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Keith Brooks
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SnTT - Mapping a Drive in Windows to an NSF
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 8:50a   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TH77tPzJd-I/AAAAAAAAAS8/EUtavV05g9M/s1600/sntt.png"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TH77tPzJd-I/AAAAAAAAAS8/EUtavV05g9M/s320/sntt.png" border="0" alt="Show n Tell Thursday"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512119748701812706" //abr /br /Admittedly this is to remin [read] Keywords: connections domino lotus notes quickr show n tell sntt blogger database enterprise linux mac office openntf security sharepoint
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Have you seen our Exchange Server?
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 4:40p   Keith Brooks
Neither have we...for 2 days! And then we lost ALL of our email?br /br /Not ours, we don't use that Exchange puzzle of a system. This was from a friend of mine who is in the business of keeping people up with generators and UPS units..Large UPS units.br /br /Goes to show that just because one is in the industry does not mean one practices what they preach.br /br /Told him they should have called us, we could have had them up within an hour or 2 if their IT people worked with us. Full webmail, ca [read] Keywords: domino lotus bes blackberry blogger email exchange exchange instant messaging mobile outlook server
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An Invasion of Privacy by Citibank and ATT
Fri, Aug 27th 2010 2:00p   Keith Brooks
Dear Citibank and ATT,br /br /If you robocall someone, ask for their name and zip code, which is not that hard to produce for criminals and then ask for me to speak to someone to assist me, they should be able to let me know what account # we are discussing BEFORE asking me for real information like Social Security #, birth date or my bank details.br /br /I asked for them to let me know which card(we have a few between corp and personnel) it is, tell me the last 4 digits of the card or the last [read] Keywords: blogger security
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852 is installed and I see SPEED!
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 11:00a   Keith Brooks
Speed! Like in Lightning McQueen from Cars.br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/130978/cars-sleek-speed-race.jpg"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://images2.layoutsparks.com/1/130978/cars-sleek-speed-race.jpg" border="0" alt="Lightning McQueen sees Speed" //abr /br /Multithreading Replicator page that really moves.br /br [read] Keywords: blogger
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Fonts getting larger with every reply? Thoughts?
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 9:50p   Keith Brooks
A quirky problem arose, and while I didn't think much about it at the time, it is becoming a problem.br /br /Client, who emails IBMers quite a bit, and only the one person in the office sees this, has emails that progressively get larger and larger fonts as the emails go back and forth. Today's was 22 pages, shrunk down to 7 after we fixed it.br /br /An odd situation if ever I saw one.br /br /So far, unable to fully resolve it, but there is a a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs= [read] Keywords: ibm notes notes client R6 R7 R8 blogger email office
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Projects Concord and Vulcan at MWLUG
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 5:20p   Keith Brooks
David Via just showed the people in his session project Vulcan and Concord.br /br /Have to say Concord is very impressive watching it work. Smooth and quick, enhanced functionality and no lag between edits of coworkers live, compared to my experience with Google apps online. The key to speed is once connected, everything is running locally for you, that and the underlying code.br /br /Yes it's beta and what we saw may not survive but if I had access to it in my beta of LotusLive I could make gre [read] Keywords: connections sametime xpages blogger email facebook google integration wifi
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My DDM Session at MWLUG
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 3:10p   Keith Brooks
Packed room, about 50 people and one lucky developer who won a a href="http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/mobile/bluetooth-headsets/voyager-pro"Plantronics Voyager/a!br /br /"If You only If You Only Knew What Your Server Was Saying"br /br /The customization of DDM and how to understand some ambiguous messages.br /br /You can download the file from a href="http://www.vanessabrooks.com/download/MWLUG2010_keithb_DDM_Pres.odp"here/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' h [read] Keywords: blogger mobile server




