Conference Sessions


Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 1: MESSAGING AND COLLABORATION
Exploiting Native Notes Email Monitoring Tools
Come get expert best practices for monitoring your messaging environment and immediately improving its stability and performance. Learn to quickly identify messaging bottlenecks for optimal mail flow, and discover 7 key messaging statistics to watch that can make a big difference to your users. Check out enhancements to the Monitoring Results database that enable you to extract data to Excel for domain-wide Notes mail and SMTP server reports. Tap into mail probes in DDM, get message tracking tips and tricks, explore router commands, and learn to control who has the power to track messages from one server to another.

Notes Mail: 7 Things You Can Do To Keep Mail Moving
Conquer your most difficult challenges with mail and keep users under control by providing the right mix of features and restrictions. Stability is key and we’ll explore how best to maintain it by preventing users from writing harmful Agents and allowing their mail files to grow uncontrollably, to ensuring that users control the size of their inbox and restricting mail rules that cause looping. Get best practices for Out of Office settings, email disclaimers, and enforcing corporate-wide user settings. See also how settings in the server configuration documents and mail delivery settings can be fined tuned to increase performance and learn to use mail rules and journaling to protect your environment.

Managing and Enforcing Mail Quotas
In this session you learn how to free up disk space, increase mail file performance, and control the size of mail databases by implementing mail quotas. Choose when to enforce quotas and explore quota settings, what they do, and how to set them up. Find out how quotas are affected by soft deletions, transaction logging, replication, clustering, and archiving. Get expert tips on enforcing quotas (from threshold warnings to over quota notifications), educating users on mail usage and etiquette, and planning for future mail traffic growth. You walk away with the knowledge you need to establish and successfully manage mail quotas that will enhance user experience and bring great relief to your servers.

Ensure Secure SMTP Messaging With TLS
SMTP is the transport for the majority of written communication worldwide, but most of these communications are unencrypted and unsecured which violates regulatory requirements such as HIPPA and SOX. Although email encryption is not a complete solution for regulatory compliance it is a critical step in the process, however many solutions are both complicated and expensive. In this session, you get proven advice to help you sort out the many options that are available like push and pull encryption technologies and native x.509 support in Domino, and see first hand how easily Transport Layer Security (TLS) is to implement and better yet, how it’s transparent to your users. Leave armed with the information you need to make the right decision for your company.

Troubleshooting SMTP
In this session, dive into real-world examples of the optimal settings for internal, external, and multi-domain SMTP configurations, anti-relay settings, extended SMTP settings and more. Uncover tips for quickly solving those annoying SMTP connection errors and get field-tested advice for troubleshooting a whole host of SMTP problems like undeliverable mail and indecipherable error messages. Then explore effective solutions for many of the errors found such as refusal/error by receiving server, route not found, and RFC error codes. Get best practices for implementing escalation procedures for help desks, using the new whitelists in Domino 7, and getting your servers removed from a blacklist.

Optimizing Performance and Security in Your DWA Architecture
How does your DWA rollout match up with others? Could you do it better? Find out as we put real world examples of DWA under the microscope. Get what works and what doesn't in a session designed for both new and experienced administrators who want to know the truth about a secure and great performing implementation of Domino Web Access. Discover how the Domino directory, LDAP, 3rd party tools, and security appliances have been combined to reduce the risks of Internet access to your corporate HTTP backbone. Take home field-tested best practices for implementing DWA with Web Site documents, Single Sign-On, and server configuration documents.

Administering Sametime 7.5 and Deploying Plug-ins
Learn to identify issues with your Sametime 7.5.x servers before they become problems. Understand what features and services have the greatest impact on server performance and learn to utilize the updated admin interface to manage and monitor your Sametime servers. Get the lowdown on deploying plug-ins with or without Eclipse and ensure you get it right the first time. See how Sametime 7.5.x now enables you to create and implement policies to control client capabilities and explore the new load test tool integrated into the Notes 7.0.2 client for IM workload testing, plus much, much more.

Expand your Instant Messaging World with the Sametime Gateway
Securely connect your organization to external public IM communities such as AOL, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, and more. Take a deep dive into the Sametime Gateway to get expert advice on proper installation and configuration, daily administration, and troubleshooting problems. Uncover step-by-step instructions for successfully managing users, adding or removing message handlers for filtering, virus checking and logging, and setting properties like maximum sessions, blacklist domains, sessions timeouts, and custom error messages. Also, get a handle on how SIP and XMPP connectors are implemented for federation and connection to other IM environments. Plus, you’ll walk away with diagrams explaining how the plug-in architecture of the Sametime Gateway operates and where it should fit in your network infrastructure.

