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All Essential Links for Everything Notes/Domino in One Place  

By David Hablewitz | 10/31/23 2:44 AM | Business - News | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Here is a collection of links to everything you could possibly want for Domino and HCL Notes (#LotusNotes) I have many more links to add, so consider this a starting point and bookmark this one page for reference and return to it often.

Updated Zoom Plugin for HCL Notes V11  

By David Hablewitz | 3/22/21 2:09 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Andi Kress

HCL Notes users: If you are using Zoom instead of HCL Sametime for your video meetings, you may have discovered that the Notes integration plugin provided by Zoom that made it easy to schedule Zoom meetings in your Notes calendar broke with Notes V11. Well I have good news. Zoom is finally releasing an update…

Domino Jeopardy! at CollabSphere 2020  

By David Hablewitz | 12/7/20 1:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I recently had the honor of playing the role of game show host of a Notes/Domino edition of Jeopardy! at CollabSphere User Group Conference. This was the Day 2 Lunchtime entertainment. The contestants were Helen Mendoza, an HCL customer from Chicago, IL, USA; Roberto Boccadoro, an HCL business partner from Milan, Italy; and Luis Guirigay, an HCL employee from Boca Raton, FL, USA. Hosted by me, HCL Ambassador David Hablewitz.

New HCL Notes, Domino, & Connections content is back on Domino!  

By David Hablewitz | 5/15/20 4:32 PM | Business - News | Added by Oliver Busse

I’m thrilled to share that HCL has brought over important content from IBM that was hosted in Domino! Note these are .nsf databases. Yes, Domino databases. I have asked if they will open it up to anonymous access with Notes clients like they had been in the past. Meanwhile, this is another accomplishment in the process of HCL invigorating the proof of the product.

Should you stick with Notes, Domino, Connections, & Sametime now that HCL bought them from IBM?  

By David Hablewitz | 2/4/20 8:17 AM | Business - News | Added by Oliver Busse

(If you are a technical expert and you are not sharing this information with your business management as well as your IT management, then you are not doing your job.) Since HCL bought Notes, Domino, Sametime, Connections and several other products from IBM, many people are asking: "Now what?

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish  

By David Hablewitz | 1/30/20 5:35 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse

Ginni Rometty is stepping down from her role as CEO of IBM.

Ask HCL Session Replay from CollabSphere 2019  

By David Hablewitz | 11/12/19 12:58 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger

Watch the replay. The questions and answers are transcribed below. Many thanks to all the people from HCL for being available and answering the many tough questions brought up. I did my best to transcribe the questions and responses.

Follow Up to What’s New in Sametime V10 and Beyond?  

By David Hablewitz | 5/23/19 4:28 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

Good news with persistent chat and with eliminating WAS and DB2.  Persistent chat is coming in V10.  WAS and DB2 will be eliminated in V11 or V12.  System Console is also eliminated in V10.  V10 also supports login on multiple devices concurrently.  It is worth listening to the replay (at 1.5x speed).  Be sure to…

Easter Egg in the Server Config Doc and How to configure Domino to restrict which groups can receive Internet mail  

By David Hablewitz | 3/5/19 4:50 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Sometimes you want email groups to receive email from the Internet, but you don’t want every group reachable that way. IBM did a great job hiding it.

BleedingBlue meetup: Whiskey & Watson, Carrots & Robots: Visual Recognition & Machine Learning Demo  

By David Hablewitz | 1/29/19 2:47 AM | - | Added by Matteo Bisi

If you're in the Seattle / Bellevue WA area, don't miss the next BleedingBlue IBM technology topics meetup.  The subject for this meeting is: Whiskey & Watson, Carrots & Robots: Visual Recognition & Machine Learning Demo We will dive into some data science techniques and tools using IBM’s Watson Studio. Using whiskey data, you’ll learn how to build a dashboard, machine learning model, and Watson visual recognition model all without coding.

Notes / Domino 10  

By David Hablewitz | 3/16/17 11:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

At IBM Connect 2017, the message from IBM was “Notes/Domino 9.0 support will not end for at least 4 more years”. Which to me sounded a bit like simply a stay of execution. Not so much a positive message as just a non-negative one. But Ed Brill has published a blog post on the IBM Social Business blog that gives more clarity to the message and I think this helps.

MWLUG 2016 Recap  

By David Hablewitz | 8/22/16 3:00 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse

This year MWLUG was held in Austin, TX. I gave a presentation on Best Practices for Administrators Before, During and After a move to SmartCloud Notes. Here are my slides.

IBM’s next generation cloud email solution is coming to CONSUMERS for FREE!  

By David Hablewitz | 11/27/14 8:00 AM | - | Added by Kenio Carvalho

Last week IBM provided a glimpse into their next innovation in email.  Code-named MailNext, it is now formally named Verse.  This is the next evolution of Connections Cloud, their enterprise cloud suite of software. Now, just a week later, IBM has announced plans to make Verse available to CONSUMERS for FREE!!!

Using the Notes admin client to compliment the SmartCloud web admin screens  

By David Hablewitz | 1/20/14 12:17 AM | - | Added by Niklas Heidloff

This is my first in a series of tips regarding SmartCloud Hybrid Notes migrations and administering SmartCloud Hybrid Notes environments that aren’t always obvious.

IBM Connect 2014 Session Selection: First round posted, setting the tone  

By David Hablewitz | 11/22/13 12:49 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Niklas Heidloff

If you submitted an abstract for IBM Connect 2014, Look here to see if yours has already been chosen. If you are attending IBM Connect 2014, this will give you a taste of what to expect at the conference.

How to download and install the IBM Connections plugin for IBM Lotus Notes  

By David Hablewitz | 9/17/13 12:31 AM | Infrastructure - Connections | Added by Niklas Heidloff

IBM Connections with Sametime is amazing. It’s like a useful combination of features you will find on Linkedin, facebook, WebEx or GotoMeeting, Skype, dropbox, wordpress and IdeaJam and it’s ideal for any business larger than 1 person.

The Single biggest cause of Lotus Notes client crashes and how to avoid them  

By David Hablewitz | 1/21/13 12:12 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Niklas Heidloff

While reviewing an environment with about 3000 users, I discovered an extremely high number of fault reports occurring. On a daily basis there were from 100 to 200 faults reported. Some users were crashing every single day.

SmartCloud leads IBM to dethrone Microsoft on CNN’s “Four Horsemen of Tech” list  

By David Hablewitz | 8/28/12 4:51 PM | - | Added by

The times, they are a’changin’!  In the shifting sands of technology, IBM is proving to be the Rock of Gibraltar. CNN Money just conducted their annual survey of technology and investment experts to determine which 4 technology companies are the best investments in the industry.