My Notes and Domino 8.5 presentation from the Atlanta Lotus User Group (ATLUG) from Q2 2009.

1. IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5 – ATLUG 09 by Darren Duke Technical Lead & All Round Good Guy

3. “ Long Suffering” Lotus Notes advocates

4. IBM Advanced Business Partner

5. BPAC and LoLA Members

6. Deep expertise in AS400, AIX and Linux and running Domino on VMware

8. Connections

9. Quickr

10. Sametime

11. Protector

12. Lotus Mobile Connect

13. LEI

17. Lotus products on VMware? Poll – Using any add-ons/entitlements?

20. Over 130M licenses of Lotus Notes and Domino have been sold worldwide

21. Lotus Notes and Domino has seen sixteen consecutive quarters of year-to-year growth from 4Q04 through 4Q08 (have added 12,236 customers since 8)

22. More than half of America’s largest 100 corporations use Lotus Notes and Domino

24. 4 of the top 5 consumer products corporations  8 of the top 12 pharmaceutical corporations

26. Eclipse and open platform Composite Applications Improved user interface Productivity Editors aka Symphony Enhancements to core mail, calendar, and contacts Continued multiplatform client support (Windows, Linux and Mac) Server-managed and provisioned NO rip and replace (with addition of Basic client) What are the key benefits of Notes 8.x?

28. Google Cal

29. Other Notes users

30. Notes apps

31. Connections vCard standardization iNotes looks like client Open In New Window Signature stored in mail file What are the key benefits of Notes 8.5?

33. Sub processor licensing for VM installs

36. DCT – Domino Configuration Tuner

37. DDE-Domino Designer in Eclipse

38. X-Pages design element (Java Server Faces)

39. Native 64 bit OS support for Windows 2003 and AIX, others coming in subsequent releases

40. FIPS 140-2 support

41. iPhone support Domino Server 8.5.x improvements

44. RSS feed reader

45. iCal import and export

46. Blog Template

47. Notes Access for SAP Solutions

48. Macintosh support

50. Extended policy management

51. Extended Web services

53. Continuity for Notes users

54. Activity centric computing

55. Contextual collaboration

56. Composite Applications

58. FIPS-140 for Notes mail

59. Extended email security

61. Composite application extensions

62. Social software extensions

64. Active Directory support

65. Simplified ID management

66. Web application development Updates - XPages

68. It is not Shared Mail, it is not Shared Mail, it is not Shared Mail

70. Stored as files on “file system”

71. Incremental backups

72. Actual NSF up to 90% smaller

73. Quotas still work

74. Secure, encrypted by default

75. No more copy and paste of NSF files between servers!

76. Backup implications Domino 8.5 Server - DAOS

77. Courtesy Ed Brill (www.edbrill.com) Domino 8.5 Server - DAOS

79. Local storage is best performance

80. With “Archived” you can do point in time restores of an NSF

81. “ Circular” will do fine

83. Run “tell daosmgr resync” after enabling it

84. Keep away from 2048 bit server ID files (maybe fixed in FP1)

85. Everything you ever wanted to know is on the blog Domino 8.5 Server – DAOS

87. ID Vault allow for one-click password resets of ID files

88. Requires ND 8.5+ Server AND client

91. During registration (via policy) ID can be added to ID Vault automatically

92. Synchronizes passwords across multiple copies of ID file

93. Notes will download the ID at client install time from the Vault

94. Do not just replicate the Vault database application to other servers Domino 8.5 Server – ID Vault

97. Will scan 8.5, 8.0.x and 7.0.x servers

98. Be sure to rescan after any upgrades

99. Updates to tool should be downloaded

102. CPU cycles for transaction logging reduced by over 50%

105. Total disk reads per second reduced by 61%

106. Processor percent busy reduced by 38% Domino 8.5 Server – Other Features * http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino85-performance/

108. Just a few minutes for me to get a drink

109. FYI, no questions means either I am doing a very good job, or a very bad job Domino 8.5 Server – Q&A

111. Plug-in architecture

112. Real CSS, HTML and JS editors!

114. Not everything has been Eclipsed. See 8.5.1

115. Yes, it is somewhat slow. See 8.5.1

121. More in 8.5.1 ;) Domino Designer - XPages

126. Event driven coding – just like Notes

127. Full Domino object model in JS

130. Client-side (in browser)

134. And another drink

135. And still.... no questions means either I am doing a very good job, or a very bad job Domino Designer – Q&A

138. Yes, I have seen it working :)

141. GZIP coming to the Domino HTTP stack (larger is not always better) Crystal Ball - 8.5.1

143. Lotus Protector (think Barracuda) integration into the Notes client

144. Client “seems” much faster and snappier

145. Better “attachment at top” handling Crystal Ball - 8.5.1

148. Go vote or add you own ideas at http://lotusknows.ideajam.net/

149. Open now through Saturday, Aug 22 nd at 8:00 AM EST Q & A

152. http://blog.darrenduke.net

154. R6.5 is being “End Of Life” in April 2010.