by Chris Miller at 11:51:08 AM on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Oh the pain of watching us hit the goalpost. I figured I would post before Carl made fun anyway. Here is a couple screenshots of the field and shots on goal.
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by Chris Miller at 01:16:55 PM on Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
I had my posting a couple days ago on the 64-bit architecture stance of MS for the new Exchange. NetworkWorld was kind enough to toss a front page story on the upgrade pains that are to come for those shops also:
.....major changes include a new role-based architecture that could require users to roll out as many as five types of Exchange servers.... The current versions gives two deployment options...
So let me get this right? Your clustering gets worse and I can't even have old versions around? Oh yeah, and don't plan on overlaying that code, let's get that new hardware. If you are large scale, plan on revisiting clustering and adding a bunch of servers to handle the roles. While they could run on fewer machines, that is not likely for a lot of users.
Bless Domino folks.
Then to add insult to the injury (as they say):
While this is good and bad. Good because you streamline your topology management. Bad because you have to rip and migrate the topology and then rely ONLY on your AD topology. What if that tree has funny limbs that can't talk right. Cut it off and grow a new one :-)
Users will face new clustering limitations and will have to eliminate all Exchange 5.5 servers from their environments. In addition, they will not be able to do any in-place upgrades between Exchange 2000/2003 and Exchange 2007.
.....major changes include a new role-based architecture that could require users to roll out as many as five types of Exchange servers.... The current versions gives two deployment options...
So let me get this right? Your clustering gets worse and I can't even have old versions around? Oh yeah, and don't plan on overlaying that code, let's get that new hardware. If you are large scale, plan on revisiting clustering and adding a bunch of servers to handle the roles. While they could run on fewer machines, that is not likely for a lot of users.
Bless Domino folks.
Then to add insult to the injury (as they say):
And Exchange no longer will have its own site topology but will run on top of Active Directory topology
While this is good and bad. Good because you streamline your topology management. Bad because you have to rip and migrate the topology and then rely ONLY on your AD topology. What if that tree has funny limbs that can't talk right. Cut it off and grow a new one :-)
by Chris Miller at 03:54:19 PM on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Interestingly enough they sent the link for the web conference and left the Sametime Connect 7.5 download there in advance for the upcoming conference . I am not quite sure (on a personal note) if that was the right choice since there is no formal reporting mechanism for these users yet. That link should have been disabled and the package removed until the announcement was made.
All this is my opinion, but dealing with that many test users on a test server with test code is going to get loud.
You can catch all the announcements on Vowe, Ed, Bruce and Chris W at this point.
All this is my opinion, but dealing with that many test users on a test server with test code is going to get loud.
You can catch all the announcements on Vowe, Ed, Bruce and Chris W at this point.
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by Chris Miller at 02:29:48 PM on Monday, June 19th, 2006
It was brought to my attention from an email that Microsoft is offering beta 2 of Exchange 12 as 32-bit and 64-bit. The question posed was does this mean that they will now offer it as 32-bit also when they ever release it? Umm not apparently. That is for the testing purposes only. According to their own pages, and we link and quote..
So let us not forget that Exchange is 64-bit, but the operating system itself, and the hardware to support it is not 64-bit people. Count em, add em up, spend that cash and welcome to "stable, fundamental and reliable enterprise messaging".
Wait, does that mean they are saying their past products are not even fundamental or reliable?
Q. Why isn't Microsoft also delivering a 32-bit version of Exchange Server 2007?
A. Exchange Server 2007 is designed to be a stable, reliable enterprise messaging platform that delivers the fundamentals of e-mail and calendaring while providing innovative new capabilities. These new capabilities make the messaging system more cost effective and scalable for your organization and at the same time more productive for users accessing the system. Simply put, given the new capabilities of Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft could not guarantee a high-quality 32-bit version.
Q. Will I need Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 to run Exchange Server 2007?
A Yes, to deploy Exchange Server 2007, you will need an x64 edition of Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2003 R2. Volume-licensing customers are free to exchange their 32-bit version of Windows for the 64-bit version at any time, using their media kits.
So let us not forget that Exchange is 64-bit, but the operating system itself, and the hardware to support it is not 64-bit people. Count em, add em up, spend that cash and welcome to "stable, fundamental and reliable enterprise messaging".
Wait, does that mean they are saying their past products are not even fundamental or reliable?
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by Chris Miller at 09:48:08 AM on Friday, June 16th, 2006
Listening to the press around the future of Nomad on 7.0.2 it seems that native USB support will be there, just not a full U3 install also. This is not a big deal, as not everyone has a U3 drive. This whole thing came to mind from an interview with the Kingston product manager that is on-line to read from DominoPower.
So what this means from reading, is that Notes will be installable onto any USB drive with enough space. How much will that take? Looking at a current Notes client only, you can expect to rim down templates and some other items for sure. But you will still eat up a couple hundred MB or more minimum. Security of the data is in place, so you can replicate. I am curious about the speed and performance. I am guessing a selective replication for mailfiles would be the way to go, say the last XX days of mail, so you still get folder structure.
