Combination feed of all the Collaboration Matters blogs (Collaboration Matters!, Quickr Blog, Connections Blog, Symphony Blog, Lotusphere Blog and LotusLive Blog)
Back on stage!
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 11:34a Stuart McIntyre I am absolutely delighted to announce that I'll be back at the awesome Netherlands Lotus User Group (NLLUG) in a week's time (September 9-10, 2010). As one of the larger user groups around, NLLUG is a brilliant example of what can be achieved by true collaboration amongst a group of committed individuals: 2 Days - 4 Tracks - 55 Sessions 3 Sub-themes - Social, Cloud and XPages Amazing location - the Amsterdam ArenA (home of Ajax) Product Showcase - 24 booths 300+ registered attend [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM now asking users to register to access content... on Slideshare!
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 5:50a Stuart McIntyre As if the hoops IBM asks users to jump through to access downloads, demos, and some technical information on its own site aren't enough, today I hit this... Yep, IBM is now asking users to fill in a form to access a presentation it has shared via Slideshare - a social content sharing site! Sometimes I think IBM (or more particularly, Lotus) 'gets it', and then sometimes... [read] Keywords: ibm
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SNAPPS launch SNAPP-On Modules for Lotus Quickr
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 6:30a Stuart McIntyre Rob Novak, president of SNAPPS, brings us news of the company's latest developments for the Lotus Quickr Services for Domino product line:As I announced here on Aug 16th, SNAPPS was working on some user-focused plug-in modules for the "My Places" area of Lotus Quickr for Domino. Well today I can happily say it is a fait accompli, and ready for production! We've developed three to start with, and more are in the works. The Modules work with versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.5 (beta or GA, when that comes) [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Quickr 8.5 beta now on the Greenhouse
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 4:29a Stuart McIntyre After many months of development and with full GA coming sometime in the next couple of months, Lotus Quickr 8.5 Services for Domino has now been loaded onto the Lotus Greenhouse. Community Manager Peter Burkhardt reports:Lotus Quickr Domino 8.5 Beta upgrade complete We have completed the upgrade of our Lotus Quickr Domino server to the 8.5 Beta version for everyone to try out!! This upgrade took slightly longer than expected due to the number of places that we have (we'll need to do so [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 now available
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 12:30p Stuart McIntyre Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 is now available! Give it a try. Tell us what you think. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta represents a major new advancement for our Lotus Symphony users. Based on current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta offers loads of new features and capabilities and improved file fidelity. The Lotus Symphony team is excited to get it out to you and get your feedback. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 adds some exciting new enhancements. We've focused on performance. In addition w [read] Keywords: lotus
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Forbes.com: The Benefits Of Enterprise Social Media
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 7:20a Stuart McIntyre An interesting conversation between Forbes.com's Dan Woods and IBM's VP of Social Software Jeff Schick covering the use of Connections Activities for knowledge capture and discovery:Dan Woods: Why is it important to look beyond the collaborative dial tone and explore the opportunity for knowledge capture and process discovery? Jeff Schick: There are people who know how to do things and people who need to know how to do things. Whether the activity is on-boarding an employee, submitting a pat [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Business Partner? Get a free year’s subscription to LotusLive Engage, Meetings or iNotes
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 1:10p Stuart McIntyre This offer has been hidden away in the depths (!) of PartnerWorld for a while now, but is beginning to get more publicity which is good news for both IBM Business Partners and the LotusLive community. If you are an IBM BP at Premier, Advanced or Member level (i.e. all partners), and either want to learn more about the LotusLive offerings, or even better, want to collaborate more effectively with your customers and partners then this offer could float your boat:In this time of travel restrict [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Wow, a Lotus Notes book for end users
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 6:51a Stuart McIntyre For a good number of years, I've been one of a number of community folks bemoaning the lack of Lotus-focused publications on the shelves of our local Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders bookshops. Thankfully, Packt Publishing have stepped into the breach this year, and are in the process of writing and publishing books on Sametime and Quickr amongst others. A Google alert this weekend make me aware of a User Guide for Lotus Notes 8.5 that is about to be published, also by Packt Publ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Connections 3.0 Beta now in the Greenhouse
Mon, Aug 9th 2010 4:20a Stuart McIntyre The techies on the Lotus Greenhouse team have been busy this weekend - Lotus Connections 3.0 Beta is now available on the Greenhouse... Whilst there are still some issues to be ironed out, it looks as though the first deployment of the Connections 3.0 beta onto the Greenhouse has been a success. Check it out! [read] Keywords: connections
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Quickr 8.2 cluster on a go slow?
