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Can anyone cite a successful (large) migration of Notes to Exchange in Australia ?
Fri, May 18th 2012 12:24a   Adam Osborne
I am aware of a large number of migrations over the last 3 years, but the striking feature in all of them is Domino is still active and running. In some cases Notes clients are still on all the desktops running apps. In just about all cases the TCO has increased and so has complexity. I wonder why the IT media or analysts never talk about this ? I suppose it is just not trendy. Anyway if you have a glowing example let it be known. [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger exchange exchange
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Give your PC a tune-up and save 15% with this special PlanetLotus offer
Tue, May 15th 2012 4:04a   Adam Osborne
Get your PC's tuned-up and running at peak performance. We are offering our System Mechanic Professional 15% discount voucher to the Planet Lotus community when you purchase from our website. We use this on all our PC's and absolutely love it, we think you will too, it features the following six powerful products in one package:- Complete PC Tune-up- Certified Virus Protection- Advanced Spyware Protection- Secure Online Backup (5 Gig Free)- Deleted Data Rescue- Secure Data Removal Check out [read] Keywords: lotus blogger community planet lotus planetlotus virus
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To anyone that has trialled Defrag.NSF
Thu, May 3rd 2012 1:44p   Adam Osborne
We think it might be time you took a second look. In the last 2 years we have: rewritten the core defragging engineadded additional intelligence on what files to defragmentresearched extensively the benefits of defragging, Which show a 40% improvement in backup times is not uncommon.written and now released a Defrag.NSF for Notes module at no cost.added many new features and functionalityestablished Defrag.NSF as the benchmark product for defragging Dominosaved countless hours of physical wear [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger server
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Excel files change even when you don't save changes.
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 4:04a   Adam Osborne
It appears that Excel changes a file even if you don't save changes. It appears to update information on the last person that read the file... very odd. Why do I mention this ? Because it effects single instancing... DAOS and Preemptive Vault Attachment storage.... just something to keep in mind. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Preemptive Email Vault Stubs - DAOS for email
Fri, Apr 27th 2012 12:44a   Adam Osborne
The Preemptive Email Vault can be configured to 'Stub' documents that meet a particular criteria. A Stubbed document is a small place holder version of the original document that points back to the Vault's copy of the message. It is like DAOS for email. Here it is in action [read] Keywords: blogger email
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Will Outlook run Notes Applications when 8.5.4 is released ?
Wed, Apr 11th 2012 7:44p   Adam Osborne
In Outlook you can create a web folder, so maybe once the Notes plugin is released, we'll have Outlook running Notes applications.... OMG [read] Keywords: notes applications blogger outlook
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The craziest thing I saw at AusLUG !!
Wed, Apr 4th 2012 11:44p   Adam Osborne
A picture truly can say a 1000 words. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Searching for an attachment via file upload...
Wed, Apr 4th 2012 11:44p   Adam Osborne
Searching for an attachment via file upload is a really nice feature in our Vault product. Over the next week we are going to post more videos on what it can do. For more information on the Vault go here [read] Keywords: blogger




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Another customer reports a 50% reduction in Domino Backup times
Tue, Apr 3rd 2012 12:03a   Adam Osborne
We just got back from AusLUG and got a nice email from one of our customers reporting a 50% reduction in backup times. All they did is install Defrag.NSF and run with the default settings. It's also pleasing to get yet more confirmation of the benefits our soluton offers. And yes, it was a Virtual Server connected to an iSCSI Enterprise class SAN (more on that later) For more information on Defrag.NSF go here [read] Keywords: domino blogger email enterprise server
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I just tried to placed a support call to IBM, and I had to spell Lotus to the person answering the phone!!
