Session Descriptions

9 Ways to Improve Your DWA Architecture

If you’re rolling out Domino Web Access or just want to improve the way it works within your domain, then don’t miss this session. Get an inside look at the configuration settings that make DWA easier and more secure for your users. Learn to reuse child windows in DWA and configure them without user interaction. Break away from the typical login experience by using a DOMCFG.NSF to customize a login for your domain. Learn how to use the Web Redirector application to get users to their mail servers from a single URL. Get the straight facts on how to form a single sign-on environment. Also, see how the Domino Directory, LDAP, 3rd party tools, and security appliances combine to reduce the risks of Internet access to your corporate HTTP backbone.

Accelerating Domino Server Upgrades and Installations while Minimizing Downtime

Uncover the step-by-step details you need to upgrade your servers to Domino 8 using the quickest and most efficient methods available. Learn how to develop standardized installation techniques that reduce errors and ensure consistent server installations in your domain. Get critical time-saving tips on what you should do before your first server upgrade, such as prepping the new Domino 8 templates and upgrading the design of the address book. Gain insight into determining which servers to upgrade first and reducing the risk of Domino 8 features spreading across your environment before you want them to. Plus, you find out how to avoid service outages by leveraging clusters and walk away with working scripts that help eliminate potential errors by automating server upgrades.

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Admin Blast 2009... 70 Tips in 90 Minutes!

Buckle up and get ready for this explosion of from-the-trenches advice on almost every facet of Domino administration. Updated with lots of new tips for 2009, this fast-paced, energizing session provides you with the critical insight into day-to-day tasks that every administrator needs to have, as well as little-known tips and tricks that can only make your job easier. Walk away with links to important resources, plus a full description of over 70 tips on Domino 8 configuration, clustering, HTTP, AdminP, iNotes, performance, and much, much more.

Agent Troubleshooting Techniques for Administrators

Get field-tested advice to quickly identify and fix a myriad of agent issues. Find out how best to configure agent control parameters and the Agent Manager task for optimum efficiency. Understand the impact of agent restrictions and execution control lists (ECLs) on code control. Learn to effectively control and restrict agent execution for Domino Web servers, deploy solid ECLs to restrict client access to harmful code while allowing normal agent processing, and leverage signatures and policies. Define code timeouts for HTTP agents and find out how to troubleshoot Web agents. Leave with a list of tips for code execution on server consoles.

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Automating Tasks: Development Tips for Administrators

Bolster your skills and save time and effort by leveraging these key development tips for administrators. Don’t wait for a developer to write a simple tool, view, or agent that you need; instead, write your own utility by applying basic coding techniques that automate the tasks of updating documents, finding issues, or fixing values in the directory. Walk through views that automatically find locked documents and unlock them; quickly change mail types; discover improperly formatted server name fields; plus much more. Get tips that will help you avoid headaches when no developers are in the office and even impress your boss with your findings and solutions.

Best Practices for Upgrading to Notes and Domino 8.5

Get key advice from a member of the 8.5 Upgrade team who shares his best practices gained from upgrading both Lotus’ internal 8.5 deployment and the extended 8.5 beta program within IBM Global Services. Learn how to take advantage of features, such as the Domino ID Vault and extended Roaming User, by utilizing other features like Auto-Populated Groups and Dynamic Policies. Equip yourself with I/O savings steps highlighted by Document Data Compression and utilization of the new 8.5 Document Attachment and Object Service (DAOS). Find out how to avoid common pitfalls before it’s too late. Take away a checklist of steps and real-world recommendations to ensure a smooth and successful upgrade.

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Client Upgrades at Will Part 1: Scripting the Upgrade Description

Streamline the upgrade process by learning how to script and package your upgrades, whether they’re just point releases or the latest full release. Explore a variety of tools, including scripting tools like VBScript and AutoIT, as well as packaging tools like InstallShield tuner and Microsoft Installer. Find out how your upgrades can automatically clean up the INI defaults for your Eclipse plug-ins, compact mail files, manipulate your Notes system files, and much more. Don’t just run setup.exe and hope for the best, attend this session and get equipped with everything you need to know to script the perfect upgrade.