Thu, Jul 8th 2010 9:10a Stuart McIntyre Many customers I work with have Lotus Quickr 8.2 Services for Domino clusters, fronted by IP Sprayer technology for load-balancing and failover. This solution works well for availability and performance purposes, but takes quite a lot of configuration. As usual, the Infocenter gives most of the information needed, but doesn't provide much context as to how or why these steps are necessary, nor indeed what to do if things go wrong. An example of this occurred this morning, when one clu [read] Keywords: domino
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Interesting new LotusLive Engage case study
Thu, Jul 8th 2010 6:40a Stuart McIntyre Another useful case study/reference for IBM LotuslIve Engage in the UK:Azlan, the enterprise division of Tech Data Corporation, is a leading value-added distributor of enterprise technology solutions in Europe. The company employs more than 590 people, operates in 16 countries, and has developed a network of more than 8,000 resellers that sell hardware and software to businesses across Europe. Business need: Azlan, one of Europe’s premier IT distributors, wanted to build a network of r [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus Sametime Integration with Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Lotus Domino - 14 July 2010
Wed, Jul 7th 2010 1:10p Stuart McIntyre Definitely one for your diaries:IBM is hosting a Webcast conference call with IBM Software Engineers to discuss Sametime Integration with Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Lotus Domino on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10:00 AM EDT. The Webcast will consist of a slide presentation followed by Questions & Answers related to the material covered. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions directly of IBM Software Engineers. Title: Lotus Sametime Integration with Lotus Quickr 8.2 for Lotus Domino Date [read] Keywords: domino
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Today we sold... Please don’t do it!
Wed, Jun 30th 2010 7:30a Stuart McIntyre Folks, whilst I admire your efforts to prove that Lotus software is still being purchased by customers, please can you consider refraining from phrasing your posts as "selling" Lotus? This falls into a trap that Lotus sales folks often slide into - focusing on the license sale, not the value delivered by your solutions. What is interesting is that customers are choosing to "purchase" solutions based on Lotus technology. Talk about the value that they're gaining from your work, the innovat [read] Keywords: lotus
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If the community wants an App Store...
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 7:00a Stuart McIntyre ... then I believe it simply has to be independent - either owned and run by IBM itself (the ideal) or by a body that is outside the partner and ISV channel. The reason why I say this? NotesAppStore.com. Whilst I admire any effort made by a member of this community to improve the visibility and availability of products and solutions based on Lotus products, especially one that has clearly taken as much effort as NotesAppStore.com has, I can't help but have some serious misgivings abou [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Connections V2.5 Deployment Best Practices
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 7:00a Stuart McIntyre Just in case you're not on the mailing list for this kind of Lotus Connections information from IBM:You are invited to an IBM Technical Exchange Webcast call about Lotus Connections deployment best practices. There is no charge for participating. The topic and dial information for this call is: Title: Lotus Connections V2.5 Deployment Best Practices Date: June 23rd, 2010 Time: 10 am - 11 am eastern US time (2:00 pm GMT) Webcast access: https://www.lotuslive.com/en/join?schedid=4419191 A [read] Keywords: connections
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Issues with Oracle with Connections 2.5 RESOLUTION
Tue, Jun 15th 2010 9:04a Stuart McIntyre IBM have now released new trigger code to resolve this issue. The steps are simple Stop the application Backup the DB Run through the code to remove the Trigger Recreate the Trigger Start the primary server and test Assuming all is well start the other App Servers in the clusters As yet IBM are unsure as to how they are going to release the fix as it falls out of the typical iFix scope. If you are seeing this specific issue please contact the Lotus Connections Support team who will furni [read] Keywords: connections
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New IBM Whitepaper - Measuring the value of social software
Mon, Jun 14th 2010 5:50a Stuart McIntyre The "Measuring the Value of Social Software" white paper focuses on helping organizations answer the question: How can we determine if our social software initiatives are successful and are providing the anticipated return on technology investment? This white paper looks at how to measure the effectiveness and value of a social software initiative, what tools are available to capture key metrics, and what to take into consideration when establishing a measurement approach. Contents [read] Keywords: ibm
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Joined-up thinking
