Lotus Notes Installs, nothing but clicking Enter

123 get out of my way here comes the master installer. Yes I can and will script your install so all we need to do is click Enter after setup.exe.

Well not exactly, still neede to find the user.id file and password.
Now, this causes some clients problems.
Why do we need a password and ID file.
You don't need one to setup Outlook, or so I was told, once you log on.

There's the rub, the fact that you logged in to the PC under Windows lets you in all over the place. And naturally lets anyone else in too everytime you walk away from yoru machine.

So it's not that you are not logging in, you are just logging in a 2nd time. And if a PC support guy needs your id and password to do this, that could be a breach of security.

How do you get around this conundrum?

Smartupgrade for one.
Also the active use of incremental updates is second, if not part of the same solution.

By using incremental installers you should be able to update the underlying Notes code without a user id or password. This has nto always been the case so I will not say across the board every incremental does it, but most do.

Still not happy, then you need to see or hear about what's coming in 8.5 and be happy that you may not have this problem much longer. I could tell you more but NDA stops it. If you went to a Lotusphere Comes to You event you saw or heard about it.

On my way to a client in California, Sacramento and will discuss this more after I get their installs moving.

What is the Life Expectancy of Corporate IT Staff?

In working on some numbers it occurred to me that what if my, or your, life as a Business Partner or even as an internal IT person is about to end?

Seriously, what do I or others have to offer you Mr./Mrs. Customer once you have outsourced your IT to the all knowing Borg, I mean "The Cloud".

RIM is already half way there, you COULD let them handle all your BES.

Now IBM and Google claim they want to take you higher in the Cloud.
Of course Microsoft does their "me too" until they realized they can't buy the cloud, they thought Yahoo had some ownership int he cloud evidenlty.

Is it all a smoke screen from the big guys because they just don't know what to say next?

Where do you go after the Cloud? Why do you go there?

Is this the Mainframe cycle in modern times?

So you outsourced everything, now what? What stops the company from outsourcing you, the CIO or CTO or CSO or whatever you may be.

In short, I'm thinking a run as CEO in a larger company than I am now would be more helpful than anything else.

Anyone else have a theory?