Client Upgrades at Will Part 2: SmartUpgrade and New Tools Description

Find out how to develop a simple, repeatable, reliable method for deploying new releases and delivering that client to workstations. Avoid the fatal flaw of delaying deployment of new releases to users (whether a simple point or full release). Get expert guidance on using the native SmartUpgrade tool as well as other software distribution tools, such as SMS. Learn how to make the process transparent to your users, and how to implement a variety of methods for efficiently scheduling and communicating with users. Walk away with the tools and knowledge you need to ensure a smooth upgrade.

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Deploying Widgets, Plug-ins, and Composite Apps for the Notes 8 Client Description

Dive into the features and plug-ins that Notes 8 offers through the Eclipse Update Manager. Utilize this new Domino-based tool for secure, logged client updates that you can easily distribute throughout your organization. Learn to use the new update.nsf database to manage and control feature access, packages, and versioning, and effectively distribute resources to your users based on their location. Determine how to best implement site updates, whether through NRPC or a generic Eclipse update site, and see what it takes to use this tool for Sametime 7.5 provisioning, as well as additional plug-ins and composite applications. Plus, take home a base site.xml example and a sample update.nsf to help jumpstart your deployment.

Implementing the Domino ID Vault Description

Overcome the big Notes admin pain-points of forgotten user passwords and id file mis-management by using the ND8 Domino ID Vault. Leverage the biggest id management breakthrough Notes has ever seen to significantly reduce support calls and save time. Learn how to manage common gotchas that were once difficult to avoid like easily resetting passwords without compromising security. In this session you walk through the step-by-step process of configuring the Domino ID Vault from beginning to end and come away with the best practices for implementation.

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Justifying Your Upgrade: How Notes and Domino 8.0.x and 8.5 Make You and Your Team More Productive! Description

Come get the information you need to justify your upgrade to Notes/Domino 8.0.2 or 8.5. Compare and contrast the capabilities offered in 8.0.2 and 8.5 and learn how certain enhancements combine to make you more productive, such as federated calendar, offline activities, and other features that can reduce reading time and increase comprehension. Gather data on the value of moving to Notes 8.x in measurable terms and on how your move can save administrators and end users not only time but money as well. Compare Notes and the associated Domino administration on a release-by-release basis so you can easily choose which release to deploy in your environment.

Key Programmability, Security, and Language Enhancements Description

Dive into the additions and improvements to the formula language, LotusScript, and Java to understand the impact they have on new and existing applications. Determine which changes in the formula language you’ll want to implement, and learn how to expand the functionality of your applications with new LotusScript and Java methods. Get the lowdown on security changes through policies that can affect your applications and walk through agent settings necessary to execute LotusScript and Java code on the Domino server and Notes client. See how Agent profiling can help you locate performance bottlenecks in your agents and understand the impact of fully implementing a Java 1.5 runtime environment. Take home a database of all the language changes with detailed examples of each one in action.

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Lotus Quickr: A Technical and Architectural Overview Description

Come get a complete functional, technical, and architectural overview of Lotus Quickr. Learn how this innovative product integrates with Lotus Notes and other desktop applications to allow for a more efficient way to share content, collaborate, and work faster with your colleagues and partners. If you’re already running Quickr then come get new ideas on how to further enhance your experience. Take a sneak peek at the next version, and walk away with a solid grasp on how Lotus Quickr has been designed to meet your current and future needs.

Make your Notes Clients Hum: Tuning for Stability, Performance and Supportability Description

Get expert advice and best practices for managing your Notes client environment to reduce support costs and time spent on troubleshooting issues. See firsthand how to do a proactive analysis of client crashes using Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Analyzer. Learn how to audit your environment to collect data on everything from hardware configurations to the ODS of a user’s mail file. Once you’ve determined exactly what’s going on in your environment you can then leverage the tools you need for a consistent setup using policies and easy to deploy scripts that will give you complete control over every setting on the client.

Mastering notes.ini Settings Both Old and New Description

Explore how the hundreds of entries in this small configuration file impact the health of Notes clients and Domino servers and prepare yourself for new Notes and Domino 8 .INI variables. Learn to do a health check on notes.ini settings and how best to control client settings. Get practical advice on how to deal with the unstructured placement of variables in the notes.ini, and capitalize on the value of reordering, and if appropriate, removing them. Find out what variables become obsolete in Notes and Domino 8, unearth hidden update and sync commands for the notes.ini through the Server Configuration document, and pick up lots of practical undocumented notes.ini settings.