If all this works as planned, this will become a great selling point for mobile users. Now, what about kiosks? Those won't be available in most airports, but who would trust their USB on a kiosk nowadays? I imagine with some U3 embedded anti-virus (which is available) it would be more of a warm fuzzy feeling. There is even keystroke logging detection programs.
Can you carry your entire desktop with you? I am getting there. Firefox, Trillian, Skype, soon to be Notes, a PDF reader, OpenOffice and even Zinio for digital magazines. With a couple GB USB drive and U3, visiting the parents and not tugging along the laptop will be a breeze
So what this means from reading, is that Notes will be installable onto any USB drive with enough space. How much will that take? Looking at a current Notes client only, you can expect to rim down templates and some other items for sure. But you will still eat up a couple hundred MB or more minimum. Security of the data is in place, so you can replicate. I am curious about the speed and performance. I am guessing a selective replication for mailfiles would be the way to go, say the last XX days of mail, so you still get folder structure.
If all this works as planned, this will become a great selling point for mobile users. Now, what about kiosks? Those won't be available in most airports, but who would trust their USB on a kiosk nowadays? I imagine with some U3 embedded anti-virus (which is available) it would be more of a warm fuzzy feeling. There is even keystroke logging detection programs.
Can you carry your entire desktop with you? I am getting there. Firefox, Trillian, Skype, soon to be Notes, a PDF reader, OpenOffice and even Zinio for digital magazines. With a couple GB USB drive and U3, visiting the parents and not tugging along the laptop will be a breeze
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by Chris Miller at 11:27:35 AM on Thursday, June 15th, 2006
The first thing anyone can do is the quick grab of the controls through HTTP browsing. Lotus provides a nice chart showing the location:
(chart removed for a second, it was giving me blog sizing issues, you can find it in the technote)
The long run is to have some back end script for locked-down users actually extract the pieces of the cab file and place the DLL on their system. Not a pleasant experience but just what we had to deal with. Hence the reason for this posting. The users could not accept the controls themselves so an alternate way to push them out had to e designed. Lotus addressed just that with technote #1214819.
(chart removed for a second, it was giving me blog sizing issues, you can find it in the technote)
The long run is to have some back end script for locked-down users actually extract the pieces of the cab file and place the DLL on their system. Not a pleasant experience but just what we had to deal with. Hence the reason for this posting. The users could not accept the controls themselves so an alternate way to push them out had to e designed. Lotus addressed just that with technote #1214819.
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by Chris Miller at 01:25:00 PM on Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
I want to, I really do. So let me read the NDA and license agreement about Sametime 7.5 so I can unblur that picture some. I don't want to tell any trade secrets or show things that might not make it to production, just the simple things like what you see on press and other blogs (hint hint Ted Stanton of IBM).
by Chris Miller at 03:06:00 PM on Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
One of the first admin questions dealt with local users still being able to utilize type-down addressing. I had not thought about that in years! Apparently, looking at recent technotes, it broke in 6.5.1 for the client. Technote #1168872 describes the settings required to let this function work correctly. Searching further I found technote #1084833 that covers type-down addressing and directory catalogs. I might have to look into playing around with this.
Another question from an attendee wished to restrict certain users from receiving SMTP mail (SEC needs and requirements) and still have them receive SMTP mail from internal applications. There was too many users to add by name to SMTP restricted fields (where groups don't work). Instead, it was suggested to selectively remove them from replication to the edge SMTP servers (or put flag for LDAP from spam filter) and then point the internal applications to inside servers directly. A simple solution for the problem.
Sametime on Blackberry came up at the end. They just wanted hints and tips which no one had any up front. So can some readers assist?
Another question from an attendee wished to restrict certain users from receiving SMTP mail (SEC needs and requirements) and still have them receive SMTP mail from internal applications. There was too many users to add by name to SMTP restricted fields (where groups don't work). Instead, it was suggested to selectively remove them from replication to the edge SMTP servers (or put flag for LDAP from spam filter) and then point the internal applications to inside servers directly. A simple solution for the problem.
Sametime on Blackberry came up at the end. They just wanted hints and tips which no one had any up front. So can some readers assist?
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by Chris Miller at 10:20:44 AM on Monday, June 12th, 2006
I promised to blog last week from the conference and did not. Time flew and I kept saying, I will do it shortly. Plus, my posting announcing the conference didn't even post for some odd reason. I republished that 6/7 posting today and it worked.
So, attendance was great. The attendees were great. Now for the specs.
Very few running Domino 7 out of the group. A few test servers here and there, but no real production yet. Domino 5 was still running in a few shops. The session on Domino Domain Monitoring was well received as many had no investigated the abilities it had to offer. There was great interest in the Sametime 7.5 product, people were asking about what it would offer them. They were not pleased to hear that the integrated client would not see many of those features. Understandable since many run Sametime not just for the awareness, but the free chat services of the IMLU.
Side questions are the ones that interest me most. What I mean is questions that do not get asked in front of everyone, but are brought to us as presenters on the side when there is a break or lunch. I had a couple on SMTP, a couple on Nomad and a few on various issues/problems that are always unique to that persons environment. There was one I have to investigate and get back to them. Looking at Stats and DDM is there anyway to see diskspace on AIX and monitor it? Novell and Windows are covered in there.
