by Chris Miller at 11:12:55 AM on Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Here is the screenshot..
I think the image speaks for itself. Let's run some maintenance and see what happens.
I think the image speaks for itself. Let's run some maintenance and see what happens.
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by Chris Miller at 03:52:54 PM on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
Last week I posted the NetworkWorld mention about the date for Sametime 7.5 and I was gladly corrected by Lotus in comments here. So it looks like the statements made at the conferences are true, look for Sametime 7.5 this year !!
I have to check with the NDA on what we can talk about the beta and what we cannot. I am anxious to talk all about it, but watching what I say first.
I have to check with the NDA on what we can talk about the beta and what we cannot. I am anxious to talk all about it, but watching what I say first.
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by Chris Miller at 02:30:57 PM on Friday, May 26th, 2006
I received the recent edition of NetworkWorld and an article there shows not only the waging word war between Lotus and Microsoft over backwards compatibility and such, but a nice grid of release dates for Hannover and Domino Next.
Unfortunately the grid in not open online in the article itself, but I thought that they were trying to sneak the 7.5 of Sametime out this year.
Unfortunately the grid in not open online in the article itself, but I thought that they were trying to sneak the 7.5 of Sametime out this year.
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Category: Announcement Sametime Tags :Sametime NetworkWorld |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 09:31:00 AM on Thursday, May 25th, 2006
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Category: Announcement Tags :ProjectDX DominoBlog |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 10:17:09 AM on Thursday, May 25th, 2006
I have watched with great interest as a flagship IBM outsourcing customer announced late last year it was moving away from Domino. In the place of Domino is a whole slew of Microsoft products. This company ran Lotus Notes for over eight years I believe before taking this plunge:
I cannot see where the migration attempt for all these applications as well as the 20 terabytes of email. Where the heck are they migrating that kind of data into Exchange? How many servers is that going to be living in redundancy while the migration continues? In the article the CIO notes that you cannot live in hybrid mode forever due to costs. But no mention of the migration costs for 92,000+ PC's. I guess there is no Linux clients anywhere :-)
So my question becomes, where does productivity, training, costs and manpower sit to run both at once, perform the migration and then support both systems?
The article mentions "pressing 8 years" for running Lotus Notes which leads me to believe customizations or slow upgrades. How can a well embedded 8 year old system be harder to upgrade and maintain than an entire multi-product rollout banking on a version that was not even out yet? I want to see some numbers here...
The rollout consists mainly of five Microsoft products-the Office 2003 desktop suite, Outlook E-mail client, Communicator instant-messaging software, Live Meeting conferencing service, and SharePoint document-sharing portal-plus Windows Server 2003 and other server software. The deal represents the largest license to date of Microsoft's real-time collaboration suite (Communicator 2005, Live Meeting 2005, and upgraded Live Communications Server 2005), introduced in March
I cannot see where the migration attempt for all these applications as well as the 20 terabytes of email. Where the heck are they migrating that kind of data into Exchange? How many servers is that going to be living in redundancy while the migration continues? In the article the CIO notes that you cannot live in hybrid mode forever due to costs. But no mention of the migration costs for 92,000+ PC's. I guess there is no Linux clients anywhere :-)
So my question becomes, where does productivity, training, costs and manpower sit to run both at once, perform the migration and then support both systems?
The article mentions "pressing 8 years" for running Lotus Notes which leads me to believe customizations or slow upgrades. How can a well embedded 8 year old system be harder to upgrade and maintain than an entire multi-product rollout banking on a version that was not even out yet? I want to see some numbers here...
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Category: Rant Technical Tags :Lotus Notes upgrade Microsoft Sharepoint |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 09:37:19 AM on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
The May Sys Admin Newsletter is out for some time if you had subscribed for email delivery. Here is the good news!! The profile ability has been enhanced so you can subscribe to only certain newsletters. So go sign up for admin, dev or all the others. No excuses now in not getting only what you want. But, if you missed May you can find it here. (for those that asked)
Second announcement has to do with the webcast tomorrow on certification. I am told there will be a brand new announcement made first on that webcast. So go and get signed up right here. Ask all your certification questions from the program managers and see what is coming in the future.
