Blair Armeau

Day 2 – Sunday – Jumpstart Sessions

1/30/11 8:00 AM – SHOW102 Statistics and Events Base Camp: Proactive Monitoring of Your IBM Lotus Domino Servers

Description

This session takes you from start to finish into details of setting statistic collection, sever monitoring, event handling, Domino Domain Monitoring, and Activity Logging. We’ll show the Best Practice configuration for a statistic collection infrastructure and turn you on to methods to detect unauthorized changes to ACLs, and real-time monitoring to prevent abuse of “full administrator access privilege. Find out how to get the most out of DDM and who on your staff should use it. Find out how activity logging can save you Gigabytes of disk space by identifying applications that are no longer being used. You’ll walk away with new views for STATREP.NSF that let you mine important data hidden in each statistic collection document.

Review

Excellent – many handy tools that we can implement right away at no charge.

1/30/11 10:30 AM – JMP201 Take the Easy Jump from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony 3

Description

Worried about the learning curve when moving Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony? Concerned about getting your daily work running smoothly on Lotus Symphony? This JumpStart session will dispel the clouds by comparing the user experience and functionality between Microsoft Office and Lotus Symphony 3. You’ll discover best practices and tips on making the jump easily, as well as leveraging your existing MS Office knowledge. Deep dives and demos on Lotus Symphony sparkler functions are provided to improve your productivity quickly and greatly. Come join us to explore the details and enjoy the pleasure of easy editing!

Review

Excellent – Makes me wonder why we purchase Microsoft Office at $400 a desktop when we can get the same for free _and_ it integrates with Notes.

1/30/11 1:30 PM – JMP101R IBM Lotus Domino Application Development Jumpstart

Description

You’ve heard all the hype, now come and see it for yourself. Lotus Domino is the world’s most powerful platform, and is also one of the most straightforward to develop for. With Release 8.5, Lotus Domino Designer is built upon Eclipse. Come and see how Lotus Domino applications are constructed using Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.2. You’ll discover how design elements such as forms and views are used to implement a Lotus Domino application, and how the various other design elements fit into the overall Lotus Domino application architecture. Explore the new features in Domino Designer and learn how XPages can be used to upgrade your existing applications with snazzy Web 2.0 functionality! Watch and learn as we show how Lotus Domino can revolutionize how you think of application development!

Review

Developing XPages requires a lot of steps with cool results. Able to develop applications on the desktop and on the web with one set of code. No chance of Designer Client on Linux.

1/30/11 4:00 PM – JMP105 “How Stuff Works” – Domino Style!

Description

You may be a pro at administering a Lotus Domino server, but that doesn’t mean you understand everything under the hood. Learn the no-fuss, no-frills, simple explanations of the most common Lotus Domino concepts and find out exactly how they work, and how to apply this knowledge to help avoid problems and improve performance. You’ll learn how reader fields work, how replication and cluster replication works, mail routing including SMTP, the secrets of ACLs, ID file details, Adminp, busytime, cross-certification, recertifying, Domino domains, transaction logging, view indexes, and more. Learning the entire concept behind the “stuff” that’s in Lotus Domino will make you a better troubleshooter, a faster problem-solver, and an all-around great admin!

Review

Excellent – Lots of handy tips to fix most production problems and often overlooked settings that boost performance.