Admin2008 will deliver in-depth sessions spanning 5 tracks. You’re free to mix and match your choice of sessions that best suit your training needs without being tied down to any particular track. Plus, your registration lets you attend any sessions from Lotus Developer2008, and the Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Upgrade and Development Seminars, all together in one location.

Track 1: Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Upgrade
Track 2: Messaging and Collaboration
Track 3: User and Application Management and Maintenance
Track 4: Security and Compliance
Track 5: Monitoring and Performance Tuning
New Technology Sessions
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Delve into the new and exciting Notes 8 client and understand the differences between Basic and Standard clients so you can decide which one works best for your enterprise. Explore the ins-and-outs of the latest Notes interface, including enhanced context sensitive help, multi-level undo, the vertical preview pane, instant spell check, the new sidebar and RSS feed reader. Learn how to take advantage of new functionality that automatically synchronizes contacts with Domino Web Access plus the new consolidated search feature that enables users to pull data out of mail, calendar, personal contacts, and much more. See the latest changes to Notes mail, from mail thread management and message recall to new features in contacts and improved Out-of-Office functionality. Plus, find out how a “ghost” calendar can keep your users from missing or double–booking those important meetings.

Wrap your arms around the new and enhanced features of Domino Administration to enhance server performance. Explore event-driven streaming cluster replication to reduce processing needs by propagating changes to all cluster members as they occur. Harness the power of Admin Process improvements to maximize performance by prioritizing AdminP requests and using names lists for user renames. Capitalize on changes in DDM, like the new Execute CA role to control access to corrective actions, and the new By Database view that lets you see all issues that have occurred with a particular database. Get the lowdown on the new On Disk Structure (ODS), how and when to upgrade existing databases, and improvements to server efficiency including settings for view indexing, compressing database design to reduce overall database size, restricting database searches, and more.

This session dives into the significant changes that Domino 8 brings to your messaging environment. Make the most of SMTP enhancements to mail management, like options other than null for the reverse-path for forwarded messages, transfer and delivery delay notifications, and limits for inbound connections. Learn the ins-and-outs of the new message recall feature including global implementation with user or group exclusions, how to further control inbound mail with ambiguous name rejection, and the impact of router handling on Out-of-Office replies. Seize control of the inbox with configurable mail inbox maintenance settings to ensure better performance for mail.

Unlock the power of the improvements to Designer, as well as the major opportunities that the Eclipse framework brings to the table, to see how your applications can be enhanced, improved, extended, and reused in completely new ways. Take a tour of composite application basics and see how Domino is now a consumer of Web services. Get the skinny on the new runtime agent option “On server start” and determine its impact on your environment. Evaluate performance enhancing tools and options that developers can implement, and learn when it’s appropriate to implement his new functionality in existing applications.

This unique session takes you through all the necessary steps for a pain-free upgrade to ND8. Discover the best ways to bring together your business and technical requirements, gain management support, and secure the budget dollars you need to accomplish all of your goals. Uncover the secrets to pulling together and training an effective team, planning proper communication between administrators and users, building a budget-saving test environment, and launching a successful upgrade pilot. Understand why a rock-solid backout plan can be the difference between a successful upgrade and a workstopping disaster. Walk away with an effective project plan skeleton, with all the major tasks already defined, that will ensure a smooth upgrade from the first server to the last client.

Get expert advice for choosing and configuring the right features so you can design a stellar model client before deploying your first production client. Uncover the facts you need to make the right decisions on deploying the Standard or Basic client, and whether or not to deploy the productivity tools, instant messaging, and other available plug-ins. Tap into methodologies for benchmarking your existing clients and identifying new client configurations, and be prepared with the answers to management’s hard questions about performance. Find out how to manage users and keep them up to date using new policy options. Walk away armed with tons of tips and tools for designing the best set of client features for your users, including a tool to collect key hardware and software statistics for your existing clients that saves you valuable time in evaluating current client conditions.

Take advantage of the big improvements in SmartUpgrade and install packaging techniques to guarantee a smooth deployment and gain a thorough understanding of the installation process for both the Basic and Standard clients. Capitalize on the tools available, based on the Eclipse architecture, to roll out additional features and add-ins to your clients. Get the lowdown on what kind of horsepower this will require from the client through a discussion of realistic workstation hardware configurations and practical tips to make sure your client environment is ready for the upgrade. Take away a VB script wrapper for automating your installs and a client pre-install checklist to ensure readiness.