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1 compettive session done Tonight at MWLUG
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 11:00p   Keith Brooks
Thanks Rick for talking with me, and thanks to Laurie for pointing him to me.br /br /The conversation with execs that want to leave Lotus, or for that matter any product, is always based on the issues the executive has, rarely if ever about technology.br /br /Remember it is never about technology itself. Sure you may have to point out the execs ignorance, but do it in a nice way. Remember their underlings never tell them what they think, just what they want to hear...if they even know the answer [read] Keywords: lotus blogger database email server
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Free Competitive Discussions at MWLUG
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 11:50a   Keith Brooks
I am enjoying the beautiful a href="http://cleveland.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/"Hyatt Regency Cleveland Arcade hotel/a during MWLUG.br /br /If you will be attending MWLUG or are around Wen night we can discuss how to handle objections, executive decisions, political turf and other routes to unrest which may cause you or your organization or clients to question their future directions.br /br /So email me or send me a Tweet I will be around until Friday morning.div class="blogger-post-footer"img widt [read] Keywords: blogger email
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Last minute MWLUG DDM Session help
Sun, Aug 15th 2010 8:40p   Keith Brooks
If You Only Knew What Your Server Was Saying - INF101 - Thursday 11am-12pmbr /Abstract: Your server is crying out in pain and you ignore it. Daily, hourly it suffers in silence because you do not let it talk. You know it can talk, right? Then you turn it on and it talks, non stop. So you shut it off again. Let me spend some time on what it is saying to you and understand what is important and how to customize it to make your life better and keep your server and employees happier.br /br /My sessi [read] Keywords: blogger server
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Tethering and Modern Times
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 11:50p   Keith Brooks
It used to be that one could use their GSM chip in a nice pcmcia style device to connect to anything, for free.br /Someplace that broke in the world.br /So I called ATT and asked what gives and they said I had to sign up for tethering.br /Because we don't pay them enough now to give us data and calls and sms?br /br /So my poor Tilt-2 still wouldn't work until I changed a registry entry that is hard coded by AtT incorrectly.br /br /Changed HKLM\Comm\InternetSharing\Settings\ForceCellConnection to [read] Keywords: blogger laptop wifi
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Water Bills and Online Payment Services in Boca
Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 8:50p   Keith Brooks
This is about a decent application that fails in its effort to assist the average every day person. In this case, that person was me.br /a href="http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/"br /The website for the City of Boca Raton/a, a city which we are not part of since we are in unincorporated Boca Raton, but we pay the city for our water and sewage usage. Fine, I can live with this. I can also live with them not letting us use their libraries, although I do anyway for their free wi-fi, even if it is onl [read] Keywords: application blogger development password
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A walk through a client's frustration to a sale
Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 8:30a   Keith Brooks
CRM stands for what? Or better, what do you think you get for a CRM system?br /br /I posed this question to a client a few days ago and the Executive was like a deer in headlights.br /br /Some background first. This is a client we have worked with in the past, but for various reasons was unable to commit to a larger project last time we worked with them(just before R8 came out) and they are on 4.6! Still...today, but not for long :-). IT is on our side, loves Lotus and wrote their apps they use [read] Keywords: domino lotus R8 application blackberry blogger development email enterprise exchange exchange iphone microsoft server
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Did you ever Migrate users from Evolution or Squirrel?