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 6:00a Stuart McIntyre Sometimes IBM does things that surprise me - occasionally that's a very bad thing, I'll admit. More often, it's because they make changes that show they are really thinking about how to make their products better and showcase the benefits that are available to organisations and their users. A case in point is the latest beta release of Lotus Symphony 3. This Beta 3 includes a lot of changes, not least a significant improvement in speed and responsiveness over the previous betas and Symp [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotusLive Plugin now available for Lotus Symphony 3 Beta
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 7:53a Stuart McIntyre The latest beta of the new release of Lotus Symphony (version 3, based on OpenOffice 3 code) was released this week - it features a huge number of improvements, not least a big increase in speed. Alongside the new beta, IBM has also issued a new Plug-in, the LotusLive Connector: LotusLive Connector : Links you to LotusLive by simple click The IBM LotusLive Connector for Lotus Symphony plugin is a plugin which simplifies creating, updating, and sharing your LotusLive files. The IBM Lotus [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 3 is now available
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 2:57a Stuart McIntyre A little late with this news, something about real life getting in the way of blogging - terrible ;-) Anyway, the latest beta of Lotus Symphony version 3 (based on OpenOffice 3 code) is now available. IBM EMEA sales leader Darren Adams does a good job of passing on the news:I’ve been using Symphony 3 on Windows and Mac since the release of beta 2 back in February. It’s a huge improvement over version 1.x – but beta 3 is another leap forward. The Symphony web site lists a f [read] Keywords: ibm
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Useful Foundations technote
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 3:41a Stuart McIntyre Thanks to Gregg Eldred for these two nuggets: Link: Limitations to Domino server within Lotus Foundations 1)For those that are unaware with the Lotus Foundations product. Lotus Foundations is (emphasis, mine) . . . A complete, out-of-the box solution designed to get businesses up and running quickly, Lotus Foundations Start maximizes business productivity with minimal IT hassle. It is an appliance server that a small business can launch within 30 minutes with self-managing features th [read] Keywords: administration
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The Radicati report - more questions
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 11:22a Stuart McIntyre As someone who is reluctant to shell out the $3,000 required to access the Radicati report in full, I find the executive summary just keeps me asking more questions: Why would Notes and Domino suddenly jump from c.130 million seats sold (which is what the general consensus suggests IBM's published number means) to 192 million by the end of this year and to 266 million by the end of 2014? The report states that it refers to "on-premise and hosted mailboxes" - one assumes this means Notes/Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Just one of the reasons why you should install FixPack2
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 11:11a Stuart McIntyre Technical Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM Lotus Connections, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions or gain knowledge of sensitive information. These issues are caused by input validation and design errors in the Dojo, Community, Homepage, Bookmarks and Blogs components, and other unspecified modules when processing user-supplied data or when connecting to certain web sites, which could allow information [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Notes/Domino "expected to grow to a total of 266 million mailboxes by 2014"
Mon, Jun 7th 2010 8:37a Stuart McIntyre A new study from Radicati Group:In 2010, IBM Lotus Domino will have an installed base of 192 million mailboxes, and is expected to grow to 266 million by 2014. This represents an average annual growth rate of 8%. o On-Premises Lotus Domino mailboxes account for the vast majority of the Lotus Domino mailboxes worldwide. In 2010, On-Premises Lotus Domino mailboxes will account for 89% of the Lotus Domino mailboxes worldwide. o Traditionally, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has found most of [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Introducing ’This Week in Lotus’
Sat, Jun 5th 2010 6:20p Stuart McIntyre If you're a regular reader of PlanetLotus.org, by now I'm sure you've seen a few mentions of a new podcast called 'This Week in Lotus' that launched last week. What you may not be aware of is the back-story... For over 4 years now, I've been a keen listener of Leo Laporte's 'This Week in Tech (TWiT)' show, one of the very first tech-focused podcasts to be published after Adam Curry and others pioneered the podcast format back in the middle of the last decade. Whilst we never got to see Leo [read] Keywords: ibm
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Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5 UPDATE
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 4:17a Stuart McIntyre At last it appears there may be a *real* fix for this .. IBM have changed the trigger code which should hopefully fix the mutating trigger issue we see when deleting files .. I will be testing this today and if it works rolling it out to my live environment over the next week. I will attempt to get some confirmation if this code will be fixed in all new fix packs and APARS - watch this space and hopefully some great news [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 2.5.0.2 (Fixpack2) now available