Dive into the features and plug-ins that Notes 8 offers through the Eclipse Update Manager. Utilize this new Domino-based tool to take advantage of secure and logged client updates that can be easily distributed throughout your organization. Learn to use the new update.nsf database to manage and control feature access, packages, and versioning, and effectively distribute resources to your users based on their location. Determine how to best implement site updates, whether through NRPC or a generic Eclipse update site, and see what it takes to use this tool for Sametime 7.5 provisioning, as well as additional plug-ins and composite applications. Plus, take home a base site.xml example and a sample update.nsf to help jumpstart your deployment.

Reap the benefits of improved security features for handling Web-based authentication, Internet password and certifier management, as well as improved integration with SSO for WebSphere and Active Directory. Leverage the enhancements in Directory management and see where to configure new features for improved performance of name lookups through settings for secondary directories, LDAP configuration options, and group membership expansion. See how to use the new DirLint tool to report on all types of inconsistencies in names. From DWA and SSO to LDAP, DA, and AES for SSL, you get a clear picture of how the changes work together and what you need to do once your upgrade is in place.

Uncover the step-by-step details you need to upgrade your servers to Domino 8 using the quickest and most efficient methods available. Learn how to develop standardized installation techniques that reduce errors and ensure consistent server installations in your domain. Get critical timesaving tips on what you should do before your first server upgrade, such as prepping the new Domino 8 templates and upgrading the design of the address book. Gain insight into determining which servers to upgrade first and reducing the risk of Domino 8 features spreading across your environment before you want them to. Plus, you find out how to avoid service outages by leveraging clusters, and walk away with working scripts that help eliminate potential errors by automating server upgrades.

Delve into the new Notes 8 productivity tools and understand how to get the most of these Open Document Format (ODF) compatible tools. Find out what they have to offer, if they make sense for your environment, and how to implement them to give users presentation, word processing, and spreadsheet capabilities from within their Notes environment. Understand the hardware requirements necessary to add this full suite of tools to your desktops, and take a look at the features that are bundled in for free. See live demonstrations of these productivity tools, including how documents can be opened, edited, and saved in numerous other software packages. You leave this session knowing whether or not to implement these tools to archive control over documents while enabling an efficient interchange of information within your organization.

Notes and Domino 8 brings lots of improved functionality to the extended product family. See how Sametime 7.5 is woven into the fabric of the Notes 8 client, and compare and contrast how Sametime awareness is exposed in Notes 8 Basic vs. the Connect client found in Notes 8 Standard. Learn how Activities can be deployed as a plug-in for the Notes 8 Standard client and how authentication is performed with the Activity server. Dig into DB2 as a back-end data store for Domino 8, get vital information to determine when to choose DB2 over NSF, learn about the architectural requirements, and get tips on installation. Find out how WebSphere Portal is more tightly integrated with Domino 8 and how to configure a user’s home Portal account using the new Domino Portal Integration Wizard. Finally, walk away with a graphic of the entire Domino environment of extended products.

Learn to identify issues with your Sametime 7.5.x servers before they become problems. Understand what features and services have the greatest impact on server performance and learn to utilize the updated admin interface to manage and monitor your Sametime servers. Get the lowdown on deploying plug-ins with or without Eclipse and ensure you get it right the first time. See how Sametime 7.5.x now enables you to create and implement policies to control client capabilities and explore the load test tool integrated into the Notes 7.0.2 client for IM workload testing.

Explore the new functionality associated with the release of SP5, a service pack for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server solution. Take a guided tour of BlackBerry Administrator to gain a better understanding of the admin console. Walk through the new features such as the BlackBerry Monitoring Service, and examine specific IT policies, user group lists, role-base administration, and configuration and application policies. Dive into BlackBerry Enterprise Server Logs for a breakdown of log entries and process logging, and get practical troubleshooting tips. Gain a better understanding of all the new features including and see the unveiling of over–the–air software loading.