QuickPlace Administration Best Practices
Reap the benefits of experience and learn the right ways to deploy, administer, manage and control Quickplace in any size organization. Start with deployment options, clustering, and directories, then move to day-to-day management best practices with a review of the command line and ISV options for administration. Examine real-life self-service applications that have made administration of QuickPlace a pain-free experience for some large global companies. Come away with a fresh perspective on this product, an understanding how it fits into IBM Lotus Quickr, and the knowledge to get control of your own deployment.




Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 2: USER MANAGEMENT
Top 10 Client Help Desk Calls
Conquer the most common Notes support headaches with admin tricks and best practices for quickly understanding the problem, resolving it, and preventing it from happening again. Examine the ins-and-outs of each issue, such as users forgetting passwords, unread marks not replicating, and user cache file issues. Get working solutions to solve each problem with tips on remediation of unread marks, using policies to place appropriate limits on users, and leveraging code to delete unused locations. Walk away with working code that removes unwanted location documents as well as a method for clearing out hidden views in the names.nsf and bookmarks.nsf.

Mastering Policies: Desktop and Mail Settings Exposed
Harness the power of policies to promote a consistent, controlled user experience in your domain. Build and employ an easily maintainable policy architecture around desktop and mail settings and discover which settings will give you, the Administrator, the biggest bang for the buck. Discover how policy settings are applied and dive into the settings that don’t behave exactly as you would expect. Get best practices for configuring and deploying mail settings as well as assigning policies to users. Learn how to avoid the inevitable gotchas that surround the peskiest settings in documents and get steps for troubleshooting policy application. Plus, learn to tune settings for your users and create custom settings to push additional information to clients.

Planning, Managing, and Executing a Successful Upgrade
Whether you ‘re undertaking a major upgrade or getting ready for a point release, being prepared is half the battle. In this session, you’ll first learn to evaluate your current architecture with expert guidance on server consolidation, handling clustered servers, cleaning up server settings, removing unused databases, and more. Then find out how to create a production-like test environment, see what’s critical for testing, how to prioritize which applications require testing, and why it’s critical to have a working back-out plan in case things go wrong. And finally, take home a project plan shell with detailed instructions for upgrading your servers and clients and rolling out new features to ensure you enjoy smooth upgrades from the first server to the last client.

Notes Calendar – New Tips and Tricks
Maximize use of the Notes calendar in your domain and uncover little known tips and tricks that will make your users more capable and less confused. Find out more about the recent troubles and changes that Daylight Savings caused, and make sure you’re set for future events. In this demo-heavy session you’ll discover the newest additions to Notes Calendar in Release 7, such as the ‘remove from folder’ button and imported calendars. See how calendar cleanup and various preferences can simplify your life, find out how to search for free time in a more meaningful way, and walk away with the know-how to manage user’s calendars more efficiently.

When Good Replicas Go Bad
Dive into the many ways in which replication can fail and how to fix problems like zombie documents that have returned from the dead, bringing deleted documents back into a replica, and replicas that won’t synchronize 100% of their documents no matter what you do. Get expert tips and tricks for dealing with these and other problems like widely distributed local replicas, and for getting a handle on what databases your users have on their workstations. Take home tools for managing replica issues like an Agent to find deleted documents that were replicated back into a database at a specific time and much, much more.

Under the Hood of Rooms and Resources Functionality in Domino
This session dives into the architecture of the Resource Reservations system, how and why it changed from 6.x to 7, and what the changes mean to the stability of your C&S world. Understand how reservation requests, updates, cancellations, and repeating reservations work, and gain the knowledge you need to effectively troubleshoot issues. This session will reveal how best to run a mixed environment with multiple versions, both client and server, and gives you expert tips on troubleshooting room availability, repeating reservations, and many more topics. Walk away with confidence, knowing how to make your users happier and more efficient when it comes to using Rooms and Resources, and calendars in general.

Best Practices for BlackBerry Administration
Take a tour of BlackBerry Administration and gain a better understanding of the admin console. Walk through IT policies, user group lists, role-based administration, configuration and application policies, and the BlackBerry Controller. Dive into BlackBerry Enterprise Server Logs for a breakdown of log entries and process logging, and get practical troubleshooting tips. Gain a better understanding of the BlackBerry Resource Kit and see how it can benefit your day-to-day operations. Find hidden BlackBerry admin tricks such as the hidden “right click” and whitelist device features, and take home a number of resources including an IT Policy White paper, a BlackBerry Architecture Diagram, and special admin guides.



Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 3: GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND APPLICATION MAINTENANCE
Admin Blast … 60 Tips in 90 Minutes!
Buckle-up and get ready for this explosion of from-the-trenches advice on almost every facet of Domino administration. 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 as well as a full description of over 60 tips on configuration, clustering, HTTP, AdminP, iNotes, performance, and much, much more.