Thu, Jul 29th 2010 3:11p   Keith Brooks
Not Moose and Squirrel.br /Although it seems that way.br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dayetime.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bullwinkle_rocky.jpg" img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 200px;" src="http://www.dayetime.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bullwinkle_rocky.jpg" alt="Rocky and Bullwinkle" border="0" //abr /br /Customer wants to standardize on the Lotus platfo [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes notes client blogger email linux outlook server
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Honey, Domino Really Does Save Space
Tue, Jul 27th 2010 11:41p   Keith Brooks
What can it do for our garage?br /br /While doing some testing of migrating a CIO's email from Microsoft Outlook 2007 to Lotus Notes we took a 190MB PST file and after it moved to a mail file it was now.....77MB.br /br /A 60% saving in disk space and this is before DAOS or anything else has been done to the file.br /br /We know there is a hardware multiplier if one leaves Domino to go to Microsoft Exchange of between 2-3 (sometimes more) times as many boxes are needed to sustain the equivalent i [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes blogger email exchange exchange microsoft outlook
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How Many Times Must I Explain Myself
Fri, Jul 23rd 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Before I could talk to the boss. - a href="http://s0.ilike.com/play#Eric+Clapton:Forever+Man:104711:s9095353.9364059.4892664.0.2.225%2Cstd_3fd05a2c030c408c96ada50af63cc94f"Forever Man/a lyrics by Jerry Lynn Williams, as performed by Eric Claptonbr /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://trinities.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/boss_hogg.jpg"img style="float: left; margin: 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 331px;" src="http://trinities.org/bl [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm lotus lotusphere sametime bes blogger email enterprise integration iphone microsoft server sharepoint vm wiki
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LotusLive Impresses Customers
Thu, Jul 22nd 2010 9:00a   Keith Brooks
This morning I did a training session for a client's Ukraine team. So I was up at 6am to prepare. This was my 3rd in 3 weeks on LotusLive so I have it all down by now. br /br /If anyone would like a similar session just let me know and we will schedule one.br /br /The client is going to be using LotusLive Engage with LotusLive Notes. Problem is they are not turned on yet, so we used our Business Partner account and a Domino iNotes implementation.br /br /Business Partners do not get to have the f [read] Keywords: calendaring domino ibm inotes notes beehive blogger
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LotusLive Questions for the Public on Backups
Fri, Jul 16th 2010 1:20p   Keith Brooks
While I recently posted a bunch of questions on the beta LotusLive I had not gotten any response which is very unusual.br /br /I pushed a few emails and postings out and had a call with someone I met previously to expand on the questions of mine, as well as theirs. It seems my questions caused some issues to move to the head of the class. Maybe they were getting to it anyway, but it never hurts to have active clients.br /br /So while my questions would benefit everyone, NDA prevents me from elab [read] Keywords: ibm notes blogger ideajam
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Can We Help other IBM Regions?
Fri, Jul 16th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
This is a response to an email I received today from a Business partner outside the US. br /br /We have been seeing and hearing over time reports from around the world that IBM marketing isn't helping us as Business Partners. br /br /Customers are looking at other products and/or competitors. Sometimes they actually make a choice, although not a commitment, to go to those vendors.br /br /Customers bring up all the Microsoft FUD and/or Google discussions.br /br /Customers never come to our events [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm lotus notes protector quickr sametime blogger blogging community email exchange exchange google microsoft network oracle planetlotus planetlotus.org sap sharepoint sql websphere
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This blog was not here 3 years ago
Fri, Jul 16th 2010 4:00a   Keith Brooks
It was elsewhere and some other ramblings exist but it was July 2007 when I started at this url and to be more serious and find a direction.br /br /Sure I fell off the wagon a bit here and there, who doesn't?br /br /Did I help a lot of people? No doubt based on some of the posts that get daily double digit hits.br /br /I also probably, no, definitely stepped on some toes over time and I apologize to those of you out there.br /br /While the quantity of writing slowed down this year to a paltry 23 [read] Keywords: blogger
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Partnerworld Download seems to be time warped
Sat, Jul 10th 2010 11:51p   Keith Brooks
Please accept our apologiesbr /br /Our system is currently unavailable due to system upgrades.br /We expect to be available by May 22 4:00PM EST. br /br /Serves me right for trying to download something on a Saturday night, but really? May?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8994561579739999989-1646564531316350341?l=lotustech.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: blogger
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Hamster Power your PC
Fri, Jul 9th 2010 3:51p   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/looflirpa/zoom/habicase.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 258px;" src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/looflirpa/zoom/habicase.jpg" alt="" border="0" //abr /This came out of a conversation I had on Twitter.br /br /img src="file:///c:/temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /br /http://www.t [read] Keywords: blogger twitter
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Got a RAID? Are you sure?
