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I hereby revoke the privilege of calling yourself ’Lotus Notes Administrator’
Mat Newman    

A very, VERY sad but true story.

The Good:

Servers are all running 8.5.3

The Bad:

Active users are running anything from 6.5.4 to 8.5.2.

No User Training, No ID recovery, No ID Vault, No DAOS, No Roaming, No Policies, No Managed Replicas, No iNotes access, No SameTime, No Traveler, No Databases, Laptop Users are on VPN with No Local Replicas, and Internet Messages are being converted to Plain Text.

How:

The free Panagenda Analyze tells no lies, and is a great addition to our 'Health Check' arsenal.

What's Next:

Please put your Business Cards in the Bin. No wonder your users hate Lotus Notes.

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http://www.matnewman.com/webs/personal/matblog.nsf/dx/i-hereby-revoke-the-privilege-of-calling-yourself-lotus-notes-administrator
Feb 07, 2012
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Using the new IBM ODBC Driver for Notes-Domino 9.0 (formerly Lotus Notes SQL)
Tue, Jun 18th 2013 6:18a   Mat Newman
The following demonstration steps through installing and configuring the new IBM ODBC driver for Notes/Domino 9 (formerly Notes SQL driver). This demonstration utilises Microsoft Windows 8 as the Operating System and OpenOffice to test the configured connection. Enjoy! [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes microsoft odbc openoffice sql
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IBM Notes 9 - Hide duplicates in the Calendar Overlay
Fri, Jun 7th 2013 12:39a   Mat Newman
Fantastic new IBM Notes 9 feature that automatically hides duplicate entries (eg: multiple people attending the same meeting) when showing additional calendars using overlays. Here's the Demo: [read] Keywords: ibm notes
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 5: What happened to my Toolbars
Wed, May 29th 2013 1:15a   Mat Newman
One of the design goals for IBM Notes 9 was to simplify the user experience and streamline the user interface. Yep, time to fire up the DeLorean and switch on the time-circuits folks, we're heading back to March 1999! Ahhh ... 1999. The world was in the grip of the Millennium Bug frenzy, Bill was in the White House, John was in the Lodge, Cher was 'Top of the Pops' and we waited in anticipation for the first of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel's to hit the cinemas. And Lotus came out [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes bug database eclipse interface wiki
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How to insert your mail signature in a Lotus Notes meeting invitation
Tue, May 28th 2013 12:05a   Mat Newman
A couple of weeks ago Russ Maher flicked me a question via twitter whether it was possible to include a Lotus Notes mail signature in a Meeting Invitation. Well, of course it is! It's Notes, and Notes can do anything! :-) Initially I thought this was going to require a major hack of the mail file. However, further investigation revealed an agent in the mail database design that I hadn't really noticed before; it's called - interestingly enough - "(InsertSignature)". Guess what it do [read] Keywords: acl admin agent domino ibm lotus notes database email interface properties twitter
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Using IBM Notes data as a source for Google Maps API
Wed, May 22nd 2013 10:20p   Mat Newman
During the past couple of weeks I've been consulting for a customer who required some heavy integration between IBM Notes data and Google Maps. That project is in it's final stages and is close to coming online. What that experience has shown me is how (relatively) simple it is to take source data from a Notes application and present that information using the Google Maps API on the web for public consumption. To begin with, the complete Google Maps API (v3) is available here for your re [read] Keywords: ibm notes R6 application consulting database google integration javascript properties
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Getting stated with IBM Notes 9 on Ubuntu 12.10 or 13.04 x64
Sun, May 12th 2013 9:13a   Mat Newman
IBM Notes 9 installs without any problems on both 12.10 and 13.04 x32 flavour. However, the x64 version has a few tricks that you need to repair before you can run the installation files. Over on Usablesoftware's blog there's a nice reference to the steps required to get IBM Notes 9 installed. With the fantastic assistance of Jason Hatch from IBM, I learned that the only thing required to get Notes 9 running on x64 was to remove some dependancies from the control file in the IBM supplied [read] Keywords: ibm inotes notes sametime application email properties widgets ubuntu




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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 4: Discovering the new Notes welcome screen
Wed, Apr 17th 2013 6:10a   Mat Newman
One of the features to receive the biggest makeover in IBM Notes 9 is the startup screen, with the introduction of the all-new 'Discover' page (or rather: pages). Previous releases of Notes utilised the notes Workspace (Lotus Notes 1-4) or the Welcome screen (Notes 5 - 8) as the content of the 'display' pane users first encountered when the Notes client is launched. Users familiar with both the Workspace and Welcome Screen will be pleased to know that these features have also received a [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm lotus notes notes client application applications community database interface wiki workspace
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 3: The Search Box
Wed, Apr 10th 2013 1:13a   Mat Newman
In Part 2: Introducing the Masthead, we discussed the new Masthead feature in IBM Notes 9, and briefly touched on the Search box, which has now been moved - with the IBM Social them applied - from the Toolbar to the Masthead. The Search box itself has a fantastic new feature which deserves it's own post, which is: IBM Notes 9 can now simultaneously search all Mail, Including the current Users Mail database and all archives configured for that user! YAY! The option needs to be se [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes notes client application applications archive database outlook
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#IBMNotes9 Proud to be a ...
Tue, Apr 9th 2013 9:00p   Mat Newman
Notes User: Notes Developer: Notes Administrator: [read] Keywords: ibm notes
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Getting Started with IBM Notes 9 - Part 2: Introducing the Masthead
Mon, Apr 8th 2013 5:43p   Mat Newman
With the introduction of IBM Notes 9, one of the major design goals was to implement the IBM "One UI" experience with an updated interface to the Notes client. Within the FRAMEWORK utilised by the OneUI design principals, major navigation elements are located across the top of the 'page'. Feedback supplied to IBM designers also indicated that many users 'lost' the quick links to their Personal Information Management (PIM) applications (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, To-Dos, etc) with the intro [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes notes client application applications interface workspace




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