It looks like I’ll be looking at Lotusphere from the outside again (unless I get some help from up above). My three submissions for sessions were a ‘thanks, but no thanks’. Congrats to all of you who got selected to present! It’s an honor to be selected. It looks like it will be the best Lotusphere yet!!!
The US Marine Corps were organized on this date in 1775. I’ve had an opportunity to meet a few marines over my lifetime, and for every Marine I’ve ever met, I was glad they were on our side defending our country and its interests.
Also on this date in 1969, ‘Sesame Street’ debuts, but for the life of me, I still can’t tell you how to get there… but I keep looking (and watching)!
On a more somber note, on this date in 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks on Lake Superior, killing 29 crewmembers.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘Show-n-Tell’, and I meant to do this a few weeks ago, but ‘baby’ happens…
One of our sites were going to have major electrical work done over the weekend, which meant that the Domino Server at that site would have to go down.
We had no problem with this, but the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) was going to scream that it could not access the data for those users located there. We had to find a way to prevent the BES from kicking back error after error.
Thanks to RIM Support and my colleague, a way was discovered, and it was very simple.
From the Blackberry Manager, select ‘User Groups’, then create a group for your users. (In my case, my group name was ‘SiteName Users’.) Next, select the server, then right click on the column header to get to the Column Chooser dialog box. Add ‘Mail Server’ to the visible columns, then select OK. Now sort on that column, then select all of the users that are on the server in question. Next, right click, and select ‘Assign to Group’, then select the group you just created.
Now that you have all of the users from a specific server in a group, you can go back to ‘User Groups’, then select and right click on the group, and select ‘Disable Redirection’ like in the picture below:
It takes a while, but it eventually tells the BES to stop ‘talking’ with the user stuff.
Once the servers were back up online, I went in and enabled redirection:
After that, everything was gravy.
I hope that this tip helps others… Let me know in the comments!
All of our clients are R6.5 right now, but we want to start testing any changes for a possible R7 client release. There are also colleagues that are interested in getting their certifications upgraded for R7 before the end of the year.
So does anyone know of any issues with R7 clients accessing R6.5 Domino Servers? Oh, and before you ask, we are in the process of upgrading our servers to R7, but it may not be until January 2009.
Twelve years ago, I married my best friend. She has always been the one to bring me back when I’m in a real dark place. She has been the mother of my two beautiful children. In some cases, she has been simply ‘my partner in crime’.
Jennifer, you keep getting more beautiful each day. I was the luckiest man in the world from the time we started dating. Thank you for the wonderful ride so far (including having to have our anniversary dinner today while I was ‘on call’… and having to reschedule our dinner reservation tonight 3 times). I’m going to do my best to keep the next 12 years as interesting as the first 12. I love you… and you are still ‘Beautiful in My Eyes’!
Go forth and vote…
I submitted my abstracts to IdeaJam. Please go there and vote (hopefully to PROMOTE) on them. While they’re there, check out some of the other ones as well. Comments are very appreciated. By the way, you don’t have to attend Lotusphere to vote on these:
This is one I didn’t submit as an actual BOF, but I still think that it would be fun to do… What do you think?
I submitted 3 abstracts. I hope that at least one of them is accepted…
With all the excitement of the new edition to the Pridelands, I’ve been out of the loop with respect to the Lotusphere Abstract deadline. My employer is almost certainly not sending me, so I was banking on trying to present again. What I was not banking on was my braincells being fried from lack of sleep. I know I have until Friday, but I didn’t have a useful idea to present before my wife had the baby…
Oh mighty Lotusphere gods, inspire me to have something that I can present as an abstract (or work with someone who does) by Friday at 12 noon. Amen!
As Jennifer and I were trying to come up with a name, we wanted to use my father’s name somewhere, but not as his first name. My Dad changed his name to Ray, but we want to use his original name. Here is the meaning of the middle name from Think Baby Names:
It is of Latin origin, and its meaning is "citizen of Rome". Variant of Romanus; the name of several obscure saints and a pope. Rome was the center of the Roman Catholic faith. In the ancient world, Roman citizenship represented an ideal standard of rectitude and courage. Even as the Imperial declined, the ideals of Roman citizenship remained to rebuke those responsible and to inspire those who opposed them.
For his first name, we individually always had this name in our heads. When we heard it, we knew that it was the right name. It’s also the name of one of my best friends… a ‘brother-in-beer’ if you will. He’s someone that Jennifer and I both admire and look up to. If our son grows up to be like him, we would be happy parents. Here is the meaning of his name from Think Baby Names:
It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is "bard, poet". May also possibly mean "young deer". May also come from the French… meaning "divine, perfect".
So, it is with great pleasure that we introduce to everyone the newest member of the Pridelands…
Because my wife is awesome and we want to share this with our friends, I’ve been using Twitter to update everyone on what’s going on as my wife gives birth. Of course, I’m dropping off during the real important stuff, but while we’re waiting for the medicine to kick in, feel free to follow us on http://www.twitter.com/TheLionKing. If you want to catch up with this morning’s tweets, check them out at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=TheLionKing.
Thanks for following along. I’ll pass along any comments and/or advise as we go (and I can).