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Office and IBM - They really don't play nice!!

Bob Seifert  |    |  Tags:  blogging office word connections  |  Comments (1)
Hey everyone, it's been awhile since I last blogged, but a lot has been happening. We have been researching a lot of different things, including Enterprise Search with IBM's OmniFind tool, blogging front ends to link to multiple blogs, and finishing the branding of Connections. Given that we aren't a Notes shop (I know, I know....) we were going to try and use Microsoft Word to post blogs. Unfortunately, even though it's setup using the MetaWeblog API, it still for some reason does not want to connect via that API......has anyone else run into this issue?

After visiting Lotusphere, I've come to the conclusion that if this were a perfect world, then everything would be able to integrate with one another and people would be able choose whether they like the Notes interface or the Outlook interface. The office interface or the symphony interface. Why is it so dang hard to get things to work with another? Is it for the same reason that it's difficult to get certain people to work with one another? Hmmm.......a never-ending battle for teamwork.....BTW, has anyone successfully gotten the integration between Outlook and Sametime to work??? It really likes to crash on the two systems we've been testing with...Oh well......maybe Sametime 8.0 will resolve the issue...

Signing off,
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1 David Killingsworth      Permalink My comment is a little off topic, but I was recently in one of our remote offices.

We have a problem user who's 6.5.6 client keeps crashing.

It turns out that he his Microsoft Windows patches hadn't been updated in 9 months, his office patches hadn't been updated in as many months, and he was using Office 2003 without SP3.

The kicker is that the main reason that his Notes 6.5.6 client was crashing was because he was using Microsoft Outlook 2003 for his contacts, but Notes 6.5.6 for his email.

He liked the MS Outlook UI better for searching through his contacts. I offered to convert them to his Notes PAB for him, but he declined.

The crashes keep happening and our only option is to install Notes 6.5.6 CCH2 which Lotus privately supplied to us.


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