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Speakers: Track: Admin and Infrastructure
Would your users like their Lotus Notes client to perform faster? Do some applications and clients seem to load slowly? Come join Florian Vogler and learn where to look to find out what’s wrong and resolve it. Find out how to debug your client, deal with outdated ODS’, network latency and application performance issues and more importantly understand why you should care. Gather best practices on how to streamline location and connection documents and why the catalog.nsf is so important. Improve your IBM Lotus Notes client installations to provide a better experience for a happier you and happier end users!
AUSLUG is pleased to bring to Melbourne a new 2 day in-depth technical seminar aimed at Domino administrators. Presented by noted speakers and IBM Champions Gabriella Davis and Chris Miller, the AUSLUG Administration Jumpstart will cover the latest approaches to security, id management, performance tuning, single sign on, directory integration and more. Often as a Domino Admin, you're asked to do more with less. During this jumpstart, you'll learn important techniques and problem solving skills that will help you get the most from your systems. If you need to learn how to configure ID Vault or DAOS, how to secure your servers against SMTP exploits, how to plan and complete a server upgrade or how to use Active Directory for all your passwords, how to tune your network, server settings, polices and disk. All of that will be covered over the 2 days and much more.
Everyone is aware of the typical problems faced by administrators who have to perform all the administration processes. There are numerous help requests from users who have forgotten their passwords, users who require a new database for a project and users who need to change their names. The admins’ duties also include setting up email accounts for every new employee, implementing a new server and migrating Lotus Notes Users etc. Admins are busy all day with those requests. The delegation to the helpdesk is difficult because of the high manual complexity and required high access level. We will discuss how one can automate processes which previously had to be performed manually. We will explain how the requests can be delegated to the helpdesk and even to users themselves, and how a kind of self-service for employees can be created.
Clustering IBM Lotus Notes & Domino improves the performance and reliability of your messaging, collaboration and application infrastructure. You will walk away with an overview of different methods of clustering, how Domino clustering actually works and a series of practical steps to ensure clustering is optimally configured, monitored and maintained. For example, consider enabling the "Enable silent failover when a server goes down" Desktop Policy setting.
IT professionals have to deal with more and more monitoring challenges when it comes to monitoring their infrastructure, especially as the infrastructure grows larger. Even though IBM Lotus Notes and Domino is often a small part of that total IT monitoring function, the Lotus family of products are often considered a strategic and mission critical platform. But few companies actually posses the knowledge to EFFICIENTLY manage, analyse and optimise their servers, clients and applications. Mere operational management may have been enough for yesterday's IT. Today, monitoring has to extend to optimisation, which involves making sense of hundreds of relevant Notes and Domino statistics, some of which are hidden in various places across the servers and client. Understanding how a particular server configuration impacts clients, for example, or predicting how client changes will impact your servers, is another often mysterious area of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino management. Come join Florian Vogler on an excursion into understanding integrated server and client monitoring and best practice server and client optimisation.
Abstract - Come listen as Ben takes you through their journey to configure and deliver Polycom video integrated through the Lotus Notes client. See the real benefits that can be gained by providing your end users with a single interface for accessing all forms of real time communication. We will also take you through all the features available by integrating your systems with Sametime using SUT Lite... Presenters - Ben Timms, Australian Bureau of Stats ( ben.timms@abs.gov.au ), Darren Belford, IBM (dbelford@au1.ibm.com)
AdminP is an elementary server task for your Domino Administration. We will explain in this session what Administration Processes are available and how they can make your administration tasks easier. We will cover best practices for setup of and troubleshooting AdminP during operations or projects like Recertification's, Server Consolidation.
A last minute addition to the AusLUG agenda, the incomporable Gabriella Davis and Chris Miller share their experience once again, this time concentrating on Directory Integration, Implementation and Best Practices.
Implementing Domino Policies can be daunting, however everyone in your Domino/Lotus Notes environment will benefit greatly when you do, including your Help Desk, Administrators and end users. With years of experience in using, teaching and implementing policies for customers. Karen will demonstrate a simplistic approach that you can't afford to miss if you want to move towards a standard operating environment for users and clients that makes available the many new and old features in the Notes clients. So much can be done via polices, and so many help desk errors can be alleviated when using them. From version 6.5 to 8.5 policies have improved greatly however there are still some traps and tips that will benefit you in attending this session. Karen will demonstrate creating and using as well as which settings should be set and how to set. Knowledge of policies is imperiative for a Domino enviroment no matter how big or small, don't put off implementing, be empowered to face the task of using policies in your workplace
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) has been supported in Lotus products including Domino, Quickr, and Sametime for many years, but it’s also a technology many administrators have stayed away from. LDAP however is a very powerful protocol which is increasingly becoming standard for Lotus products. Dive into LDAP, find out what it is, how it behaves, and how to configure Domino as an LDAP server. Walk away with best practices for LDAP performance and find out how to best learn and work with LDAP in your environment.