Fri, May 28th 2010 5:29p Stuart McIntyre The patching process for Lotus Connections 2.5 has been getting ever more complex and time-consuming just recently, what with Fixpack 1 to apply, then over 100 (yes, that's one *hundred*) individual fixes to install once Fixpack 1 was done. On some slower systems, applying FP1 then the individual fixes has taken well over 12 hours to complete. Not great for system availability in non-clustered environments. For that reason alone, I am delighted to see Fixpack 2 is now soon to be available. [read] Keywords: connections
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Upcoming IBM Webcast: ’Cloud Series - Session 3: The Elastic Cloud’
Thu, May 27th 2010 2:25a Stuart McIntyre Cloud Series - Session 3: The Elastic Cloud Date: 10/06/10 Time: 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM (GMT+12:00) Hosted By: Chris Sparshott (IBM New Zealand) Presented By: Chris Sparshott (IBM New Zealand), Anthony Russell (IBM Australia/New Zealand) In this session Anthony Russell, Cloud Architect for IBM New Zealand and Australia will deliver a quick fire presentation on the IBM Cloud solutions including "Elastic Clouds". He will explain what "Elastic Cloud" is and why businesses in New Zealand and the [read] Keywords: ibm
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PCMech review: Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2
Thu, May 27th 2010 2:00a Stuart McIntyre The Lotus Symphony 3 Beta code has been out for a few months now, and it is beginning to gain some traction (even against the news of the Office 2010 launch and the Google IO conference). PCMech.com prides itself on no-nonsense tech news to "Help Normal People Get Their Geek On", and have published a very positive review of the Symphony 3 Beta suite. Here's some hightlights:Lotus Symphony is an office suite by IBM. It’s free. Free? Yes, free. From IBM. And yes, I know, "IBM" a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Google Chrome for the Mac goes stable
Wed, May 26th 2010 2:52a Stuart McIntyre I've been loving Chrome for the Mac so far - it's fast, reliable, renders almost every site I visit really well and has an ever-expanding range of plugins and third party apps. Even the IBM apps that don't currently support Chrome seem to work fine in 99% of cases (far better than IE8 for example). Give it a whirl! More > [read] Keywords: ibm
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Running Lotus Domino 8.5.1+ and using server-based archiving? You need to read this
Mon, May 24th 2010 7:00a Stuart McIntyre Attachments in e-mail messages can be deleted when archived Problem When users archive e-mail messages to a 8.5.1 or 8.5.1 FP1 or 8.5.2 FP2 Lotus Domino server (server-based archiving), any archived e-mails that contain multiple attachments are saved in a state in which only the last attachment is readable. Only the last attachment is successfully stored in the archive database. The messages may appear to be intact and show all the attachment icons but attempting to launch or detach the atta [read] Keywords: domino
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Troubleshooting Lotus Quickr/Sametime integration
Thu, May 20th 2010 4:27a Stuart McIntyre The process of integrating Lotus Sametime functionality into Lotus Quickr (for presence awareness and chat) has been covered a few times, most notably in the very useful (but now out-of-date) developerWorks article, Integrating IBM Lotus Quickr Services with IBM Lotus Sametime. However, dealing with issues relating to this integration point has always been tricky - there are a number of areas where things can fall apart, most notably with SSO and LTPA token issues. Fortunately IBM has publis [read] Keywords: domino
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Peppermint OS - introducing the cloud-centric desktop
Thu, May 20th 2010 12:58a Stuart McIntyre Linux distributions are two-a-penny - whilst Ubuntu is a clear favourite on the desktop right now, this is clearly a commodity market. Whatever your requirements - desktop, laptop or netbook, full-featured or lightweight - the chances are that there is a Linux platform out there to suit your need. I personally believe that there is still some way to go for many distros to meet the standards set by Mac OS X as a full-time power-user environment, but that doesn't mean that Linux can't hit the sw [read] Keywords: apple
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IBM launches new Lotus Connections Measurement and Reporting service
Fri, May 14th 2010 4:27a Stuart McIntyre Many organisations have now moved past the pilot and deployment phases of their Lotus Connections projects and are looking at means to justify their expenditure and to measure ROI. There are various means to do this - using user surveys, measuring time savings and productivity improvements on a user-by-user basis are current favourites - but there is definitely room for new ideas, solutions and services in this area. IBM has just launched a new service to accompany its' Atlas social graph [read] Keywords: atlas
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LotusLive Meetings client now available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
