Smith's Statements on Stuff

Well, I'm permanently hairy , but I've sponsored a friend who's grown a 'tash in support of prostate cancer research!

As part of my current project to upgrade an organisation from 6.5 to 8.0.2, we have an issue where users have multiple local archives with editor access and enforce consistent ACLs set. We don't know what they might have called the files, and have no realistic way to get them onto a server where we could crack them open and then upgrade them.

Our solution is to write a small app that will do the following:

• prompt the user to pick his archives from a list of the dbs on the client.
• create a local group that matches an admin group that exists in all mail databases.
• add a new ID - "archive admin" to that group. This ID will have no password set and have no permissions or group memberships on servers.
• Switch the client to this ID
• now we have manager access to the archive/s we can upgrade the design of them to mail8.ntf
• finally - switch the user back to their own ID.

It can therefore be a self service solution - if users have local archives they just open the app ( we will send them a link, we're nice like that - suppose we could add a bookmark via policies) and they manage the upgrade of their archives themselves.

Just need to test it now :-)

Oh well, got my rejection slip in this morning. Still, with the number of submissions it must be a. hard to choose and b. a leap of faith to pick new presenters with no track record.

On reflection if I'm serious about presenting at the sphere I should probably work up to it, and submit sessions for ILUG, UKLUG, etc and then into the "paid" conferences.

Will be chatting to the powers that be about getting backing to do this. On the plus side, I can look forward to a relaxing (comparatively) Lotusphere in January and take tips from the pros.

One of the limitations of Widgets and RSS in the Standard Client sidebar is that if you are behind a proxy server, you need to enter the proxy information in the Notes location document (as Notes can't or won't detect the IE proxy settings).

Highly annoying (as I've said before). On my current project the customer has users who roam between US / EMEA / Asia and although we can preset a proxy setting when we roll the clients out, we don't want them having to change locations whenever they travel just for proxy info (which may change over time anyway).

So, we've come up with a scheme for a "where am I?" Widget, which allows users to select their location - which in turn updates the proxy info in their location doc. Proxy info will be held in the user's local CDC/MDC, as we can guarantee that everyone will have this database and we can amend and distribute changes centrally to it.

Ta-da! New functionality solving a problem that was of it's own making.