Even if you're totally pure IBM/Domino/Websphere folks, this is a short page worth reviewing. In 2007 & 2010, Microsoft has been making some pretty good swings, chipping away at the server superiority that Domino has had for 10 years. There are some things here that should be straightforward to add to Domino, but aren't there (like treating a person's server-based archive as 100% part of the user mail experience). There are also some things that Domino doesn't do out of the box. But could.
1: Legal hold Over the last several years, it has become increasingly more common for an organization’s email messages to be subpoenaed as part of the litigation process. The problem is that email is dynamic in nature. Messages are constantly being sent, received, and deleted. Likewise, messages in the archives are often set to expire after a specific length of time. All of these factors have made it difficult to comply with litigation-related message retention requirements.
Exchange 2010 offers a new legal hold feature. This feature allows you to preserve the contents of an Exchange mailbox. Users can still use their mailbox in the usual manner, but copies of all items are retained, even if they delete them or if archived content would otherwise have expired.
2: Multi mailbox search A complementary feature to legal hold is the new multi mailbox search feature. This feature makes it a lot easier for organizations to perform E-discovery. As the name implies, multi mailbox search allows a designated person to perform organization-level searches across users’ mailboxes. The search interface is designed to allow administrators to search for multiple keywords or phrases simultaneously.
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4: Database availability groups Exchange 2007 provided several high availability features, such as Cluster Continuous Replication. Exchange 2010 takes things a step further with database availability groups. Database availability groups allow you to designate multiple servers to host copies of individual databases. In the event of a failure, Exchange can automatically recover. Databases are no longer server specific, so you are free to mix and match the database replicas that are hosted on each mailbox server.
5: Database-level failover In previous Exchange Server cluster implementations, a failure required an entire cluster node to fail over. This meant that if a server was hosting multiple databases, and the disks associated with a single database were to fail, the entire server would have to fail over — which would be disruptive to users whose mailboxes weren’t even stored on the failed disks.
In contrast, Exchange 2010 supports database-level fail over. That way, if a failure affects only a single database, that database can fail over without disrupting the other databases on the server.
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8: Personal archive In Exchange 2010, each user can now have two mailboxes — a primary mailbox and an archive mailbox. By using an archive mailbox, users can keep their primary mailboxes uncluttered. They’re free to browse their archive mailbox at will, and items can be automatically moved from their primary mailbox to their archive mailbox using retention policies.
9: Retention policies Retention policies allow messages to be tagged in a way that reflects their useful lifespan and what should happen when they expire. For example, you could specify that items in one folder should be deleted after 30 days, while items in another folder should be moved to the archives after five years. Users can also apply retention policies to individual messages that are separate from folder-level policies.
Jobs reveals an IOS4 update
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 7:16a Craig Wiseman From The Inquirer: Jobs reveals an IOS4 update By Nick Farrell Mon Aug 23 2010, 10:39 AND IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK of Jobs that the people of Steve were perplexed at IOS4 for it did not do what was written on the packet for the users of the less than holy Iphone 3G. They did moan and vex that IOS4 was a pile of dog poo, "dog slow", and not worthy of the Apple label. And so Steve did go up the mountain to tell God what he must do next and lo he did come back down the mountain having t [read] Keywords: apple
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You know you’re from Louisana when...
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 12:17p Craig Wiseman I've been working on this list for some time (please suggest any additions!) . I posted a version of this a while ago. You know you're from Louisiana when You look both ways before crossing a one way street. When a truck drives by spraying poisonous chemicals into the air, you don't call the EPA. You happily/maniacally think, "Die Mosquitos, DIE." You take advantage of the fact your license plate lets you use the handicap spots when visiting other states. This makes you cry. Even [read] Keywords:
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IBM, Lotus, Microsoft, et al - Here’s a PROPER upgrade dialog box progress bar: Steal THIS UI idea!
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 1:17a Craig Wiseman This evening, I'm upgrading a modern operating system, and it displays the progress bar below. What's important here? It gives you two (equally) important bits of information: A) What the install's doing at the moment, and; B) Where we are in the overall install process. I know this goes against the "give the user flashy dialogs that distract them and don't tell them where they are in the install" meme, but you really really need to go (back) to this. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Re: Lotus Knows suggestion - the Swiss Army Knife approach
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 2:35p Craig Wiseman Mr. Osborne makes an excellent and reasonable suggestion - sell/market Lotus Notes/Domino for what it is: A Swiss Army knife-like "can do just about everything pretty well" platform. One key problem that I see is that there is no clear agreement across IBM that this is the case. Or even within Lotus, for that matter. In fact, I'll use pictures (like Mr. Osborne) to explain: [read] Keywords: domino
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File Protection issue installing Domino upgrades fixpacks on Windows Server 2008 R2?
Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 11:04a Craig Wiseman So you've got your new Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit, 16GB RAM server all ready to go. You install Lotus Domino 8.5.1 (64bit). Being a good admin, you then try and install FP3 (and eventually hotfixes, etc). The FixPack install has issues, though: Because it can't rename the file on each file it wants to update. This is because in Windows 7+, you have an manually grant permission to rename these kinds of files. The only solution I found was (as you can see from the screen [read] Keywords: admin
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Geauxjira - Godzilla of the Gulf
Sat, May 22nd 2010 4:19p Craig Wiseman Geauxjira is a brief homage to some famous scenes in Ishiro Honda's movie Gojira (1954), better known in English as Godzilla. Whereas Godzilla was created from nuclear explosions, Geauxjira is a giant crawfish spawned by leaking crude oil. On April 21st, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven people perished in the explosion. As we made our movie, thousands of barrels of oil leaked every day on the Gulf of Mexico's floor, causing the biggest environmental [read] Keywords: application