Mon, May 10th 2010 8:53a Stuart McIntyre Now this made my day... Join a Web Conference from your iPhone! Use the online meeting features of LotusLive Engage right from your iPhone! Join a Web meeting, chat with attendees and view shared content - all from your iPhone! Participants with 3G or Wi-Fi coverage can experience simultaneous voice and data for a full meeting experience on the phone. FEATURES Attendees can: -Listen to the audio for the meeting in the background while viewing the meeting content -View live shared [read] Keywords: apple
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Experience Lotus Connections
Mon, May 10th 2010 12:59a Stuart McIntyre The Lotus IDC team are doing great work at the moment, including the release of a number of new product demos and tutorials on YouTube entitled "Experience Lotus". I recently posted about the video "Setting up a project team space using Lotus Quickr " over on The Quickr Blog, and now there's two new videos for Lotus Connections 2.5, "Tapping into the community using Lotus Connections" and "Tracking project milestones using Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr":
Nice work, Joyce and [read] Keywords: connections
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RIM Blackberry Client for Lotus Quickr demo
Thu, May 6th 2010 2:13a Stuart McIntyre The new RIM Blackberry Client for Lotus Quickr was published earlier this year, and has recently been updated to support Lotus Quickr services for Domino 8.2 (as well as the Portal version). Here is a demo video from RIM describing the features and look/feel of the client: Blackberry Client for Lotus Quickr from Stuart McIntyre on Vimeo.Demonstration of the new client for Lotus Quickr.
Originally uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=PViUhAZITsc - reposted to allow e [read] Keywords: domino
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Installed Lotus Connections 2.5?
Wed, May 5th 2010 4:45a Stuart McIntyre Have you performed a Lotus Connections installation and used the Lotus Connections documentation to assist you with the installation process? IBM wants your feedback!Take the Lotus Connections Installation Documentation survey from now until May 12, 2010. It should take only about 20 minutes to complete, and you have the option of taking the survey anonymously. Take the survey yourself and forward the link to others you know who have performed a Lotus Connections installation. This is a grea [read] Keywords: connections
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Google Nexus One now available in the UK
Sun, May 2nd 2010 3:45p Stuart McIntyre Despite being a keen iPhone user since the 3G model was released 18 months or so ago, I'm always on the lookout for the next big thing, and there's no doubt that the only two platforms that are really challenging Apple for the mobile internet platform market are Blackberry and Google Android. Having had a number of RIM devices in the past and supporting a number of current customers with BES infrastructures, I'm pretty confident about their value proposition. However, the Android platf [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Tom’s Hardware reviews Lotus Symphony
Fri, Apr 30th 2010 8:58a Stuart McIntyre It's always good to see a fair balanced review of a product, and Tom's Hardware seem to be one of the better sites at group tests. This week they've taken a look at Linux-based Office applications, including Lotus Symphony 1.3. This summary concludes their review, entitled 'A Different Kind of Office Suite':Overall, Symphony is visually appealing and unmistakably modern. Unfortunately, while the color scheme appeals to the eyes, text within the document body, toolbars, and menus are downright [read] Keywords: ibm
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MSN Messenger plugin for Lotus Sametime now available
Fri, Apr 30th 2010 7:37a Stuart McIntyre For a very long time now, Lotus Sametime customers have been asking for integration with MSN Messenger. Whilst the Sametime Gateway product has been able to connect with AIM and GTalk for a long while, integration with MSN has not been forthcoming. This hasn't changed, but the good news is that there is now a plug-in available to bring MSN contacts within the Sametime Connect client:Often, due to organisational security policies, communication with external IM is considered a breach of the o [read] Keywords: ibm
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LotusLive iNotes now features 25GB storage for every user
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 12:50a Stuart McIntyre When the LotusLive iNotes cloud-based messaging service was announced back in September 2009, it provoked significant coverage from the media and analysts. The general consensus seemed to be that the service itself was impressive, and the price was extremely competitive ($3 per user per month). However a number of the restrictions on the base offerings held it back - specifically the 1GB storage included with each account looked a little weedy compared with the competition such as Google [read] Keywords: inotes
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HP to acquire Palm
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 4:40p Stuart McIntyre HP and Palm, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm, a provider of smartphones powered by the Palm webOS mobile operating system, at a price of $5.70 per share of Palm common stock in cash or an enterprise value of approximately $1.2 billion. The transaction has been approved by the HP and Palm boards of directors.A sad end for one of the true innovators in the mobile/PDA industry. In all likelyhood, another poor acquisition fo [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Based in Russia? Want to find out more about LotusLive?
