by Chris Miller at 06:56:04 PM on Friday, March 31st, 2006
| First things first, I knew parking was tough downtown in Copenhagen, but they proved it today with this picture I grabbed. On to the overview. A very prompt group, a large group and an inquisitive group. The questions were direct and the information was absorbed well, even with my fast talking sometimes. One thing I always find interesting in doing the European shows is the uniqueness of everyone's environment. Very specific issues with very specific needs to be addressed. The attendees are excellent at drawing and explaining the issue. Even showing NSD files they brought along. So we have some take-a-way questions that need to be answered and I will be hitting the email or blogging them shortly. |
Only 2 people with R5 around, no 4.6 at all. Very few Domino 7 servers had been installed, that was the whole point of being there. I am not sure what to think when there is not too many test servers in 7 already, or when no one has made testing plans yet. Mainly in the smaller organizations. I think it is important to get a head start on new releases to see if there is even any immediate needs or benefits to upgrading. We try to give as many scenarios as possible.
License confusion around Sametime IMLU still existed but I tried to explain that plus the changes to DWA in 7 that exposes the users to Java Connect instead of the integrated chat client in the template.
Quite a few people were using LEI, a surprise from the other sites we have done this seminar entirely.
DDM was a huge topic that garnered lots of comments that wished that topic to be even longer. I am glad to see that as I think it will be an integral part of many environments in the near future. Will some future enhancements by IBM, plus some folding of functionality from Intelliwatch possibly, it could make a decently mean monitoring tool for Domino. I think saying more on my personal thoughts on DDM can wait.
Dinner tonight was a scary Chinese food place, that turned out to be nice but not the best selection as I would hope. No reason to mention names then. After that, some relaxation with the View staff and I am calling it quits.
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by Chris Miller at 04:06:02 PM on Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Thanks to long travels, no real delays that were significant and no bad weather, I still managed to arrive almost dead tired. This is a large and full of questions group, as I saw firsthand today while Andy finished presenting. I will have insight as always on versioning and other tidbits tomorrow.
Dinner was at WokShop tonight. Food was awesome and the service was cool. This was not on the beaten path and gets so much crowd that if you have small groups, you end up sitting with others in many instances. As Andy and I did tonight, a table for 5 with us and 3 strangers that was seated after we were. I still like they way the restaurants in Europe carry digital wireless ordering and payment methods. Far beyond what we do in the US.
But for today, here is the link to the start of the slideshow for this trip. Plus a picture embedded right here of apparently bashful mannequins they have in Copenhagen. Nude is ok but not while showing your face. Judge for yourself.
Dinner was at WokShop tonight. Food was awesome and the service was cool. This was not on the beaten path and gets so much crowd that if you have small groups, you end up sitting with others in many instances. As Andy and I did tonight, a table for 5 with us and 3 strangers that was seated after we were. I still like they way the restaurants in Europe carry digital wireless ordering and payment methods. Far beyond what we do in the US.
But for today, here is the link to the start of the slideshow for this trip. Plus a picture embedded right here of apparently bashful mannequins they have in Copenhagen. Nude is ok but not while showing your face. Judge for yourself.
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by Chris Miller at 03:12:10 PM on Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Here is the eWeek
article that talks about the
extension
And my favorite part
And my favorite part
The big push now is for developers to recode Web sites and Web applications to cater for the browser update.
If not, users won't be able to directly interact with Microsoft ActiveX controls loaded by the APPLET, EMBED or OBJECT elements without first activating the user interface with an extra mouse click.
Can you say click-click for using that Quickplace, DWA and some other stuff as Rob so eloquently points out right here.
by Chris Miller at 10:08:50 AM on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
This
video marketing seems to think
so. Quite funny actually. From YouTube
by Chris Miller at 02:27:15 PM on Monday, March 27th, 2006
There was some good information in
this entry to me with even more
interesting information if you drill down into it by clicking on the parts
of the Internet backbone.
You can directly to the pdf image to drill down right here.