Fri, Jul 9th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Nothing more amusing then when you take the cover off a server, clear all the debris and grey "fluff" out of the box to add some RAM to a machine and find 2 hard drives where there should be 3.br /br /Well, I say should be, but let's put it a different way, I was told it was a RAID drives and I presumed RAID 5, evidently the hardware builder did not or the box was never ordered with more than 2 drives.br /br /Given the box was running Lotus Domino apps it didn't need huge disk space like a mail [read] Keywords: admin domino lotus blogger server
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Resources and Reservations and Training
Fri, Jul 2nd 2010 9:13a   Keith Brooks
Remember when creating the resources database to populate it and make sure you restart your server afterward.br /br /Trust me on this one, you will not get things to work until it is restarted.br /br /I know, I should know this, but I live in hope that I can make these kinds of changes on the fly.br /br /NO this is not about 852, it is in fact an 851fp3 server.br /br /But I love the way you can pre-populate the online meeting details and not only search for attendees open times for meetings, but [read] Keywords: blogger database outlook server
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Trying to Save the Day for the Old World Man
Thu, Jul 1st 2010 9:21a   Keith Brooks
Neal Pert is a true genius for writing a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rush/newworldman.html"these lyrics/a.br /br /"He's not concerned with yesterdaybr /He knows constant change is here todaybr /He's noble enough to know what's rightbr /But weak enough not to choose itbr /He's wise enough to win the worldbr /But fool enough to lose it"br /- New World Man by Rush from the Signals album 1982br /br /New or old, your admins and developers deserve to not be left behind by technology because y [read] Keywords: admin ibm lotus traveler xpages blogger planetlotus planetlotus.org
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Why isn't getting certified like getting a drivers license?
Wed, Jun 30th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
When I a href="http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2010/06/got-certification-yet.html"posted/a the other day about certification, I was being honest, it will bring us quite a bit of money, especially when we are done with them all over the next couple weeks, but I still don't like the whole idea.br /br /While discussing this with a few people the idea that one studies for the exam, using whatever mock exam tools there are and then passes the exam seems to be a bit pointless.br /br /Yes, I know, there [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus quickr application blogger email exchange exchange microsoft server
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Today we sold....
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 10:50p   Keith Brooks
LotusLive Engage and Notes.br /br /It's an interesting idea of a href="http://www.vaughanrivett.co.nz/2010/06/today-i-sold-lotus-notes/"Vaughan's/a to do this.br /br /Who's next?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8994561579739999989-5957317211567101077?l=lotustech.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: lotus notes blogger
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ID Registration via text file
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Read on to download the spreadsheet.br /br /If you never did this, this might be enlightening. If you have, I can understand why you might not choose to do it this way.br /br /ID Vault is not running at this client. So I am not covering it in this post. Maybe next time.br /br /It is fairly easy, once you get the spreadsheet file setup properly. More on that in a minute. Just follow a href="http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin85.doc/H_ID [read] Keywords: admin domino ibm id vault ods blogger database password security
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8.5.2 Performance as told by a P3 server
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Guest Blog by an HP Netserver with dual Pentium3 chips and 1gb RAM.br /========br /br /So there I was enjoying retirement when someone plugs in my power and starts checking my drives. My poor SCSI drives haven't gone for a run in a while, were mirrored but now split up and a whopping 18GB on each too.br /br /Load up Windows 2003 server, I hear my brother in the row above me is getting 2008. My cousin below me is still on Windows 2000, he always was a bit slow on the uptake.br /br /Next thing thi [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes traveler blogger firefox network server
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Got Certification Yet?
Wed, Jun 23rd 2010 1:13p   Keith Brooks
It's worth over $100,000(as of current projections) to us for me to ensure we meet the latest IBM standards.br /br /I never liked certification, and I still do not, but I can't argue with this incentive.br /br /If you aren't going to meet IBM's requirements, let me know as we are looking to expand our business, probably to your city/state or even country.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8994561579739999989-9128037348965873 [read] Keywords: ibm blogger
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What apps should there be?