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 10:58a Stuart McIntyre Are you based in Russia, or more specifically, Moscow? Want to find out more about LotusLive? This half-day event could be just what you need:IBM LotusLive: Smarter collaboration in the cloud This half day briefing introduces cloud computing and explains how Software as a Service (SaaS) is part of this initiative. IBM has developed a brand called LotusLive that delivers collaboration services in the IBM cloud. We will go through the details and highlight competitive differences with other [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Looking for details of IBM software license agreements?
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 1:36a Stuart McIntyre These are questions I get asked a lot by customers... What exactly does my Passport Advantage license agreement entitle me to? What is an 'authorized user'? Is that concurrent or registered users? and so on. Well, as you would expect, IBM has all the answers. Even better, they're held in a Lotus Notes application available online: Both the overall PA base license and the individual product agreements are available, and various search options allow one to find the information y [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption 2.1 released
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 1:48a Stuart McIntyre Announced and available for download as of this morning:IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption 2.1, a product created in partnership with PGP Corporation, builds on the legendary security features of Notes and Domino: Allows any e-mail, whether internal or external, to be easily sent in a secure encrypted format Integrates tightly with Notes and Domino to eliminate additional training and support requirements Helps protect content from being intercepted or modified in transit Saves money on al [read] Keywords: domino
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The time has come
Thu, Apr 22nd 2010 9:47a Stuart McIntyre It's been an interesting few months on PlanetLotus. We've had Design Partners telling us that Notes is dead, crazy ASW blog titles just to attain short-lived 'Hot Blog' status, explosions! of! exclamation! marks! and rather too much community infighting for anyone's good. I'm not saying that I'm innocent either, there have been times when I've been sucked into posting articles too quickly to get ahead of other bloggers, or else where the impulse to use an overly-dramatic title for a post ha [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Is this the next iPhone?
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 10:42a Stuart McIntyre You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details. Gizmodo have seen an iPhone allegedly lost in a bar, and it really does look genuine (and related to the iPad's industrial design, for sure). More> [read] Keywords: apple
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So multi-threaded replication is not enough for you? One word... ’Icons’
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 6:19a Stuart McIntyre I've had comments on my previous post suggesting that multi-threaded replication is not a significant new feature (or 'game-changer'). Well here's another one that may not change the collaboration landscape, but may just make you very very very happy? Here's a quote from the release notes for the latest version of the 8.5.2 beta:'You can now choose a PNG, GIF, JPEG, or BMP file to use as an icon for applications.'Yes, that does say what you think it says ;-) [Just a reminder... Th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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My favourite enhancement in Notes 8.5.2
Mon, Apr 19th 2010 4:46a Stuart McIntyre So, it seems that the Lotus version of Harry Potter's 'Cloak of Invisibility', the Design Partner NDA, has been lifted for the forthcoming Notes/Domino 8.5.2 and members of the DP and beta programs can now freely blog about the new features and enhancements - yay! Others have so far picked out the improvements to XPages and the Domino Designer license changes. However, I'm a simpler kinda guy, and so my favourite enhancement is very straightforward and also one that has been much request [read] Keywords: domino
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New LinkedIn widget available for Lotus Connections
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 2:29p Stuart McIntyre I've been waiting a while for the LinkedIn widget for Lotus Connections to become available, so wanted to make sure that everyone saw this announcement from IBM:IBM and LinkedIn just boosted social networking in the enterprise with a new widget which offers Lotus Connections users instant access to LinkedIn profiles. Big Blue's latest addition to its widget catalog is a plug-in that integrates LinkedIn's professional graph, information used to define people's connections and relati [read] Keywords: connections
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Looking for Lotus Symphony templates?