The colors represent who each router is registered to. Red is Verizon; blue AT&T; yellow Qwest; green is major backbone players like Level 3 and Sprint Nextel; black is the entire cable industry put together; and gray is everyone else, from small telecommunications companies to large international players who only have a small presence in the U.S
You can directly to the pdf image to drill down right here.
by Chris Miller at 04:16:33 PM on Friday, March 24th, 2006
Who would think a simple semi-colon in the
wrong place would affect the ability to accept connections from everywhere?
One would image there could be some error checking on those fields
so a stray keystroke would not interrupt everything.
So I propose a listing of all fields to get some error checking done. I didn't say I was putting the entire list together, but it needs to be done.
So I propose a listing of all fields to get some error checking done. I didn't say I was putting the entire list together, but it needs to be done.
by Chris Miller at 09:59:10 AM on Friday, March 24th, 2006
I will make this quick. When using SmartUpgrade,
it kicks off fine. No problem there. Runs through successfully
(one DLL error on one machine so far that relates to an older technote)
and then the user is upgraded. Unfortunately it is asking for the
user's name to input to complete the setup. The home server information
came up but filled in, so it definitely knew about the local names and
ini file. Trying it again on a select person.
by Chris Miller at 09:53:21 AM on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Talk about surprises, I found this in the
IdoNotes mailbox from the PodZinger article I
did:
Just wanted to let you know that Taking Notes is now available through PodZinger. We wanted to make sure this was made available, as you noted you couldn't on your post. We're constantly scouring the Web to find the even expanding world of video and audio podcasts.
http://podzinger.com/results.jsp?q=%22Taking+Notes%22&col=allpods
Cheers,
Nathaniel
So if you like Taking Notes but want a certain point, there you go. Searchable. Thanks for PodZinger for such a quick reponse.
Hey there, Chris.
Just wanted to let you know that Taking Notes is now available through PodZinger. We wanted to make sure this was made available, as you noted you couldn't on your post. We're constantly scouring the Web to find the even expanding world of video and audio podcasts.
http://podzinger.com/results.jsp?q=%22Taking+Notes%22&col=allpods
Cheers,
Nathaniel
So if you like Taking Notes but want a certain point, there you go. Searchable. Thanks for PodZinger for such a quick reponse.
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by Chris Miller at 05:38:00 AM on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
I read about Podzinger
in Network World and took a peek. I tested it looking for Taking
Notes from OpenNTF to see if
they had done this yet. Even though they didn't pop up, I was quite
impressed the way you could click on any word after doing a search and
the podcast you found would start from that exact point. You could
even watch it scroll through the podcast timeline looking for that point.
Stop and start was available, even links to the download the entire
podcast or grab their RSS feeds.
Then I realized they are just starting out. It uses a speech recognition software to "read" the podcast and then make searchable text on the site. Quite amazing and hits on Lotus Notes yielded quite a few accurate results of people talking about Notes in their shop or elsewhere.
So if you podcast or think you might, get listed. A great way to find content.
Then I realized they are just starting out. It uses a speech recognition software to "read" the podcast and then make searchable text on the site. Quite amazing and hits on Lotus Notes yielded quite a few accurate results of people talking about Notes in their shop or elsewhere.
So if you podcast or think you might, get listed. A great way to find content.
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by Chris Miller at 04:47:27 PM on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
So I modified it into a link and a template
instead over on the left. I also added inside the same template the
ability to view posts by category. Not the prettiest UI yet, but
serves exactly what it should if you really need to view my material
by month instead of searching in the upper right corner.
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by Chris Miller at 03:20:00 PM on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
You can find, read, digest and comment on
it over
here.
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by Chris Miller at 11:27:38 AM on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
From CIO
Decisions today comes a story
on Sametime in use to save lives and how one company banned it since they
could not copy everyone on the team every IM message as the corporate policy
stated.
If a nurse is monitoring weight for a patient with congestive heart failure through a scale hooked up to the telephone and has a nagging question, she can IM an expert colleague and get advice. If she is fielding a call from an anxious parent about a child's illness, she can bring a pediatric specialist in on the conversation in real time.
