Admin2005 Europe conference overview
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Deep breathe, the conference is over. Eight
sessions later I can still talk and slept in till almost noon today. So
here is some of my thoughts and pictures that I have begun
to upload (give me a minute
to finish them please).
Great crowd of people, hands down. Always a little quieter than the
same conference in the US, but after 2 days they loosened up and made each
sessions a lot of learning and laughs. I think once it was seen how
most of us present, including the interaction I almost demand, there was
some great questions.
Most everyone is on Domino 5 with very few on 6 still, usually due to political
reasons. The number than had gone to Domino 7 was a little greater
than those still on 5, but not much. Most had a test server around
somewhere. I was curious about the hesitations and the usual response
was they were not instructed to upgrade yet. The satisfaction with
Domino was very high. Most issues or problems some one of us could
provide some insight into or there was technotes already issued.
Considering I had a three sessions on SMTP topics, I got to see some, well
interesting, routing that companies choose over here. I was a bit
taken back by a couple and the reasoning. But, that was not due to
the attendees. Instead it was environments they had inherited from
previous administrators. In my sessions, there was only a handful
total that had actually built their infrastructure from the ground
up.
The Sametime session on instant messaging had almost a full adoption rate
in the room. I only recall 2 people that had not yet installed it
that were in the room. That is great!! Overall there was no
major issues. Most everyone was there looking to expand or provide
greater growth of the chat services. One such company had a test
pilot of under 10 users but wanted to investigate rollout to all 20-30,000
(I cant recall which he said, sorry).
Now the big session I had was Domino Domain Monitoring (followed very closely
by Automatic Diagnostic Collection). DDM was very new to most since
they did not have 7, but when I pointed out you could still probe ND6 servers
with it, just not add them to the collection hierarchies or run it on them,
they were shocked at what it could do. The timesaving alone in gathering
the data sold many of them. The exposure to live demos really drove
the point home as I connected to live servers in the US that I have been
running a collection hierarchy on since September to show all the gathered
data, alerts and collapsing of duplicate information inside the same entries,
with logging of the number of times it occurred I could hear (but not understand)
some of the whispering in the room and excitement.
So Automatic Diagnostic Collection was an even bigger time-saver and surprise
for some. The ability to have the clients automatically send the
NSD files to a central repository, and then using that same ND7 server
for DDM, they could run the Fault Analyzer task. I had a group of
people find me later to really understand how to put the two together in
a plan they could sell to management. I was pleased to see the interest
sparked by the session.
So in closing, awesome time, pictures are already starting to go
on the web as I said above
and I look forward to seeing some of these same attendees next year. Hopefully
they saw the advantage at being at this conference and will be back!
Tot straks !!
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On Thursday, December 8th, 2005 by Chris Miller