Sun, Feb 26th 2012 6:03p   Adam Osborne
Needless to say it was a complete waste of my time.... I am stunned. [read] Keywords: ibm lotus blogger
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How to install Defrag.NSF for Notes
Tue, Dec 6th 2011 8:43p   Adam Osborne
The following steps show the Defrag.NSF for Lotus Notes install process. Launch the MSI and follow the bouncy ball. That's it!Now approximately 3 minutes after Notes is started, Defrag.NSF for Notes will swing into action and make sure your Notes Program and Data files are optimally defragged and ready for action. Defrag.NSF for Notes - available tomorrow. [read] Keywords: lotus notes blogger
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NEW - Defrag.NSF for Notes
Sun, Dec 4th 2011 11:43p   Adam Osborne
Later this week we are finally going to release a new Defrag.NSF family member for the Notes Client. "Defrag.NSF for Notes" is a Notes client addin that automatically defragments your Notes Program and Data directory shortly after the client starts. It will also periodically check and if the files have re-fragmented it will put them back into shape. A nice solution for an age old problem. Here are some answers to questions we think people may have: How much will Defrag.NSF for Notes cost ?I [read] Keywords: admin domino ibm notes notes client blogger consulting email enterprise google server
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Changing the ACK timer can give TCP apps a big performance boost
Thu, Dec 1st 2011 3:03p   Adam Osborne
We tracked down a real pain in the bum problem where we were seeing 200ms delays for no apparent reason. Then we adjusted the Windows ACK timer and bingo... massive performance increase. Check it out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q328890 [read] Keywords: blogger microsoft
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Defrag.NSF features - Part 6
Tue, Nov 29th 2011 10:43p   Adam Osborne
In this instalment we will take a look at the various integrated scheduling options available. Technical Settings (Processing Schedule Tab) Use the settings on this tab to schedule the desired running times for defrag.NSF on this server. There are also options available to configure the defragging of transaction logs (.txn), DAOS files (.nlo) and Full Text Indexes (.ft) for this server and the option to enable the “Multi-stage” defragging Mode. Enabling the “Multi-stage” Mode will all [read] Keywords: domino blogger server
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Defrag.NSF features - Part 5
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 9:03p   Adam Osborne
Continuing with the Technical Settings options we look at the ability to schedule compacts and the various selection methods. Run Compact before scheduled defrag with optionWith this option enabled Defrag.NSF will run the Compact server task with the configured Compact switch on each processed database prior to the actual defragmentation of the database. This is a handy option and can be used instead of a Program Document to run weekly scheduled Compact maintenance automatically followed by a de [read] Keywords: blogger database server
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Defrag.NSF features - Part 4
Sun, Nov 27th 2011 10:03p   Adam Osborne
Let's have a look at the Technical Setting and the many configuration options available there. The Technical Settings document provides the administrator with central access to most of the configuration and schedule settings available in Defrag.NSF. Record before and after performance statisticsEnable the logging of performance statistics on the Technical Settings document. The Performance Reports feature makes it very easy for Domino administrators to see and document the increased perform [read] Keywords: domino blogger server
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Defrag.NSF features - Part 3
Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 9:43p   Adam Osborne
For this part of the Guided Tour we will look at the different maintenance options for an individual database. Configuring individual database maintenance options.In any of the views you can double-click on a database document to access the Database Details, basic information about the database and also configure specific maintenance options for the database. This makes it very easy for the Domino admin to integrate the traditional Domino maintenance tasks with the scheduled defrag maintenance. [read] Keywords: admin domino blogger consulting database
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Domino isn't old and clunky - but MAPI certainly is !
Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 3:03p   Adam Osborne
Finding the parent (source message) of a reply document in Notes is easy, the good old $ref field. It takes one line of code. Doing the same thing in Exchange is far more complicated, slower and involves a certain element of black magic. Anyone that thinks Domino is old and clunky really needs to stick their head into MAPI...looks like a pile of baling twine and bubble gum to me. [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger exchange exchange
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Defrag.NSF features - Part 2
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 11:03p   Adam Osborne
Here's Part 2 of the Guided Tour series, looking at the Maintenance buttons. Each view has the following buttons available to perform defrag maintenance related tasks, they include an Action, Recatalog Databases and Perform Maintenance buttons. The Action button: After manually selecting one or more databases, clicking the “Action” button allows the administrator to select or de-select the listed maintenance tasks. Selected tasks will be indicated with a Green tick in the appropriate [read] Keywords: apple blogger database server
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Guided Tour of Defrag.NSF features - Part 1
Sun, Nov 20th 2011 9:23p   Adam Osborne
I thought we should do a "Guided Tour" series of blog posts to have a feature-by-feature in-depth look at all the cool options available in Defrag.NSF 2.09. Starting from the start we will work through the feature set and explain all the different options and settings available. Hopefully even long-time users will find some useful tips in this series and even new info on features they weren't aware of. We built Defrag.NSF to be a "set and forget" type product if that's how the administrat [read] Keywords: admin blogger consulting database server
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Warbirds - F/A18, P40, P51, Meteor, Sabre flying together - unlikely to happen again !