Now look at the flip side which sounds more like bad IT policies and management to me..
How about simply logging and then making the logs available for searching or sorting? Makes much more sense than banning doesn't it?
But the IM experience is much different at IntelliCare Inc., a medical services company that considers instant messaging mission-critical. The Portland, Maine-based company's staff of nurses field medical questions and monitor patients through a nationwide network of call centers.
If a nurse is monitoring weight for a patient with congestive heart failure through a scale hooked up to the telephone and has a nagging question, she can IM an expert colleague and get advice. If she is fielding a call from an anxious parent about a child's illness, she can bring a pediatric specialist in on the conversation in real time.
Now look at the flip side which sounds more like bad IT policies and management to me..
Then there was 5W's company directive that all the members of an account team be copied on every correspondence -- not possible when using IM, which frustrated account managers.
How about simply logging and then making the logs available for searching or sorting? Makes much more sense than banning doesn't it?
by Chris Miller at 01:04:23 PM on Saturday, March 18th, 2006
Arrival on day 1 was simply to check in and
take in an excellent dinner at East.
A Pan-Asian type in the Entertainment District. I found everything
everyone had quite good. Then out for some jazz music at The
Rex Jazz & Blues Bar. The
live band was recording their cd there that night, so the crowd was lively.
Day 2 in the seminar gave the usual statistics. Two companies on R5 looking to go straight to Domino 7, everyone running Sametime was at least on 6.5.1 which was a nice surprise. No older versions floating around anywhere. There was great interest in Sametime 7.5 and Hannover too. I think all the press and hype around them both had the people wanting to get more info and live demos. I wish I could have complied, but they did get to see Workplace Managed Client 2.6 and some of it's features during a break.
Overall, everyone is eager to move up for the server enhancements and many had the valid question of what benefit the users see over 6.5.x. They got the standard answer. Some small UI changes, better Domino Web Access and better performance was the first thing most users will see. AutoSave and a few others are cool, but we worked more on policy controls and deploying the desktop through them.
Dinner was at an excellent Italian place called KitKat in the Entertainment District again. A nice long dinner with fantastic service and excellent food led to a short walk to Yuk Yuks for the late comedy show. They went through 5 comics, including the headliner. Some went over the top, a couple were almost crying funny and one left the stage looking like we the audience get most of his jokes. He was right.
Today has just begun..let you know shortly and the link to the pictures..
Day 2 in the seminar gave the usual statistics. Two companies on R5 looking to go straight to Domino 7, everyone running Sametime was at least on 6.5.1 which was a nice surprise. No older versions floating around anywhere. There was great interest in Sametime 7.5 and Hannover too. I think all the press and hype around them both had the people wanting to get more info and live demos. I wish I could have complied, but they did get to see Workplace Managed Client 2.6 and some of it's features during a break.
Overall, everyone is eager to move up for the server enhancements and many had the valid question of what benefit the users see over 6.5.x. They got the standard answer. Some small UI changes, better Domino Web Access and better performance was the first thing most users will see. AutoSave and a few others are cool, but we worked more on policy controls and deploying the desktop through them.
Dinner was at an excellent Italian place called KitKat in the Entertainment District again. A nice long dinner with fantastic service and excellent food led to a short walk to Yuk Yuks for the late comedy show. They went through 5 comics, including the headliner. Some went over the top, a couple were almost crying funny and one left the stage looking like we the audience get most of his jokes. He was right.
Today has just begun..let you know shortly and the link to the pictures..
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by Chris Miller at 07:15:00 AM on Thursday, March 16th, 2006
| I manually run ncompact with the -B flag from time to time locally to recover whitespace. I then pondered why this cannot be done on schedule, as the server does. Your local client has a hidden ($Programs) view. Here is the image ..... |
So what do we do from there? We open designer to see if there is a hidden Program form we can expose. None there so off to the address book template.
I grab the Server\Program form and paste it into the local names.nsf database. It is necessary to remove the HTMLAttributes field as that cannot be found locally, we well as the Last Modified field.
