:15 AM on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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I found this review of Sametime out in the wild of the Internet.  Here is the quote I found interesting.  No Domino base under Sametime officially stated somewhere?
Alternatively you may want to wait for the upcoming Linux server release (due out in the first half of 2007) which will be based on open-source middleware and do away with the Domino dependency altogether.


While I know there is talks of this move, mainly with the RTC Gateway running on Websphere, that is a huge leap in Sametime.
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The podcasts are now on Podzinger for keyword searching
by Chris Miller at 01:51:24 AM on Saturday, November 4th, 2006
I talked about this was back in March 22-23 of this year.  Basically they take your podcast feed and through a speech recognition technology, pull the transcript of your podcast and make it available for searching.  You can search all the podcasts they have listed for a keyword and automatically have those downloaded for you at any time, or search all episodes of a particular podcast for keywords.

Now the cool part... you can jump right to that exact spot in the podcast by clicking on the words.

I learned two things:
  1. I have to speak a little clearer to get the recognition of more words
  2. Technology is not the best thing.  Items like site.xml's built turn into mills built

So take a run on over and let your fingers do the searching for your ears.
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When Lotus business partners step up to the plate
by Chris Miller at 02:56:01 PM on Friday, November 3rd, 2006
This is when working as a team helps the customer.  We have had an issue the past week with a customer's hosted environment and bizarre amounts of increased spam getting past the filters.  Well we found a couple issues, like a company group being exposed to the Internet for mail routing that a spammer found.  But other deal with the new variations in how spammers are creating emails.  So working with the other partner, we were able to grab some additional rules and formulas they had created and implement those immediately.

Some of you are saying, hey that is what they do for a business.  But I am looking at it as they jumped onto a screen sharing meeting to make sure everything was fine (which it not been modified in months so we knew this was abnormal) and implemented some new features and things that are coming soon in a future release at the spur of the moment to keep their and our customer happy and functioning.

That is when you like telling people that you have multiple customers using their product with good success.  Bravo to the team at Granite Software today.
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Lotus Expeditor announcements in the press
by Chris Miller at 12:01:00 AM on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Today made the official announcement of the move by IBM to take some of the .NET market with an open source alternative.
From Marketwire:
"An open alternative to Microsoft® .NET client software, Lotus Expeditor provides the flexibility that comes from service oriented architecture (SOA) and open standards-based software, giving all users a universal client experience and allowing WebSphere Portal, Lotus Forms and Lotus Sametime users to extend their current applications world beyond the desktop," said Ken Bisconti, vice president Lotus Software, IBM.

From Zdnet comes a little piece I liked on offline Sametime models:
Lotus Mobile Connect is software that gives people secure mobile access to Expeditor-based applications. It is designed to let people resume work they were doing with applications while offline, once they reconnect to a network. People who use IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging, for example, can pick up where they left off without having to log back in.

It is set to be released this year according to the press releases, with no pricing announcement yet.  Pricing for something based on open source.  However taking away other market shares is always a bonus:
While companies that run Microsoft's database and client software will likely remain "Microsoft shops," Lotus Expeditor product manager Angus McIntyre said others may want to adopt IBM's software. He said it lets developers migrate from Visual Basic programming to Java, as well as tie into the upcoming Lotus Mobile Connect software.
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More Sametime 7.5 Mobile on Blackberry
by Chris Miller at 03:56:45 PM on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
  • I received a comment yesterday asking about the 7100 and SureType.  Well an answer was presented in the Sametime Forum that says SureType is possible with a quick manual user intervention.  You need to go into Preferences on the mobile device for Display and select Full Screen Input.  But then enter doesn't just send the text, you have to click the wheel.  I didn't like that much.  Luckily mine is the 8703 so I don't have that issue.
  • Setting text size bigger than small made it easier to read but took up a lot of real estate which meant scrolling.  So the default small font worked for me. Emoticons looked the same.
  • Chat history on the mobile device is great.  When you jump into a chat it pulls the previous bit of history.  That is very cool
  • The icon for the 7200 series is just a big blue square.  However, on the 8703 it shows as the familiar Sametime icon, even if it was a bit larger than the other desktop icons.
  • Port 80 access for tunneling seems to work as Gerco reported, we went for the default 8082 to test.
  • The ability to flip between multiple open chats and the buddylist is nice.
  • N-Way chats are very cool and interesting.
  • Get ready for the standard blue and black text
  • Get used to the option in the click menu.  I thought would back me out until I realized it did close Sametime instead of the window I thought I was in.   is at the bottom of the scroll list instead of towards the top
  • I didn't test Quick Find yet, will do when more are online with the new client
  • Alert Me should be fun to play with.  I wonder if it carries over into the client too, or just the mobile device.
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Hershey’s Stomach of Holding: Jess and I are fighting over who eats more chocolate.

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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.

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