Securely connect your organization to public IM communities such as AOL, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, and more. Take a deep dive into the Sametime Gateway to get expert advice on proper installation and configuration, daily administration, and troubleshooting problems. Get step-bystep instructions for successfully managing users, adding or removing message handlers for filtering, setting properties for maximum sessions, blacklist domains, session timeouts, and custom error messages. Also, get a handle on how Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) connectors are implemented for federation and connection to other IM environments. Plus, you’ll walk away with diagrams explaining how the plug-in architecture of the Sametime Gateway operates and where it should fit in your network infrastructure with the new installation wizard in Sametime Gateway 8.0.

Maximize use of the Notes calendar in your domain and uncover little known tips and tricks that will make your users more capable and less confused. We’ll go through the top
25 things you can do to make your life and that of your users more efficient. Take a true under-the-hood look at the processes behind repeating meetings so you understand exactly how they work. Walk in with your notepad ready for a fast-paced session and walk away with the know-how to manage users’ calendars more efficiently.

Learn from an insider how the Lotus Notes and Domino Rooms and Resource system is designed, how it works, and how to implement it. Find out which of many deployment strategies works best for you and understand how reservation requests, updates, cancellations, and repeating reservations work, so you know where to look when things go wrong and how to fix the problems you find quickly. Get advice on when to customize your system (or leave it alone), how to make the system work for you in a mixed version environment, and when and how to approach an upgrade.

Dive into real-world examples of the optimal settings for internal, external, and multi-domain SMTP configurations, anti-relay settings, extended SMTP settings, and more.
Uncover tips for quickly solving those annoying SMTP connection errors and get field-tested advice for troubleshooting a whole host of SMTP problems such as undeliverable mail and indecipherable error messages. Explore the numerous notes.ini variables and see which ones to utilize for your current SMTP issues. Then explore effective solutions for many errors, such as refusal/error by receiving server, route not found, and RFC error codes. All of this knowledge is wrapped into a top 10 listing for you to take home and paste on your cube wall.

Attend this session and find out how to cope with the most difficult challenges administrators face with this business–critical application. Find out how to keep users under control by limiting preventing them from using mail rules that cause message looping, the number of messages in their inboxes, and uncover the important settings in server configuration documents that control mail flow and uncover the router commands that can help you determine when to change the settings. Get best practices for Out–of–Office settings, email disclaimers, and enforcing corporate-wide user settings. Walk away from this session with the tools you need to keep your mail servers humming along.

If you’re rolling out Domino Web Access or just want to improve the way it works within your domain, then don’t miss this session. Get an inside look at the configuration settings that make DWA easier and more secure for your users. Learn to reuse child windows in DWA and configure them without user interaction. Break away from the typical login experience by using a DOMCFG.NSF to customize a login for your domain. Learn how to use the Web Redirector application to get users to their mail servers from a single URL. Get the straight facts on how to form a Single Sign-on environment. Also, see how the Domino Directory, LDAP, 3^rd party tools, and security appliances combine to reduce the risks of Internet access to your corporate HTT P backbone.

While many organizations strive to standardize their messaging infrastructures on a single platform, many others do not. Whether through merger, acquisition or simple user preference, many organizations face a need to achieve peaceful coexistence in the messaging wars, perhaps for only a short time (while they transition from one to the other), but perhaps, (if they can pull it off) for a very long time. The technical challenges involved in maintaining a well-performing dual messaging infrastructure are not trivial, but they can be met successfully with proper planning and the right technology. The big issues are all around directory synchronization, message transport, rich text, scheduling logic differences and data formats. Come to this session to learn how to overcome these technical challenges how to keep both Notes and Exchange up and running, and how to avoid mutually assured destruction!

Attend this session to demystify AdminP, the server task that does many of the boring chores that administrators are too busy to do. Come discover the inner workings of this powerful assistant and see how you can make it more efficient and more powerful. Learn the dependencies that can cause the magic of AdminP to grow dim and use the take-home tools to ward off problems. You’ll discover how to fine tune AdminP for big projects and make the database smaller at the same time!

