You can download a free 30-day trial of IBM Lotus Foundations Start. This is an on-premise software appliance for businesses with 5-500 employees who have limited or no in-house technical resources. Lotus Foundations can be launched within 30 minutes and enables customers to establish a company network, do e-mail, create and share documents, centrally manage files, backup data, and protect business network from unwanted disruptions.

Vlad Tatarincevs offers some tips on the DCT-Domino configuration tuner that Lotus introduced in 8.5 as a way to help keep your Domino environment in shape.

IBM announced a new "hosted Lotus Notes service" today targeted at businesses with 1,000 to 10,000 users. The price point is $8 to $18 per user per month. Yes, that comes to $96,000 per year – but… If that means not having to pay for servers, engineering and admin support, then maybe it isn’t as pricey as it seems.

Anthony Holmes says his customers regularly ask him about migrating users from Exchange to Domino. And sometimes his customers get confused about which upgrade package to use – Domino Upgrade Service or Upgrade Wizard. Anthony gives a brief explanation of the when and why of which he feels works better.

Luis Benitez was asked if there was any way to load photos into Lotus Connections Profiles. More specifically, how do you load existing photos stored in the LDAP? Luis provides the answer, and a short video on how to load photos into Lotus Connections.

Chris Linfoot had a Domino server that started an endless crash and restart cycle. Suspecting a corrupt message in a server mail box, he moved that mailbox out of the way and restarted the server. Chris was left with the question, why was this particular message causing so many problems?

Each year, we see a few stand-out submissions, a few middle-of-the-road submissions, and a few companies who seemed to just "phone it in". Each year, some of the applicants seem to go out of their way to not win an award. If you work for a Lotus business partner and want to make sure all your hard work isn’t recognized or appreciated, there are some simple tricks you can follow, and I’ll discuss them in this article. I’ll also discuss what it takes to win.

Read this DominoPower article.

Following Nokia’s announcement to abandon Intellisync, CommonTime is re-enforcing its commitment to corporate mobility by offering free upgrade licenses to existing Intellisync customers. CommonTime’s mSuite5 upgrade offer includes centralized device management policy enforcement for mobile messaging and Line of Business (LOB) applications

Pass It Along is a stand-alone Web application built internally at IBM that combines various Web 2.0 features to facilitate learning and sharing among participants. The application has been available on alphaWorks, IBM’s premier site for emerging technologies, since June and is available to those interested in working with the developerWorks Community.

On his blog, John Roling offers tips on getting Wildcard SSL to work on Domino. Basically, it’s getting a *.company.com SSL certificate that allows you to use it on all the subdomains for that domain. For example, one SSL cert could work for www.company.com, login.company.com, webmail.company.com and so on. Lotus hasn’t posted information on using wildcard SSL certificates. So, if you’re interested you might want to check John’s post.