Sun, Nov 20th 2011 8:23p   Adam Osborne
Check out some of these photos from the Warbirds Down Under at Temora, NSW Australia on the weekend, 5 generations of 75 squadron flying together: And some other classic old planes [read] Keywords: blogger
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Using the Lotus Notes single user to multi-user migration assistant (MUMA) tool
Thu, Nov 17th 2011 5:43p   Adam Osborne
This is a great new tool. Thanks IBM. Abstract: "You can use the supplied single user to multi user tool to migrate a Notes single user install to a Notes multi-user install for an existing Notes release prior to upgrading to a new release. This enables you to convert an existing Notes single user install to a multi-user install for both Notes basic and Notes standard configuration deployments. It also enables you to convert a simulated multi-user install (where the user's data directory i [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes apple blogger
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10 Reasons why I'll probably read your email.
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 7:23p   Adam Osborne
Recently Paul linked to 10 reasons why someone will not read a recipients email. I'd like to suggest 10 reasons why maybe you should: 1. You took time to write to me. (if it's important to you it then might also be important to me) 2. It would be rude if I didn't (especially if you are a potential/existing customer or Business Partner) 3. Email is our primary business tool for communications 4. You might have a good suggestion 5. You might be a customer who needs help (and if you are, "my [read] Keywords: blogger email facebook twitter
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It is getting very crowded in Domino 32bit
Sun, Nov 13th 2011 8:43p   Adam Osborne
Each release of Domino adds new and exciting features, which reminds me if this graphic But a side-effect of this is that the memory space on 32bit Domino is getting more and more crowded and the amount of shared memory Domino is pushing into all the different Domino tasks continues to grow. When memory gets tight, we've seen situations (particularly in FP2 and FP3 of Domino 8.5.2) where Domino no longer plays nice and sometimes tasks can be terminated even if idle. With Defrag.NSF 2.09 we [read] Keywords: domino blogger
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Defragging FT indexes - part 2
Thu, Nov 10th 2011 3:23a   Adam Osborne
This is a follow on blog entry from yesterday's post and in it we wanted to show you how fast FT indexes fragment. Here is a fulltext index for a user's mail file currently contains 4 un-indexed documents and is set for hourly indexing. In this case the Chronos task will update this index during it's next hourly run. For databases set for "Immediate" updating the results we see here are even more applicable. Here we see on the console the same full text index has been freshly defragged [read] Keywords: domino blogger properties
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Defragging FT indexes - little benefit for lots of work!
