To those who keep the systems running, and listen to users gripe, Happy SysAdmin Day, and a hearty thank you. And, by the way, there’s no raise for you this year.

John Kingsley is running an informal survey. He’d like to know what your favorite version of Notes is, or was.

This new article on the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki explains how to use the Conversation feature in Notes.

Vaughan Rivett isn’t sure you heard him earlier, so he’s asking again. If you’re a Notes Developer, able to work in Wellington, New Zealand, Vaughan really would like to hear from you.

Gregg Eldred has run across an issue where some users are unable to complete a meeting connection in Sametime. He’s posted information on the problem and a fix.

Tony Austin is refining and tweaking the next release of NotesTracker while he imagines life as the Old Spice man. The NotesTracker 5.2 Guide is available for download.

Keith Brooks has a customer, wanting to standardize on Notes, where people use Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution and Squirrel. He’s wondering if anyone else has migrated users from any of these.

TLCC has declared August to be Learn XPages Month. Developers wanting a quick test drive should take TLCC’s FREE Introduction to Domino Designer course which includes a module on how to get started by creating an XPage to display Domino documents. Developers ready to take the plunge should take TLCC’s Developing XPages using Domino Designer 8.5, a complete course that takes a deep dive into XPage development. Learn the basic building blocks of XPages, from controls to events to the JavaScript editor, to help make you a productive XPage developer. This course is on sale from now until August 31st.

Vlad’s found an interesting bug (and work-around) for upgrading to 8.5.1 using policies.

Read this DominoPower article.

Volker Weber is taking a casual poll, asking whether you use the Basic or Standard client in Notes 8.x. You can post your comments on his page.