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What the Nomadic MVPs are VMWaring This Year
The mp3 uploaded for Episode 6 contains presentations on:
* New Lotus Foundations announcements
* Chris Whisonant's Lotus Nomad tip
* Lotus MVP Program or lack there of
* Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Refresh/Replace design smart icons
David Killingsworth offers some information on how you can add Smart Icons to you Admin Client. He has posted a couple of formulas you can add as smart icons to your toolbar.
Discovering Dojo for Domino: Part 1- The basics
Michelle recently inherited responsibility for some Domino applications that use Dojo. Which means she needs to learn Dojo, probably quickly. You can follow her quest to learn Dojo, starting with the basics, on her blog.
Dear IBM, Ultralite Rocks !
Jack Dausman didn't think the iPhone was that impressive as he set them up with iNotes Ultralite. Then users started talking about turning in their Blackberries.
Logging And Monitoring Your BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Gabriella Davis, the Technical Director of The Turtle Partnership, will be presenting a webinar on how the BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with your Domino environment. You need to pre-register for the webinar which is scheduled for November 17, 2008.
Lotus Connections and Sametime Awareness on UID
Luis Benitez offers a quick tip on how to set up Lotus Connections to do lookups via UID (Universal Identifier) instead of using someone's e-mail address.
Utility to list signers of all agents in all databases
Paul Mooney presented an agent debugging session at Admin2008 during which he mentioned a free tool for listing all signers of all agents in all databases on a server. Dennis van Remortel has posted his version of the tool on his blog.
Defrag on a SANS environment
Victor Toal has heard all the reasons why defragging doesn't work for SAN drives. But he keeps hoping. Now Adam Osbourne says defragging a SAN can quadruple read and backup times. So... Victor is looking for someone willing to offer their SAN for testing.
Migrating from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8
A new white paper offering instructions and tips for administrators preparing to move users from Microsoft Exchange to Notes/Domino 8
mNotes released for Symbian OS
mNotes, from CommonTime, is now available for Symbian PDA's and Smartphones takingLotus Notes functionality for mobile email and PIM to another level. CommonTime is offering a free 30 day evaluation of this new product.
How large databases affect IBM Lotus Domino server performance
This article on DeveloperWorks explores the effect large databases have on IBM Lotus Domino performance. As some admins have found, large databases can degrade performance.
The Limits of Backwards Compatibility
David N Schaffer has a Notes 4 server running. It's been running for years and is even in its own Domino domain. Until he upgraded the rest of his installation to ND8 it held some replicas of databases. That's when he found out how old R4 really is.
Full Text message: Work area overflown due to many hits
Dmytro Pastovenskyi got this interesting error message when trying to execute NotesDatabase.FTSearch(query, 0). While Dmytro found an answer to the problem on an IBM forum, I'd like to know what flew over his work area.
How Notes performance can degrade on bad networks: and one way to fix it
Anthony Holmes has run into a variety of things that can slow down Notes/Domino. On his blog he discusses a number of issues that can cause slowness and tells you what you might want to look for to fix it.
Help Name Our New Application Results (Finally!)
Corey Davis of Conxsys has announced the results of his "Help Name Our New Application" contest. The new name is nsfRewind. What does it do? It sits on your server and monitor's Server Documents for changes. If a change occurs nsfRewind logs it. Then, if a Server Document field is modified, intentionally or otherwise, the field can reverted to the original value without massive hair-pulling. Corey will be looking for Beta testers in the next couple of weeks, he promises.
A new planet is born: PlanetIDS.com
Adam Gartenberg announces the birth of a new Informix community site from his blog. The new blog aggregation site, PlanetIDS.com, will include links to videos, books, Redbooks, documentation, and forums.
Feedback needed: Open catalogs for Lotus Notes/Domino applications
Niklas Heidloff is working on ideas to help the Notes/Domino development community and would like your input. One of his ideas is to create open and public catalogs of applications. He lists both suggestions for future catalogs and a list of current catalogs on his blog.
New article: Lotus Awards deadline extended one week
Winning a Lotus award is a big thing. It could be just the boost your business is looking for, and it's a point of pride for those companies that win. If you've been thinking about submitting your solution for the 2009 Lotus Awards, you're in luck. The deadline for the awards has been extended by one week.
Read this DominoPower article.
