Thinking of moving these tech notes over to www.BleedYellow.com

Lotus911 is now making available to the Lotus community a fully functional version of the Lotus Collaboration software, Lotus Connections, at the site BleedYellow.com I am considering moving either this content, or at least the important items over to this site to take advantage of the platform that I enjoy.

I have a lot to catch on from Lotusphere2008 wrap up on my company blog and sleep is calling...

This is my tech posts

On this blog I will be capturing any technical notes of interest that I want to follow up on. I will mainly be following the areas of Lotus Notes & Domino development as well as interests in web development techniques.

Interface Matters

One of the great Developer sessions at Lotusphere this year was

BP101 Designing the User Experience: Why your Interface Matters

Presented by Chris Blatnick & Nathan Freeman. Rather than try to explain their expert work, go check out their blogs at: Chris's InterfaceMatters Site and Nathans Notes911 Site.

They also had a very excellent podcast with Bruce and Julian over at the Taking Notes Podcast (Episode 49).

(Haven't listened to the one's at LotusUserGroup.org ... more on that later.

BP104 Worst Practices in IBM Lotus Domino Environments - Learning From the Mistakes of Others

(Monday, January 22) - This was one of the more memorable session from last year, that I looked forward to seeing again. Bill is back with Paul to go over some of the harrowing experiences that have occurred in their world of administering and developing in Lotus. Bill represented the developer issue and Paul the admins. Their delivery of the content is mainly for fun, but they point out they are actual experiences (with the names of guilty parties removed, although hinted at on several occasions, but appeared to mainly be inside jokes) and can be learned from.

Another version of one of the most successful presentations from Lotusphere 2006 - updated with new stories. We'll lead you through the top 20 mistakes seen in live Lotus Domino environments, both from an infrastructure and an application development point of view. All of these mistakes have cost companies around the globe significant amounts of support and downtime costs -- and all could have been prevented. Common mistakes (such as not actually reading documentation), to lack of change control and training, right up to absolute disasters caused by a chain of successive mistakes are de-constructed. This highly amusing session will show you how to avoid making these mistakes in your environment.

The session was as captivating as last year, so I was only able to jot some brief notes. See the slides for some of the revealing information, but for now here are the items I was able to get down:

1. Configure your Anti-Virus software to exclude the Notes Data directory. The evidence was of a Client's mail "disappearing" every Friday. It seems that the scheduled av program had designated the mail as a virus and guaranteed it leaving it inaccessible. A corollary, leave transactions logs and view index temp directories also excluded as they are potential targets for av programs. If needed look to getting AV specific for Lotus.
2. Full Access Admin allows access to readers fields, be mindful of who has access to Full Admin rights.
3. User's were wondering why their Email was not routing... an attempt was made to "share a video" via email attachment...it was a half GB in size ...to 428 people...Notes would have eventually handled it, but it brought the servers "to its knees". Rules are available to set the max message size.
4. Black Berry users out of office (OOO) setting defaults to the last date used. This example had 200+ out of offices notices going out from the individual after not using OOO for 2 years on black berry.
5. A notes about about a clean up agent in DomLog.nsf...(check slides for further information)

One of the sites briefly mentioned that users can submit their own "worst practice" experience can be found at the following link.

Lotusphere Worst Practices Site