Mon, Apr 12th 2010 5:19a Stuart McIntyre Were you aware that the Lotus Symphony website features a large collection of free downloadable templates for the Symphony productivity tools? Documents: Presentations: Spreadsheets: So if you're looking for ways to spruce up your Symphony presentations or to make yourself even more productive in Symphony Documents, you know where to look. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Dropbox just gets better - try the iPhone/iPod/iPad app
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 1:28a Stuart McIntyre Since the Lotusphere presentation sharing project initiated by Vowe earlier this year, I've been using Dropbox a great deal - it really is the great solution for adhoc sharing of files, photos and more, particularly for non-professional purposes, or where ease of use is more important than security or compliance. As well as accessing your files via the Dropbox web site and your choice of operating system plugin, there is also an app for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad:Dropbox. There's an a [read] Keywords: lotus
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Issues with Oracle on Solaris with Connections 2.5
Mon, Mar 29th 2010 4:00a Stuart McIntyre There is an issue when running Connections with Oracle on Solaris Symptoms of the problem are you can not delete certain files and / or the files widget from communities The error in the logs is - table FILES.MEDIA is mutating 08/02/10 00:01:00:569 GMT] 0000005d Library E EJPVJ9166E: Unable to delete the library with id b855660b-d6bc-4b19-891f-2087aa3d9a0c. [UserImpl@26ce26ce id=64377ea3-e571-4323-922a-dc0723fead36 directoryId=2BE4B3FF-4AB4-48FF-9B83-73689537A16A] [read] Keywords: connections
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Changing the title on the Connections 2.5 Homepage
Mon, Mar 29th 2010 3:46a Stuart McIntyre Changing the title on the homepage is a bit of a pain .. The steps are as follows : Make a back up copy of the COMPRESSED homepage.ear file from the deployed application config ND - < was ROOT >\profiles\< profile> \config\cells\< cell Name >\applications\Homepage.ear\Homepage.ear StandAlone - < was ROOT >\profiles\< profile >\config\cells\< cell Name >\applications\Homepage.ear\Homepage. [read] Keywords: connections
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Silanis lets Users Test-Drive Electronic Signatures on the IBM LotusLive Platform
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 4:28a Stuart McIntyre I was tremendously impressed with the Silanis eSignature solution for LotusLive that was announced at Lotusphere 2010. This is now available to try out on the LotusLive platform:New Silanis beta Program lets Users Test-Drive Electronic Signatures on the IBM LotusLive Platform Silanis Technology, the leader in electronic signature process management, today announced a new beta program for its online e-signature services offering, e-SignLive for LotusLive. Business users can now test-drive e-S [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Running DAOS? New Fixpack available
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 12:11p Stuart McIntyre Running DAOS on Domino 8.5.1? If so, then you need to know about this fixpack:Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 (8.5.1 FP1 IF1) - DAOS Fixes Abstract A series of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) issues have been identified and fixed by IBM. We recommend any customer running DAOS to apply this interim fix or release that addresses these issues. Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 Interim Fix 1 is available that addresses these DAOS issues. Content A series of DAOS (Domino Attachm [read] Keywords: domino
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And while we’re at it... LotusInfocenters.com
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 8:49a Stuart McIntyre Along the same lines as the LotusWikis.com redirects I mentioned earlier today, you can now use LotusInfocenters.com to easily access all the Lotus product Infocenters: Simply enter LotusInfocenters.com/'name of the product' and you'll get redirected instantaneously to the appropriate Infocenter, e.g.: LotusInfocenters.com the list of all the Lotus/Portal documentation sites LotusInfocenters.com/notes Lotus Notes/Domino infocenter LotusInfocenters.com/domino Lotus Notes/Domino infocenter [read] Keywords: connections
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Quick Tip - Lotus Connections and LDAP Page Size
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 4:30a Stuart McIntyre Just a quick and dirty tip... I'm working on a new Lotus Connections 2.5 environment, mated to Active Directory. When it came to populating Profiles, the Collect_DNs script was pulling 1000 names out of the directory before stopping with a "LDAP: error code 4 - Sizelimit Exceeded" error. It appeared that the maximum number of results returned by this AD configuration was 1000 records, and thus the collect process was falling over on the 1001st record. Thankfully, the TDI import process a [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Quickr 8.0.x end of support announced