I then use the Create - Server - Program menu to create a document to compact each night at 2am with the -B flag. Make sure you close out of all your databases on the client. I also unhid the view for easy manipulation.
So the log the next morning shows....
03/14/2006 02:00:01 AM Compacting admin\xxxx.nsf (Domino R5 Admin Book)
03/14/2006 02:00:02 AM Releasing unused storage in database admin\xxxx.nsf...
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Compacted admin\xxxx.nsf, 896K bytes recovered (24%)
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Compacting admin\xxxxxxxx.nsf ()
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Releasing unused storage in database admin\xxxxxxxx.nsf...
Right on time! But leave the client up and databases closed as a side note.
Show-N-Tell Thursday
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by Chris Miller at 11:00:00 AM on Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
From technote #1109707. Purging it down
and then coming behind with an updall -x to rebuild the full-text and compact
it some made searching much faster in a large environment.
Set a Program document to purge the MTSTORE more frequently. Currently, the default is every 30 days. You can increase this by running a Program document to issue the following command:
tell mtc purge value
...where value is the maximum number of days. Set this to 7 (you may want to start with 14 if 7 seems too aggressive), and then run this command via a Program document once a week during off hours.
by Chris Miller at 10:45:06 AM on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
by Chris Miller at 10:21:53 AM on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
It was for the 2006
Messaging and Collaboration Survey.
Go click and take it yourself. It didn't take the full 10-12 minutes
to complete. But there was wording of one question that caught my
eye of judgement. As a person that selected I use Domino, they asked
also if we planned IBM Workplace Messaging. Well a question that
followed asked about my future plans on product use. Notice the choice
A entry?
A) Stick with Domino for as long as possible
B) Move to MS Exchange
C) Move to another competitive product
D) Move to a hosted solution
E) Other (Please explain below) :
What the hell does that infer? Stick with it as long as possible? I don't think they read the long terms plans of Notes and Domino at all. They basically make you state that you know Domino is going away, even though we know that it is not. What QA person let this slip by, wait I know, the group putting the survey on.
26. What is your messaging plan?
A) Stick with Domino for as long as possible
B) Move to MS Exchange
C) Move to another competitive product
D) Move to a hosted solution
E) Other (Please explain below) :
What the hell does that infer? Stick with it as long as possible? I don't think they read the long terms plans of Notes and Domino at all. They basically make you state that you know Domino is going away, even though we know that it is not. What QA person let this slip by, wait I know, the group putting the survey on.
by Chris Miller at 04:50:36 PM on Monday, March 13th, 2006
I read a short
article by Michael Osterman (Osterman
Research) in Network World. He has some reader feedback on productivity
and interruptions from email and IM.
I don't necessarily agree that ti takes anywhere near 5 to 15 minutes to be productive. Plus learn to turn yourself off (that also means marked busy) from these tings. Are you required to answer every call, every email and every chat all the time at that exact moment? Nope. I couldn't find it anywhere in our company handbook, what about yours?
So a quick survey, are you required to act immediately on most (I use this because there are incident tickets and some other things) email and instant messages? Do you do it because it is there? Do you actually take 5-15 minutes to get back on task?
Firstly, instant messaging (IM) is an interruption. If you are doing work requiring concentration, it requires a significant time to become productive at the original task again. Programming shops estimate this time at between 5 and 15 minutes. E-mail does not have this problem to anything like the same degree, since it is essentially ignored during periods of concentration. Secondly, opening an e-mail is part of a sorting process. You can't generally assess whether an e-mail is important until you've opened it.
I don't necessarily agree that ti takes anywhere near 5 to 15 minutes to be productive. Plus learn to turn yourself off (that also means marked busy) from these tings. Are you required to answer every call, every email and every chat all the time at that exact moment? Nope. I couldn't find it anywhere in our company handbook, what about yours?
