by Chris Miller at 01:59:18 PM on Monday, July 30th, 2007
So I was playing around with Trends for a customer and thought this image said some nice things. People are looking for more info on the term "Lotus Notes" than "Microsoft Exchange". Does this mean the Notes 8 market is heating up?
News volumes are fairly consistent on both sides though. Ignore the 'F' flag as that is when McAfee got all the email stuck n Lotus Notes apparently.
Just looking at the United States for the year 2007 shows the same result
by Chris Miller at 02:28:34 PM on Friday, July 27th, 2007
Then head over to the new blog from the Lotus Technical Information and Education Team Blog. They are asking for input on documentation on a few products including Sametime !
by Chris Miller at 01:49:58 PM on Friday, July 27th, 2007
I got the big email today and I had no idea!! The last Friday of every July is Sys Admin Appreciation Day. It has a site and everything! So go thank you sys admin for all the hard work they do and let them go home early
by Chris Miller at 10:05:49 AM on Friday, July 27th, 2007
I got some heat for the comments I made on Connections in the Sys Admin newsletter for July that came out a few days ago. I suggest you read my editor comments to get a feel for the topic.
Well today I went into Lotus Greenhouse after receiving another invitation. I already had an account but had not been in for months. The Quickr and Sametime offerings is a nice touch but one thing stuck out in my eyes first.
Greenhouse is able to make Sametime work over port 1533 for everyone and Sametime 7.5.1 at that. We can't seem to make this happen for the Business Partner communication link that still runs 3.1 of Sametime and won't let me log in via the Sametime client for about 8 months now (or maybe more). However, I can log into that server with the java interface (same username) or an alternate name with the Connect client successfully. Frustrating at best
So you have to know each user you wish to add to your Sametime buddylist as they have disabled browsing for any names (there is a way but most won't find it). So adding people is slow and tedious. Apparently you show online in your profile and then I am trying to see where else. Stlinks popped up after a few minutes. But they are not using a public SSL certificate so that may cause issues for some of you.
So then I poked around the forum, communities and the blogs. I must admit people are generating some content but I was looking for the thing to "grab" me at some point. But nothing quite drew me in right away. Back to the drawing board
by Chris Miller at 01:48:27 PM on Thursday, July 26th, 2007
People have been asking about how it works without installing it. Well the team updated the package with a ton of new features. They also put out a quick video that gives you a chance to see the new features and the actual reader in action.
by Chris Miller at 10:33:14 AM on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Thanks to Lars for pointing this out, but there is a typo in the July Sys Admin Tips Newsletter that went out this morning. I am glad so many of you read it.
That should read to point to the nlnotes.exe and not the ini
by Chris Miller at 03:53:36 PM on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Audio from the live BOF at Admin2007 on the new ND8 Upgrade Seminar starting in October. Make sure you register early at the website to get the discount. Join Rob, Andy and myself on the road in numerous cities to get all the knowledge you need to upgrade to Domino 8
Let us go back a couple weeks to the beginning (cue dream sequence music)
Kansas City was a blur with the speakers getting together on Sunday morning to work all day. We forced ourselves to finish the cd's and any editing. It was a long day of anticipation of the second year. We knew the alumni returning were looking for fresh and new material.
The first day went semi-smooth as our live video feed made it through Mike Rhodin fine and maxed out when Satwik went on for Quickr. A good trial experience. I will talk about the technology used in that later on. We appreciate Mike for coming to the event. The attendees gave good marks on his presentation where he personally did live demos. From there on we raced through a long day of sessions to have the first cocktail reception. The location this year was excellent and our same jazz musician returned from last year to play during the reception. I even bought a cd from him...
Day was the longest day. Due to comments from last year, we went from 3 tracks at a time to 2. This gave you a chance to see every Sametime or every Quickr session. It also made day 2 go from 8:00am to 6:45pm. Whew! They were glazed and hurting by the end of that day. I personally have both LDAP and Firewall/network sessions to give that day so I did my best to fill everyone's heads.
by Chris Miller at 06:13:28 PM on Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Well interestingly enough there is more fixes in the CF1 for Sametime 7.5.1 (there is 84) than there was in CF1 for 7.5 (there was 69). What you need to look out for is that if your fix happens to be in this maintenance release, some of the SPR's require a full installation instead of the site update version.
Keep that in mind when deploying the update. Some of the features will not be updated properly without downloading and installing the full package just as you would for a fresh install.
by Chris Miller at 06:12:46 AM on Monday, July 16th, 2007
Chris,
This is in regards to the entry in the May issue of the Sys Admin Tips newsletter from someone who wanted a tool/agent to report on user mailfile sizes and quotas. I had previously written an agent to generate just such a report. It sends a simple text email with the report details. I've attached an export of the agent as an .lss file which can be imported into any database. The only other setup that needs to be done is to set a few variables in the Initialize event (name of the server to run against, name of the person(s) to send the email to).