Second announcement has to do with the webcast tomorrow on certification. I am told there will be a brand new announcement made first on that webcast. So go and get signed up right here. Ask all your certification questions from the program managers and see what is coming in the future.
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Category: Announcement Tags :LotusUserGroup.org Domino certification |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 09:54:08 AM on Monday, May 22nd, 2006
I never found a need for the Google Pack (but some family members did), so I was a bit surprised to see Trillian pulled from it. No explanation exists currently. But I use the Sametime plug-in with Trillian sometimes when I am running plenty of other apps and don't need the Sametime Connect client sucking up some memory.
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Category: Announcement Sametime Tags :Trillian Google Pack Sametime |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 10:35:12 AM on Friday, May 19th, 2006
I do not like how they changed the Hotkey selection for certain actions from version to version. Makes no sense at all. But they functionality increased. I would like to see one more action added, show me exactly what it is trying to change or do in some example.
Notes 5 was pretty basic with what you could do with an Execution Security Alert....
Run once, trust them or run away.
Then Notes 6 stepped in and Lotus stepped up the game for running unknown code as seen here..
Actually, the options were exactly the same. Hotkeys got changed and some verbiage, but more information was given on what the code was attempting to do. Note that the help function was removed from the main pop-up.
Now we go on to Notes 7
A single session trust ability added on to the option to trust them forever. Hotkeys are not underlined anymore but work just fine. Guess that was just an oversight in the UI.
Notes 5 was pretty basic with what you could do with an Execution Security Alert....
Run once, trust them or run away.
Then Notes 6 stepped in and Lotus stepped up the game for running unknown code as seen here..
Actually, the options were exactly the same. Hotkeys got changed and some verbiage, but more information was given on what the code was attempting to do. Note that the help function was removed from the main pop-up.
Now we go on to Notes 7
A single session trust ability added on to the option to trust them forever. Hotkeys are not underlined anymore but work just fine. Guess that was just an oversight in the UI.
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Category: Domino 7 Technical Tags :Execution Security Alert ESA Domino 7 |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 10:07:31 AM on Thursday, May 18th, 2006
When I first reported this, it was too late at night to worry about reasons. Last night the issue started creeping up again right after 10pm. Low and behold, my eye caught some console jargon. There was some maintenance attempting to run starting at 10pm. So couple that with the traffic the server gets (thanks to all for that), it was causing it to run slower than a turtle chewing salt water taffy.
So issue resolved on that end for good, the 7.0.1 code is smoking along great and the world of the blog-o-sphere is at peace once again.
So issue resolved on that end for good, the 7.0.1 code is smoking along great and the world of the blog-o-sphere is at peace once again.
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Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 02:36:49 PM on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
This article popped up today, from some ePrairie thingy that covers technology and interviews. The interviewer is some international technology expert named Michael Muth who interviewed Christos Fotiadis (former Microsoft Consulting Services and Microsoft Partner), founder and CEO of ProntoGroup in Chicago.
Here is where he goes awry talking about compliance and standards... bolds are mine
So let me get this right.. a person that performs migrations talking about his migrations saying Notes is dead but then right in the middle of the interview states it is impossible to compete with Notes! I must have fell and hit my head. Notes is dead while it does workflow, e-mail and a billion other parts and we can't migrate from it to any single package. So let's go ahead and hire me to do it. Sheesh
Email Mike and let's let him know what a nice marketing piece this was, and tell him to update his website too :-)
Here is where he goes awry talking about compliance and standards... bolds are mine
In part one of a three-part Q&A, Fotiadis sat down with international expert Michael Muth to discuss how the realm of technology compliance has changed over the years and how to deal with obsolete technology.