Not your Father's Shared Mail: Use DAOS for Dramatic Disk Savings Description

Find out why Domino 8.5’s DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) is the most exciting new feature to come down the pike in a long time. See how DAOS can de-duplicate your document attachments to yield dramatic savings in disk utilization. Get a comprehensive look at the architecture and configuration of DAOS, its file structure, and what the optimal disk configuration is for attachment storage. Learn how to minimize risk associated with shared objects and find out how the new architecture is designed to be resilient and easy to manage, all while significantly reducing disk costs.

Powerful Techniques for Analyzing Server Statistics Description

Learn to proactively take control of your server environment as this session reveals the hidden secrets and data in the Statistics Results database. Come across the stats you really need in the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF) and use Excel to analyze this data so you can tweak server settings accordingly. Take home a customized statrep template with a dozen new views to help you get to the right information on cluster replication efficiency, mail flow, agent usage, platform performance, disk performance, and even the number of concurrent users on your servers per hour. Find out how to expose, analyze, and report on any of the over 500 statistics available through “show stat” console commands. Walk away with a technique to create usage and performance charts for all your servers in less than 5 minutes.

Preparing for the Mobile Applications Onslaught Description

They’re here, so don’t fight them. Face your Mobile Application fears head-on so you understand the impact mobile applications could have on your environment and know how to prepare for them. Gain insight into the different types of mobile applications and their impact on users, security, network and system utilization, administrative overhead, and more. Examine specific capabilities of the Domino platform that make it an excellent choice for mobilization and dive into how important cross-platform compatibility can be for your organization. Walk away with the foundation you need to successfully accommodate mobile application growth and complexity.

Rooms and Resources from the Inside Out Description

Learn from an insider how the Lotus Notes and Domino Rooms and Resource system is designed, how it works, and how to implement it. Find out which of many deployment strategies will work best for you. Understand how reservation requests, updates, cancellations, and repeating reservations work so you know where to look when problems occur and how to alleviate them. Learn to integrate with LDAP and Sametime, and discover expert troubleshooting techniques. Get advice on when to customize your system (or leave it alone), how to make the system work for you in a mixed version environment, and when and how to approach an upgrade. Get insider information that will increase your understanding of the resource system and busy time.

The Top 40 Security Holes and How to Close Them Description

Uncover, and then eliminate, the most common security exposures found during real-world security audits. Learn why directory access can be most dangerous of all, why functional accounts like “Notes Admin” should never have real privileges, and why “training accounts” present a big fat back door. Find out which databases have default of manager access (LOTS!), and why and how to use Internet Password Lockout. Understand what to look for when you inherit a domain so you can avoid dangerously sloppy security like wide-open unmonitored implementations of full access administrator, allowing anyone to run unrestricted agents, and not using the CA process, thereby putting critical certifier IDs into the hands of long gone administrators. Avoid becoming complacent about security with tips and tricks that will be sure to surprise even the most seasoned administrators.

Troubleshooting Server Crashes and Deciphering an NSD Description

Don’t press the panic button when your server crashes! Come to this session and get step-by-step best practices on what to do and in what sequence. Delve into the troubleshooting process, find out where to look for crash information, what you’re looking for, and how to decipher NSDs, both manually and with the new IBM tool, to prevent future crashes. Learn how to troubleshoot quickly to get servers back up and running ASAP, and troubleshoot more thoroughly to diagnose the problem in detail and fix it for good. Plus, you’ll learn to simplify your life with tips on using Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Recovery for troubleshooting servers.

Unlocking the Power of Domino 8 Directory and Security Improvements Description

Reap the benefits of improved security features for handling Web based authentication, Internet password and certifier management, as well as improved integration with SSO for WebSphere and Active Directory. Leverage the enhancements in Directory management and see where to configure new features for improved performance of name lookups through settings for secondary directories, LDAP configuration options, and group membership expansion. See how to use the new DirLint tool to report on all types of inconsistencies in names. From DWA and SSO to LDAP, DA, and AES for SSL, you get a clear picture of how the changes work together and what you need to do once your upgrade is in place.

XPages - Revolutionizing Lotus Domino Web Application Development Description

Come take a look at IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5’s XPages design element that enables developers to build compelling Web 2.0 applications for Domino. Get an overview of this new technology to better understand what it can do for you. Garner insight and see demos on some best practices for building new apps and extending existing ones that will have your end users asking for more. Finally, pique your interest with an inside look at some upcoming features that are guaranteed to show the relevance of XPages for your company.

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