Uh Clem's Admin World

Well it was another great Lotusphere.   A lot of information to absorb.   Chef Alton Brown was pretty funny.  I didn't  really know who he was, but  I enjoyed him nonetheless.

So now I can take all that I learned home and digest it.  But first I need to get busy upgrading my infrastructure.  I've done Quickr.  Next up is Sametime, and get it to 8.  After that it's the Domino servers to 8.0.1.  Hopefully I get marching orders to get our Portal upgraded from 5.1 to 6-dot-latest.

I'm going to try to see what I can do to get Lotus Forms in here and get a proof of concept in place so I can show how much it can do for us.  If you are like us or internal forms are all still paper-based.  Amazing.  There is SO much Forms can do for us.

Time to play for a few days now.  The family is flying in tonight to join me.  For any of those folks bringing their families down DURING Lotusphere.....DON'T DO IT.  You will regret it.  Have them down either before, or after the conference.

So  I figured on the eve of heading to Lotusphere 2008 I would use Bleed Yellow to try keeping a blog.  Seems like a nice place to start.  So here it goes.

I've been a Notes admin on and off for 15 years now.  I started in 1993 when V3 first came out.  Boy have things changes.  So maybe I can help get an admin community started here as well.  Any other admins interested in giving it a go with me?

So I'm guessing you are wondering why I called this blog "Uh Clem - Notes Admin".  Well the second part should be self explanatory.  The first part is a reference to something that goes back to the seventies.  If you google it and find something about clowns, you will have found it.  Check it out.  Also, my initials are CLM, so that kinda sounds like Clem, so I kinda took the alias of Clem.

So I will blog mostly about administration of Lotus solutions:  Notes, Domino, Sametime, Quickplace, Portal.   These are the primary systems I am responsible for and have the most experience in (Portal less so).

So see you all at Lotusphere.  Check out my posting of "Lotusphere Lore" on the ls2008cult.pbwiki.com site.   Say hi to me if you run into a guy that kinda looks like "Q" from Star Trek TNG.