Fud Buster Friday #22 - iNotes, Who Cares?

A part 2 from last week?
Well 8.5 came out and I can honestly say that if you have not been using webmail or iNotes before you got to go look at it now.

Beautiful, functional, 3 choices of clients full, lite or Ultralight (iPhone users) and all from 1 template, Sametime panel on the right, 5 easy buttons which open into their own tabs for calendar, to do, notes, tasks...see the picture!

Wait it gets better, it even tells you what is wrong if some parts aren't working properly, say your Lotus Sametime awareness and functionality. And it provides multiple options for you to choose from to try to resolve it(for admins only, users can't fix this stuff).

What can I say, the people who have used it will use it more and those who have stayed away will run back to it.

Dead technology? Not from where I sit and not form your users either. So if you are still running R5,6,7 get with it and move forward, we can help, just ask me how.

Remember 9 days to go to Lotusphere!

Disk Space Savings from 8.5 and how to do it

In one client which I have data from so far the reduction in disk space from doing the following was 13% on average per user with a high of 37%.
Note some users already used some of these settings, imagine if your network never used ANY of them!

load compact -c from the console to move all your files to ODS 51(on whole server or just mail directory up to you)
DAOS (but this only went into effect today, but should be interesting 30 days out)
LZ1 compression
Compress Document Data
Compress Database Design

Plus a few more could be done but we don't want to use them right now.

Want to do it in one quick process?
1) See my previous post on DAOS enablement and the DCT tuner. DCT can provide some more pros/cons to some other benefits in this area.
2) open your 8.5 lotus Admin client
3) Go to the Files Tab then your mail directory
4) CTRL-A to select all
5) Select Advanced properties from the Database tools on your Right column.
6) check off the ones to use

And don't forget to run compact -c and CREATE_R85_DATABASES=1 in your notes.ini so all future files get it too!

LND 8.5 SNTT - Basic Things NOT to Miss

Quick pieces of advice for those not yet with 8.5.

Remember Traveler is still a separate download.

DAOS
DAOS is enabled in your NAB, each server has a new tab, Enable it, then set the date for expiration to whatever you need.
You will also need to enable Transaction Logging, under its tab, and set its parameters as you desire.
AND disable shared mail if you are using it under its tab.
Save and restart your server.

DCT - Domino Configuration Tuner
Very cool but you MUST update your admin client. The Admin client is now only available as a downlaod with the other 2 clients even though it's not an Eclipse product..yet.
Find it under Server - Analysis tab (not sure where the docs tell you this as even the help file doesn't!?).Once it sets you up, then you must restart your admin client. Open it up again and set up your servers and then scan and read the results. Go get depressed or exhilarated at how many issues it finds in your notes.ini ALONE.

ODS 51
Lastly but far from least, one could post this stuff forever, go to ODS 51 using compact -c or with any specific files in mind. Likewise use the parameter CREATE_R85_DATABASES=1 in your Notes.ini, but your DCT will let you know if you haven't.

one thing for Notes Clients
Pulled straight from the Help file, there is a GO FASTER notes.ini setting now:-)

The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of performance enhancement in this release. Notes users are now prompted to authenticate (log in using their Notes password) before the Notes workbench appears on-screen. The new NOTES.INI setting for this sequence is "ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION" which has a default setting value of 1 enabling the new mode. Disabling the setting reverts to the old (pre-8.5) start-up mode. If the ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION setting is disabled (0), the Roaming user functionality introduced in release 8.5 is not functional and performance enhancements gained in the reordered start-up sequence are not realized.

Enjoy and post your own tidbits of joy.