Hopefully you can pass this along to the person who posted the entry.
by Chris Miller at 02:01:37 AM on Friday, July 13th, 2007
It isn't often I blog about other geek toys but this one I waited patiently for.
While the beta is now closed until product launch, this looks to change the way you drive. Combine a GPS with the ability to get driving stats from other dash drivers in the area. Don't forget you can send addresses to your Dash so it will have directions ready and even grab the local movie times (or other Yahoo searches) right from the device. Then head straight there.
I love my GPS and I love my Google searching from the Blackberry for stuff as you drive around. But they were never combined into one dash sitting, summer sun grabbing, traffic avoiding, Internet connected, traffic speed sharing device. Plus 3 possible routes to the destination instead of the dreaded GPS crowded road or even closed for construction got my attention right away with all the Highway 40 reconstruction taking place the next 8 years or so here in St Louis.
by Chris Miller at 09:38:30 AM on Monday, July 9th, 2007
Carl is busy encoding the copy we will hopefully merge with the slides, but the raw broadcast I will link in a bit. We might sneak in one more session live, like the Top 10 or the overview session from Collaboration University
by Chris Miller at 12:54:00 AM on Friday, July 6th, 2007
Need I even say more than 8:30am-10AM CST on Monday July 9th 2007. We will turn on the live feed a few minutes early and run it till the opening is over. Look for some new things from Mike to be covered.
by Chris Miller at 01:36:45 PM on Friday, July 6th, 2007
CA key rollover not recommended in large organizations In Domino 8, administrators can assign a new set of public and private keys to a Domino certificate authority (CA), which are used to certify the keys of OUs, users and servers in that organization. The process of assigning new keys is known as key roll over, and is documented in the Domino Administration Help topic "Certificate authority key rollover." The CA key rollover feature has not been tested in Domino customer deployments, so its use is currently not recommended in these environments. Organizations that want to become familiar with the feature are encouraged to use the feature to roll over the keys of a test CA, and then test users in their environment.
We are testing this on a test domain and found some oddities in who got updates and who did not, plus the variance in Lotus Notes client versions plays into it.
by Chris Miller at 02:41:20 PM on Thursday, July 5th, 2007
The error uncovered by myself and John Roling (Greyhawk68) is that upon a fresh, new, virgin Quickr 8 installation, you could not log in ad the admin account specified during setup. It was guaranteed that the name was not in the directory, but it would not let me log in. SSO worked fine as I was even able to log in as my name.
After some friendly cajoling to Rob Novak, I dug deep and found that the notes.ini variable for the Quickr admin name did not match the name in the LotusQuickr\LotuysQuickr\Admin.nsf database. The very place you had to authenticate. I even ran the qptool to change the admin password incase I mistyped it originally, no go. Modifying the notes.ini variable to match the database ACL, creating a group to match the database ACL for the QuickPlaceSuperUser group and then adding the administrator group to that as a subgroup worked great. I was able to log in as myself, change the directory, security and Sametime settings and it seems Quickr is flying high on our internal server.
Oh yes, do not forget to also do the technote changes for fixes for Quickr already.
by Chris Miller at 03:52:34 PM on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
I am on the new beta for Trillian and will talk plenty about it shortly. But this one preference was more than interesting. I talked to Adam G about it briefly and he named it TiVo for Trillian. They call it Time Travel as shown in the image:
Notice you get to replay quick bursts of audio and video chat. Quite the cool tool when you miss something.
Connections developed out of an in-house toolset called IBM Innovation Factory, and features five main elements: profiles, shared bookmarks, activities, communities and blogs.....
"Profiling is an evolution of your Linkedin or Myspace page, adding management, activities and so on," says Lepofsky. "We could have built it in the Domino directory, but we also wanted to be able to reach non-Domino customers and users."
The part that struck me is that support for the Domino Directory via LDAP was not tossed into the V1 release. Basically going in the opposite direction. Instead of not just offering it for Domino customers, it alienated pushes against what they built for years and points them into another directory direction. (Domino LDAP support is rumored to be coming in a point release though) With the upcoming Sametime and Quickr integration, which shares presence through any LDAP source, including the Domino Directory, will have to be merged into this architecture. Mainly if you have already built the integration point against Domino LDAP and combined the presence.
I really wish the first release would have reached into Domino LDAP and made the sale easier into some of the existing Domino customers.
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.