This popular session is back for AusLUG 2012, highlighting not only the need for Websphere in the social business but how easy it is to expand your knowledge level. So why Websphere Application Server? WAS is the underlying architecture behind many of Lotus' more advanced collaboration technologies including the IBM Sametime family, IBM Lotus Quickr for Portal and IBM Connections. That is just a start! As a Lotus Domino administrator wanting to expand your use of collaboration tools you need to get to grips with WAS. From understanding what it does, how it integrates with data stores and directories and what part it plays in the technologies you want to use. In this session we'll cover all of that and more, showing you in only an hour how to get started with WAS or take on administration of an existing system along with live demonstrations of its application within Lotus products
IBM's social strategy is centred around IBM Connections, but what if you haven't yet connected with it yourself? Profiles and Files are part of the license entitlement available to many IBM customers but If you are wondering what the infrastructure behind Connections is and how easy it is to deploy this session will answer those questions. I'll discuss Connections components such as Websphere, LDAP, TDI and the database store as well as how all these moving parts fit together and what each does. Then I'll put on my "Connections Administrator" hat and show you what it looks like to manage, maintain and secure. If you are new to Connections or considering using your free entitlement this session is designed to help you get started.
Do you want to save between 10 to 50% disk space in two easy steps (and not via DAOS)? Are you over Consistency check on server restarts? Does your Domino server automatically restart and email you when it has? Are you using the one stop shop for administering your Domino environment? Have you run the DCT tuner to see if you're configurered correctly? Why should you run the Out of Office as a service! Seriously cut down help desk calls with ID Vault! Implement an archiving system that you're users will love and it's free! Plus heaps more! Don't miss this pain free but gain more session by Karen Hooper who is an Advanced 8.5 Certifified Instructor and Administrator with over 13 years experience.
The Notes client, IBM Connections and even IBM Sametime utilise plug-ins and widgets. Lotusphere 2012 showed how these will have an architectural impact in your future deployments. In this session we will star the building blocks of a secure and easy to manage topology for plug-ins and widgets. You will learn the differences between the two across the products and how to make them deployable together or as alternate packages for your users.
IBM Sametime 8.5.2 comes in many flavors, there’s Sametime Standard, Entry, Advanced, Gateway, SUT and SUT Lite. How do you decide what servers you need to meet your business goals, and then how do you design for the future? In this session Gabriella Davis, co-author of the Sametime Admin Guide, will take you through some Sametime design plans in detail. Whether you want Sametime just for mobile devices, for meetings, for web conferences, telephony or anything else, we’ll walk through what you’ll need to deploy and the decisions you’ll need to make including your options for high availability. If you're a pre-8.5.x company and don't know where to start or you are beginning to get your Sametime planning off the ground, these are the tips you need to know.
In this session I am going to show you the capabilities of the InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes. This free tool is provided to you by IBM and allows you to customise your Notes installation package. I will show you the steps required to create your own transformation package. That will give you the power to roll-out customised templates, add additional files, customise .ini or registry settings or amend the (InstallShield) features options - to only name a few. I will demonstrate how to add additional Eclipse features to your bundle or how to deploy the up-to-date version of the embedded Sametime client as part of your installation. While we are going through the process of customising our installation package I will provide you with real life examples that allow you to further optimise your roll-out package to improve performance and to automate the set-up of new users.
The latest beta of IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager contain new features and capabilities that enable business users to build content-rich, interactive web sites that will attract and engage customers. These features include significant enhancements allowing users to easily create, manage and publish content, assets and pages alike - within a rich and unified User Interface. This presentation summarises the new capabilities as well as covering major enhancements made in web content management, mobile, analytics, IBM Connections integration, and other product integrations since Version 7.0.
Speakers: Track: AusLUG
Speakers: Karen Hooper Track: AusLUG
The Nerd Girls SPARK at AusLUG. Bring your lunch and join in the always fun Nerd Girls session, LIVE from AusLUG.
