Microsoft - Millions wasted?

Interesting articles about a 95000 users organization who did an internal study that shows that they could save up to 3 millions a year (For 20 years) if they would choose OpenOffice over Microsoft licences.

The article is in french but with a good translator, it could do the job.

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Private meeting in resource database- Undocumented ini setting

The issue is that when a meeting is marked as PRIVATE the subject and other details are visible in the resource database

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There is an INI setting you can put on your R&R server so that the subject of all "Private" entries get replaced with:

[** Private entry. The description is not available for display. **]

This was done so that the Subject of the reservation stays private (eg: no peeking using InfoBox). Put the following line in your R&R servers NOTES.INI file and you should be good to go:

RNR_MAKE_TOPIC_PRIVATE=1

The setting is _not_ retroactive, it will not cause RnRMgr to go back and remove the Subjects from reservations that have already been processed. It only affects new reservations (or reschedules) from that point forward.

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Obtaining Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools

The Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools were not included in the Notes 8.5 install kits but are available here. These tools enable you to either add additional features to the Notes install kit or removed certain supplied features from the Notes install kit.

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VmWare and Domino 8.5 and perfomance - Any concerns?

A client of mine is having major performance issues with Vmware 3.5 and Domino 8.5. The CPU is almost always at 100%. Nserver is consuming the major part and NRouter too.

Is there any known concerns related to VmWare 3.5 and Domino 8.5?
Is there any limitations (ex:Max number of users)?
Any special configuration to know about?

Other than that:
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Working with personal agents - The final stretch

So, to get rid of all those personal agents,the strategy was:

• First - Scan all the agents and get the infos - Done. Thre was more than 4000 personal agents, yeah 4000!
  
• Copy all those personal agents to a central repository - Done
• Remove all the personal agents copied earlier Done, almost 95% of the personal agents are kept in a central db.
  
• Do another scan, just in case Done, only have about 80 personal agents running right now compare to 4000.
  
• Modify server's documents to prohibit those agents in the future , Will be done later, but the treat is less important right now

The PMR is still open.

Other related posts:

Working with personal agents

Question - $AssistLastRun field in an agent properties

Bug - LS agents property - My solution, well Julian Robichaux's solution
Bug - LS agents property does not list all agents - Ideas? Xml, DXL

Replay and Questions/Answers from Domino Configuration Tuner Open Mic calls on June 9 and 10, 2009

Lotus Developers and Support Engineers hosted Open Mic conference calls on June 9 and 10, 2009, to discuss the Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). This document contains the questions and answers from those sessions and links in the "Recording Details" section at the end of the Q&As to the replays of each call.

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Harvard research Top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets.

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets Link

We examined the activity of a random sample of 300,000 Twitter users in May 2009 to find out how people are using the service. We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. Our findings are very surprising

Twitter’s Tweet Smell Of Success Link
Twitter.com continues to grow in popularity and importance in both the consumer and corporate worlds. No longer just a platform for friends to stay connected in real time, it has evolved into an important component of brand marketing. Unique visitors to Twitter increased 1,382 percent year-over-year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009, making it the fastest growing site in the Member Communities category for the month. Zimbio and Facebook followed, growing 240 percent and 228 percent, respectively.

Domino Configuration Tuner Open Mic conference calls - June 9 & 10, 2009

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Want to avoid Domino server crashes? Lotus Developers and Support Engineers will host Open Mic conference calls to discuss how the Domino Configuration Tuner can help. These conference calls will take place on June 9 and 10, 2009.

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See you there!

Working with personal agents

In my series of posts about personal agents, I now have a PMR about this issue. What I was able to do so far. For personal agents, I can say if the agent is enabled and what is the trigger of that agent.

So, to get rid of all those personal agents, here's the strategy:

• First - Scan all the agents and get the infos - Done. I have more than 4000 personal agents, yeah 4000.
• Copy all those personal agents to a central repository - Almost done
• Remove all the personal agents copied earlier
• Do another scan, just in case
• Modify server's documents to prohibit those agents in the future
  

Question - $AssistLastRun field in an agent properties

Bug - LS agents property - My solution, well Julian Robichaux's solution
Bug - LS agents property does not list all agents - Ideas? Xml, DXL

IBM Support Portal coming soon

IBM is introducing a new way to access technical support information for all of your IBM products and services.

• Easy access to support through searches, filters and related content on every page.
• Customized to deliver information for all products or only your products of interest.
• Coming June 16, 2009!

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