MM: Why has Lotus Notes been impossible to migrate with tools alone and too expensive to accomplish with services alone?
CF: There's a lot to do in a Lotus migration. Notes is one product that does a lot of different things (e-mail, workflow, data collection, etc.). Though it was a great product back when, the realization is that it should be retired.
It's impossible to create a tool that can migrate all aspects of Notes to a competing platform. You will have a mix of services. When you compare what you can do with Notes to what you can have with new technology, things on the other side look a lot more attractive.
MM commentary: Like many golden oldies, Notes was great in its day but isn't today.
So let me get this right.. a person that performs migrations talking about his migrations saying Notes is dead but then right in the middle of the interview states it is impossible to compete with Notes! I must have fell and hit my head. Notes is dead while it does workflow, e-mail and a billion other parts and we can't migrate from it to any single package. So let's go ahead and hire me to do it. Sheesh
Email Mike and let's let him know what a nice marketing piece this was, and tell him to update his website too :-)
by Chris Miller at 06:52:42 AM on Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
First the server hung and then went into crash mode. Not sure why, I wasn't taking the time to figure that out right away. Unfortunately the bloggers on the server are popular so the stats databases needed some consistency checking, a lot of it.
So I took the server offline and performed it from the command prompt to speed it up. I also took this opportunity to make the move to 7.0.1 on the server code. So all is well, the server is smoking again and running the latest GA.
So I took the server offline and performed it from the command prompt to speed it up. I also took this opportunity to make the move to 7.0.1 on the server code. So all is well, the server is smoking again and running the latest GA.
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Category: Announcement Tags :Domino 7.0.1 |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 03:47:22 PM on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Live link to be placed here as soon as it shows on the site too.
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Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 09:36:28 AM on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
From the depths of Microsoft Research, we find this little oddity called SNARF that was apparently released months ago but got some recent press that I found. Unfortunately, the recent press is right after Lotus starts taunting the little circle doohickeys in your inbox to let you know how important mail is. as referred to in this image..
So SNARF sorts mail based on importance, go figure. An add-on to tell me how important mail is? Domino does that natively, but you need add-ons for Exchange? Rankings can be done by what you have sent, but I don't want to now how important it is by what I sent, I want to know how important it is by what is inside it. Microsoft Research calls it email triagein their product information. I call it bleeding internally due to lack of functionality and workflow
So SNARF sorts mail based on importance, go figure. An add-on to tell me how important mail is? Domino does that natively, but you need add-ons for Exchange? Rankings can be done by what you have sent, but I don't want to now how important it is by what I sent, I want to know how important it is by what is inside it. Microsoft Research calls it email triagein their product information. I call it bleeding internally due to lack of functionality and workflow
by Chris Miller at 03:37:59 PM on Monday, May 15th, 2006
| Problem |
If you attempt to add a high number of names to your Sametime Connect client contact list, only some of the names are added. Is there a limit to the size of the buddy list?
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This limitation applies to both the Sametime Connect client for desktop (C++ client) and Sametime Connect client for browsers (Java connect) |
by Chris Miller at 02:03:04 PM on Friday, May 12th, 2006
I had two sessions today, Manipulating the Notes.ini and Notes on Citrix. The notes.ini session was jammed pack, wall to wall with people having the same issues as last year. What is this little file and why does it cause me so much headache to understand. I did my best to break it down, give some cool and new documented and undocumented variables to help them out, a sorting tool to use and ways to sync the server config doc variables with the actual file.
Notes on Citrix was as previous years. Lots of organizations forced into using it, many looking at it, but no one real sure of the benefit. I covered both angles. The good and the bad. The hardware investment is an all or nothing move. All apps possible into Citrix and large farms, or forget it. The investment to centralize and still provide powerful desktops don't make sense. The management is not as smooth as you would hope or want for upgrades, new users and such unless you script much of it. I will talk about this more in my newsletter next week.