So a quick survey, are you required to act immediately on most (I use this because there are incident tickets and some other things) email and instant messages? Do you do it because it is there? Do you actually take 5-15 minutes to get back on task?
by Chris Miller at 03:15:53 PM on Friday, March 10th, 2006
An accurate response
came from Microsoft to my post yesterday. LCS 2005 does offer connectivity
to outside public IM systems through PIC (Public IM Connectivity). Sametime
will have the VOIP options built in also. I agree that the integration
needs to be made further in the phone systems. DUCS is still under-utilized
and full VOIP integration needs to be completed. Awareness in both
products is everywhere.
We can now move on to IBM/Lotus's statement that this feature or function will be free. From the LCS website here, there is more costs involved:
Public IM Connectivity service licenses are available for Microsoft Volume License customers only and are not available for retail open customers following other Microsoft subscription licensing programs.
You then jump to this site to fill out forms to get public connectivity. Unfortunately the Public IM Connectivity Partner site has nothing there yet either and states so. This is how you merge your ID into the public systems.
Let's see how fast organizations move into federated connectivity with a free system versus licensing, I am curious.
We can now move on to IBM/Lotus's statement that this feature or function will be free. From the LCS website here, there is more costs involved:
Public IM Connectivity licenses are available on a per-user, per-month subscription and are additional to the Live Communications Server Client Access License (CAL). Public IM Connectivity has two licensing components associated with its use, a Services Subscription License (SSL) and a User Subscription License (USL).
Public IM Connectivity service licenses are available for Microsoft Volume License customers only and are not available for retail open customers following other Microsoft subscription licensing programs.
You then jump to this site to fill out forms to get public connectivity. Unfortunately the Public IM Connectivity Partner site has nothing there yet either and states so. This is how you merge your ID into the public systems.
Let's see how fast organizations move into federated connectivity with a free system versus licensing, I am curious.
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by Chris Miller at 01:35:54 PM on Thursday, March 9th, 2006
There will be sections to this posting as
I add on per session. I will do the normal highlights and then my
thoughts.
There were 66 people in attendance according to the lunch numbers as a side note, from places not usually at User Group meetings.
Click below to read on as it grows...
Continue Reading here" Live Blogging from Lotusphere Comes to You - St Louis (finished since Ed called me out)" »
There were 66 people in attendance according to the lunch numbers as a side note, from places not usually at User Group meetings.
Click below to read on as it grows...
Continue Reading here" Live Blogging from Lotusphere Comes to You - St Louis (finished since Ed called me out)" »
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by Chris Miller at 10:00:00 AM on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
I had this on hold since 3/3/06 and forgot
to publish it. Shame, shame on me. Plus I had to check the
publication rights to the entry below
"CCH1 is not yet available. We have been told that it should be out sometime next week. It was pushed back because xxxxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx with the Notes Client and the development team wanted to include them in the CCH rather than having a CCH2 come out soon after CCH1."
It also followed with this (keep in mind these are never hard dates and should not be taken as such)
"CCH1 is not yet available. We have been told that it should be out sometime next week. It was pushed back because xxxxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxx with the Notes Client and the development team wanted to include them in the CCH rather than having a CCH2 come out soon after CCH1."
It also followed with this (keep in mind these are never hard dates and should not be taken as such)
A server side hotfix is available for all platforms for effected customers via standard support channels; so if you have a support contract - and you are actually affected by this bug - call support and get it
- A client side fix will be included in Notes 7.0.1 Cumulative Client Hotfix (CCH) 1 due out by end of March 2006 (possibly sooner), available for effected customers via standard support channels - so once again if you have Notes clients affected by this bug, and if you have a support contract, call support and get it
- This fix will be included in Domino 7.0.1 Fix Pack (FP) 1 due out in 2Q06; I have heard that this is probably around late April, but don't hold me to it
- This client and server fix will also be in the next Maintenance Release, 7.0.2 due out 3Q06
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by Chris Miller at 09:49:35 AM on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Brand new server, tons of available space.
Suddenly it disappears. Poof! A magical 50GB gone. Oh
where for art thou free disk space? Let us look.
It all starts at 2:59pm yesterday as seen in the following image
By the time the clock reaches 5:47am this morning the same mail message has now grown to an incredible 25MB in size
So how many times did it loop before the disk started being eaten up? Here is that screenshot too
So what does that mean? Loops suck.