Wed, Nov 9th 2011 3:03a   Adam Osborne
Many customers ask us about the defragging of Full Text Indexes and now with the 8.5.3 notes.ini setting FTBasePath the Full Text Indexes, and defragging them, seems to be back on many admins' radar. But before you go on a defragging FT campaign, you just might want to rethink if it is worth the effort - let's explain. Full Text index files are stored under a sub-directory for a given NSF file. The contents of which are updated by the Domino Server and the indexer (Update) tasks. This update f [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger consulting database server
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Stardock's OS/2 History
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 6:23p   Adam Osborne
I remember Stardock back in the 1990's. A great little company, interesting story. It's fascinating to hear how IBM tried to adjust course over the years. If you have a moment check out this article. [read] Keywords: ibm blogger
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Strange things with recent contacts and 8.5.3
Thu, Oct 27th 2011 6:03p   Adam Osborne
We've upgraded a few client machine's now and hit a couple of issues we have yet to sort out: These issues can occur on a machine: 1. All recent contacts just 'disappear' 2. Type ahead just doesn't work any more 3. Contacts that have been deleted, magically re-appear So if you are in the process of upgrading, watch out. If we work out what is going on, I'll put the information here. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Dear IBM, it might be worth considering an Amnesty on lapsed renewals
Mon, Oct 10th 2011 10:42p   Adam Osborne
Looking at the number of accounts I now know that have very old and lapsed license versions of Domino, I wonder if it might be worthwhile for IBM to offer an amnesty period for renewals, i.e. if you renew for 12 months before the end of November we forgive you for not paying maintenance. It might be just what's needed to bring some old customers back into the fold. Does anyone else think this could work? [read] Keywords: domino ibm blogger
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Using Defrag.NSF to defrag the other drives on your server (not just the .nsf files)
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 4:06a   Adam Osborne
Defrag.NSF allows you to target and schedule other drives on your Server for defragging maintenance while Domino is running. (All done while still working in the familiar Notes interface) As an example, on a newly built server with Defrag.NSF installed, using our "Freespace Report" tool we can generate a report that will show the current fragmentation state of the freespace on all the drives on the server. We open the report and we decide to target the C: drive for a one-tim [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger interface server
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Compact -B isn't working on 8.5.2 FP2
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 4:06a   Adam Osborne
We have seen this a bit. You issue the compact command and the whitespace does not reduce. In particular it is a problem for mail.box databases. There is an SPR for FP1 https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21448637 But I'm not sure if it is in FP2. Does anyone know for sure ? [read] Keywords: ibm blogger
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To everyone that made Auslug possible...
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 9:22p   Adam Osborne
Thank you. You put on a great event and I hope those that contributed and sponsored it get many times their investment retuned. Cheers [read] Keywords: blogger
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Ed's presentation at AusLUG
Mon, Aug 29th 2011 5:42a   Adam Osborne
Ed put on a great presentation and for the first time the penny dropped on what IBM has been talking about with the social mail client. He demoed the client and it looked great. No longer will the backend mail server matter. The devil is always in the detail, but if IBM can ship this (and I'm sure they can) with support for Domino/Exchange/Google etc I think we've got a winner on our hands. For the first time in a year I clearly understand what IBM has been talking about. Thanks Ed. [read] Keywords: domino ibm blogger exchange exchange google server
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Fragmentation doesn't replicate, but new replicas always fragment !!
Thu, Aug 18th 2011 4:02a   Adam Osborne
We are regularly asked this question "Do I need Defrag.NSF on all my servers, particularly when they are clustered". The answer is a resounding "YES". Fragmentation (and "de-fragmentation") does not replicate between databases, but replication nearly always causes fragmentation. We recently commissioned a new server in our office and joined it to the existing cluster. After creating replicas of the databases on the new server, it is quite amazing to see how much fragmentation the process [read] Keywords: domino blogger database office server
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The Lotus Zombie.
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 10:45p   Adam Osborne
The Lotus Zombie. It could be dead, but it still feels alive. The Lotus Zombie lives in a strange World, where double talk is normal and the truth is rarely spoken out loud. The Lotus Zombie feels uncomfortable that organisations spend tens of millions of dollars implementing new email systems when they already have a perfectly good one. One they tend to keep for other things after the spend. It happens every day. The same organisations then complain, increase fares, hike premiums, reduce fl [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus blogger email
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Interesting research findings about folders from IBM's Bluemail project
Sun, Jun 5th 2011 5:22p   Adam Osborne
"People who create complex folders indeed rely on these for retrieval, but these preparatory behaviors are inefficient and do not improve retrieval success. In contrast, both search and threading promote more effective finding." The full research paper is here And it supports our view for the last 4 years that folders should not be a requirement for an email archiving product, see here [read] Keywords: ibm archiving blogger email
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Is $A 30,000 too much for a single core Domino Utility Server (just the software)?
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 4:03a   Adam Osborne
or $US 32, 244. I believe that is what it costs full RRP... I think it is way too much and hope IBM looks at it when they do the xPages server pricing. [read] Keywords: domino ibm xpages blogger server
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"Disk I/O as perceived by the operating system and application" - Wes Morgan
Tue, May 31st 2011 11:22p   Adam Osborne
Wes has written a great blog post and I love his phrase "as perceived by the operating system and application". It is along the line of what we have been saying for years, and fundamentally why you still need to defrag your Domino data on a SAN with something like Defrag.NSF [read] Keywords: domino application blogger
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The ID Vault may not be doing what you think it is !