So off to home for a few weeks before another ND7 Upgrade Seminar stop in Chicago.
Notes on Citrix was as previous years. Lots of organizations forced into using it, many looking at it, but no one real sure of the benefit. I covered both angles. The good and the bad. The hardware investment is an all or nothing move. All apps possible into Citrix and large farms, or forget it. The investment to centralize and still provide powerful desktops don't make sense. The management is not as smooth as you would hope or want for upgrades, new users and such unless you script much of it. I will talk about this more in my newsletter next week.
So off to home for a few weeks before another ND7 Upgrade Seminar stop in Chicago.
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :Admin2006 |
Location: 34,000 feet seat 11B, AA4522 |
by Chris Miller at 03:39:19 PM on Thursday, May 11th, 2006
After completing numerous sessions and a LotusUserGroup.org podcast so far, one fact has come to light. While some companies have begun a limited number of server installs of Domino 7, most are still some flavor of Domino 6. A few R5 show their head from session to session, but those are making plans to go straight to 7 in their mind.
So, let us make a quick assumption. Lotus stated Domino 7 was the most downloaded version in the fastest time. I agree there. But, as usual, companies are stalling on some of their plans and that shows the more conferences I do and people I meet. Some are unfounded fears, many are testing and more testing. I stated it before and I will state it again, stop with the delays and get it done. The upgrade path is too simple and the benefits too great.
Ok, I feel better. Back to reality. Sessions completed are:
Besides unique variables that every system seems to have, it is the customizations that have been implemented or network configurations that bite them each time. I preach simplistic and constant scrutinization of not only what you have in place, but what you are implementing in the future. The network security guys don't always know best. The management don't always know best. Heck, even us admins don't always know best. So constant checking and rechecking is the way to go.
So, let us make a quick assumption. Lotus stated Domino 7 was the most downloaded version in the fastest time. I agree there. But, as usual, companies are stalling on some of their plans and that shows the more conferences I do and people I meet. Some are unfounded fears, many are testing and more testing. I stated it before and I will state it again, stop with the delays and get it done. The upgrade path is too simple and the benefits too great.
Ok, I feel better. Back to reality. Sessions completed are:
- SMTP hands-on configuration (2 times)
- LDAP Infrastructure
- Domino Unified Communication (DUCS)
- Domino Domain Monitoring - Jumpstart
- Domino Domain Monitoring - normal session
Besides unique variables that every system seems to have, it is the customizations that have been implemented or network configurations that bite them each time. I preach simplistic and constant scrutinization of not only what you have in place, but what you are implementing in the future. The network security guys don't always know best. The management don't always know best. Heck, even us admins don't always know best. So constant checking and rechecking is the way to go.
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :Admin2006 Domino 7 DUCS DDM |
Location: Admin2006 - Boston, MA |
by Chris Miller at 10:34:20 PM on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
I am curious to know what new features and look the updated client will have. Interesting they are not going with a point release (4.0) number and instead moved to a name.
Read more on the Trillian blog site itself. I found out too late to be a beta tester.
Read more on the Trillian blog site itself. I found out too late to be a beta tester.
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Category: Announcement Tags :Trillian Trillian Astra |
Location: Admin2006 - Boston, MA |
by Chris Miller at 07:35:45 AM on Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
Yes this entry is live and changing as I save and it replicates............... Pictures are online in both Yahoo! and Flickr for your viewing pleasure of new Hannover shots live.
Ron Sebastian - all that is demo for Lotus
| David Penzias, Publisher for The View did a brief opening before turning it over to Mike. Mike Rhodin - General Manager, Lotus Software
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- Converging markets across open standards is driving the evolution of what the user will see as your desktop experience
- Mike and Ron started trading off as Mike brought up points, Ron would show and tell some new item to validate the concept.
