Random rambling about technology, BlackBerry, Lotus Domino, accents and the pursuit of happiness.http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/en-usThu, 22 Jul 2010 02:25:05 PM -0400 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:25:05 PM -0400 Peter Smith The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
I wonder if there is an OS way to do the same thing?]]>
I wonder if there is an OS way to do the same thing?]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#22072010022505p.m.WEBPLQ.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:37:25 PM -0400 Peter Smith The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
I guess what might be possible is providing a server-based agent 'run on behalf of' for immediate manual FTI moving, or a server based agent for scheduled FTI moving, such that a script agent could delete the db index, add a dir link file to act as the stub, then rebuild the index.

If this works, we'll make a utility available for people to use as well.]]>
I guess what might be possible is providing a server-based agent 'run on behalf of' for immediate manual FTI moving, or a server based agent for scheduled FTI moving, such that a script agent could delete the db index, add a dir link file to act as the stub, then rebuild the index.

If this works, we'll make a utility available for people to use as well.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#19072010073725p.m.WEBVPX.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:00:39 PM -0400 Darren Duke The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
Why must my life be full of hacks?]]>
Why must my life be full of hacks?]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010070039PMDDUUZJ.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:53:14 PM -0400 Peter Smith The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing http://vowe.net/archives/011584.html), I've just done a quick test, but found no problem with using a directory link file to access the FT index, e.g. database.ft pointing to a directory containing the index files somewhere outside the server data directory. } I've just done a quick test, but found no problem with using a directory link file to access the FT index, e.g. database.ft pointing to a directory containing the index files somewhere outside the server data directory.

This allowed me to update the index successfully either manually or via a server command, and search multiple databases.

You can also create the dir link file, then build the index, and it gets built in the location specified.

Still more testing required, but we'll try to offer this as an option in our FT Search Manager product, along with DWA mail & archive searching (another shameless plug, I'm outdoing myself)]]> http://vowe.net/archives/011584.html), I've just done a quick test, but found no problem with using a directory link file to access the FT index, e.g. database.ft pointing to a directory containing the index files somewhere outside the server data directory. } I've just done a quick test, but found no problem with using a directory link file to access the FT index, e.g. database.ft pointing to a directory containing the index files somewhere outside the server data directory.

This allowed me to update the index successfully either manually or via a server command, and search multiple databases.

You can also create the dir link file, then build the index, and it gets built in the location specified.

Still more testing required, but we'll try to offer this as an option in our FT Search Manager product, along with DWA mail & archive searching (another shameless plug, I'm outdoing myself)]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#19072010045314p.m.WEBSHB.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:26:41 PM -0400 Craig Wiseman "I couldn’t find a Lotus BP in my area" - or support a "real" Lotus BP
I truly hope we see a different result this time.]]>
I truly hope we see a different result this time.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/i-couldnt-find-a-lotus-bp-in-my-area.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010122641PMWEBMAQ.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:27:50 AM -0400 Sean Cull An update on Anonymous access to Domino applications
is Foundations different ?

I contacted the IBM foundations lead in the UK after the comments Ray Davies made on your podcast about Foundations being special.

IBM in the UK was unable to provide foundations specific licensing and suggested using the lotus notes licensing.

Their quoted use case ( 10 staff and 100 customers accessing authenticated data from an nsf with just 10 licences ) fell apart as the conversation progressed.

In the end I was told that it would require 110 licences

Sean]]>
is Foundations different ?

I contacted the IBM foundations lead in the UK after the comments Ray Davies made on your podcast about Foundations being special.

IBM in the UK was unable to provide foundations specific licensing and suggested using the lotus notes licensing.

Their quoted use case ( 10 staff and 100 customers accessing authenticated data from an nsf with just 10 licences ) fell apart as the conversation progressed.

In the end I was told that it would require 110 licences

Sean]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/an-update-on-anonymous-access-to-domino-applications.htm?opendocument&comments#19072010112750WEBL5X.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:41:45 AM -0400 Paul MOoney The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010104145AMWEBK96.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:54:13 AM -0400 Nathan T. Freeman The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
At any rate, whatever it is, it probably has a 5-figure minimum purchase price, and requires 3 weeks of IBMGS consulting to set up. Once you set it up, there's probably a nightly batch process to run the indexes. And when you want to search your own email, you have to go to a web page, type in your search criteria, and submit it. Then the Aggregator server emails you a digest list with url links back to it's own presentation of your searched content (ie: not links to your own mail file in Notes)

The justification for doing this is so you can search the ECM archives of your email at the same time, which of course are no longer stored in Domino.

