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Access BleedYellow From Your BlackBerry

Chris Whisonant  

RIM has now made it easy to access Profiles and Dogear Lotus Connection services from a BlackBerry.

If you would like to download this directly from your BlackBerry, please visit this page: http://www.bleedyellow.com/bbconn/connections.jad

This is only available for BB OS 4.2.1 and greater. Once you download the application and launch it, you will be prompted to enter your username (email address) and password. Below the password field is a Server button. Click this and just enter https://www.bleedyellow.com. Save that value and then login!

Accessing Profiles and Dogear are actually fairly good starting points for this application. It will be great to access profile information (click-to-call Yellowbleeders...) and we all know that BlackBerry bookmarks don't get saved or restored, so just use Dogear!

For further information about the product, start here: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/domino/connections.jsp

Further documentation is available from the links below:

BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Release Notes
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - Technical Note for Administrators
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackball devices)
BlackBerry Client for IBM Lotus Connections Version 1.0 - User Guide (trackwheel devices)

Adding Members in Quickr 8.1

Chris Whisonant  

Adding members to places in Quickr 8.1 is a lot simpler (and cooler) than in 8.0. Just go to the members dialog and choose to add a member. You get a nice interface with the Web 2.0 typeahead we're all used to. :)

 

Tip for Quickr 8.1 HF2 for Domino Upgrade

Chris Whisonant  

 While following the install guide for Quickr 8.1 HF2 (which is out now, by the way - along with a separate Connectors HF2), the upgrade did not go so hot. After starting HTTP and running the 3 qptool commands, I was only seeing a white screen in the browser - nothing would render in the window.

I did notice when I started HTTP that I received a "- File modified at operating-system level while cached, please retry open." error. So at this point I decided that something definitely wasn't right. I decided to just quit the server and redo the HF2 "installation" (which "is straightforward, basically copying over existing files or adding new directories and files.";). This took care of the problem.

The moral of the story: you may wish to completely end the Domino server instead of just HTTP.

Welcome Mr. Ted Hardenburgh

Chris Whisonant  

I would like to welcome Ted Hardenburgh to the Lotus911 team!! Ted's here in Kennesaw for a couple of weeks and then back to CA. He's a great addition to our Admin team here!

See his post for additional info.

Domino Server Security Tip with Quickr (SnTT)

Chris Whisonant  

One of the Domino Server security settings that I rarely see implemented is the option to "Enforce Server Access Settings". In the link, you can see that Ted describes the feature nicely.

With Quickr, you have the ability to grant access to places for people not listed in your directory. However, I have found that there is a "gotcha" when using this Domino security option if you also have the setting to only allow "Users listed in all trusted directories" checked in the Security tab of the Server document. Since the internal "place users" are not in your Domino Directory, they will not be able to log in.

But there is a way around this. With specific place users, they are created in the ACL as me@domain.com/placename/QP/DominoDomain. So this means that along with the "Users listed in all trusted directories" that you should be able to add */QP/DominoDomain to also be allowed to access the server.

Oh, and you'll also have to make sure that LocalDomainServers (or some other server group) has access to the server as well. :)

Sametime Advanced on BleedYellow.com

Chris Whisonant  

We are pleased to announce the availability of Sametime Advanced on BleedYellow.com!!

Check it out for yourself!

Sametime Advanced and Quickr 8.1

Chris Whisonant  

Looks like these two products are now in the wild! Documentation for both products is forthcoming, so check here for Sametime Advanced (as a new topic in the menu) and here for Quickr 8.1.

I've already upgraded a Quickr server. Daniele Vistalli has some quick, but good, notes on upgrading from Quickr 8.0.0.x.

And I'm currently setting up a VMWare machine to use for Sametime Advanced... ;)

7.0.3.1

Chris Whisonant  

Domino 7.0.3 Fix Pack 1 is now available for download.

List of fixes for 7.0.3 Fix Pack 1

Information about Lotus Domino 7.0.3 Fix Pack 1

Download Fix Pack 1 (FP1) for IBM Lotus Domino 7.0.3

Small world

Chris Whisonant  

While I was eating dinner at church last night, I was talking to a couple of guys about what they do. I gave my usual "I'm a software consultant". I figure if people are familiar with software, then they will ask. So one guy asked who I was with and said Lotus 911. He asked if that was for Notes and said that they just converted from Notes to Exchange. My reply was "WHY?!?" Anyway, the other guy said that he used to be a Notes admin when they switched from cc:mail. Turns out that he worked at the same company as Mitch Cohen! So I fired up gtalk on my bb and saw Mitch online. They both remembered each other - even though they were in different states they had run into each other. Mitch told me to tell him that a particular box was finally decommissioned and he started laughing - I'm guessing there were problems with that box... ;)

Anyway, it's a small world!

This tip is always popular...

Chris Whisonant  

...really popular!! Every time I tell someone this they flip out!

To make manual mail archiving easier, all you have to do is create a folder in your mail file titled "Archive" (with the capital "A" ). Then just drag and drop any emails into that folder. If you have archive settings enabled for your mail file, you will be asked if you would like to archive the documents! The archiving process will be initiated and the documents will be removed from the live mail file (if configured this way) and the Archive folder will be empty. It's just something super swank that Lotus has done.

Don't be bashful

Chris Whisonant  

We want to have everyone participating in the im.bleedyellow.com Sametime community. So after many internal discussions about how to prove this, we've released this Official Statement that we have not, do not, and will not be logging chats that occur on this Sametime community.

Forgive my feeds

Chris Whisonant  

When I started my BleedYellow blog, I wanted to allow my feedburner subscribers to be able to get updates from both BleedYellow and BlogSpot. I plan to continue contributing at blogspot for non-technical posts.

However, I've had some issues with this....

From initial research at feedburner, I saw that Yahoo! Pipes and RSSMix were recommended to accomplish this. So, I tried the Pipes first, but feedburner couldn't recognize the feed. Then I tried RSSMix and it seemed to work really well for a couple of weeks. But then I noticed that I was no longer seeing updates. No good. So I looked around a bit more and found a slick site called XFruits. But someone pinged me stating that some of my posts were coming through as 12/31/1969! So then I found FeedDigest. It initially seems to work alright - quick updates, correct dates, etc.... But apparently it doesn't handle the publishing of apostrophes in the title of my BleedYellow posts...

I've already posted that there are some issues with Connections feeds through PlanetLotus. So I'm not entirely sure that all of the issues are the fault of the feed mixers or if there is some minor bug with the feed from Connections... :(

Anyway, off to watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season finale! :)

Look who I hung out with today...

Chris Whisonant  

No gang signs please...

Don't Miss The Announcements!!

Chris Whisonant  

We've started a new shared blog: BleedYellow Site Feedback. Make sure that you subscribe to it to receive announcements on site updates, maintenance, downtime, etc... as well as some general posts to respond to questions that people may have.

The first post is about some scheduled downtime Saturday evening.

So who did the screenshots?

Chris Whisonant  

I'm wondering who took the screenshots in this technote? lol

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