Cloud 9

Wow, I never thought I'd be so excited by such a small statement! Yancy just said 4 little words that have possibly made my week.... "Welcome to the Planet!" Thanks Yancy! Hopefully I prove worthy :)

You always remember your first...

How cool, my very first time building a Domino server from scratch!! Ok, maybe only cool to me, but I hear you always remember your first....

A funny sidenote, my Sr. Admin made sure to remind me in intial setup of the server to move Outlook Express over to the "Entertainment" group on the taskbar. I know it's a small victory but one he clearly enjoys with every server build.

RSS Feeders

Ok, sorry for anyone that might have my blog in an RSS Feed. I was "developing in production" so to speak. I posted and then saw errors and alas forgot about RSS and had multiple posts with the same line. Can you ever forgive me?! I promise to be more careful in the future :)

Ahh Rules... Tip #1 from The Notes Apprentice

Ok, I know Mooney told me to kill my endusers and be done with it, and I'm starting to understand why! Today's lesson from the The Notes Apprentice... Lotus Notes Mail Rules.

Situation: User calls and is getting duplicate emails from "random" users. Luckily, I was one of the "random" users that she claimed was sending her two of everything so it made it easier to test.

Troubleshooting: Ok, so where to start... I had no idea for a good solid minute before my old help desk troubleshooting skills fired up! I remoted into her box to confirm the duplicate messages, yep two. I watched mail.box to see if two emails actually were coming through the router (pronounced 'rou-ter'), only the one message. I admit I spent hours trying to figure out what was causing the duplicate messages, but alas I gave up and called IBM Support. I felt a little better when everything she had me try was where I had already started.

Resolution: After a good 30 minute call with the ever helpful Lotus Support they suggested I look at the rules on the users mailfile. Sure enough they had a test rule to send a copy of full messages to inbox if "me" was in the sender field. Viola! Sure enough there is a "me" in my name and in the name of all the other "random" duplicates the user was getting. Sure, I felt a little dumb for not looking for the obvious, but that's why I'm here posting for you! Your Welcome :)

Admins vs Developers...

I read this on Jamie's blog the other day...

"Developers want: new processes, changes to existing processes, integration between systems, access to systems from any device anywhere, systems emailing/feeding/serving other organizations' systems. In short, they want ACTION.
Administrators want: no changes to business, no incidents or system events, and no-one talking about or remembering anything that happened that day. In short, they want NOTHING TO HAPPEN. If they could achieve this by unplugging the servers without anyone noticing, they would."

I would just like to say as an Admin... Is that so wrong?!? I am some what teasing but it truly is a great day in my world when there are no changes and everything runs smoothly all day. I can handle the users, I just need to figure out how to get the developer or desktop support to stop making changes and life would be smooth! Just kidding D!!

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Updates....

Ok, I've added a little Flickr slideshow. No, the pictures aren't ones I took but I was too busy wandering around getting the lay of the land at Lotusphere to actually take pictures. Enjoy everyone elses work though!

Lotusphere 2008

Ok, so this is a little late, but I wanted to offer up the n00b perspective of Lotusphere. Wow! Filing in to the OGS (Opening General Session for those that didn't know) was reminescent of being a freshman at my first High School pep rally. There was excitement and cheering and sheer joy that I had made it to this point in my life. Then Bob Costas walked out and I had the same sinking feeling as that High School pep rally when at the height of my excitement I found out we had the worst football team in the district. Oh well, it was still my first OGS at my first Lotusphere and no one can take that away. Not even Bob Costas!

On to the rest of Lotusphere, sessions sped by in a whirl of trying to figure out how things applied to my job back home and realizing the true task I've taken on with becoming a Notes Admin.

The true highlight of the experience, Jellyrolls! Sure there was mass amounts of alcohol consumed but I met a great group of people that truly made me feel welcome. For that, Lotusphere ranks up there as one of the most exciting things I've done in my life. Thanks everyone!!

Hello World!

Ok, it took me awhile but I finally got a blog up and running. We'll see what new tweaks I can do to make it a little nicer next.