SNTF: How to stop your BES from trying to access a Domino Server
Ray Bilyk offers a 'Show-n-Tell' on keeping your BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) from accessing your Domino Servers. Major electrical work meant the Domino Server at one site would be down. But that meant the BES wouldn't be able to access the data for users on that server. RIM Support helped find a simple solution to the problem.
New version of NSD analyzer available: 2.7
Vladislavs Tatarincevs has posted 3 links on this blog page. The first leads to a document on using the NSD Analyzer. The second is a link to download the analyzer, and the third is a link to and article on NOTES.NET on how to configure NSD.
Ed Brill would like to recognize your Notes 8 deployment at Lotusphere
Ed is looking for one or more companies that have successfully deployed Notes 8.0.x to either 1000+ seats of a large company or everyone in a company of 500 or more employees for recognition at Lotusphere 2009. He promises something more than a T-shirt for your efforts.
SuperNTF 0.9.7d Released
A new release of SuperNTF, with a lot of bug fixes, usability tweaks, and quick start documentation, is ready for download.
The LotusScript to C-API Testing Harness
If you've tried to call Notes C-API functions from LotusScript, or had to do an 'Option Declare', Bill Buchan offers a methodology without recourse to Option Declare.
Upgrading local Lotus Notes templates
Steve Castledine's customer found their bookmark templates had not updated. They were fixing this the hard way, by using Replace Design and restarting. Steve tells you how to fix the problem by editing the Notes.ini.
HowTo Fix: duplicate PUIDs found
What do you do when the following line appears on the console: "64 duplicate PUIDs (Privacy Universal Identifiers) found while initializing Domino Domain Monitoring"? Bastian Wieczorek offers a quick tip to end the errors.
Quickr 8.1 FixPack 2 available
FixPack 2 for Quickr 8.1 for Domino, with 40 or so fixes, is available now for download from Fix Central.
"Could not find the main class" while running Quickr hotfix installer
Michael Urspringer offers a heads-up if you run Quickr with non-English settings. You may get the error "Could not find the main class. Program will exit" while running the Java installer for Quickr (Domino) fixpack 8102. If you do, temporarily change the region settings of your server to "English".
Free online presentation on BES logging and monitoring
Gabriella Davis will be giving an online presentation on Blackberry Server Logging and Monitoring at the next Lotus User Group Virtual Meeting. The meeting, at 12:00 noon Eastern (GMT -5) on November 17, 2008, is free to Lotus User Group Members. Remember to register for this presentation.
Dojo 1.2 database added to downloads section
If you use Dojo with Domino, you might be interested in Dojomino. The Dojo 1.2 database has just been posted which contains the Dojo 1.2 gold files. If you want the Dojomino code as well, wait a few days for the Dojomino 1.2 download which will contain the Dojo 1.2 code.
Wrong MTU makes Notes look slow, but it's not true
Andy Pedisich was having some problems sending Notes mail with large attachments to the internet. After checking all the moving parts in his system, he started checking non-moving parts. What he found was interesting.
Capturing KeyPresses in Client Side Javascript in an XPage
Matt White was writing client side Javascript in an XPage. But the same simple function tripped him up a couple of times. He provides some code samples to help you avoid the same issue.
David on Rights Radio tomorrow
ZATZ head honcho David Gewirtz will be on the air tomorrow, talking about cyberterrorism, cyberwar, and what all that means for your own computer security. He'll be visiting with Dr. Joyce Star, who is a recognized advocate for homeowner and consumer rights and tells us that she's "the only person in the country (so far as I know) who offers one-on-one support for homeowner association problem." She sounds like someone very good to know.
You can listen in live via her home page or on BBS RadioStation 1 at 5pm EST on Wednesday, November 5.
It's the day after the election in America, so it's anyone's guess where Joyce and David will take the interview. We recommend you tune it. This is gonna be good radio!
How Atom-enabled clients communicate with the Atom API
This white paper with the very long title, "IBM Lotus Connections 2.0 Activities: How Atom-enabled clients communicate with the Atom API", describes how Atom-enabled clients can communicate with IBM Lotus Connections using the Atom API.
Deep dive into roles in Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal
This article provides information on the user four roles included with Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal. This article is intended to help customers who are adopting Lotus Quickr services for WebSphere Portal and need to map or plan user roles.
Announcing Squawk: Microblogging for Domino
An addition to the BleedYellow portfolio is an "alpha" version of a microblogging application for Domino called "Squawk". It has several integration points with Lotus Connections (no separate registration required) the application runs entirely on Domino.
What's new in Symphony 1.2?
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