I also pushed some people to forgo the upgrade from 6.5.x to 6.5.5 or so and go into Domino 7.0.1 instead. The upgrade is simple and straightforward, so why waste the time with the in-between point version that requires just as much of an outage?
P.S. Dinner was awesome the nights I was there. We went off the beaten path to Tufano's with Jon Raslowski of IBM. Excellent Italian food and they only take cash and checks, amazing in itself. Another night of dinner was spent at Star of Siam for Thai food. Hot, spicy and excellent. Close walking distance to the hotel we were in and we were lucky enough to get a seat the moment we walked in. I took pictures of Cirque Shanghai that we caught the second night they were there. The first was sold out to dignitaries and the such. Impressive acts (well we could stand to lose Marco Polo) and very affordable show. No reason to sit in the first few rows for the extra few dollars, as all seats are great in that outdoor amphitheater. From reading reviews and such, they made over 400 costumes for the performers across the different acts for the show.
So, attendance was great. The attendees were great. Now for the specs.
Very few running Domino 7 out of the group. A few test servers here and there, but no real production yet. Domino 5 was still running in a few shops. The session on Domino Domain Monitoring was well received as many had no investigated the abilities it had to offer. There was great interest in the Sametime 7.5 product, people were asking about what it would offer them. They were not pleased to hear that the integrated client would not see many of those features. Understandable since many run Sametime not just for the awareness, but the free chat services of the IMLU.
Side questions are the ones that interest me most. What I mean is questions that do not get asked in front of everyone, but are brought to us as presenters on the side when there is a break or lunch. I had a couple on SMTP, a couple on Nomad and a few on various issues/problems that are always unique to that persons environment. There was one I have to investigate and get back to them. Looking at Stats and DDM is there anyway to see diskspace on AIX and monitor it? Novell and Windows are covered in there.
I also pushed some people to forgo the upgrade from 6.5.x to 6.5.5 or so and go into Domino 7.0.1 instead. The upgrade is simple and straightforward, so why waste the time with the in-between point version that requires just as much of an outage?
P.S. Dinner was awesome the nights I was there. We went off the beaten path to Tufano's with Jon Raslowski of IBM. Excellent Italian food and they only take cash and checks, amazing in itself. Another night of dinner was spent at Star of Siam for Thai food. Hot, spicy and excellent. Close walking distance to the hotel we were in and we were lucky enough to get a seat the moment we walked in. I took pictures of Cirque Shanghai that we caught the second night they were there. The first was sold out to dignitaries and the such. Impressive acts (well we could stand to lose Marco Polo) and very affordable show. No reason to sit in the first few rows for the extra few dollars, as all seats are great in that outdoor amphitheater. From reading reviews and such, they made over 400 costumes for the performers across the different acts for the show.
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by Chris Miller at 05:42:00 AM on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
We are on hold for more cities at this time, but if you are one of the large bunch singed up for this stop, see you shortly in Chicago!
I will blog as usual from there.
I will blog as usual from there.
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by Chris Miller at 04:54:23 PM on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
What growth?
Is there too many conversions to Domino from Exchange going on? People running scared of the 64-bit requirement of the future? No one really has it installed as true Exchange licenses and they are counting every freaking Office license sold?
Whew, you can tell I am about to hit the road for a few days for another conference.
You recently signed up for the Radicati Group's "Microsoft Exchange Installed Base & Forecast Growth" Teleconference whihc was scheduled for Thursday, June 22nd. This teleconference has been cancelled and will be rescheduled to take place later in the year. You will receive an email about it when a date is set. We apologize for any incovenience.
Is there too many conversions to Domino from Exchange going on? People running scared of the 64-bit requirement of the future? No one really has it installed as true Exchange licenses and they are counting every freaking Office license sold?
Whew, you can tell I am about to hit the road for a few days for another conference.
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by Chris Miller at 11:15:00 AM on Monday, June 5th, 2006
- IBM and RIM announce a stronger partnership to improve performance and extend more application access thorough Web Services in Domino 7
- IBM announces an upcoming free 20 hour installation and configuration support for Websphere Everyplace. It includes designing, architecting and installing. Nice touch to get more usage from the product. They will be using partners for this free 20 hours as well.
- If you happen to use Whale Communications for your reverse-proxy or as an air-gap device in front of Domino for SSL support, they were snapped up by Microsoft a couple weeks ago. I picture their Domino support dwindling like previous anti-virus providers that got bought too.
- MySpace annouced their own IM client. Just what we need, more reason for people in the free world to live on that site. It is reported to be the fatest growing place on the Internet.
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by Chris Miller at 10:49:52 AM on Friday, June 2nd, 2006
This was a file (a simple database made from a standard template) that had to be placed back onto the cluster via system file copy. So when Domino saw it, it was skewed in size for some reason. This file also had local access protection enabled so compact could not clean that up. Waiting till the next day for overnight maintenance to run actually gave another twist. Instead of a file size, it now had N/A as the file size since it could not read it properly.
We are cleaning up the local access protection issue and letting it run again.
We are cleaning up the local access protection issue and letting it run again.
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