Wed, Jun 23rd 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TCF2S4YF73I/AAAAAAAAASc/uo15CfEJGQY/s1600/workw_03.gif"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 74px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TCF2S4YF73I/AAAAAAAAASc/uo15CfEJGQY/s320/workw_03.gif" border="0" alt="Work the Web"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485795887857135474" //abr /br /The problem with having a te [read] Keywords: connections domino application applications blogger websphere
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Client Budget Meetings and The Enterprise
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 10:40a   Keith Brooks
I love when clients have budget meetings and let me assist.br /br /Not common of course, but we all get our projects added here, some time there, but I advocate something bigger which takes some effort, but can be hugely beneficial.br /br /I've discussed this before, but it's time to revisit it.br /br /If you are an employee in a mid to large multinational company and you are asked about what projects are needed, do you outline the following and ask for it? If yes, I love you, let's do lunch, if [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm inotes notes ods quickr R4 R6 R8 sametime aix applications bes blackberry blogger database enterprise mobile security server smtp vm
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Dear IBM Support Toolbar UI Team
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Are you from the team that designs Partnerworld's puzzling ways.br /br /I have sent numerous messages from your website asking about all of this, and received not even one reply of acknowledgment. Maybe someone will see this and wonder why usage dropped off so much. Or maybe I am wrong. I will gladly post if I am wrong after some discussion with you.br /br /I have been a huge advertiser for the Support Toolbar since finding a few years back and not only have posted about it and its great use and [read] Keywords: ibm ldd lotus blogger google
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Sorry Been Busy with Customers
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 5:21p   Keith Brooks
Seems like I missed some reading this week. I was busy with customers. And even busier next week with them. We have meetings with 6 over the next week. A really busy schedule and I am not even going to some in person because of distances, luckily we use LotusLive Engage for these.br /br /As I have posted recently the world of infrastructure is booming. Budgets are finally open(well some are), customers are calling and being receptive to our calls.br /br /Life is good...now. Compared to the 2nd h [read] Keywords: connections domino domino.doc ibm lotus notes quickr R5 sametime application blogger blogging development exchange exchange google microsoft oracle websphere
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Ethics in Business, Starts before the Interview
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 12:10p   Keith Brooks
Recently I got into a discussion on Twitter with a recruiter of sales people for among other fields, the medical industry.br /br /This recruiter had posted that she received a Starbucks card with a resume. She thought that was a great idea.br /br /I replied, I thought it was in poor taste for her to think this was a good idea. Not only would this bring her a mound of cards probably, what message does it send to prospects and clients? br /br /Namely that she can be bribed? Is that what you want t [read] Keywords: blogger twitter
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I Gave Her Everything....
Fri, Jun 11th 2010 2:20p   Keith Brooks
"She threw it all away on nothin'" - Tom Petty, a href="http://www.metrolyrics.com/a-woman-in-love-its-not-me-lyrics-tom-petty-the-heartbreakers.html"Woman in Love/abr /br /It's true in almost everything in business as well as life.br /br /How many times do you put everything into a client, only to see them go to a competitor? Or someone gets fired and you lose the opportunity? br /br /And what do they always choose? Nothin' in our eyes.br /br /But something in theirs.br /br /Are they right? Are [read] Keywords: collaboration connections ibm lotus sametime blogger blogging email facebook linkedin microsoft network twitter
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LCTY Miami/Ft Lauderdale/Boca was Great
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 6:10p   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TBBHXkJqDbI/AAAAAAAAAR8/bE1upY0lBX8/s1600/lctyflogo_quarterl.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 177px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/TBBHXkJqDbI/AAAAAAAAAR8/bE1upY0lBX8/s320/lctyflogo_quarterl.jpg" alt="LCTY South Florida" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480959216676638130" border="0" //abr /br /Sorry y [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm lotus lotusphere quickr sametime blackberry blogger development enterprise integration network networking office research in motion rim soa websphere
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"RCP Base plug-in not found" error Symphony Install
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 12:00p   Keith Brooks