Application Monitoring and Maintenance Best Practices
Uncover the proven techniques you need to overcome application maintenance challenges like availability and uptime, managing fixes to production applications, and performance degradation. Start with a rock-solid application deployment process with delineation of power from system rights to provisioning new programs and implementing change control procedures. Go under the hood of your application servers to determine the most efficient maintenance schedule for your environment including how best to schedule tasks for optimal performance. Get best practices for problem resolution with Agent processing (or not), statistics to watch, console commands for troubleshooting, and tons of practical tips to ensure you’re meeting SLAs.

Finding, Fixing, and Preventing Database Corruption
What exactly is a b-tree error and how did I manage to get my RRV buckets corrupt? In this session you become an expert on database corruption, how to find the problem, how to fix it, and how to prevent corruption in the future. Get the lowdown on which processes are contributing to database corruption in your environment everyday. See how most corruption is actually self-inflicted and therefore preventable by changing just a few documents and settings. Find out which commands and methods to use for different corruption error messages, how to utilize your server monitoring features to deal with corruption, and the right tools and commands to fix it. Walk away with a list of key errors, what they mean, and how to resolve them.

Agent Troubleshooting Techniques for Administrators
Uncover field-tested advice for quickly identifying and fixing 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 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.

Getting AdminP to Work For You
AdminP is the silent workhorse of the Domino server, but sometimes too silent! In this session, we’ll expose AdminP, and uncover the architecture as well as how it’s designed to run. Gain a better understanding of AdminP’s role in your day-to-day activities, how to exploit it’s powers to do your bidding, and how to tune AdminP for heavy lifting (like any large-scale changes within your organization). Explore the tasks that AdminP takes care of for you and changes that have been made to the process for more efficient handling. Take home tools like a selective replication formula that can make the system smaller and replicates fewer documents, as well as a powerful analysis tool that helps you whip AdminP into shape.

Server Maintenance Toolkit
Capitalize on the experience of an insider for the best ways to keep your servers properly maintained. You’ll learn which tasks are recommended daily, weekly, and monthly, and get additional insights into key issues, from preventing corruption to automating maintenance. Uncover the things that can happen if you fail to maintain, and how the servers will perform with proper care and feeding. Learn the right way to use compact, fixup and updall, and much, much more. Find out how you can have DDM do some of the work for you, and take away a checklist of recommendations to implement immediately that will increase your awareness and efficient handling of ongoing server maintenance.

Domino and Active Directory Integration Using ADSync
Learn how to leverage ADSync to overcome the challenges of dual directory management and synchronizing user and group management between Domino and Active Directory. Get the lowdown on everything from enabling to get the most from ADSync and password management to configuration and which user interface makes the most sense in practical usage. Benefit from real-world experiences as you see examples of advanced configurations, uncover the product’s strengths and weaknesses, and learn how features such as policy integration greatly help with ADSync, as well as how features like group management don’t always work. Leave this session with practical advice on getting the most from ADSync, as well as tips for running ADSync in a production environment.

Program Document Usage – Best Practices for Optimizing Server Tasks
In this session, you get the real deal on which server tasks to run when, which tasks aren’t necessary, and the order in which tasks should run to ensure optimal performance. Run down a list of all the standard tasks and when they execute by default, including Agent schedules, and find out how badly timed tasks impact your servers. Dive into best ways to schedule tasks for both large and small installations and when to schedule with program documents vs. Notes.ini settings. Get a fresh look at your environment with tips for planning and maintaining an efficient maintenance schedule and take home a maintenance program time chart as well as a list of all the tasks and settings that you should consider using.

Server Availability Index (SAI) and Optimizing Domino Clusters
Come get lots of real-world examples and recommendations on how to gain vital configuration, performance, and statistical information about your clusters. Find out why Server Availability Index (SAI) is so important, how to calculate SAI, then how to tune your servers accordingly. Dive into the cluster engine, see what it does and doesn’t do, uncover problems and solutions, and learn more about cluster analysis/decommission analysis. Get practical tips on Server_max_users and configuring work queue depths, tweaking your Domino cluster settings, configuring cluster failover without cluster replication, collecting the appropriate statistics for proper analysis, and more!

Managing Successful Admin Projects from Start to Finish
Take a break from the technical and product-focused sessions and get an insider’s look and proven, expert advice from the trenches on planning, managing and completing administration projects. Develop the skills you need (management, people, political, and everything BUT technical) to survive and thrive when a mission-critical project comes your way. Gain real world insights into the do's and don'ts with a plan to succeed in all of your major efforts. Bring your own challenges and project issues to the table in this unique, interactive, eye-opening session on how you can gain control over your projects, and more control over your own life at work.

