What I would like to see in ND9SE

This would make me happy and silence all those who say that Notes are a bit old, "long in the tooth" as they say. What if the new client could grab the design/layout info from the nsf file and create a One UI layout of it? Users or Admins could choose what they like. This new autogenerated UI could then have some global company setting, creating the same look and feel for all applications. Nice?

You hear me Santa?

Watch out for that LDAP thingy with IBM Connections

Big mistake. Done over and over again.
When installing the software stack for IBM Connections you will need to connect to a catalog service, like LDAP.
You will add this LDAP as a repository to WAS. And here you may fail. WAS has a local repository. Here lies the wasadmin user. When adding a additional repository you will have two.

When logging on to WAS (deployment manager) WAS will authenticate against all repositories and must be able to access all.

Here it can go wrong. Once I created the wasadmin user in the Domino Directory. Other times the wasadmin user was there before and I did not check.

Moral is: Check the LDAP server when logging on WAS DM after repository setup. If wasadmin user is in the Domino Directory (if that's your choice) you will see an error on the console.

I should eat more of theese...

Blog from everywhere..

Well just messing around with my Google account and transfererred my Blogger Blog to my Google Apps user.
The Google Apps and Google + ecosystem is growing on me.

One of the best features with this ecosystem  is how it extends to the mobile world with the Android OS.

I have Samsung S3 (best phone I ever had) and my wife has S2. 

Love it.

About Blog from Everywhere... This post is written on my S3.

IBM Connections vs Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

A colleague of mine attended a Sharepoint semiar eariler this year. Microsoft representatives there admitted that Microsoft Sharepoint lacks features you would expect from a social software platform. But the promise was that this will be better in Microsoft Sharepoint 2010.

To my knowledge Sharepoint 2010 does not deliver. This is based on what I've learned from the 'File' module in Sharepoint 2010 (My Site - >My Content -> ). In comparison to IBM Connections 3.0 Sharepoints fails on several points:

• MS Sharepoint 2010 uses a silo architecure and is file centric.
• There is no listing of all documents shared with me (the logged on user).
• There is no listing of all public documents I (the logged on user) have access to.
• There is no easy way to share a document from "Personal Docs" to "Shared Docs".
• There is not Social metadata around documents like, who are interested in the document, is the document recommended, has it been download, who has recommended or downloaded it, and discussion around the document is missing.
• Users are unable to se each others tags and notes.
• Not easy to navigate to Sharepoint homescreen.
• Fileupload controls offers not functions to add social data.
• There is not filtering capabilies to search for files.

These are some of the issues with Sharepoint 2010 that is brought to my attention.
The fact that there are few social metadata types assosiated with documents, and the types of data you can attach is not visible to others is a big fail. So also the fact that for documents there is not a menu item in SharePoint that says "Share" (You have 'Permissions Tools' though).

I could go on an elaborate more on these shortcomings, but I'll think the above list is enough to convey the message: Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 does not live up to the standards of a Social Software Platform.

You are welcome to prove me wrong on the issues I mention, or list other shortcomings of MS Sharepoint 2010.

Windows 7 security is bad for Lotus Add-ons

Having av new laptop with Microsfot Windows 7, I wanted to follow software recommended settings when installing IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2. This was a mistake.

When starting the installation the suggested paths are C:\ Program Files(x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes and C:\Program Files (x869\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data.

This works fine, and I used my client for a week now.

But then came the need for Teamstudio Script Browser 3.0. Trying to installed it failed.

The installation program does not have access to the Program Files (x86) folder.

I did not try NotesHound or any other programs that wants to copy dll files into the Lotus Notes Program directory, or editing the notes.ini for that matter.

Trying to run the Lotus Notes client as administrator, and then run Teamstudio Script Browser, but no avail.

So my only option wa to uninstall, and reinstall the Lotus Notes client, outside the Program Files (x86) this time.

Newer software may very well handle this security feature in Microsoft Windows 7 but just be be on the save side, and to be able to use older but good software that hooks in to the Lotus, Notes Client stay clear of the Program Files (x86) folder.

You have been warned.