IBM launched a new worlwide marketing campaign to get more visibility for our beloved brand!

Check out www.lotusknows.com to discover the world of IBM Lotus!

I have to warn you, once you’re a Lotus addict, there is no way back

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Some of the users on the Foundations server had to be upgraded to roaming users (Notes roaming). It took me quite a while before this actually worked. When I upgraded an existing user on the Enterprise server to roaming, it worked within ten minutes. But when I did the same for a user on the Foundations server, it always ended up in tears (aka: not working).

After some searching and digging on the web, I finally found a solution. For some reason, roaming just wouldn’t work if the files were  on the Foundations server itself. When I put them on the Enterprise server, everything seemed to work. Putting the roaming files on the Enterprise server will ofcourse cause a longer startup time if the user logs on for the first time, as the Enterprise server is probably off-site.

So in short:
You have to upgrade the user to roaming on the Enterprise server, select the Enterprise server as the roaming server, and then replicate this to the Foundations server (that, in combination with a few “tell adminp process new” commands).
By default, if you upgrade a user to roaming, it selects the mailserver of that user as the roaming server. So be sure to change this for a user on Foundations to the Enterprise server!

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Take a look at the site of Jeff Gilfelt

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Take a look at the website of Mainsoft

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“Keeping track of all your ‘virtual’ contacts on the various networks will is not easy, especially as the quantity of social networks you are registered to increased, and your global network increases as well. Locating a user you wish to collaborate with, can become tedious and subtract from the effectiveness of the networks and the effectiveness for you to be able to locate a specific user.

ViCo for Lotus Notes can help with this by importing all of your contacts from all supported social networks and providing them in a single point of access, a Lotus Notes database, allowing sorting and searching and categorising of the documents by network. The product also allows you to add specific contacts onto your Personal Address Book in Lotus Notes, making those contacts available in type-ahead searches from within the Lotus Notes mail file. The application also allows automatic synchronisation of changes of contact information direct to the Personal Address Book”

Unfortunately this product is not for free (approx. 49 euro/license). See this the Notes-Solutions website. Maybe a free version should be made for personal use as a lot of companies still do not see the benefit of social networks

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If you are using mSuite and are using the 2007 edition of the CommonTime Evaluation Certificate, you need to take prompt action to avoid loss of service. Please follow the instructions in the PDF document.

CertificateExpiry2008.pdf

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IBM’s Lotus Symphony is OpenOffice in Eclipse jacket

IBM recently announced it would embrace the OpenOffice.org productivity suite project and we’re already seeing results, chiefly the beta release of IBM’s free Lotus Symphony. Download it here

There are three core applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations.

The applications, currently in beta, will work on Windows and Linux computers, all claim to offer a simple, clean and logical interface and are in the non-propriety ODF format.

IBM Lotus Symphony Documents allows users to create, edit, share, and save word processing documents. Users can start with a blank document, import an existing document, or choose from a set of document templates.

IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations allows end users to create graphic presentations that can be shared with audiences via a slide show mode. The presentations created by Lotus Symphony Presentation software can be created from scratch or using the included presentation templates for a variety of looks.

IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets allows end users to create, edit, share, and save a variety of spreadsheets. Users can create blank documents, import existing documents, or choose from a set of document templates. Standard navigational elements include toolbars, an editing window, and a status bar.

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In my experience it’s almost always correct, it learns fast and I save a lot of time because I no longer longer have to drag/drop, ‘move to folder’, … I can just click the correct folder. This is how it looks like in my mail file:

You can find more information here.

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1. Composite applications

I’ve been playing around with this and it’s still quite a challenge. Some small bugs, but the idea is promising. You can find     more  information here.

2. General new features (the ones I like the most)

->@CopySelectedAsTable
->@CalendarFormat
->Show image as thumbnail in RTLite field
->Agent can be triggered on server start
->Possible to defer Index Creation (e.g. to the time a user sort a column)
->Prevent Simple Search when db is not full text indexed

3. LotusScript

->NotesDirectory(Navigator) class
->view event ‘onSelect’ (mainly needed when building Composite Apps)

4. Web Development

->$$HtmlTagAttributes
->$$HtmlOptions (possible per field)
->readViewEntries (as JSON)

5. Web Services consuming

->it’s built in so you don’t need any additional jar-files deployed on the client

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is-phone is an integrated IP softphone that uses SIP 2.0 (Session Initiation Protocol). is-sphone is developed by iscoord ag. is-phone connects to Asterisk (ADDIX, Digium, Fonality), SIP Express Router for example VocalTec and SIP carriers/providers as well as IP PBXs from 3Com, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Nortel or Siemens.

Current versions for Windows OS (XP SP2, Vista):
- is-phone for IBM Lotus Notes 6/7/8
- is-phone for IBM Lotus Sametime
- is-phone Java SDK based on Eclipse

We are using this solution internally and it works excellent.  We use logitech headsets and some of us use also Snom370 hardware phones.  The next step is to use the Java SDK to integrate the solution with our GEDYS 7 CRM solution.

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