Automating Administrative Tasks with Agents and Formulas
Simplify your everyday life by creating Agents and writing formulas to automate your routine administrative tasks. Understand the benefits and limitations of using the formula language, and walk through real world examples of agents, formulas, and customizing code. Build your skills and capitalize on the experience of others so that you can properly plan, write test and deploy your own Agents and minimize the time it takes to have fully-functioning, error free code. Learn to create modular code that can be extended to add more complex functionality for optimal reuse. Plus, take home tips for exporting data to be manipulated outside of Lotus Notes, and lots of key resources to help you be more confident in writing your scripts.

Creating Custom Admin Tools with LotusScript: It’s All Code and It’s All Good
In this session, you get the real deal on which server tasks to run when, which tasks aren’t necessary, and the order in which tasks should run to ensure optimal performance. Run down a list of all the standard tasks and when they execute by default, including Agent schedules, and find out how badly timed tasks impact your servers. Dive into best ways to schedule tasks for both large and small installations and when to schedule with program documents vs. Notes.ini settings. Get a fresh look at your environment with tips for planning and maintaining an efficient maintenance schedule and take home a maintenance program time chart as well as a list of all the tasks and settings that you should consider using.



Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 4: SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE
Protecting Your Domain from Attacks
Come to this session to prepare for battle against villainous spam, viruses, phishing, adware, spyware and other Internet scoundrels. Find out where spam comes from, just how bad the problem really is, and how to monitor the impact of unsolicited email on your business. Arm yourself to fight back against attackers with proven best practices for using server management, configuration documents, TLS, rules, SMTP commands, and more to lock down your environment. Understand how and where heuristic engines work, the ins-and-outs of whitelisting and blacklisting, and discover 3rd party tools that can help you. Walk away with a flowchart and checklist of anti-spam measures that you can implement right away.

Surviving a Security Audit
Ensure the readiness of your Domino servers to survive an audit. Find out why an audit is not your enemy, why it matters who performs it, and how to define the scope of the audit. Discover what 80% of Domino administrators are overlooking and how to change that immediately to protect your company from security breaches. Uncover expert tips to fix the number one security problem – understanding the Domino security model and properly locking users out, independent of access method. Learn to put procedures and settings in place to ensure that not even you as the Admin can do things the company doesn’t want. Plus, go home with a checklist for fine-tuning server settings and the step-by-step instruction you need to close common security gaps.

Getting the Most Out of Powerful Security Policies
Find out how to make the most of security policies to manage, deploy, and enforce public keys, Notes and Internet password settings, and Execution Control Lists for Notes clients. Ensure readiness for security audits by enabling automatic application of key client settings for managing IDs. Understand how Administrative and user defined settings are or aren’t applied. Learn how to enforce ECLs and security policy settings documents to prevent unauthorized access to user workstation information and applications. Create an administration best practices based solution for checking or resetting passwords and synchronizing Notes and Internet passwords. Walk though real world examples of security policy deployment and see how they affect help desk processes. In addition, see how you can create custom password policies to represent various group requirements within your organization.

Walking on Hot Coals: Implementing Compliance and Email Management Strategies without Getting Burned
Avoid compliance headaches and minimize risks without crippling your messaging system by implementing a proactive email management strategy that includes a combination of policies and technology. Decide when it makes sense to have your users be blissfully unaware of archiving or active participants in the process by declaring what mail they deem should be archived. You don't want to find yourself in the expensive position of searching for an email in a haystack when you're faced with a legal discovery request. This session delivers insight into how the operational benefits of search filters and a properly structured centralized archive make it possible to retrieve messages quickly and efficiently, and what you need to consider to evade the pitfalls of adding a system that increases your workload.

Archiving with Native Domino Tools
Delve into the inner workings of native Domino archiving tools and come away with the knowledge to implement the right archiving method for your company. Discover the things nobody tells you about (like how best to schedule the task that makes it happen and dealing with a cross section of manual and scheduled archiving). Uncover proven best practices for where to put data (local vs. server), setting up and managing archiving rules, and controlling the end-user environment. Get tips on which errors/issues to expect with specific settings, what to do if there are multiple settings documents applied, and how to troubleshoot and resolve conflicts if things aren’t working correctly. Plus, learn how archiving affects server performance, the impact of local archiving, and more.