- Mike then talked about Lotus purchasing Databeam and Ubique years ago and the "mashing" of them to get Sametime. Capturing the lion-share of the market in enterprise chat services.
- This led into presence, location awareness and the integration of the top real-time communication vendors
- The nature of people coming together to fill in the gaps of knowledge. Social Networking
- Mike led in with finding information you are interested in, what communities do you belong to, bringing us to Social Bookmarking. Dog Ears. A tagging network uncovering structure and flow and applying that to Activity Centric computing.
- So taking that stance, tag data instead of moving it everywhere, and locate those tags. Like Technorati, Flickr, De.licio.us and others.
- From here I had to head to my session as Mike closed out talking about driving the innovation agenda, standards and taking advantage of the standards.
- Lotus believes that the users are asking for the loose coupling of data as we move into Web 2.0, and Lotus is there to be the leading edge in that.
Ron Sebastian - all that is demo for Lotus
- He started with Hannover stating this wouldn't be delivered until early 2007
- Business card views for the personal address book
- Workplace Designer was used for a client based application to run inside of Hannover. He had a local SAP server pulling data with Workplace into Hannover. Data was input into the Domino application and in real time manipulated the SAP data
- Next on the block was Sametime 7.5. Spellchecking got a round of applause
- Spellcheck
- Colors and font
- grabbing live data from spreadsheets into group chat areas
- The Skype codex is now used for audio. This provided awesome quality even in a large room, no computer mic to your head and you could hear it all over the loudspeakers clear as can be
- location awareness with presence
- the list went on
- Skilltap and belonging to communities was shown, bringing out the IBM Community Tools (ICT) that is being brought into Sametime 7.5
- Real-time polling and information requests are part of this through the broadcast. Responses get added to the instant chat meeting and ti grows as people have answers
- Answers can be stored in a skills database for later searching. Capturing the skill of a community. No word on what that database is, where it is located, what access is needed and can it be used by other applications, but being Domino, I would go with yes. Now that is what locating skill and data is all about.
- Tagging, or Dog Ears keeps count of how many people link or bookmark certain data that is stored. You could also search on bookmarks that other keep to see where people get their data. You get to disseminate to others where you get your knowledge. I know that some believe knowledge ownership is power, so sharing this information will not be easy for most to agree to
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :Admin2006 Lotus Domino Hannover Nomad |
Location: Admin2006 - Boston |
by Chris Miller at 05:30:23 PM on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
A packed room for a 3 hour jumpstart on Domino Domain Monitoring. Only 2 (from my memory) in the room had deployed a Domino 7 server to start playing with DDM. The best part is that I got to show them how to build from scratch. I pushed the participation from the group to make sure I understand what they needed to monitor as well as a feeling for how they manage now.
People addressed third party monitoring tools a couple times, asking if DDM could replace them. My honest answer? No, put them to work together. You already made the leap and the cost of installing a third party product, don't change that yet. Mainly since DDM lacks some basic workflow in this current version. But the probes and deep level checking that some of the others do at the cost of machine resources, don't weigh evenly against DDM.
The flexibility of scheduling probes coupled with the ability to change the severity designation and notification of any event Domino can generate, blows the other products away. Hands down. Now just to get some workflow...
On a side note, speakers were popping up all over. Rob Novak, Susan Bulloch, Carl Tyler, Rob Wonderlich, Andy P and Rob A (the wonder twins) and a slew of others
People addressed third party monitoring tools a couple times, asking if DDM could replace them. My honest answer? No, put them to work together. You already made the leap and the cost of installing a third party product, don't change that yet. Mainly since DDM lacks some basic workflow in this current version. But the probes and deep level checking that some of the others do at the cost of machine resources, don't weigh evenly against DDM.
The flexibility of scheduling probes coupled with the ability to change the severity designation and notification of any event Domino can generate, blows the other products away. Hands down. Now just to get some workflow...