This advanced session presents both administrators and developers with in-depth techniques for performance design and analysis. Find out how to optimize server caching and understand the performance effects of various database properties and settings in the Server document, Configuration document, and NOTE S.INI file. Uncover the relationships between various performance symptoms and the server’s processor, file system, memory, and network, so you know where the bottlenecks are. Watch examples of tracing slow performance in live applications and get tips on using the agent Profiler (release 7 onward) to identify the parts of your code that are the slowest. Take away a proven methodology for diagnosing slow applications, reusable code for snappy, editable dynamic tables, and an open-source tool for determining exactly what Notes is waiting for whenever the yellow lightning bolt displays.

Get field-tested advice to quickly identify and fix a myriad of agent issues. Find out how best to configure agent control parameters and the Agent Manager task for optimum efficiency. Understand the impact of agent restrictions and execution control lists (ECLs) on code control. Learn to effectively control and restrict agent execution for Domino Web servers, deploy solid ECLs to restrict client access to harmful code while allowing normal agent processing, and leverage signatures and policies. Define code timeouts for HTT P agents and find out how to troubleshoot Web agents. Leave with a list of tips for code execution on server consoles.

Dive into the many ways in which replication can fail and see how to fix problems like zombie documents that return from the dead; bringing deleted documents back into a
replica; and replicas that won’t synchronize 100% of their documents no matter what you do. Get expert tips and tricks for dealing with these and other problems, such as widely distributed local replicas and for getting a handle on what databases your users have on their workstations. Take home tools for managing replica issues such as an agent that finds deleted documents that were replicated back into a database at a specific time, plus much, much more.

In this session, you become an expert on database corruption—how to find the problem, fix it, and prevent corruption in the future. Get the lowdown on the processes and issues that contribute to database corruption in your environment every day. See how some corruption is actually self-inflicted and preventable by changing just a few documents and settings. Find out which commands and methods to use for different corruption error messages, see how to utilize your server monitoring features to deal with corruption in an automated way, and learn the right tools and commands to fix it. Walk away with a list of key errors, what they mean, and how to resolve them.

Get real-world examples and recommendations on how to gain vital configuration, performance, and statistical information about your clusters. Find out why the Server Availability Index (SAI) is so important, how to calculate SAI, then how to tune your servers accordingly. Dive into the cluster engine, see what it does and doesn’t do, uncover problems and solutions, and learn more about cluster analysis/decommission analysis. Get information on the Domino 8 cluster engine and the most up-to-date improvements now available. You take home practical tips on Server_max_users and configuring work queue depths, tweaking your Domino cluster settings, configuring cluster failover without cluster replication, collecting the appropriate statistics for proper analysis, and more!

Conquer the most common Notes support headaches with administration tricks and best practices to quickly understand, resolve, and prevent the problems from happening again. This session will examine the ins and outs of each individual issue. Get working solutions to solve each problem, on remediation of unread marks, using policies to place appropriate limits plus tips on users, and leveraging code to delete unused locations. Walk away with working code that removes unwanted location documents as well as a method for clearing out hidden views in the names.nsf and bookmarks.nsf.

Buckle-up and get ready for this explosion of from-the-trenches advice on almost every facet of Domino administration. Updated with lots of new tips for 2008. This fast-paced, energizing session provides you with the critical insight into day-to-day tasks that every administrator needs to have, as well as little-known tips and tricks that can only make your job easier. Walk away with links to important resources; a full description of over 70 tips on Domino 8 configuration, clustering, HTT P, AdminP, iNotes, performance; and much, much more.

Take a comprehensive look at how to best manage the lifecycle of your Notes and Domino applications, from start to finish. With advice from established sites around the world, get up-to-speed on the most efficient and effective ways to deploy, upgrade, and retire your applications. Get best practices for setting up your Lotus Notes environment for optimal deployment and uncover the key infrastructure considerations that can have a profound impact on later processes, such as upgrading and migration. Take away a step-by-step checklist outlining the critical steps you need to take for a more simplified, risk-free deployment.

Capitalize on the experience of an insider for the best ways to keep your servers properly maintained. You’ll learn which tasks are recommended daily, weekly, and monthly, and get additional insights into key issues, from preventing corruption to automating maintenance. Uncover the things that can happen if you fail to maintain, your servers and how they will perform with proper care and feeding. Learn the right way to use compact, fixup and updall, and much more. Find out how you can have DDM do some of the work for you, and take away a checklist of recommendations to implement immediately to increase your awareness and efficient handling of ongoing server maintenance.