Disaster Recovery and Domino Made Easy
Make the most of native Domino capabilities and understand the available options to create a rock-solid disaster recovery plan for your environment. Explore variables that will affect user performance in the case of a disaster and unveil practical tips on networks, topology, backups, and the impact of Lotus Extended products on your disaster recovery plan. Find out how to ensure that you have a rock solid recovery plan and determine when it makes sense to replicate your environment to DR servers hosted in a separate building. Plus, take home key security points that you need to take into account when deploying infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Domino as Your Enterprise Level LDAP Directory
Establish Domino as your key directory source for your enterprise and see how Domino 7 already performs as a scalable LDAP directory source. Take advantage of network and topology design tips that help to guide your decisions in architecture, management, and security. Get best practice advice on building an aggregated directory infrastructure with Directory Assistance as the referral hub. Finally, expand this new directory source to be the focal point of your IBM software authentication for systems such as Domino, Portal, Sametime, and Quickplace, and learn how to properly configure Domino to support them securely.

MIME Messaging Security
Explore MIME messaging in Domino and the options for secure MIME messaging with people outside of your organization. Identify the options available, and determine which option works best for your organization. Learn to create a secure system for all your Internet protocols using SSL, and understand the differences and scalability when using a self-signed certificate versus a publicly issued certificate. Establish a standard for utilizing TLS for all possible Internet communication needs on your Domino server to achieve optimum security. Uncover best practices for logging and troubleshooting the most pressing areas of S/MIME and SSL and offer your enterprise secure communications across the great open Internet.

Best Practices for Managing Access Control Lists
Can you say without hesitation that all your ACLs conform to the company standards for security? If not, this session is for you. Get a handle on your ACLs with best practices for configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs), the lynchpins of Domino security. Examine methods to gain control of and propagate changes to the ACL’s efficiently and effectively so that you can say with confidence that your databases are secure. Uncover powerful tools and techniques for auditing and remediating ACLs and analyzing security levels and properties. See how to utilize the database catalog (catalog.nsf) to inform you of potential security breaches. Plus, take home tools for analyzing ACLs and catalog.nsf that you can put to use right away.



Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 5: PERFORMANCE AND MONITORING
Troubleshooting Server Crashes and Deciphering an NSD
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 next (hint: it’s NOT always rebooting) and in what sequence. Delve into the troubleshooting process, find out where to look for crash information (hint: it’s not always about the server log), what you’re looking for, and how to decipher NSD’s to prevent future crashes. Learn how to do quick troubleshooting to get servers back up and running ASAP, and more thorough troubleshooting 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 for troubleshooting servers and clients.

Getting to the Root of Client Crashes With Fault Analyzer
Take control of client crashes and use all of the tools at your disposal to weed out repeatable events. Implement fault analyzer to collect all the data you need to effectively troubleshoot by pinpointing the cause, analyzing the failure, and correcting the problem. Find out what the real crash rate is for troublesome clients and take advantage of tools for propagating fixes to the client. Learn to decipher NSD’s to extract what’s really important, like the crash point and process involved. You leave this session with a proactive methodology for attacking client problems that will reduce downtime and instability throughout your organization.

Domino Domain Monitoring in Action
Dive into the architecture of Domino Domain Monitoring and see why it’s one of the most powerful features in Domino 7 administration. Gain practical knowledge of DDM’s features and functions including server collection hierarchies, event workflow, and DDM filters. Take advantage of the client-side ini variable that uncovers all the hidden DDM result fields, and discover how you can use DDM to report on certain types of events on Domino 6 servers. Get best practice advice from real world examples of how companies are using DDM to correct problems in their Domino environment and configuration tips for making the most of DDM in your world.

Focusing on DDM Probes and Event Notification
Drill down into the heart of probes in Domino Domain Monitoring and discover when to use the defaults, how to configure schedules, content and targets, and best practices for tying in event notifications so you don’t miss a trick. Expose Agent issues that hamper performance, web servers that aren’t configured for best practices, ACL errors, and much more. Get expert advice on customizing probes and identifying which applications are the resource hogs in your environment. Discover simple ways to make service-level checks on mail servers, and assign problems and track resolution using DDM documents. And get tips for keeping problematic events in a custom location so they are easier to work with.

Powerful Techniques for Analyzing Server Statistics
Take it to the next level by uncovering the stats you really need to report on in the Monitoring Results database (statrep.nsf) and how to use Excel to perform quick analysis of the results so that you can make adjustments to server settings that can be the difference between poor and stellar server performance. Dive into the collection architecture and uncover areas for improvement. Learn to expose and report on any statistic available through “show stat” for reporting and analysis. Take home a customized statrep template with a dozen new views to help you get to the right information about cluster replication efficiency, mail flow, agent usage, platform performance, disk performance, and even the number of concurrent users on your servers per hour.

Mastering Notes.ini Settings Both Old and New
Explore how the hundreds of entries in this small configuration file impact the health of Notes clients and Domino servers and prepare yourself for all 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 and server configuration document, and pick up lots of practical undocumented notes.ini settings.

