A Lotus How To on Directory Assistance

Tripp Black  June 15 2010 02:38:23 AM

Our Lotus Notes/Domino clients all have the same needs.

Yes, I know, of course they do. In a general sense they need what we all need, too: a transfer of knowledge, experience, in a collaborative format.
It's what we do, it all comes down to one word, training. This is Mindwatering's core offering for my side of the "house". But in this case, this is not exactly what I mean by that...

Without knowing each other, several of our clients will ask for the same thing at the same time. For example:

• Semi-recently, it was data "replication" to or from Lotus Notes and a relational database from several clients. For a couple, we used a product we created called the "Data Replicator"; the rest were done with simple Notes Connector LSX agents.

For the past month, we're talking reporting and exports, but that one is not that unusual, we are consistently doing reporting add-ons to Notes/Domino apps. It's just heavier right now.

This past week was something basic and core - Directory Assistance. This is a basic Lotus Domino integration point.

This week topic may be SSO as I've had several clients asking for it. This week it's not web SSO, but the new Shared Login Notes Client SSO on Windows.
This interesting timing of my clients brings me back to the big picture of Training. Both of the most recent needs are something I've been wanting to get started since January - quick "How To" videos on common, but core, Lotus Domino administration topics. Videos that we can give to the Lotus community at large to jump start the Domino Admins just getting started.

Directory Access was not the first thing on my list, but it was on my list. So today Nicki and I were somewhat inspired. So, with the kid's in bed and only the noise of my servers to cause distraction in the video, I set out to put the movie together. After 30 minutes of prep, recording and QuickTime conversion, and another hour or so re-learning iMovie, we present what we intend to be a regular posting on this blog and the Mindwatering Support & Reference Site:

Full Article: Directory Assistance How To
Movie "HD" MOV/QT / "SD" MP4/M4V

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