This was posted in the Symphony Forum a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/installForum.nsf/AllByUNID/45827E834CABF14185257646006E6A90?openforum=Windowsrow=4"here/a and I can safely say after clearing 2 pcs with this error, this was the only way to fix it. I had used beta 2 until recently and had issues and was just going to go back and use Lotus Smartsuite which still runs and works(I have that client that uses Approach) when the announcement came out to use beta3. Now I ha [read] Keywords: ibm lotus symphony blogger desktop microsoft
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The Customer, however odd, is Always Right
Wed, Jun 2nd 2010 3:30p   Keith Brooks
We have all heard about the owner that is paranoid...I have met him. Many times. Multiple times, in fact, CEOs aren't as paranoid as an owner of a private company.br /br /Owners are unique, they have done everything at one time and now as business booms and they get larger, fear for their IP, intellectual property.br /br /Maybe it's a business report, financing, merger details, secret projects but whatever it is, they want it kept secret and away from everyone.br /br /Excellent, that's why they [read] Keywords: admin domino lotus notes application blogger email network security server smtp
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iNotes Redirector Cluster Awareness
Mon, May 17th 2010 11:07a   Keith Brooks
A primary issue to many customers, related to iNotes, is the lack of cluster awareness in the iNotes Redirector application.br /br /If this is important to you, let IBM know, post a comment here, don't name your employer or clients but numbers are important.br /br /You can also vote for this at the a href="http://ideajam.net"ideajam/a site a href="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/238F18F4130574098625772300520EE9?OpenDocument"here/a.br /br /I have word from IBM that if this is important enou [read] Keywords: ibm inotes application blogger ideajam ideajam.net
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My iNotes Redirector Session Updates
Mon, May 17th 2010 9:20a   Keith Brooks
For those that came to it, there was one Technote which did not make it to the slides as it came out post the freeze date.br /br /It is related to the iNotes reverse proxy which is broken in 8.5.1.br /br /The technote found is a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21412267"#1412267/a.br /br /My conversations with IBMers found this will be resolved in 8.5.2.br /br /In the meantime you can try this or revert your iNotes server and redirector to 8.5 or earlier.br /br /For all of [read] Keywords: ibm inotes blogger server
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Morning from Boston and The View ADMIN Conference
Wed, May 12th 2010 9:30a   Keith Brooks
Post will get updated during the day.br /br /Saw the Red Sox game last night, they won. Really nice section security people let me sit 6 rows up from the 1st base line, thanks!br /br /Last night sat around with many Lotus bloggers and some customers and it's an exciting time.br /br /This morning, Alistair Rennie is speaking at the Keynote.br /br /The View announced certificate testing is open till 7pm every day because that's what everyone needs. Someone please let the Lotusphere team know to do [read] Keywords: admin connections domino lotus lotusphere notes quickr sametime xpages blogger integration linkedin mobile openntf security web 2.0
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LotusLive NOTES Questions
Thu, May 6th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Seems I struck gold with my queries on Lotuslive Notes...not iNotes.br /br /Seen the a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/llnwiki.nsf"Wiki/a? Almost empty.br /br /If this is in production, then I am confused by the references to it being in beta.br /br /I await entry to the LL beta program, asked months ago and again now, especially given our client is going to go to it.br /br /So many questions, but I have asked some internal people at IBM for help. br /br /So for now I leave you with these thou [read] Keywords: calendaring ibm inotes ldd lotus notes notes client policies blogger email office wiki
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A CIO asked about Exchange, so I told him the truth
Wed, May 5th 2010 9:00a   Keith Brooks
So we have a meeting in an office at a client which we briefly met 6 months previously. One by one a few other people pop in and out, some get introduced, others do not. Trying to stay focused we did not ask who everyone was, although in retrospect maybe we should have.br /br /Along the way a side conversation started around a feasibility study on moving from Notes to Exchange. Needless to say I was not quiet and I hope none of you would be either.br /br /Not going to get into too many details a [read] Keywords: connections domino ibm lotus notes R8 applications bes blogger development email exchange exchange microsoft office outlook server virus
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This might be a record inbox size
Tue, May 4th 2010 8:30p   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S-C4ktPOUQI/AAAAAAAAAR0/j_B8fLfEUQ4/s1600/42b.PNG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 215px; height: 97px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S-C4ktPOUQI/AAAAAAAAAR0/j_B8fLfEUQ4/s400/42b.PNG" border="0" alt="Is that an inbox or are you just happy to find an open relay?"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467572888386031874" [read] Keywords: blogger email
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White Space? Doesn't everyone have an Email system?