Running Domino on a SAN
Tap into Storage Area Networks (SANs) and their ability to provide an abundance of storage and excellent redundancy. See how SANs work with Domino specifically and learn to address the requirements that can vary from application to application. Get best practices for implementing the optimal SAN configuration for Domino and avoiding mis-configuration, which can cause extreme performance problems. Find out how Domino handles disk I/O, how specific I/O requirements affect hardware, and how I/O has been improved in Domino 8. Plus, you uncover performance metrics that help pinpoint hardware bottlenecks and tips to avoid common problems that other administrators have experienced.



Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 6: LOTUS NOTES AND DOMINO 8
What’s New in Lotus Notes 8
See why Lotus Notes 8 delivers on the promise of a world-class user experience! Find out how the new version delivers advanced usability and functionality, along with expanded platform support and integration capabilities. Capitalize on all that’s new in mail, calendar, and contact management and harness the power of new capabilities like productivity tools, activity management, and composite applications to give your users an unprecedented collaborative experience. Understand how the design team and the lead designer approached this transformation, and the guiding principles and key decisions behind the features and style you see in this session. Plus, uncover technical implementation details and take a look to the future to see how Notes 8 fits into the overall IBM Lotus strategy.

What's New in Lotus Domino 8
In this session you’ll discover all the changes coming to the server in Lotus Domino 8, from improved e-mail capabilities, to greater versatility and manageability, to an open application infrastructure. This important upgrade brings vastly improved capabilities to directory, security, messaging, web server, application server, clustering, and administration. Check out cool new features like the ability to recall mail with the click of a button and to set threshold values for Internet password authentication failures. Finally, you get a look at the plans to deliver a native 64-bit version of Lotus Domino and an outline of the roadmap beyond Lotus Domino 8.

What’s Key for Administrators in Lotus Notes and Domino 8
Come to this session and dive into the latest and greatest for administrators in Notes and Domino 8. See how DDM improvements help make you more efficient in your day-to-day work, and find out what Lint is and how it makes your directory more robust. Learn how to use provisioning, smart upgrade run as admin, and policies for a clean, effortless client rollout. Walk through a demo of ND8 and get a glimpse of how easy it is to integrate with Portal, see how AdminP helps to manage email file sizes, and explore other new features that were designed for administrators by administrators. Also, preview what’s planned for future Domino 8 releases and find out how you can be a part of it!

What's Key for Developers in Lotus Notes and Domino 8
Lotus Domino Designer continues to be the premier tool for developing Lotus Notes and Web browser applications, so attend this session to discover the latest enhancements coming to Domino Designer in the upcoming release. Learn about all the new features that have been added to help you improve the functionality and reach of your applications. Delve into the Domino Designer client, as well as how you can take advantage of the new Notes 8 client platform capabilities in your applications. You find out how things have changed with Domino Web server application development and explore the next steps in the evolution of Lotus Domino Designer.

Must-See Enhancements to the Lotus Notes 8 Mail Template
Take a guided tour of the new features in the release 8 mail template and see how the mail template can be customized using mail policies, rules, and programmability. Explore the much-improved out-of-office functionality, from features to deployment to administration. See what’s changed in mail, Calendaring and Scheduling, the contacts UI, and much more. Check out the new LotusScript classes and methods that are tailored to handling mail functionality and walk through working code examples of using mail policies to customize user's mail experience. This session is aimed at both administrators and developers.

Domino 8 as an Eclipse Update Site Server
With Notes 8 comes an Eclipse-based client and the possibility of providing updates to features and plug-ins through Eclipse Update Manager. See how Domino 8 brings a dedicated template for site updates and provisioning of all the Eclipse-based products from the Notes 8 client to Sametime 7.5.x and higher clients. Pick up expert guidance on how to provision composite applications, new plug-ins, and client upgrades with complete control over entire update sites and specific features. Learn to utilize this new Domino-based tool to provide secure (ACL and reader field compliant) and logged client updates, and how easy it is to distribute throughout your organization with replication. Use client plug-ins to manage updates and explore configuration needs. Plus, define what is considered a feature and how to control versioning.



Track 1: Messaging and Collaboration Track 2: User Management Track 3: General Administration and Application Maintenance Track 4: Security and Compliance Track 5: Performance and Monitoring Track 6: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Track 7: Strategies and New Technologies
TRACK 7: STRATEGIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The ABC’s of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)
You’ve heard the terms thrown around, but what does Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and the alphabet soup that goes with it, really mean to you as a Notes/Domino professional? This session dives into SOA, including explanations of all the acronyms (XML, WSDL, SODA, etc.), and the standards that better come with the investment. See how Domino is exposed in this new SOA world and what it takes to put your applications into the mix. Understand how to reap the benefits of SOA in your organization, walk away with a solid foundation of what it takes to provide Web services in and from Domino, and be ready to tackle the sessions that go deeper into the SOA technologies in Domino.