On a side note, speakers were popping up all over. Rob Novak, Susan Bulloch, Carl Tyler, Rob Wonderlich, Andy P and Rob A (the wonder twins) and a slew of others
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :DDM Domino Domain Monitoring Admin2006 |
Location: Boston Sheraton - Boston, MA |
by Chris Miller at 09:41:47 AM on Monday, May 8th, 2006
I have to say, I have all the pictures for the trip uploaded here on Yahoo! or the same over here on Flickr, but this time heading to London tossed an awesome surprise in our path. The Royal de Luxe was in town. You have to stand there to believe it. The video file I attached tries to give you a 30 second glimpse into what it was all about, then I have a bunch of pictures. I want to thank this link for all the specs on dimensions about it all. Quite informative.
Reminder, this is a 9MB file I didn't zip >>>> ND7_London_0099.AVI
It is not often you get to see a 11.2m (37 ft) tall elephant go past you. Oh yeah, all controlled by people riding in and on it. Amazing. They drill holes in concrete to tie cars down, show a rocket embedded into the ground, amazing stuff.
So otherwise, Fri night was spent with family that lives in Boston. Sat morning we decided to get on one of the open top tour buses. That generated quite a few pictures since you can jump on and off at any stop and get on again. Coupled with an all day tube pass, we were everywhere. Lunch was at Wagamama's (damn good quick noodle and rice dishes over near The London Tower). In the sightseeing we ran into the elephant. Dinner was an some chic pizza place in Swiss Cottage before hitting the clubs that night.
Now off to Boston for Admin2006.
Reminder, this is a 9MB file I didn't zip >>>> ND7_London_0099.AVI
It is not often you get to see a 11.2m (37 ft) tall elephant go past you. Oh yeah, all controlled by people riding in and on it. Amazing. They drill holes in concrete to tie cars down, show a rocket embedded into the ground, amazing stuff.
So otherwise, Fri night was spent with family that lives in Boston. Sat morning we decided to get on one of the open top tour buses. That generated quite a few pictures since you can jump on and off at any stop and get on again. Coupled with an all day tube pass, we were everywhere. Lunch was at Wagamama's (damn good quick noodle and rice dishes over near The London Tower). In the sightseeing we ran into the elephant. Dinner was an some chic pizza place in Swiss Cottage before hitting the clubs that night.
Now off to Boston for Admin2006.
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :ND7 Upgrade Seminar London |
Location: St. Louis, MO |
by Chris Miller at 11:35:01 AM on Friday, May 5th, 2006
First things, best practices on backups and transaction logging. An attendee was using true incremental backups against transaction logs. Unfortunately, backups were reaching 16 hours and restores took hours to roll the full and then playback all the reads and writes to the point they desired. I understand their pain. Plus you are dealing with numerous tapes for a restore to a working point. So the question is who uses true incremental backups through transaction logging and what is your restore time? Are you seeing it to be beneficial to run in that scenario or perform full backups each night and make restores faster while slowing backup times?
As for the review, only a couple enterprises left on Domino 5 in the audience. That was nice to see that they were finally getting ready to upgrade. Questions were very direct and dealt with specific scenarios and issues, not ones that everyone seemed to have. The demonstration on DDM was, as usual, long and generated great reviews.
Sametime was in swing in numerous companies, LEI did not get favorable comments and web presence through Domino servers was not as strong as I expected. we talked about almost all the add-ons, even ran into a company that ran DUCS.
So a wonderfully friendly bunch, lots of laughter and fun the whole day. You can find the pictures so far right here.
As for the review, only a couple enterprises left on Domino 5 in the audience. That was nice to see that they were finally getting ready to upgrade. Questions were very direct and dealt with specific scenarios and issues, not ones that everyone seemed to have. The demonstration on DDM was, as usual, long and generated great reviews.
Sametime was in swing in numerous companies, LEI did not get favorable comments and web presence through Domino servers was not as strong as I expected. we talked about almost all the add-ons, even ran into a company that ran DUCS.