Templates are everywhere. Notes ships with them, and you can find lots more at Lotus Sandbox, OpenNTF, and other blog sites. This session gives you a fast-paced look at some of the best templates drawn from a variety of sources, including administrative and development tools, advanced business applications, and generic application frameworks. Cut down your development time by building on the good work of someone else. Whether you’re a developer, admin, or both, you’ll come away from this session ready to put these templates into action to help make you more productive, make your job easier, and impress your clients.

Upgrading your users to the new release of Notes 8 should be more than just project plans and meetings. Learn techniques for getting your users more involved in the process, tips for easing the transition into the new version, and ways to get them really excited about the upgrade. Dive into the new capabilities and enhancements, and then re-visit time-tested features that they’ll love. Expose to your users the silent install switch options to help alleviate migration headaches. Finally, learn about the possible gotchas to minimize support calls during the client upgrade, and the wide array of available training options for afterwards. Walk away with the skills you need to properly communicate and customize your installation based on your users and your existing situation.

Ever wonder what security holes you might have exposed on your servers or about the consequences of incorrectly enabling or disabling certain settings? Attend this session and uncover the 10 most common security holes and the best methods to fix them. Get proven advice on which databases, documents, and settings to evaluate to protect your company from security breaches. Learn about some default security server settings that you might currently have enabled, what exactly the negative effect of those can be, and most importantly, how to turn them off. Plus, you discover the most common processes incorrectly implemented with severely negative security results.

Establish Domino as the key directory source for your enterprise and see how Domino 8 performs as a scalable LDAP directory source. Take advantage of network and topology design tips that help to guide your decisions in architecture, management, and security. Get best practice advice on building an aggregated directory infrastructure with Directory Assistance as the referral hub. Finally, expand this new directory source to be the focal point of your IBM software authentication for systems such as Domino, Portal, Sametime, and QuickPlace, and learn how to properly configure Domino to support them securely.

Make the most of native Domino capabilities and understand the available options to create a rock-solid disaster recovery plan for your environment. Explore variables that will affect user performance in the case of a disaster and unveil practical tips on networks, topology, backups, and the impact of Lotus Extended products on your disaster recovery (DR) plan. Find out how to ensure that you have a rock-solid recovery plan and determine when it makes sense to replicate your environment to DR servers hosted in a separate building. Plus, take home key security points that you need to consider when deploying infrastructure for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Delve into the inner workings of native Domino by working through an archiving scenario from beginning to end, in demo style. You’ll come away with the knowledge to implement the right archiving method in your own organization. Discover the things nobody tells you about, like best practices for where to put data, setting up and managing archiving rules, and controlling the end-user environment. Get tips on which errors/issues to expect with specific settings, what to do if there are multiple settings documents applied, and how to troubleshoot and resolve conflicts if things aren’t working correctly. If you’re considering Domino–based archiving or are currently struggling with it, this session is a must–see as you’ll walk away with the knowledge and tools to implement the right archiving method for your company.

Can you say without hesitation that all your Access Control Lists (ACLs) conform to the company standards for security? If not, this session is for you. Get a handle on your ACLs, the lynchpins of Domino security, with best practices for configuring them. Examine methods to gain control of and propagate changes to the ACLs efficiently and effectively so that you can say with confidence that your databases are secure. Uncover powerful tools and techniques for auditing and remediating ACLs and analyzing security levels and properties. See how to utilize the database catalog (catalog.nsf) to inform you of potential security breaches. Plus, take home tools for analyzing ACLs and catalog.nsf that you can put to use right away.

What’s the first thing you do when you encounter a problem with your Notes and Domino environment? Well, don’t bother sifting through the endless documents that search engines return — come to this session to find out exactly where to look for the fix to your problem. This session provides tips, tricks, and information on free tools to help you quickly navigate Lotus and other IBM support sites. Find out what problems other admins are having so you can avoid their mistakes or even sidestep the problem altogether. You walk away with the know-how to have the answers at your fingertips when you need them most.