Expand and Extend Your Investments with IBM Social Software
Learn how to exploit the capabilities of Lotus Connections to improve and extend Notes and Domino applications. Understand how Web 2.0 has influenced the development of an application model that connects people in new ways. Experience lots of practical examples of how you can tap into personal interactions and connections to create social networks that unlock the knowledge and potential within your organization for a wealth of valuable insight and expertise. Take a deep dive into Connections API’s to build new applications and extend your existing assets, and walk away with tons of ideas for how you’ll use these new tools in your environment.

Domino and Extended Product Portlets: Out-of-the-Box Integration for WebSphere Portal and Domino
Extend the reach of Domino applications by leveraging the Domino and Extended Products Portlets (DEPP). Step into DEPP’s set of pre configured pages and portlets that enable you to quickly integrate and expose Domino and extended product features within your WebSphere Portal environment and even include applications that aren’t currently Web enabled without modification! Step through the setup required for WebSphere Portal when used in conjunction with Domino, Sametime and Quickplace, and focus on the latest enhancements to the DEPP Portlets included with WebSphere Portal 6.0. Leave this session armed with an understanding of the configuration options, get best practices for deployment, and lessons-learned for avoiding the mistakes of others.

IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration
This session presents IBM's strategy and product roadmap in the Unified Communications and Collaboration space. Find out how IBM Lotus Sametime delivers a unified user experience including integration with industry leading telephony, audio and video offerings and how partners are building value add solutions to increase organizational productivity and deliver high-value real-time business applications. Gain insight into what other customers are dealing with in terms of organizational changes and how VoIP is affecting collaboration and desktop teams. You’ll leave with a thorough understanding that Lotus Sametime is more than 'just chat' and what it means to your organization that collaboration is converging with communications (voice and video).

Lotus Quickr Rocks! The Future of Collaborative Document Management and Team Collaboration
Transform the way your organization shares everyday business content, and realize faster, more effective team collaboration and document management with the new Lotus Quickr offering. Get a complete overview of the product plans for Lotus Quickr in 2007 and beyond. See how Quickr integrates with Notes/Domino and how it will carry forward the heritage of Lotus QuickPlace. Experience exciting live demos and discover new features like content libraries, connectors, templates, and more that enable you to reduce overflowing email inboxes, share content, drag and drop content as needed, and ensure document version control. You walk away with the facts you need to take team collaboration to the next level in your organization.

How to Build an Application with Component Designer in 60 Minutes
Harness the power of Lotus Component Designer and leverage your existing Domino development skills to build applications for Lotus' Eclipse based clients and WebSphere Portal. Dive into Component Designer's architecture, functionality, and deployment options. Walk through the steps for building and deploying an application to WebSphere Portal in less than 60 minutes. See how easy it is to build a component that accesses a Domino app with full NSF functionality, integrates Component Designer’s built in AJAX capabilities, and then uses that component in a composite application. Take home a worksheet that details the steps for building a Component Designer application and a diagram comparing the design elements of Component Designer and Domino Designer.

Build and Deploy Composite Applications using Lotus Expeditor
This session reveals the power of Lotus Expeditor, IBM’s universal managed client platform for building and extending Eclipse-based Web 2.0 applications across the Lotus product line. Dive into composite applications and see what they are and how they can benefit your users, why they’re getting so much press, and how you can start building them today. Learn how to create composite applications within Lotus Expeditor using specific tasks, and then extend them to any device to supply your end-users with a new, more personalized user experience regardless of the client type. You leave this session with a solid understanding of composite applications, exposure to the developer toolkit and proven techniques for creating integrated processes with Lotus Expeditor.

Developing More Capable Applications using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform
Frustrated by the inability to get the functionality of a Notes application to a browser using Web technologies? Come see how the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) enables you to deliver a client that is thinner than Notes but has more capability and usability than the standard Web technologies can deliver. Understand the ins-and-outs of building an Eclipse RCP application, and how its plug-in architecture, fast widgets, and rich user interface functionality can greatly improve the end-user experience. You walk away with a thorough understanding of the component pieces to building RCP applications as well as the best practices on constructing robust clients using Eclipse.

Getting Work Done with Activities
Come to this session to discover activity-centric computing, and how Activities are one of the key components of Lotus Connections. Understand how Activities enable new levels of productivity and bring together all aspects of your work into a common shared view, thus helping users manage information, combat “tool overload”, and aggregate disparate systems and information. Dive into working examples of Activities integrated with Lotus Notes 8 applications, Lotus Sametime 7.5, and Web browsers to provide an organized way of managing work. Learn how Activities can help people combine ad hoc collaborative techniques with formal processes, discover and share best practices, and execute, faster with more agility.