Speakers: Mat Newman Track: AusLUG
The weekly round-table discussion of all things Social, Collaboration, Technology and Community. This week - LIVE from AusLUG 2012 . Grab your lunch and join the fun with hosts Darren Duke and Stuart Mcintyre
Speakers: Track: Business
Speakers: Ed Brill Ted Stanton Track: Business
Hear how social technology is dramatically changing the way we live - individuals are empowered with unmatched levels of information, connectivity, engagement, and insight at any time, any place. Because of this, the ways in which individuals and communities interact, form relationships, make decisions, accomplish work, and purchase goods are fundamentally changing the way business is done. But what does this mean for email? Ed Brill and Ted Stanton will take you through the most significant updates and future developments for the IBM social collaboration portfolio, plus discuss the future of email and where it's placed in the ever increasing social world.
Speakers: Michael Sampson Track: Business
Industry analysts and leading organizations agree: IBM Connections is a fantastic product for Social Business and organizational collaboration. But getting from the promise of great technology to the reality of doing business better demands that intentional energy be invested in user adoption. If it's not, the risk of failure is high, and the promise of Connections remains just wishful thinking. In this session, Michael Sampson presents key strategies for encouraging user adoption of IBM Connections, reports on a recent global survey of the use and effectiveness of adoption strategies among organizations currently using IBM Connections, and presents a number of case studies of how specific organizations have approached the adoption challenge with IBM Connections in order to deliver improved value to their businesses.
Speakers: Bob Hallewell Track: Business
We communicate across time zones instantly and get messages on the move quickly and cheaply. But does it do us any good when we consider the: misinterpretation; compulsive checking; constant interruption; proliferation of useless messages; stress? What we need to do is keep all the good stuff we have from modern communications technology and lose all the bad stuff. By understanding where the problems come from we can start to do this – and the main problem is that we are using 21st Century technology with a Stone Age brain. In this entertaining and engaging session, Bob will explore what aspects of our psychology produce these problems and outline an approach that lets us use the technology both effectively and healthily. It’s time to get your life back.
Are you fully utilising your existing IBM Sametime entitlements? IBM Sametime features not only greatly improve user experience, they add real business benefits, saving time, money & effort. All from within the Lotus Notes client this entitlement provides employees with simple, real-time collaboration tools. Attend this session to further understand Your entitlement to IBM Sametime, show how this entitlement can add value to your organisation & user experience Why right now it’s easier than ever to deploy your IBM Sametime entitlements fast, without a major investment with the IBM FastStart Bundle which includes IBM Sametime, the NEW ‘Sametime in a Box’ deployment service and a user enablement and training program. How IBM and our select IBM Business Partner community can assist you in getting your management approval to get started
Are you fully utilising your existing Mobile entitlements? Keep your users connected and productive with full-featured e-mail for smartphones and tablets, while adhering to your important corporate policies and safeguarding sensitive corporate data. Attend this session to further understand How your entitlement to IBM Lotus Notes Traveler can greatly improve end user experience by providing them with access to email, calendar, and contacts from their favourite mobile device! What is involved in deploying IBM Lotus Notes Traveler How IBM and our select IBM Business Partner community can assist you in getting your management approval to get started
Are you fully utilising your existing Social entitlements? Boost employee productivity and simplify access to the right people and information for better decision making, all from within the Lotus Notes client! Attend this session to further understand... Your entitlement to IBM Connections Files and Profiles How how this entitlement can add real value to your organisation & user experience What is involved in deploying IBM Connections Files and Profiles How IBM and our select IBM Business Partner community can assist you in getting your management approval to get started
Speakers: Dion Boyd Track: Business
You may have heard how robust IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are, but sometimes the software is only half of the story. Globe trotting to places in far-flung reaches of the globe, from Africa to Europe, Central and South America, the South Pacific and East Asia, the trials and tribulations of dealing with local infrastructure, the unusual situations encountered while installing Lotus Notes/Domino, and the steps we went through to resolve them. And then there's the personal side. Experiences such as: being kidnapped in the Congo, software confiscated in the Ukraine and my team member threatened with arrest, a server going walk-about in Ghana and Siestas in Spain. Despite all of these problems, IBM's Lotus Domino server and Lotus Notes clients have been successfully installed on a variety of communication services to link together our global network. Dion will show you how; with a little creativity ... Notes can work anywhere!
Speakers: Walter Adamson Track: Business
In 2012 social business will come to the fore, due in part to the momentum created by IBM over the past few years. Leading organisations, large and small, are wanting to know HOW to connect with the social customer, including new forms of employee engagement. Social software, such as IBM Connections, and the socialisation of software, are important components of this transformation, but the holistic view is much greater. Walter Adamson presents the state of the social landscape, and joins the dots between social strategy, governance, architecture, communities and social analytics. For enterprises, this will help IT position cross-organisational social business initiatives, including those for marketing, sales, support, innovation and HR. For Partners, it will aid them in understanding customer priorities in social, and in developing and positioning social business proposals.
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