So a wonderfully friendly bunch, lots of laughter and fun the whole day. You can find the pictures so far right here.
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Category: Conferences Domino 7 Travel Tags :ND7 Upgrade Seminar Domino 7 |
Location: Marriott - Regents Park, London |
by Chris Miller at 05:28:37 PM on Thursday, May 4th, 2006
The first day was spent listening to some of the presentations from the seminar and jotting down some questions. Dinner was at Pepper Thai in the Swiss Cottage area. Dinner was good. we almost skipped dessert until the next able received theirs, that left everyone stuffed from fruit fritters and vanilla ice cream with honey.
All day today was pent with a customer in talks about Domino, the pending beating from a business review group about Exchange coming in and ways to scale the infrastructure while reducing costs. We came up with some ingenious ideas after sitting down, drawing out ideas and then looking at the actual network. Final result? Removing about 7 servers, beefing up one, generating two more clusters from active servers to provide more scaling and load balancing and rearchitecting the replication topology. All this while considering some DAMO installations and a definite upgrade to Domino 7 in the coming weeks.
Dinner was down in Covent Garden at Fuel Bar. It was quite good sitting outside on one of the warmest nights they have had this year. The whole area was packed. That was a restaurant I would visit again. Then a quick trip to Picadilly Circus to take in the sights.
Pics are uploading and tomorrow is all presentations, so I expect plenty of questions to share.
All day today was pent with a customer in talks about Domino, the pending beating from a business review group about Exchange coming in and ways to scale the infrastructure while reducing costs. We came up with some ingenious ideas after sitting down, drawing out ideas and then looking at the actual network. Final result? Removing about 7 servers, beefing up one, generating two more clusters from active servers to provide more scaling and load balancing and rearchitecting the replication topology. All this while considering some DAMO installations and a definite upgrade to Domino 7 in the coming weeks.
Dinner was down in Covent Garden at Fuel Bar. It was quite good sitting outside on one of the warmest nights they have had this year. The whole area was packed. That was a restaurant I would visit again. Then a quick trip to Picadilly Circus to take in the sights.
Pics are uploading and tomorrow is all presentations, so I expect plenty of questions to share.
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Category: Conferences Travel Tags :ND7 Upgrade Seminar London |
Location: Marriott - Regents Park, London |
by Chris Miller at 06:53:54 AM on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
One of the wonders of the web and technology is the ability to gather information quickly in the searches. Apparently a couple people read this blog now and then to find out the seminar was here this week. The number of people doubled in a few weeks. That or they like registering late.
I have updated some slides and some will show up new in my Admin2006 sessions next week. I will update more on the seminar here later. Some tech stuff to come first
I have updated some slides and some will show up new in my Admin2006 sessions next week. I will update more on the seminar here later. Some tech stuff to come first
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Category: Conferences Travel Tags :ND7 Upgrade Seminar London |
Location: Marriott Regents Park - London |
by Chris Miller at 09:10:26 AM on Monday, May 1st, 2006
This week it is off to London for the ND7 Upgrade Seminar. If you have no caught this seminar yet, it is getting top reviews from each city we have done. So far, there is two left including London before we see where the needs are past that.
Then May 8-12th I will be in Boston for Admin2006. I have a few sessions in the order as follows over the days:
So track me down and say hello and introduce yourself
Then May 8-12th I will be in Boston for Admin2006. I have a few sessions in the order as follows over the days:
- Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) half day jumpstart
- Shaping Your Environment's LDAP Design
- Demystifying Domino Domain Monitoring (normal session)
- SMTP Security and Configuration Troubleshooting in Domino Lab (1 of 2)
- SMTP Security and Configuration Troubleshooting in Domino Lab (2 of 2)
- Leveraging DUCS for Unified Messaging
- Ask the Experts
- Manipulating the Notes.ini
- Managing Citrix on Domino
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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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