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White House Email Vulnerable to Cybertheft
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An "oops" moment and the robust Notes object store
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Preparing for Ike with Domino
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Enforcing user compliance with corporate policy - Part 1
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Rethinking personal address book sharing
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Open Source for ND? Refreshing Discussions Ensue
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 114
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An "oops" moment and the robust Notes object store
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 84
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White House Email Vulnerable to Cybertheft
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 69
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Preparing for Ike with Domino
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 29
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Rethinking personal address book sharing
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 22
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Sametime, organization and administration
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 14
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Enforcing user compliance with corporate policy - Part 1
Sat, Aug 16th 2008 12
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Oops, forgot that one little detail
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Starting somewhere
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Open Source for ND? Refreshing Discussions Ensue 
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 9:50p John Rowland
The recent recommendation by Ian J Free at the HMNL blog to open source Notes Domino has gotten a lot of people talking. Comments have come from enthusiasts in many different situations -- with differing perspectives. They have me re-evaluate some of my own "knee-jerk" opinions. Steve McDonagh's comments on his own blog as well as in the discussion at Ferdy Christant's blog about a home users' Notes client made me stop and think. Henning Heinz added to the discussion that few SMBs would impleme [read] Keywords: domino
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White House Email Vulnerable to Cybertheft
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 10:50a John Rowland
This article in the Financial Times says that the WH email system has been penetrated on multiple occasions by Chinese hackers and that some mail messages have been compromised. I ask this question innocently (not as a flame): If they had not migrated to Exchange from Notes, would this have happened? If they were able to get past all other network security, would Domino security have been a last line of defense? [read] Keywords: domino
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An "oops" moment and the robust Notes object store
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 2:49p John Rowland
Things have been a little hectic recently dealing with users who were displaced from our Houston office by Hurrican Ike. Yesterday I had an incident that reminded me of how much I appreciate the nsf architecture of Notes. I was asked to take a look at a caller's mail file because the frame with the menu outline in it was blank. The user could see the mail in his inbox but had no obvious way to open any of his folders. I knew a design refresh (actually a design replace in this case) would take c [read] Keywords: admin
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Preparing for Ike with Domino
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 11:05p John Rowland
As the lead Domino admin for a multinational oil and gas company, we got stung pretty hard in 2005 when Katrina took down our New Orleans area presence for almost a year. That experience made us believers in disaster preparation and we have invested heavily in time, dollars and procedures to insure that we even if we have a disaster of that magnitude (and Ike could be an even greater magnitude), we proactively alleviate the impact to our messaging infrastructure. As I write this, Ike is a littl [read] Keywords: admin
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Enforcing user compliance with corporate policy - Part 1
Sat, Aug 16th 2008 11:16p John Rowland
Several times in the last couple of years, I have been tasked to modify our mail templates to assist enforcement of corporate acceptable use and privacy policies. The first bout I had with this issue began in mid-2005, when the legal department began pressing for as bullet-proof a method of appending legal disclaimers to email messages as we could muster up. Now, disclaimering had been introduced in R6 but it only applied to outbound webmail messages (if I recall correctly). What legal wanted w [read] Keywords: document
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Rethinking personal address book sharing
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 2:31p John Rowland
Periodically, I have a request from a manager to share his or her personal address book with one or more assistants so that they can maintain contacts for the manager. My usual course of action is to create a replica of the manager's PAB on the Domino server, grant the subordinates editor access to do their maintenance on the server replica, distribute a link to the subordinates and have the manager keep it in sync with the local original replica. What I would propose it this: since the DWA tem [read] Keywords: connections
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Sametime, organization and administration
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 11:14p John Rowland
For the past six months, we have been slowly moving toward implementing Sametime in our Domino environment. To some degree, there has been a "management of expectations" issue at work, since one of the things we had initially hoped to do with Sametime was use the gateway functions to connect our traders to AOL and Yahoo IM -- since those networks are used by the various trading groups they deal with daily. For a long time, we ignorantly assumed that the gateways involved setting up a Sametime se [read] Keywords: administration
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Oops, forgot that one little detail
Sun, Aug 10th 2008 11:53p John Rowland
Our UK headquarters emailed me early in the week to verify the (relatively few) steps to move their Domino server to new hardware. As with most, if not all, Domino server ugrades or migrations, it is a fairly easy -- usually slam dunk -- process with copying of data (mail files, etc.) taking the most time. Other than the file copies, most of these types of updates are a 10-15 minute process. You could do it at lunch with time to spare. I received an email on my Blackberry from the UK network ma [read] Keywords: document
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Starting somewhere
Mon, Jul 28th 2008 1:31a John Rowland
A while back, there was a flurry of "how I got started with Notes" blog posting. I did post a short summary on someone's blog comments -- I can't remember which blog. To get the ball rolling on my own Notes/Domino blog, I'll start there. It's as good a place as any. My interest in information technology goes back to the early '80s when I was working at a small building materials/home center chain in southwest Indiana. The owners began to roll in a minicomputer with terminals on every desk in ac [read] Keywords: admin
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