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 9:00a   Keith Brooks
Evidently not.br /br /Yes, there is life on the planet that does not have a corporate email solution in br /place.br /br /Sure, there are some small outfits or startups who don't have anything, but this is a company doing some serious business with offices in 3 locations, 2 in the US and about 100 people.br /br /But they use FREE tools. How cool! How cheap! How....frustrating!!!br /br /Seems the IT person/people had a great idea to use web tools (not ones I even know, but to each their own findi [read] Keywords: calendaring collaboration connections domino ibm inotes lotus notes blogger email exchange exchange google laptop linux microsoft office outlook server skype web 2.0
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LCTY event in Miami, Palm Beach/Boca Raton
Wed, Apr 28th 2010 9:00a   Keith Brooks
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S9Y2b9YW93I/AAAAAAAAARs/SX8Ryyk4RrI/s1600/lctyflogo_quarterl.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 177px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S9Y2b9YW93I/AAAAAAAAARs/SX8Ryyk4RrI/s320/lctyflogo_quarterl.jpg" alt="LCTY Miami and LCTY Boca Raton" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464615051821774706" border="0" //abr [read] Keywords: domino domino.doc ibm lotus lotusphere quickr R4 blogger db2 microsoft rim server websphere
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My escapades in Xpages in which I ...code? sorta
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 1:30p   Keith Brooks
This is for all the admins and developers who have yet to work with XPages.br /br /Many readers know I am not a developer, although decades ago I was. You may recall a href="http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2009/02/post-i-never-thought-i-would-write.html"this post/a which was highly popular at the time when I discussed how hard it was to code in Designer 8.5 or I should say what worked or didn't work for me.br /br /At the time I did not even touch XPages.br /br /My how times change, we still do not [read] Keywords: domino notes xpages application blogger community database eclipse email skype twitter xml
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Even an Evangelist can Fail
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 9:00a   Keith Brooks
12 days since my last post and I have been busy.br /br /What with a book deal, clients moving to LotusLive, other clients firing their IT staff and having us take over, LCTY Miami and Boca Raton websites and registration and invites to do plus normal business, and yes The Admin conference coming up I have been busy.br /br /However, the truth is I was floored by a client that decided to migrate to Exchange and then to the MS cloud for Exchange and really was put off for a while.br /br /We had won [read] Keywords: admin ibm lotus sametime blogger exchange exchange google microsoft websphere
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What do you do with a Stand alone Notes Client
Fri, Apr 9th 2010 10:50a   Keith Brooks
A discussion on twitter from someone in IT that was asked by an employee to let them use a Notes client as a stand alone functional piece of software.br /br /I replied that it does no harm and the person does not need a server, although it helps for more advanced needs and of course if any application needs to get shared then you do need a server.br /br /This brought up an interesting discussion, aside from them being on Exchange and Windows 7.br /br /What do you use on your stand alone client, [read] Keywords: notes notes client application blogger database exchange exchange laptop password server twitter
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SnTT - 8 ways to Sign a Db if you are w/out a Designer or Admin client
Tue, Apr 6th 2010 9:10a   Keith Brooks
Rehashing old information but for those in need, here you go. br /I have been asked about this a few times in the last few weeks about it.br /br /So in no specific order, here are your options.br /br /1) Use someone else's pc that has the programs running.br /2) Download it all from IBM if you are entitled.br /3) Call your local Business Partner and get it via FTPbr /4) Go a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/dominodesigner/learn.html"here/a and download it from IBM, the 100% F [read] Keywords: admin agent domino ibm lotus lotusscript notes notes client sntt blogger database server
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TGIF - How to Permanently set Return Receipt on
Fri, Apr 2nd 2010 1:50p   Keith Brooks
You can't!br /br /Shocked and bewildered that this is not a policy setting option. The only way to do it is to edit your mail template code. Not even sure what this would be like for iNotes.br /br /There is technote a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0uid=swg21211338"#1211338/abr /"Enabling return receipts by default in a mail file or mail template"br / This say for blockquotebr /Notes Domino 6.5.4 and later:br /1. Open the design of the mail file and open the DelOptionSubform [read] Keywords: domino ibm inotes notes blogger
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Preparing your Server and Clients for Passover
Sun, Mar 28th 2010 3:50p   Keith Brooks
Been a bit quiet as I have been onsite at a clients and not always accessible.br /br /That said, when I return home I have been preparing for Passover which starts Monday evening.br /br /Lotus released 851 fixpack 2 a few days ago and you have to clean your server and clients just as well as you clean your house, car or desk for Passover.br /br /There are always files hanging around, hot fixes, interim fixes, internal edits and other similar pieces laying about. Before you do this upgrade clean [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes blogger laptop server vista
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iNotes Can Be Saving You or Your Clients Money
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 8:41a   Keith Brooks
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Moving Quickr sites/places? J2EE or Domino?