Fri, May 27th 2011 12:03a   Adam Osborne
Some interesting things we found during ID Vault troubleshooting.In one environment we found some issues with the ID Vault and some users who's ID had not successfully sync'd for at least 6 months, this is where you could run into problems with user's certificates expiring and never being updated in the Vaulted ID. There is no warning that sync'ing has actually failed other than a "ID not downloaded because the wrong password was supplied." message in DDM and in the Security Log, which cou [read] Keywords: admin id vault notes blogger password security server
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A Query for the ID Vault Experts out there !
Tue, May 24th 2011 4:02a   Adam Osborne
ID Vault Challenge question ! If the Administration Process is used to recertify a user with a vaulted ID file, do the certificates in the user's ID file held in the vault get updated automatically with the new certificates or is interaction with the Notes client still required? For example, if the user does not log on and authenticate with the server until after the certificate expiry on the local ID file, will the ID in the Vault contain the new certificates and allow authentication if the [read] Keywords: administration id vault notes notes client blogger server
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5 Reasons you need Defrag.NSF
Fri, May 13th 2011 2:43p   Adam Osborne
Here's 5 reasons you should get your hands on Defrag.NSF: 1. Your backup times are hideous - Defrag.NSF typically improves backup times by 40% 2. Intelligently targeting problematic databases - only defragging databases that need to be done. Sometimes trying for zero fragmentation can be expensive. 3. Improved algorithm for super large Domino databases 4. Slow view rebuild times - by removing fragmentation view rebuilds will be faster resulting in a snapper user experience 5. Improved set and [read] Keywords: administration domino apple blogger
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5 Reasons you need Defrag.NSF
Thu, May 12th 2011 12:22a   Adam Osborne
Here's 5 reasons you should get your hands on Defrag.NSF: 1. Your backup times are hideous - Defrag.NSF typically improves backup times by 40% 2. Intelligently targeting problematic databases - only defragging databases that need to be done. Sometimes trying for zero fragmentation can be expensive. 3. Improved algorithm for super large Domino databases 4. Slow view rebuild times - by removing fragmentation view rebuilds will be faster resulting in a snapper user experience 5. Improved set and [read] Keywords: administration domino apple blogger
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Is the new name for Lotus Software, "IBM Collaboration Solutions" ?
Tue, Apr 12th 2011 8:25p   Adam Osborne
I've seen a few people within Lotus with a new 'Brand Name' of "IBM Collaboration Solution" Interesting. [read] Keywords: collaboration ibm lotus blogger
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Not all defragging engines are equal
Thu, Mar 31st 2011 4:02a   Adam Osborne
I've written about this before, but it has come up a couple of times this week - Not all defraggers are the same. Some are free, some cost money, some have very intelligent algorithms, some aren't so good. Tweaking and optimising a defragging algorithm takes time. Time typically has a cost associated with it. One thing we've learnt over the last three years is that Domino places some rather unique requirements on a defragmention algorithm. The following rules seem to always apply:the long [read] Keywords: domino blogger database server
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IBM agrees with us that Domino on a SAN's is affected by fragmentation.
Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 4:24p   Adam Osborne
As noted in their "Optimising Lotus Domino Administration" Redbook. Check out Defrag.NSF for more information. [read] Keywords: administration domino ibm lotus R6 blogger
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Monitoring Archival Transaction log space to prevent a server crash
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 12:22p   Adam Osborne
If you are using Archival-Style Transaction Logging and the Transaction Logs are not backed up frequently enough or if the backup solution fails and does not backup and flag the backed up log extents as free, this can lead to the drive filling up entirely and crashing Domino. Here are some steps for how to set up an Event Generator monitoring for low disk space on your Transaction Log drive and then to send you an email so you have a chance to sort something out before it fills up the drive an [read] Keywords: domino R6 blogger database email server
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Lotusphere Comes To You renamed as Collective Intelligence. Is this the start of a trend ?
