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Domino policy management needs to grow up

by Chris Miller at 10:23:26 AM on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

UPDATE: This is a discussion Gabriella started and we agreed on and I took an interest on making a diagram to make it clear

While working with a large policy deployment I finally reached the breaking point in trying to unravel large spaghetti policy topologies. There is no simple viewer for a user and the synopsis tool makes the work just as hard. Since the data is stored in the Domino directory for what policy is assigned to the user as well as what information is stored in what policy, extracting the data should be simple for a viewer approach. Here is what we have now compared to a mockup of what we should have. Keep in mind that the first image does not exist, it only represents what you have to do to even map policies in the first place. The second image is a simplified approach of what we should get back when selecting a user and requesting for active policy settings.

Image:Domino policy management needs to grow up

Image:Domino policy management needs to grow up

With this approach, we know what should be applied to users. It is a starting point to seeing how the client should be behaving based on the deployed policy set. Unfortunately, we cannot even get that far most of the time, even with the hidden ($Policies) view in the local names.nsf on the client. Thoughts?

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Category: Domino 8
Tags :Domino 8 policies

Location: St. Louis, MO

What Dell doens’t know about Domino hurts you

by Chris Miller at 11:36:49 AM on Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Andy, Paul and I never make this stuff up, we live it.

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Category: Domino 8
Tags :Domino 8

Location: St. Louis, MO

IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 Certified Instructo ?

by Chris Miller at 02:15:01 PM on Monday, March 9th, 2009

I think Quickr got here and stole the "R" from my new certificate.. (image)

Image:IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 Certified Instructo ?

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Category: Announcement Domino 8
Tags :Domino 8 certification

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6.5.x gets life support for another year?

by Chris Miller at 11:19:32 AM on Thursday, March 5th, 2009

IBM has announced that 6.5.x will now get another year older. It was to expire in April 2009, but it seems not enough companies can get upgraded. So they have now moved the end date to April 2010. So feel free to delay those upgrades another year!

That is all, move along

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Category: Domino 8
Tags :Domino 8

Location: St. Louis, MO

IdoNotes Episode 60 - The Lotusphere2009 lost episode

by Chris Miller at 07:52:00 AM on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I sit with Gabriella Davis, Bill Buchan and a silent Tim Davis talking about Lotusphere2009.

CertFx has announced their 8.5 exams at a discounted rate. But with a special arrangement, I can give you a bigger discount. Follow the banner and use the coupon code "IdoNotes" when checking out for up to 20% more discount !

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DAOS savings statistics across tons of managed/hosted customers

by Chris Miller at 08:34:00 AM on Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Ed made a blog posting on savings everyone is seeing with the DAOS estimator. While he said he would link to others, I am shooting you quite a few across multiple size companies and server configurations. Each one is per a single server in their environment.

USERBASE	OS	DISK SAVINGS	PERCENT
252	Win32	278 GB	46.2 %
110	Win32	23.4 GB	19.8%
~25	Win32	32.8 GB	33.2%
26	Win32	Error on database	N/A
1138 (most forward mail out)	Win32	2.4 GB	14.4%
113 (all BES users, really)	Win32	24.1 GB	30.0%
~700 on Application server	Win32	17.7 GB	73.4%
~700 on mail server	Win32	147.9 GB	43.2%
1558 with small quotas	Win32	7.8 GB	15.0%
***more coming in slowly and will update, the bigger ones are taking longer of course

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Category: Domino 8
Tags :DAOS Domino 8.5

Location: St. Louis, MO

Title	Duration	Size	Flash Player
IdoNotes Episode 80 - Lotusphere Abstract Creation with Paul and Gab	00:25:23	23.25 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 79 - Ed Brill on IBM at IamLUG	00:12:53	17.72 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 78 - Admin2010 with Bill Malchisky	00:13:45	18.89 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 77 - Nerd Girls Strike Back at Admin2010	00:31:32	43.32 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 76 - Lotus Protector Mail Encryption	00:17:50	16.33 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 75 - Exclusive with FewClix	00:25:04	22.96 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 74 - Doodle Around	00:24:33	22.64 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 73 - SnappFiles launch	00:19:51	27.46 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 72 - EXCLUSIVE Gist launch from Lotusphere #ls10	00:34:31	47.41 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 71 - EXCLUSIVE Tungle launch live from Lotusphere2010 #ls10	00:15:09	13.88 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 70 - FewClix and the Mac oops	00:03:04	6.60 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 69 - Lotus Protector 2.5 announcements	00:31:22	28.72 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 68 - Sametime Unyte widget screencast	00:03:51	8.97 Mb	Listen Up! IdoNotes Episode 68 - Sametime Unyte widget screencast
IdoNotes Episode 67 - LotusLive iNotes screencast	00:17:25	432.01 Mb
IdoNotes Episode 66 - Quickr on the iPhone launch with Jonathan	00:07:30	10.45 Mb

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