Leadership By Numbers :: iNotes 8.5, Sametime, and Quickr2 Unite and Impress

Category Administration Messaging And Collaboration Sametime
My company has formally committed to a full scale Lotus Notes 8.5 upgrade for all servers and clients. It was not a mindless choice, but the consequence of a long deliberation over competing platforms and Domino functionality. UltraLite and DAOS were the first introductions into Domino 8.5, promising a freshness and currency to the entire Lotus collaboration architecture.

This week I've finished wiring up the integration for iNotes 8.5, Sametime, and Quickr2. It's a very impressive web messaging stack. We are looking to reduce desktop maintenance, and the iNotes suite has sufficient appeal and usability that a surprising number of users prefer it over a full client.

One sticking point for my efforts, was aligning the Single Sign-On certificates. Domino supports several different types, with dissimilar configurations. A comment by Warren Elsmore in a Lotus Notes User Group newsletter gave me the hack that I needed to include our portal interface with our web messaging.

Wrapping together iNotes 8.5, Sametime and Quickr2 is an early holiday gift to our mail clients that have been on iNotes 6 for many, many years.

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Comments

2 - Glad the policy tool is working well for you (not sure why IBM/Lotus doesn't give a comparable interface in the Admin GUI). Anyways, I wanted to add how nice it was to discover someone thinking out-of-the-box. The official documentation is very clear about what works and what is not supported. I probably would not have jumped to the solution you found, but when I read it, I slapped my forehead with a "of course!"

Thanks again.

Posted by Jack Dausman At 12:42:40 AM On 11/19/2009 | - Website - |