Take control of client crashes and use all of the tools at your disposal to weed out troublesome events. Implement fault analyzer to collect all the data you need to effectively troubleshoot by pinpointing the crash cause, analyzing the failure, and correcting the problem. Find out what the real crash rate is for troublesome clients and take advantage of tools for propagating fixes to the client. Learn to decipher NSD’s to extract what’s really important, like the crash point and process involved. You leave this session with a proactive methodology for attacking client problems that will reduce downtime and instability throughout your organization..

Explore how the hundreds of entries in this small configuration file impact the health of Notes clients and Domino servers and prepare yourself for all new Notes and Domino 8 .IN, variables. Learn to do a health check on Notes.ini settings and how best to control client settings. Get practical advice on how to deal with the unstructured placement of variables in the notes.ini and capitalize on the value of reordering and if appropriate, removing them. Find out what variables become obsolete in Notes and Domino 8, unearth hidden update and sync commands for the notes.ini and server configuration document, and pick up lots of practical undocumented notes.ini settings.

Come find out about the coolest and most popular 3^rd party tools that other administrators are using in their Notes and Domino environments. Dive into the benefits and drawbacks of each one and get the scoop on how effective each one really is, so you can decide what makes sense for your situation. See how the best of these 3rd party tools can complement and enhance your Lotus Notes and Domino environment, specifically in the areas of pervasive technologies, anti-virus, backup, client software control, SPAM, and monitoring. You walk away with a list of the leading 3^rd party tools that are right for you.

Don’t press the panic button when your server crashes! Come to this session and get step-by-step best practices on what to do next and in what sequence. Delve into the troubleshooting process, find out where to look for crash information, what you’re looking for, and how to decipher NSD’s, both manually and with the new IBM tool, to prevent future crashes. Learn how to troubleshoot quickly to get servers back up and running ASAP, and troubleshoot more thoroughly diagnose the problem in detail and fix it for good. Plus, you’ll learn to simplify your life with tips on using Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Recovery for troubleshooting servers.

Whether you’re a new Domino administrator or a seasoned veteran, this session provides the essentials for getting the most from your native Domino monitoring functionality. Discover best practices for setting up statistic collection in your enterprise, reasons why statistics should be collected centrally, and the best ways to ensure that that you have the right replica of the Monitoring Configuration database all through your domain. Determine how to set up monitoring of ACL changes to ensure that your security infrastructure won’t be modified without you knowing about it. Find out how to set up notifications to keep you and your team informed when server issues appear or when any message you’re interested in appears on the Domino console. Leave with a customized
Statrep.nsf that shows you what’s really happening in server clusters and on server platforms.

Learn to proactively take control of your server environment as this session reveals the hidden secrets and data in the Statistics Results database. Come across the stats you really need in the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF) and use Excel to analyze this data so you can tweak server settings accordingly. Take home a customized statrep template with a dozen new views to help you get to the right information on cluster replication efficiency, mail flow, agent usage, platform performance, disk performance, and even the number of concurrent users on your servers per hour. Find out how to expose, analyze, and report on any of the over 500 statistics available through “show stat” console commands. Walk away with a technique to create usage and performance charts for all your servers in less than 5 minutes.

Uncover best practices to identify, fix, and prevent common application maintenance issues related to data, design, security, and performance. Learn how to detect unused views, resolve replication conflicts, trace slow performance, and add a field-level audit trail to workflow documents. Know when someone has modified the design of an application — and what elements were changed. Walk away equipped with the skills to determine and fix the top 5 worst practices of developers, including several hidden performance killers that won’t surface until the developer is long gone. This session will help you keep your applications running smoothly and efficiently.

When it comes to Lotus Notes and Domino, it’s all about the disk. Find out why disk performance is so critical to the overall performance of your Notes client and Domino server, regardless of the local drives or SANs used. This session examines the impact of Domino on disk arrays, including buffers, transactional logging, raid configurations, data compression and statistics. Drill down into the architecture of your Notes and Domino environment and get walk away equipped with best practices for utilizing disks, as well as a list of tasks to help you monitor and tweak the performance of your server.

