Session Descriptions

• Enabling Real-Time Collaboration and Mobile Access
• A Step-by-Step Guide for Installing or Upgrading to Lotus Sametime 7.5
• Implementing Sametime 7.5 Functionality: Web Conferencing
• Implementing Sametime 7.5 Functionality: Instant Messaging
• Leveraging Sametime 7.5 Client Plug-ins
• Opening the Gateway to Public IM Networks
• Building Your Sametime 7 5. Environment
• Configuring the Sametime 7.5 Client
• Sametime 7.5 Server Administration Best Practices
• Delivering Sametime Functionality to Mobile Devices
• Joining Forces: Domino, Sametime 7.5, and BlackBerry
• Installing and Upgrading to BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server Administration Tips and Techniques
• Deploying BlackBerry Devices

Best Practices to Configure and Manage Domino Directories

A properly configured directory is critical for optimal performance of the servers in your domain. This session delivers real-world best practices to:

• Optimize your Server and Configuration Settings documents
• Improve consistency of user management with Policies
• Implement document locking on your Domino Directory for change management
• Determine rules and ownership for group management and population
• Leverage domain documents and configure adjacent or non-adjacent domains
• Evaluate Connection documents for optimal performance
• TAKE HOME: A set of customized views to support management of key documents and values, and a method of implementation without modifying your Domino Directory

How to Master Your Domino Infrastructure's Security

Learn to bulletproof your Domino infrastructure and at the same time balance your need for convenience and trouble-free management. See how to employ methodologies for distributed responsibility of business process security by:

• Leveraging network security with proper configuration of servers, SSL, and port level encryption
• Managing authentication for both NRPC and HTTP access
• Applying sustainable password rules
• Controlling ACL changes to ensure consistency and proper replication of databases within the domain
• Enforcing client security with ECLs and Policies
• And restricting access to administrative processes with Administrator roles
• TAKE HOME: A database with agents to report on possible ACL issues and change access levels for specified ACL entries

Effectively Manage Your Users

Delve into each stage of the entire user life cycle, from new hire to rename to termination, and gather the tools you need to effectively manage anticipated changes while you:

• Implement an effective password recovery policy
• Determine best methods for managing ID files
• Leverage the CA for Notes certificate IDs to secure the physical files and ensure ease of registration
• Implement best practices for life cycle management of users, including what to do when people leave
• Plus, explore options for user registration and see which one makes the most sense for you
• TAKE HOME: A database with four highly-effective agents to find orphaned mail files, locate terminated users, remove IDs from the Domino directory, and proxy Admin, that eliminates the need for your help desk to change individual fields in Person documents

Implement Key Processes for Application Management

Bring a structured methodology to bear on your Domino applications with procedures to design, rollout and control agents running on your servers. Find out the best ways to:

• Determine ownership of existing applications
• Manage and deploy in-house templates for change management
• Configure Agent settings to optimize security and usability
• Understand trusted servers for Agent deployment throughout the domain
• Check database properties to ensure optimal performance
• TAKE HOME: A checklist of exactly what data to collect from developers before an application touches your server

Client Administration, Part 1 - Optimize Workstation Configuration

Develop a customizable action plan to upgrade and maintain the consistency of workstation configuration, and get practical advice to:

• Create an effective strategy for implementing security and desktop policies
• Define key elements to properly perform initial installs, configurations, and unattended upgrades of workstations
• Understand the ins and outs of policy settings, including when individual settings are actually applied and available
• Determine the best application of organizational and explicit policies
• Manage bookmarks and folders

Client Administration, Part 2 - Increase Performance and Stability

Identify and fix client problems and optimize performance and stability. In this session you:

• Get practical advice to manage workstation system files like Notes.ini, Personal Name and Address Books, and cache files
• Learn how to collect and evaluate diagnostic data from system crashes
• See how to utilize efficient tools for auditing workstations
• Understand when a replicated mail model is warranted and take advantage of improvements to the client replicator process in ND6
• Discover the best ways to handle remote and multi-roaming users
• TAKE HOME: An audit tool to gather critical client information

Exploit Domino Directory Services

Gone are the days of authentication and addressing using cascaded NABs within your domain. This session delivers effective strategies and techniques to build and maintain a rock solid directory architecture and shows you how to:

• Provide efficient access to external directories through Directory Assistance and take advantage of Extended Directory Catalogs to resolve some of your biggest security headaches
• Exploit the advantages and identify potential problems in deploying Condensed Directory Catalogs
• Implement a system to manage directory versions and customizations
• Determine the viability of using a central directory architecture
• Use Domino as an LDAP server, access other LDAP servers, and extend the schema
• TAKE HOME: A tool to check the ID of every type of design element in every instance of a database throughout the domain to ensure that replicas are in sync

How to Optimize Server Configuration

With the number of settings that can be tweaked, obtaining optimal server configuration has become an art form. Find out exactly which server settings give you the biggest bang for the buck, and get tips and techniques to ensure that your servers are operating at peak performance, including:

• Managing the Notes.ini and identifying settings for enhanced performance
• Exploiting valuable agent settings to control how your servers are used by developers
• Taking advantage of transaction and view logging
• Tuning performance for replicators, indexers, and full text indexing
• Tracking key statistics for clustering that are normally hidden from view
• Plus, you uncover valuable information on platforms that help you shape the way you plan your server consolidations
• TAKE HOME: A cluster monitoring tool to ensure mail servers have a replica for every mail file on the primary server, as well as reporting on replicas with cluster replication disabled, marked as out of service or pending delete, and finding orphan replicas on failover servers

Leverage Schedules and Procedures for Easy Server Maintenance

Avoid wasting time and resources by learning to consistently and automatically execute server maintenance tasks using scripts. You get real-world advice to:

• Perform analysis of NSD logs
• Categorize essential tasks to be performed daily, weekly, monthly, and on an "as needed" basis
• Configure your environment to capture fault recovery information in the most logical way for your domain's infrastructure
• Manage interim releases on servers and much more
• TAKE HOME: An easy-to-follow database of maintenance tasks with the option of assigning tasks to administrators

Configure Your Domino Web Server for Peak Performance

Discover the ideal configuration for your Domino Web server with exclusive timesaving tips and techniques, including how to:

• Efficiently deploy and secure Domino Web access and browser-based applications
• Give your users ubiquitous access to their email while maintaining a secure messaging infrastructure
• Configure Domino Web authentication using domcfg.nsf and DSAPI filters
• Enable user management of password changes
• TAKE HOME: A Web log analysis tool for both text logging and domlog.nsf

Joining Forces: Domino, Sametime 7.5, and BlackBerry

Learn how to reap the collaborative benefits of BlackBerry, Domino, and Sametime integration. Start off by following the flow of a message from BlackBerry Enterprise Server to a handheld device, gaining an understanding of how the BlackBerry environment interacts with Domino, and seeing how distributed components can lead to high availability. Next, find out how to lock down your environment with BlackBerry security features, including support for Domino Encrypted Mail. Then, pick up techniques for incorporating Sametime 7.5 within the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 environment. Finally, take home a complete feature and technical overview of BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 for Domino, along with sample architecture diagrams.

Take Control of Your Messaging and Scheduling

Get the most out of your messaging architecture with recommended settings for your domain's messaging topology and infrastructure, and get expert advice on how to:

• Configure Notes Named Networks for efficient routing and failover
• Deal with Resource Reservations issues in Calendaring & Scheduling
• Match your mail rules and journaling with enterprise requirements
• Use Message Tracking without hogging resources
• TAKE HOME: A convenient tool that locates and removes any message of your choice from a mail file

Configure a Rock-Solid SMTP Environment

Learn to exploit the tools for Notes and Domino that protect your users from unsolicited commercial email, and discover real-world tips to:

• Prevent your servers from being illegally exploited using blacklists and anti-relay settings
• Fight the battle against spam with an in-depth investigation into different third party software tools
• Enable the appropriate settings in Configuration documents to control NRPC and SMTP mail
• Control MIME settings across your organization
• TAKE HOME: A checklist of the documents and fields in the Domino Directory that ensure proper configuration of SMTP

How to Master Mail File Management

Get the information you need to make the best decisions for virus protection and put the right processes in place to help you:

• Stabilize mail server growth with best practices for quotas and archiving
• Understand the capabilities and impact of your choices for anti-virus solutions
• Control agent execution and deal with user mail rule issues
• Help users manage their folders and more
• TAKE HOME: An application that will analyze any mail file including rules and agents