SOLUTION SPOTLIGHT SESSIONS
The universe of 3rd party products and services is a maze of information, advertisements, and web pages. Solutions Spotlight Sessions help you cut through all of that with 45-minute presentations from leading Notes/Domino solutions providers that give you an in-depth, inside look at the products and services that can help you get more out of your Lotus environment.

Top Ten Things a Notes Administrator Should Know about Archiving and Records Management
Speaker - Matt Markham of AXS-One
The adoption of e-mail archiving in the Notes environment is increasing as a result of industry/government regulations, growing litigation and e-discovery, and the need to save and share e-mail content across organizations. But choosing and implementing an archiving system can be a challenge. It demands thorough policy development, system design, software deployment, and end-user training. Before buying and installing archival software, here are the top ten things to consider. This session will cover:

  • What to consider when archiving for regulatory compliance
  • What to consider when trying to drive down operational costs
  • How to plan for e-discovery and litigation readiness
  • How to develop retention policies
  • What is FRCP and why do you need to understand its implications?
Join AXS-One’s Matt Markham, for a down to earth discussion of archiving from an administrator’s point of view.

Great Advances in BlackBerry Scalability
Presenters: Valerie Wang, Product Manager, Research In Motion Pavel Shkolnikov, Team Lead, Lotus Development, Research In Motion
Attention all BlackBerry administrators! Attend this session to hear about new performance and scalability enhancements recently added to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Discover the performance parameters that can be tuned to get the most out of your existing servers. You'll hear directly from the development team that has been hard at work to bring these advances to you, our Domino customers.

When Log files & Notes policies are not sufficient… How to understand mail usage & get a grip on Notes clients
Speaker - Alan Forbes, CooperTeam Senior Support Manager
How can MailFlow Analyzer provide the necessary management reports when Domino Log files do not contain the key data...? Security, Traceability, reporting, SLA’s, billing, capacity planning and email user behavior are some of the areas CooperTeam MailFlow Analyzer can help you to manage effectively..

When the native policies let you down... CooperTeam DeskTop Manager provides a complete remote administration of all your Lotus Notes clients. All aspects of Client administration and maintenance can be defined and managed centrally without end user interaction.

Lotus Notes & Domino Volume and Cost Reduction, Compression and Beyond
Speaker - Christian Kessler, CEO of MK Net.Work
For many years, it is a well-documented fact that the extensive use of transparent and automated Zip compression of attached file across your Notes organization enables you to reduce the needs for Notes-related storage and network bandwidth by 30% to 45%.

During this session, Christian Kessler, CEO of MK Net.Work, the vendor of the leading ZipMail Compression Suite for Lotus Notes and Platinum sponsor of ADMIN2007 will discuss and demonstrate new concepts and solutions enabling you to extend Notes volume and cost reduction savings far beyond the usual 30% to 45% level obtained with just using Zip compression.

Any Lotus Notes Administrator interested in Notes volume and cost reduction and/or in Notes optimization should attend this session.

To celebrate MK Net.Work's best year ever in 2006, a 1 GB USB2.0 Flash drive containing the PowerPoint of the session, White Papers as well as the ready to use fully functional evaluation copies of all of the solutions demonstrated during the session will be distributed to each attendee.

Best Practices for Securing Lotus Notes on Smartphones
Presented by Motorola Good Technology Group
Lotus Notes users are no longer limited to the Blackberry. You now have access to the newest, most sought-after smartphones like the Motorola Q, the new fleet of Palm Treos, and the Samsung Blackjack. This trend of more device options presents new security and management challenges for IBM Lotus Domino administrators. How do you provide mobile employees with the phones and applications they want, while protecting the enterprise against wireless security vulnerabilities? Learn about potential security threats and comprehensive approaches to securing Lotus Notes on industry-standard smartphones. Attendees will learn best practices for:
  • Maintaining end-to-end security
  • Enforcing and managing mobile security policy
  • Securing mobile devices and data on the handheld
  • Controlling applications on the handheld
  • Making security usable
24 Domino Challenges Solved in 45 Minutes
Gail Shlansky & Yancy Lent, Percussion Tools
Just like Jack Bauer of the popular television series "24," Gail Shlansky and Yancy Lent of Percussion Tools will race you through the top 24 challenges that face Domino administrators in just one 45 minute session. Each one of these solutions can be performed in less than an hour but will have a dramatic impact on your environment. See how ServerAdmin Plus is the most comprehensive solution for proactive administration of Lotus Notes and Domino available today. Learn how to automate routine tasks, manage Notes clients centrally, identify security “gaps,” and ultimately achieve greater control over your Domino infrastructure.


For more information on this conference, call us at 781-751-8755 or email us at info@admin2007.com