Uh Clem's Admin World

So now that 8.0.1 is out I can start planning my rollout.  The first step was to deploy it to my boss and a few IT colleagues.  Their first questions were "so what's new?"  I realized I was going to need to communicate to my users what IS new with this version over Notes 7, but with limited training time I needed to hit the highlights that mattered most to them.  So I started looking into the "What's New" docs in the readme and on the IBM sites.  I quickly discovered that a lot of these materials are a lot of fluff and stuff that my users really don't care about.  What I need is a nice, short list of the most important features that the users will really care about.

So what do you think are the most useful features that the user will REALLY care about, or REALLY like?  A few that come to mind are message recall,  new attachment handling,  quota guage, and integrated Sametime buddy list in the sidebar.

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.