Tue, Mar 8th 2011 6:03p   Adam Osborne
IBM did this a few years ago in Australia. Now it is interesting to note that on the Agenda and landing page for the Conference that Lotus, Notes and Domino are really not mentioned. Wow. http://www-07.ibm.com/events/au/collectiveintelligence/ After spending so much money on Lotus Knows branding I am suprised. I wonder if this is happening elsewhere? [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes blogger
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Last day to take advantage of the Defrag.NSF special
Sun, Feb 27th 2011 10:22p   Adam Osborne
It's your last day to take advantage of our current Defrag.NSF special. For all the information click here [read] Keywords: blogger
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My ingredients list for a "Domino Social Server"
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 3:46p   Adam Osborne
There has been a lot of talk about a Mac admin and designer client, but how about if IBM created the "Domino Social Server" Here is my ingredients list: - get one Domino 8.5.2 Server then add - Sametime for Domino blend with - a new xpages version of the Notes Admin Client add - a big dollop of xpages versions of everything in Lotus Connections. Put in - a sprinkle of Symphony live hosted on Domino and - a dash of Vulcan to merge disparate inboxes Presto, you have a fantastic "Social S [read] Keywords: admin connections domino ibm lotus notes sametime symphony xpages blogger mac server
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The Turbo encabulator makes more sense than MAPI
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 3:46p   Adam Osborne
Watch this video and you will know what I am talking about ! [read] Keywords: blogger
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Special Lotusphere pricing for Defrag.NSF has been extended until the end of Feb
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 8:22p   Adam Osborne
We have decided to extend our offer until the end of Feb 2011. For all the details please check our website [read] Keywords: lotusphere blogger
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That is one BIG Cyclone
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 10:02p   Adam Osborne
Poor Queensland is about to cop it again. http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/north-queensland-braces-for-cyclone-anthony-as-cyclone-yasi-brews-behind-it/story-fn7ik2te-1225998711771 This thing is massive !! http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/floodrelief/how-cyclone-yasi-compares-around-the-world/story-fn7ik2te-1225998762870 Stay safe [read] Keywords: blogger
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How to deploy Defrag.NSF to 400 servers in 6 clicks
Thu, Jan 13th 2011 3:02a   Adam Osborne
Deploying a product can be time consuming, especially when you have a lot of servers. Some defrag products require downloading other exe's, copying files and updating Notes.ini files on the servers. This process can get very time consuming. If your time is worth money, you don't want to be doing that. To help customers deploy, upgrade and monitor Defrag.NSF we created the Defrag Enterprise Console. Here is an example of how you would use it to deploy Defrag.NSF to 400 servers. You can find [read] Keywords: notes blogger enterprise
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Victorian Lotus User Group Presentation
Thu, Dec 9th 2010 9:20p   Adam Osborne
Last night I had the privilege to present to the Victorian Lotus User Group.br /br /a href="http://www.preemptive.com.au/presentations"Here/a is a copy of what we talked about.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2255932723148620062-373843813667829340?l=ab1osborne.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: lotus blogger
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Special Lotusphere pricing on Defrag.NSF V2
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 3:02a   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Helv; font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" To celebrate Lotusphere 2011,nbsp;we are offering Defrag.NSF V2 for $100 per server, which includes full technicalnbsp;support and upgrades for 12 months.br /br /This release has some amazing new features that we're sure you'll like, these include:br /ulliStill easy to install, it's a Notes database! (nothing to download, nothing to edit - and it's fully supported! [read] Keywords: domino lotusphere notes blogger database enterprise interface server
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File or Volume defrag! What's the best?