Jump head first into the all-new Sametime 8 Advanced Server and see not only what this new version can offer to your organization but also how to deploy and configure it. Start with a simple overview of the new capabilities, including persistent chat, a suite of broadcast tools, instant desktop sharing, and geographic locations services. Then, take it to the next level and learn more about the required hardware, software, and configurations necessary for a successful implementation. You’ll emerge from this session with a solid understanding of the Advanced Server and a deployment strategy to take back to the office.

Improve the way your organization shares everyday business content and discover a faster, more effective way to team collaboration and document management with the latest version of IBM Lotus Quickr. Get a complete overview of the product plans for Lotus Quickr in 2008 and beyond. We’ll delve into the Lotus strategy for collaborative document management and its innovative team collaboration technology. Take a glimpse of how Lotus Quickr can naturally complement and extend all your current and future Lotus investments. Walk away with the facts you need to take team collaboration to the next level in your organization.

Come get a complete overview of how Lotus Quickr can enable teams to easily share content and collaborate, inside and outside the firewall. This session demos how easy it is to customize, use, and manage Quickr to securely manage projects and content. A nice Web 2.0 UI is important, but the greatest productivity gains come from the use of the connectors that provide access to your content natively from within Lotus and Microsoft applications. Take a tour of the extensible service-based architecture and main deployment scenarios; then pick up a few best practices and get a sneak peak at the next version of Lotus Quickr.

Wrap your arms around social networking, what it is, and why you need to pay attention to it. Get a detailed overview of the differences between social and collaborative tools, general thinking in the field of social networking, and some of the opportunities and pitfalls that arise as social technologies proliferate. Understand the capabilities of Lotus Connections, and get best practices for deployment, and adoption. You’ll learn why businesses are embracing this technology to improve innovation, connect far-flung corners of their organizations, and make a new generation of professionals feel right at home.

Transform your organization’s collaboration environment to directly support agile, purpose-driven work using Activities, one of the five Web 2.0 components of Lotus Connections. Learn how to track your work with a dashboard, invite and share tasks with others, and manage all the to-dos that you and the other members of your team have on your plates. See how to capture and reuse work to amplify the transfer of people’s knowledge and experience. Follow along and view first-hand business scenarios showing how Activities can transform business work and see how Activities integrates with your existing applications.

Attend this session and learn about several options available deliver Lotus Notes applications to your mobile devices, including IBM’s Lotus Notes Traveler, an out–of–the box, mobile support system for Notes and Domino Web Access users as an administrator uncover the important things administrators need to know. Through customer testimonials, including how Traveler works, its capabilities, and critical integration points. You also get look at the mobile capabilities built-in to IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Mobile Sametime, IBM Lotus Connections, and IBM Lotus Expeditor.

Find out how with the release of Lotus Notes 8, a new era of more user-focused designs have emerged at IBM. This session reveals the design processes implemented in latest releases of Lotus Notes, Sametime, and Expeditor as well as an in-depth look at the continuing changes and design decisions that are being made. Take this unique opportunity to get a sneak peak at some of the new design ideas for upcoming features in these products and supply us with your feedback.

Get a sneak peak at the next version of Domino Designer, the primary development tool for Notes and Domino applications as it takes a leap forward with version 8.5. Attend this session and explore the new features and enhancements that will help developers build better applications for both the IBM Lotus Notes client and the web browser, including the ability to allow applications to utilize Web 2.0 techniques such as AJAX, style sheets, and RSS or ATOM feeds. Come see how Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 is transforming into an extensible and powerful tool that enables rapid application development.

Attend this moderated topic forum and find out what your colleagues are doing to keep Lotus solutions running in their organization. Get an inside look at IBM’s current positioning in the marketplace, it’s most recent enhancements in technology, and the real costs involved in deploying these solutions. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to share your own issues and challenges in dealing with management and get the expert advice you need to overcome them.

According to Gartner, IT spending for mobility will be quadruple that of other IT investments in 2008. Users are demanding access to information and applications wherever they are, but companies must develop a cost-effective, scalable, secure mobile strategy. Come share your challenges, successes and questions about mobilizing Lotus Domino applications. Learn from peers where the pitfalls are and what tips and tools can help you deliver mobile solutions that meet the needs of your organization!