IBM may not ship this product yet, but I promise that there's some team working diligently on providing the worst possible user experience for searching your email, all in the name of "content management." And because it's a big ticket item, any attempts to improve native FT searching will be waved off as "non-strategic."]]>
At any rate, whatever it is, it probably has a 5-figure minimum purchase price, and requires 3 weeks of IBMGS consulting to set up. Once you set it up, there's probably a nightly batch process to run the indexes. And when you want to search your own email, you have to go to a web page, type in your search criteria, and submit it. Then the Aggregator server emails you a digest list with url links back to it's own presentation of your searched content (ie: not links to your own mail file in Notes)

The justification for doing this is so you can search the ECM archives of your email at the same time, which of course are no longer stored in Domino.

IBM may not ship this product yet, but I promise that there's some team working diligently on providing the worst possible user experience for searching your email, all in the name of "content management." And because it's a big ticket item, any attempts to improve native FT searching will be waved off as "non-strategic."]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010085413AMWEBH5X.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:34:42 AM -0400 Erik Brooks The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
Transaction logs in particular and SS archiving are great examples.]]>
Transaction logs in particular and SS archiving are great examples.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010073442AMWEBFL9.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:51:42 AM -0400 Darren Duke SSDs too expensive? See if a hybrid drive can improve Lotus Notes start up times - "Test 1 - a 4 year old laptop" http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/ssds-too-expensive-see-if-a-hybrid-drive-can-improve-lotus-notes-start-up-times-test-1-a-4-year-old-laptop.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010065142AMDDUERY.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:01:58 AM -0400 Steve Dickson SSDs too expensive? See if a hybrid drive can improve Lotus Notes start up times - "Test 1 - a 4 year old laptop" http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/ssds-too-expensive-see-if-a-hybrid-drive-can-improve-lotus-notes-start-up-times-test-1-a-4-year-old-laptop.htm?opendocument&comments#07192010060158AMWEBDSA.htm Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:47:45 AM -0400 Bill Pop Quiz - who knows the encryption strength and alogrithm that Lotus Notes port encryption uses?
---* Bill]]>
---* Bill]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/pop-quiz-who-knows-the-encryption-strength-and-alogrithm-than-lotus-notes-port-encryption-uses.htm?opendocument&comments#19072010024745WEB9YW.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:30:59 PM -0400 Nathan T. Freeman The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
So no, I don't buy the battle-testing angle. It's just a rationalization.]]>
So no, I don't buy the battle-testing angle. It's just a rationalization.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010113059PMWEB65W.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:05:39 PM -0400 Erik Brooks The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
Now that I'm thinking about it, for new installs both features frankly SHOULD be on. For DAOS, simply default to use the Notes data directory -- the overhead is virtually the same as with DAOS off.

For upgrades I'm actually OK with any "dot-oh" features requiring enablement. 8.5.0's DAOS implementation, while overall awesome, did have some fairly show-stopping corruption/missing-attachment issues. It wasn't until 8.5.1FP-something-or-other-CF-something-else that they had the last of those worked out.

Maybe that's the real answer: Due to the "newness" of these features IBM decides to let us battle-test them. Maybe they'll turn them on by default in future versions? They've done this sort of thing for years with memory management INI settings (include as optional in one version, commit as default in the next).]]>
Now that I'm thinking about it, for new installs both features frankly SHOULD be on. For DAOS, simply default to use the Notes data directory -- the overhead is virtually the same as with DAOS off.

For upgrades I'm actually OK with any "dot-oh" features requiring enablement. 8.5.0's DAOS implementation, while overall awesome, did have some fairly show-stopping corruption/missing-attachment issues. It wasn't until 8.5.1FP-something-or-other-CF-something-else that they had the last of those worked out.

Maybe that's the real answer: Due to the "newness" of these features IBM decides to let us battle-test them. Maybe they'll turn them on by default in future versions? They've done this sort of thing for years with memory management INI settings (include as optional in one version, commit as default in the next).]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010070539PMWEBV44.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:28:04 PM -0400 Nathan T. Freeman The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010032804PMWEBQU4.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:04:38 PM -0400 Nathan T. Freeman Pop Quiz - who knows the encryption strength and alogrithm that Lotus Notes port encryption uses?
Yet another great feature never revealed because Lotus leaves themselves victim to the implementer.]]>
Yet another great feature never revealed because Lotus leaves themselves victim to the implementer.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/pop-quiz-who-knows-the-encryption-strength-and-alogrithm-than-lotus-notes-port-encryption-uses.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010010438PMWEBN2F.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:45:07 PM -0400 Darren Duke The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing this new post for port encryption testing.]]> this new post for port encryption testing.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010124507PMDDUMNT.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:12:56 PM -0400 Darren Duke The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing Link }.