It all starts at 2:59pm yesterday as seen in the following image
By the time the clock reaches 5:47am this morning the same mail message has now grown to an incredible 25MB in size
So how many times did it loop before the disk started being eaten up? Here is that screenshot too
So what does that mean? Loops suck.
by Chris Miller at 10:29:26 AM on Monday, March 6th, 2006
Sure most of you are die hard Sametime and
Trillian fans like me. But, you can never speak well about what you
run if you are unaware of the options. There are so many that pop
up it gets overwhelming. So I only comment on the few that have something
special that catch my eye. ChatBlazer
was one of them. They came out with an installed or hosted chat platform
that contains all the necessary auditing and audio/video requirements.
So what is the big selling point they have? It runs via Macromedia Flash to all platforms and most browsers can access it. One install, all web based, right out of the box. Commendable. There are profiles, multiple rooms and bundled with Flash the ability to put graphics, banners and change the UI/skins. It does integrate with the major chat services also.
Does it integrate with Domino? it could always be embedded on the web side. Does it look at your Domino LDAP server for directory information? Couldn't find it on the site anywhere. They did have a lack of detailed specs, but provided all the OS and browser info necessary.
So what is the big selling point they have? It runs via Macromedia Flash to all platforms and most browsers can access it. One install, all web based, right out of the box. Commendable. There are profiles, multiple rooms and bundled with Flash the ability to put graphics, banners and change the UI/skins. It does integrate with the major chat services also.
Does it integrate with Domino? it could always be embedded on the web side. Does it look at your Domino LDAP server for directory information? Couldn't find it on the site anywhere. They did have a lack of detailed specs, but provided all the OS and browser info necessary.
by Chris Miller at 11:40:52 AM on Friday, March 3rd, 2006
I have encountered this error over the years
numerous times on Windows. The twist was (before I tell you all)
is that it worked great on the LotusUserGroup servers for a long long time.
As some of you might know, I upgraded that server to Domino 7.0.1
and Quickplace 7 last week.
So after the upgrading mail slowly started building and not always going out to the Internet. Internal mail was fine. I couldn't think for a few moments why the upgrade would have changed anything in the mail routing. Then it hit me. The upgrade also included a hardware swap for better performance and the growth of the User Group itself. I then had one of those famous epiphanies. Windows, since the 2000 days has a technote that comes into play a lot here at the Data Center. We usually find the time to use it after a machine goes from DHCP to a fixed IP and Domino has been loaded when it was in DHCP mode. (Why that takes place is not the focus here and can be covered later). So what happens is that the NameServer parameter in the registry does not get set with the DNS servers when you switch. So the server cannot find DNS to send the mail , on a regular basis. How Domino uses it is beyond me since some mail goes.
So I went in today and adjusted the registry under
TCPIP\Parameters
A quick restart of Domino, for grins even though the router task would have sufficed, and viola, mail went flying out.
You could also add DNSServer=Ip address to the notes.ini, but who would want to manually manage the servers like that?
So after the upgrading mail slowly started building and not always going out to the Internet. Internal mail was fine. I couldn't think for a few moments why the upgrade would have changed anything in the mail routing. Then it hit me. The upgrade also included a hardware swap for better performance and the growth of the User Group itself. I then had one of those famous epiphanies. Windows, since the 2000 days has a technote that comes into play a lot here at the Data Center. We usually find the time to use it after a machine goes from DHCP to a fixed IP and Domino has been loaded when it was in DHCP mode. (Why that takes place is not the focus here and can be covered later). So what happens is that the NameServer parameter in the registry does not get set with the DNS servers when you switch. So the server cannot find DNS to send the mail , on a regular basis. How Domino uses it is beyond me since some mail goes.
So I went in today and adjusted the registry under
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
TCPIP\Parameters
A quick restart of Domino, for grins even though the router task would have sufficed, and viola, mail went flying out.
