New article: Exploring Domino Web Access Lite: the new low-bandwidth option in Lotus Domino 8.01

Do you have users who are still on modems or travel to areas with less then optimal bandwidth? When Lotus Domino 8.01 was released in February, there were several new features added. One of them was Domino Web Access Lite. This low-bandwidth option is optimal for traveling users, users logging in from kiosks, dial-up users, or anyone with constrained bandwidth. This excellent article, by IBMer Barry Rosen, not only explains DWA Lite, but showcases some of the admin configuration options.

Read this DominoPower article.

Posted on: November 15, 2008 9:00 am

What the Nomadic MVPs are VMWaring This Year

The mp3 uploaded for Episode 6 contains presentations on:

* New Lotus Foundations announcements

* Chris Whisonant’s Lotus Nomad tip

* Lotus MVP Program or lack there of

  • Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Posted on: November 14, 2008 9:00 am

Refresh/Replace design smart icons

David Killingsworth offers some information on how you can add Smart Icons to you Admin Client. He has posted a couple of formulas you can add as smart icons to your toolbar.

Posted on: November 14, 2008 9:00 am

Discovering Dojo for Domino: Part 1- The basics

Michelle recently inherited responsibility for some Domino applications that use Dojo. Which means she needs to learn Dojo, probably quickly. You can follow her quest to learn Dojo, starting with the basics, on her blog.

Posted on: November 14, 2008 9:00 am

Dear IBM, Ultralite Rocks !

Jack Dausman didn’t think the iPhone was that impressive as he set them up with iNotes Ultralite. Then users started talking about turning in their Blackberries.

Posted on: November 13, 2008 9:00 am

Logging And Monitoring Your BlackBerry Enterprise Server

Gabriella Davis, the Technical Director of The Turtle Partnership, will be presenting a webinar on how the BlackBerry Enterprise Server integrates with your Domino environment. You need to pre-register for the webinar which is scheduled for November 17, 2008.

Posted on: November 13, 2008 9:00 am

Lotus Connections and Sametime Awareness on UID

Luis Benitez offers a quick tip on how to set up Lotus Connections to do lookups via UID (Universal Identifier) instead of using someone’s e-mail address.

Posted on: November 13, 2008 9:00 am

Utility to list signers of all agents in all databases

Paul Mooney presented an agent debugging session at Admin2008 during which he mentioned a free tool for listing all signers of all agents in all databases on a server. Dennis van Remortel has posted his version of the tool on his blog.

Posted on: November 12, 2008 9:00 am

Defrag on a SANS environment

Victor Toal has heard all the reasons why defragging doesn’t work for SAN drives. But he keeps hoping. Now Adam Osbourne says defragging a SAN can quadruple read and backup times. So… Victor is looking for someone willing to offer their SAN for testing.

Posted on: November 12, 2008 9:00 am

Migrating from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8

A new white paper offering instructions and tips for administrators preparing to move users from Microsoft Exchange to Notes/Domino 8

Posted on: November 12, 2008 9:00 am