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 2:36a Stuart McIntyre Still on Lotus Quickr 8.0.x? Now, might be the time to consider planning your upgrade to Quickr 8.2 or even the forthcoming Quickr 8.5 release:Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Lotus Quickr V8.0 Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: Program VRM Withdrawal Program release name number from [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Connections 1.0.x end of support announced
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 2:24a Stuart McIntyre I should hope that no organisation is still running Lotus Connections 1.0.x in production, but just in case, here are the details on support being withdrawn:Software withdrawal and support discontinuance: IBM Lotus Connections 1.0 Effective on the dates listed below, IBM will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product releases licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement: Program VRM Withdrawal Program release name number from [read] Keywords: connections
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HTTP task crashing Domino server on Lotus Quickr 8.2
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 5:00a Stuart McIntyre Just a note in case others (or more likely I) hit this issue in the future... On installing Lotus Domino 8.5.1FP, then Lotus Quickr 8.2 and HF09, I managed to get my Quickr server to crash every time it started up, citing "File does not exist" (but of course without mentioning the file that was missing). Taking HTTP out of the ServerTasks line in the Notes.ini stopped the crash, but as soon as HTTP was loaded, it occurred again. After some fiddling with the SSO setup and Home page didn't [read] Keywords: domino
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Two Lotus Connections 2.5 fixes you should know about
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 12:19a Stuart McIntyre Number one:LO48384: WHEN USER HAS UID = MAIL ADDRESS, POPULATE_FROM_DN SCRIPT WILL CREATE DUPLICATE ENTRIES IN PROFILES DB. Problem summary When the 'uid' column is mapped to a value other than 'uid' then TDI will create duplicate entries in Profiles database. Problem conclusion Summary In the SyncDBFromSource assembly line, the assembly line is hard-coded to use the work['uid'] attribute rather than the db_from_ldap mapping of the value. As a result, it tries to match the [read] Keywords: connections
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Vulnerability in Lotus Quickr services for Portal
Sun, Feb 28th 2010 11:14p Stuart McIntyre Security Risk with Fix Available: Web Content Management login page vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks, also affects WebSphere Portal and Quickr services for WebSphere Portal Abstract A script can be injected into a URL pointing at a vulnerable login page. This URL could be sent to users (such as in a phishing mail). Users following this link would be executing the injected script. Content A vulnerability has been reported to IBM by Hacktics, Ltd., describing that the login page [read] Keywords: ibm
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HTML tags in Lotus Connections Profiles rich text fields
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 5:11a Stuart McIntyre Here's one that may well catch you out. If you are running Lotus Connections 2.5, and have installed Fixpack 1 (taking your environment to 2.5.0.1) or else just the single fix LO46171, then you may begin to see HTML tags appearing in the 'About Me' and/or "Background' rich text fields. Updating these fields does not clear the problem. In addition, in certain situations the field seems to go into a read-only mode where updates fail. To resolve this regression bug, there is a new fix - LO4 [read] Keywords: connections
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DLI to produce Quickr connector for Docova
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:51p Stuart McIntyre 2010 seems to be the year of content management integration for Lotus Quickr. Hot on the heels of the Alfresco connector announced before Lotusphere, there is more news - this time from Gary Walsh at DLI.Tools:Following meetings with the IBM team at Lotusphere last week, I am pleased to announce that DLI is developing a connector for Lotus Quickr. This will allow Quickr users to publish content to Docova, to leverage Docova's advanced document management features such as workflow and version [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Connections 2.5 to be supported on zLinux
Tue, Jan 26th 2010 7:29a Stuart McIntyre This news was announced at Lotusphere during a session featuring a representative from the team responsible for putting Connections 2.5 into production within IBM. They themselves are running Connections on zLinux (i.e. on Linux on a mainframe) in order to get the scalability and performance they require. Here's the key elements of the announcement:Support for Linux on IBM System z is being added to IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Support for Linux on IBM System z is being added to IBM Lotus Con [read] Keywords: connections
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