You could also add DNSServer=Ip address to the notes.ini, but who would want to manually manage the servers like that?
by Chris Miller at 09:11:19 PM on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Overall, everyone in the room was running
Domino 6, but one person honestly raised their hand and said they had not
made the move past 5. The point of them being at the seminar was
to see if they should go straight to 7 and which was the best path. By
the time they left, I think 7 was the clear approach. Now convincing
management was their next task. However, management had let them
come to the seminar so they already took the first step.
Gauging the market and needs of other admins sitting in front of you asking tough questions always keeps you on your toes. The knowledge levels of those participating vary with expertise high in some areas. I find that even myself gets enveloped in specific areas of an infrastructure and then you don't see others for some time. Always pushing the edge of what you know is a key to a rounded admin. Luckily, my exposure is always changing so I get the wide breadth of what Domino can do and how to utilize it. So what you get is someone that knows everything about Domino Document Manager and has never audited their security fully. Or SMTP and not Sametime. You get the idea.
Seeing the excitement of someone after digging into an area like DDM topology and design in Domino 7 for over an hour makes it all worth it. If you can look at a new aspect of Domino and embrace it from a good show-and-tell then I have done my job.
Dinner was a very good bite in the hotel called Stacks. Some crunchy fish tacos (with tuna) and a very good assortment of warm breads made the beginning of the evening relaxing.
Gauging the market and needs of other admins sitting in front of you asking tough questions always keeps you on your toes. The knowledge levels of those participating vary with expertise high in some areas. I find that even myself gets enveloped in specific areas of an infrastructure and then you don't see others for some time. Always pushing the edge of what you know is a key to a rounded admin. Luckily, my exposure is always changing so I get the wide breadth of what Domino can do and how to utilize it. So what you get is someone that knows everything about Domino Document Manager and has never audited their security fully. Or SMTP and not Sametime. You get the idea.
Seeing the excitement of someone after digging into an area like DDM topology and design in Domino 7 for over an hour makes it all worth it. If you can look at a new aspect of Domino and embrace it from a good show-and-tell then I have done my job.
Dinner was a very good bite in the hotel called Stacks. Some crunchy fish tacos (with tuna) and a very good assortment of warm breads made the beginning of the evening relaxing.
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by Chris Miller at 06:13:00 AM on Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Dinner was quick and easy at Bertolini's
inside of Caesar's Palace Forum Shops. I managed to halfway eat a
plate of Fazoletto (ricotta and spinach filled handkerchief noodles) after
all the appetizers we all had. There was a great group of 7 (plus
me) from WisPubs at dinner for some catching up. It is funny how
seeing some people once a year and others maybe twice, still makes you
feel like old friends for those few days.
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Yes this is a blatant theft of the outline that Jess uses on her page, but I asked permission. Why?? Because I am a hardcore admin and can make ugly tables to make you developers frustrated, but this was too nice to pass up.
Also Known As: Chris Miller (when awake)
Boring Certifications: (only because someone asked twice)
- Domino 7 Certified Security Administrator
- PCLP ND8
- PCLP ND7
- PCLP ND6
- PCLP R5
- PCLP R4
- Workplace Collaboration Services 2.5 - Team Collab and Messaging (retired)
- CLP Collaboration (soon to be retired Aug 2006)
- random former R4 exams
- CLI for numerous admin areas including Domino, Sametime and Workplace
- CLP Insane
Yes, I write some of those dreaded admin cert exams you take. I won't say which ones so you don't come looking for me, but I will say they are the real good recent ones that have been coming out.
Weapons/Equipment:
- At work an IBM thing
- At home a plethera of 6 machines with various Windows versions and Red Hat on a wired/wireless LAN
- A Wii
- An 8830 Blackberry
- A Toshiba E740 with 802.11b (yes geek toy)
- An Apple 40GB iPod that is filled to the brim
- I cannot even list all of the items I carry I found
- Compaq RioPort MP3 player (now in storage)
- An EBook (REB1100) also for travel (Love that darn thing)
- Verizon and they always seem to know how to find me, damn cell
Animals:
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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