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 9:10p   Keith Brooks
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Remember Young Admins...there are 2 files
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 3:00p   Keith Brooks
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Webmail Redirector #4 - Unable to Login Issue
Mon, Mar 15th 2010 9:20a   Keith Brooks
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When iNotes Access just doesn't work
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 10:40p   Keith Brooks
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Streaming Video from PC to TV via Wii
Sun, Mar 7th 2010 10:30p   Keith Brooks
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We went to R8, now we are going to...
Fri, Mar 5th 2010 4:00p   Keith Brooks
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My Session at The View Admin Conference
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 9:01p   Keith Brooks
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DAOS Saving Time and Space
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 10:21a   Keith Brooks
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The Future of RIM
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 9:20a   Keith Brooks
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Why Microsoft? Has it come to this?
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 3:40p   Keith Brooks
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Winter Keeps Coming Back, Like Customers
Fri, Feb 26th 2010 2:43p   Keith Brooks
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Calendar Profile "Errors " for Forwarded Email
Sun, Feb 21st 2010 9:50p   Keith Brooks
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What would Steve Jobs do?
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 9:30a   Keith Brooks
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How long does it take you to make a User ID?
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 9:00p   Keith Brooks
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DAOS Rocks again, 2 clients details
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 8:40a   Keith Brooks
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My Review of IBM LND 8.5.1 The Upgrader's guide
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 8:50p   Keith Brooks
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Mail Redirector Series #3, Login Page Edits
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 8:40a   Keith Brooks
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Continuing on With an R5 to 851 Upgrade
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 8:50a   Keith Brooks
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We got to play football on the Super Bowl field
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 9:30p   Keith Brooks
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Server Side Includes a bug since 6.5, Hotfix 851HF360
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 9:10p   Keith Brooks
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LotusLive QA with it's Product Managers
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 8:40a   Keith Brooks
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Qantas Outsources their brains too?
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 8:40a   Keith Brooks
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Domino server slow? Have you checked...
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 8:51a   Keith Brooks
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SnTT - Reminders for those Upgrading from R5
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 8:40a   Keith Brooks
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SSI and it's not about SSL
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 10:03p   Keith Brooks
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My LS10 Speedgeeking Session
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 8:42a   Keith Brooks
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Mail Journaling and Mail Rules Problem...help?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:10p   Keith Brooks
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LotusLive Notes now starts at 25 people
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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What Happens at Lotusphere...
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Mobile Computing Interview
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Domino.Doc Informal Roundtable
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Topika: Collaboration Through Email from the Innovation Lab
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Blog Muse an idea from The Innovation Lab
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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LotusLive Executive Interview
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Linux help from IBM
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Review of Day 1 of Lotusphere 2010
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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I am Speedgeeking again this year
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Lotusphere Sunday Update
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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1st Lotus Connections Discussion
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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S10e on Linux is Coming with Me to Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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What is running on your Sidebar?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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How cold does it have to get to freeze your laptop
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Excellent Domino Customer Service via Twitter
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Quickr Customisation Samples
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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Roaming Users, Who Enabled them? Just Stop it
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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ST-SNTT - Sametime Build Information
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a   Keith Brooks
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