Thu, Dec 2nd 2010 11:40a   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Often people have asked us about the benefits of Defrag.NSF over any of the commercially available "Volume" style defraggers, and some have even been surprised when we showed them how the free defragger they were using wasn't actually doing as well as they though it was. /spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"That is always the easy part for us, as the back to back results and the straight forward flexibil [read] Keywords: domino blogger server
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iNotes Active X Installer
Tue, Nov 30th 2010 4:02p   Adam Osborne
It has been a long time coming. iNotes 8.5.2 now includes an installer so you can pre-install the iNotes ActiveX controls. You can find it in the datadominohtml directory.br /br /I am still searching for documentation on it, and will post details when I find it.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2255932723148620062-7355259943365693163?l=ab1osborne.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: domino inotes blogger
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Calling for people who are will to provide feedback on Defrag.NSF for Notes
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 3:02a   Adam Osborne
We've taken a lot of what we have learnt in developing Defrag.NSF for Domino and put it into a new native Lotus Notes solution that's never been done before.br /br /br /The Notes 8 client can consist of over 18,000 files. During installation the installed files will fragment all over the PC's hard disk slowing down Notes startup times and inhibiting the user experience while using Notes. br /So to help solve these two issues, we've taken the Defrag.NSF engine and created a Notes client addin [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes notes client blogger
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Defrag.NSF for Notes - yes the client version !
Wed, Nov 17th 2010 4:02p   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"We've taken a lot of what we have learnt in developing Defrag.NSF for Domino and put it into a new native Lotus Notes solution that's never been done before./spanbr /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"The Notes 8 client can consist of over 18,000 files. During installation the installed files will fragment all over the PC's hard disk slowing down [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes notes client blogger wiki
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It's Here - Defrag.NSF V2, a good thing just got a whole lot better.
Tue, Nov 16th 2010 11:43p   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Arial;"After a year of development we are pleased to announce Defrag.NSF Version 2 is now available!! /spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"This release has some amazing new features that we're sure you'll like, these include:/spanbr /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /ullispan id="goog_1785135840"/spanspan id="goog_1785135842"/spanspan style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Still eas [read] Keywords: domino notes blogger database development enterprise integration interface
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Why is finding a message by message-id so hard in Outlook ?
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 5:44p   Adam Osborne
Ispan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"n Notes you can do a simple db.search, e.g./spanbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Set collection=db.search({$messageid = "}+ strMessageID+{"}, Nothing, 0)/spanbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /sp [read] Keywords: notes apple blogger outlook
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Defrag.NSF V2 - Multi-stage Mode
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 3:14a   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"As noted in our previous blog articles, sometimes due to the free-space fragmentation on a drive, certain large databases may not be completely defragmented if they are larger than the largest free-space chunk. This is not an issue for Defrag.NSF V2 because it utilises multiple defrag engines which can be automatically switched "on-the-fly" for the job at hand. /spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"A dedic [read] Keywords: domino blogger
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Defrag.NSF V2 Walk Thru
Thu, Sep 30th 2010 3:44a   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Helv; font-size: x-small;"span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;" span style="font-size: small;"Here is anbsp;video walkthru of the feature rich /spana href="http://www.preemptive.com.au/files/DefragWalkthru.html"span style="font-size: small;"Defrag.NSF V2/span/aspan style="font-size: small;"./spanbr /br /span style="font-size: small;"Available for on the 12th of October 2010./spanbr /br //span/spandiv class="blogger-pos [read] Keywords: blogger
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Why the Group Calendar might show "info restricted" incorrectly.
Wed, Sep 29th 2010 3:15a   Adam Osborne
span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"We've just been working on a site where a number of users had the Group Calendar showing their scheduled information as "info restricted"./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"Looking at their mail preferences, we could see that a mail policy had set their schedule access to allow "everyone" to see their schedule information. This was locked to prevent change. Everything looked OK./spanbr /br /span styl [read] Keywords: blogger
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Two reasons why the World's largest Domino Sites love Defrag.NSF
Tue, Sep 28th 2010 10:13p   Adam Osborne
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"1. It works and delivers on its performance promises./spanbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"br //spanbr /span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"2. It is very easy to install. There is nothing to download or ini files to change. Just create the database, press the install button and add the license./spanbr /span clas [read] Keywords: domino apple blogger database
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What's new in Defrag.NSF Version 2 ?
Fri, Sep 10th 2010 3:13a   Adam Osborne
div style="font-weight: bold;"br /div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"Centralised Configuration - Technical Settings:/div/divdiv style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"While the Technical Settings document is not a new feature, Domino Administrators will love the easy access to the new features and the easy configuration options available using the Technical Settings document./divdiv style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"br //divdiv [read] Keywords: admin domino blogger database server




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