Merry Xmas to you all! 

Well, its that time of the year, to wish you all and your families a Very Merry Xmas from all of us at LAN2LAN. We hope that all you boys and girls have been very good this year, so that Santa does pay  you a visit.

As the end of Xmas Eve arrives you can check out Santa's progress right here with the Norad Santa Tracker..

For a little Festive Fun check out our special Xmas egame and see if you can help Santa win the Winter Olympics..  

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Andy Dennis December 24th, 2009 11:50:43

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Storage vs Lotus Domino 8.5.x 

It's being reported that Microsoft are dropping the Single Instance Storage component that was added to Exchange 2005. This feature enabled only a single instance of an attachment to be stored in the mail store. The Microsoft Exchange 2010 server store  will allow for the native compression of  all attachments.

If you an Exchange Administrator, I'd suggest you keep a close eye on the releases and upgrade notes for Exchange 2010 and particularly the potential increase in disk space for your environment.

Now lets map that across to the space saving features in Lotus Domino 8.5.1.  These are DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service), LZ1 compression within a database for file attachments, design compression for database design elements and a single copy template to ensure only 1 copy of design elements are stored on your server.

• DAOS has been seen to save our clients between 30-60% of disk space by storing a single copy of an attachment that has been distributed to multiple users on a Lotus Domino Server.
• LZ1 compresses ensures those single attachments which are not distributed to multiple users are compressed.
• Design compression can be used to compress design elements
• A Single Copy Template can be used to link all of your mail files to a single template..

With all of these features enabled you can reduce the total amount of storage your Lotus Domino Server utilises.

I know which platform I would choose if my disk space is constrained.. and lets not forget Lotus Domino is not a rip and replace solution..

As always the information in this post is correct at the time of writing.

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Andy Dennis December 14th, 2009 11:33:03

I’ve been virtualized 

To be more exact, I have just become a VMWare Certified Professional (VCP4).

For an out and out Lotus techie this may seem a departure from the Yellow straight and narrow, but it actually plays well into the kind of Domino infrastructure projects we are currently engaged on. Our major theme when working with customers on Domino upgrades to 8/8.5 and now 8.5.1, is to use the process as an opportunity to enhance their environment. This can be done through deploying new features as part of the upgrade, optimising performance, consolidating servers and extending functionality though services such as Traveller, web-enabling apps with Xpages - you all know the rest.

So far, so standard, but we are increasingly integrating options for virtualization into Domino projects as customers are looking to reduce their IT footprint, make their infrastructure more flexible (Agile anyone?), and having an eye to centralised off-site services (enter the Public / Private Cloud discussion).

I'm now one of four VCPs at LAN2LAN, and will work with our Virtualization Practice on Domino related projects. One of the benefits of our multi-tier approach is that we have HP hardware and SAN expertise in house, together with network and Microsoft professionals, allowing us deliver an end to end solution for our customers.

The future is still bright Yellow for me, but perhaps running on Yellow Blades.

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Peter Smith December 4th, 2009 12:09:48

Vulnerabilities in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment Service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server 

Just received the following vulnerability notice from RIM:

http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB19860

Seems there is still a PDF vulnerability around and technote KB19860 details how to deal with it. Security severity rating range from 5.7 to 9.3.

I am planning to upgrade to BES 5.0.1 next week so will just disable the PDF ability on the attachment service till then.

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Jaime Alcorn December 2nd, 2009 13:11:00