It would be nice if this info was in the trace command too.]]> Link }.

It would be nice if this info was in the trace command too.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010121256PMDDUM2P.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:00:16 PM -0400 Darren Duke The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
@2, as I was writing this post, I thought the exact same thing, that the new local replica controls coming in 8.5.2 would be "their" answer to this. I hope it is not because (a) local replica management has always been crap and 8.5.2 fixes that, and (b) this only fixes 1/3 of the issue. The other 2/3 being iNotes access and think client access.

As Nathan brought this up in @2, I agree with Notes access outside the firewall, simply open 1352, turn on port encryption and have at it. However, can anyone point me to an undisputed source in the support side that stipulates exactly the type and strength that Notes uses. Last I looked it was "believed" to be 64 bit RC4 { Link}.]]>
@2, as I was writing this post, I thought the exact same thing, that the new local replica controls coming in 8.5.2 would be "their" answer to this. I hope it is not because (a) local replica management has always been crap and 8.5.2 fixes that, and (b) this only fixes 1/3 of the issue. The other 2/3 being iNotes access and think client access.

As Nathan brought this up in @2, I agree with Notes access outside the firewall, simply open 1352, turn on port encryption and have at it. However, can anyone point me to an undisputed source in the support side that stipulates exactly the type and strength that Notes uses. Last I looked it was "believed" to be 64 bit RC4 { Link}.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010120016PMDDULSS.htm Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:48:11 AM -0400 Nathan T. Freeman The most useful feature of Lotus Notes that most users can’t use - Full Text Indexing
Just like the Widget Catalog, DCT, ID Vaults, Policies, SmartUpdate, Presence Awareness, Server-side Archiving and Clustering, IBM remains content to let the user experience be dictated by the implementer instead of the vendor. As a result, Notes shops not large enough to employ full-time professional admins and not progressive enough to find a high-quality services from a business partner are under constant siege. You're absolutely correct, Darren, that people will believe this statement about search from Google simply because it's been their own experience. In the same vein, they're likely to believe the lies about not being able to access Notes mail over the internet, because they have admins who don't understand NRPC encryption or the iNotes redirector.

As far as I can tell, IBM operates on the constant assumption that all their customers have business partner relationships to address implementation issues. One VP recently learned that this is not at all true, even in organizations where you'd expect it (like mid-sized pharmaceuticals.) Until the reality sets in that on-premises admins in organizations of less than 1000 are not motivated to make Notes a world-class experience themselves, we're not going to see these kinds of simple, basic changes that would make the vast majority of customers much happier. It's just not part of their reality.

I believe some robots pointed out that the consequence of leaving things in the hands of IT administrators is the continued attrition of the platform in mid-market shops.]]>
Just like the Widget Catalog, DCT, ID Vaults, Policies, SmartUpdate, Presence Awareness, Server-side Archiving and Clustering, IBM remains content to let the user experience be dictated by the implementer instead of the vendor. As a result, Notes shops not large enough to employ full-time professional admins and not progressive enough to find a high-quality services from a business partner are under constant siege. You're absolutely correct, Darren, that people will believe this statement about search from Google simply because it's been their own experience. In the same vein, they're likely to believe the lies about not being able to access Notes mail over the internet, because they have admins who don't understand NRPC encryption or the iNotes redirector.

As far as I can tell, IBM operates on the constant assumption that all their customers have business partner relationships to address implementation issues. One VP recently learned that this is not at all true, even in organizations where you'd expect it (like mid-sized pharmaceuticals.) Until the reality sets in that on-premises admins in organizations of less than 1000 are not motivated to make Notes a world-class experience themselves, we're not going to see these kinds of simple, basic changes that would make the vast majority of customers much happier. It's just not part of their reality.

I believe some robots pointed out that the consequence of leaving things in the hands of IT administrators is the continued attrition of the platform in mid-market shops.]]> http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/dx/the-most-useful-feature-of-lotus-notes-that-most-users-cant-use-full-text-indexing.htm?opendocument&comments#07182010114811AMWEBLJN.htm