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Episode 55, recorded on Thursday 9th June 2011, discussing the new IBM Sametime 8.5.2, Domino Express licensing, Quickr connectors and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Gabriella Davis (blog | twitter | email | company) is Technical Director of The Turtle Partnership, an IBM Lotus Advanced Busines Partner. Originally a ccMail Administrator, Gabriella has been working with Lotus Collaboration software since 1993 and today works extensively with the WAS-based Lotus products including Connections. Sametime and Quickr. In addition, she and her company act as primary Domino Administrator for customers worldwide covering more than 400 servers, 30,000 users, and 60 domains. When she can, she lives in London in a house stocked with 5000+ books, 14 ip addresses and 1 neglected television.
Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company ) is a Director at ISW, a focused IBM Premier Partner in Australia that operates across the full IBM Software Portfolio including Lotus, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, IM, and Business Analytics (Cognos). Adam is the Technical Director for the company and is responsible for helping our clients understand where IBM solutions can help them meet their business objectives. Specifically Adam is personally focused around Connections/Portal/Forms/Notes/Domino/TDI/TIM/TAM/Cognos.
Topics
Sametime 8.5.2
* Shipped last week, a whole week early
* What’s new?
* Audio and video through the firewall
* Audio and video in a browser too
* Mute your mic in a meeting! (switches camera to the person speaking)
* Control how much bandwidth is taken up by audio and video
* How is the upgrade from 8.5.0 or 8.5.1?
* Can upgrade from 8.5.1 but Gab’s advice would be to build a new environment
* In 8.5.1 you needed a deployment manager for each server, now have just one for all servers.
* What issues does it solve?
* NAT traversal
* Multiple deployment managers
* What’s the experience been like so far?
* Gab has done 4.5 upgrades so far, have worked really well
* How many boxes are needed now?
* Can get all servers on one 4way-4GB box now (for pilot purposes)
* Has Sametime Advanced been updated?
* Yes, same four features as previously
* Can connect a Sametime persistant chatroom to a Connections community
* Now runs on WAS 7
* Expecting Advanced to be more popular now
* How about Sametime Gateway?
* Now runs on WAS 7 and connects to the System Console
* Dropped the Lotus name, now IBM Sametime
The state of ‘Lotus’ in Australia
* Some high profile customers migrating from IBM in Aus lately.
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Episode 55, recorded on Thursday 9th June 2011, discussing the new IBM Sametime 8.5.2, Domino Express licensing, Quickr connectors and more…
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Gabriella Davis (blog | twitter | email | company) is Technical Director of The Turtle Partnership, an IBM Lotus Advanced Busines Partner. Originally a ccMail Administrator, Gabriella has been working with Lotus Collaboration software since 1993 and today works extensively with the WAS-based Lotus products including Connections. Sametime and Quickr. In addition, she and her company act as primary Domino Administrator for customers worldwide covering more than 400 servers, 30,000 users, and 60 domains. When she can, she lives in London in a house stocked with 5000+ books, 14 ip addresses and 1 neglected television.
Adam Brown (blog | twitter | company ) is a Director at ISW, a focused IBM Premier Partner in Australia that operates across the full IBM Software Portfolio including Lotus, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, IM, and Business Analytics (Cognos). Adam is the Technical Director for the company and is responsible for helping our clients understand where IBM solutions can help them meet their business objectives. Specifically Adam is personally focused around Connections/Portal/Forms/Notes/Domino/TDI/TIM/TAM/Cognos.
Topics
Sametime 8.5.2
* Shipped last week, a whole week early
* What’s new?
* Audio and video through the firewall
* Audio and video in a browser too
* Mute your mic in a meeting! (switches camera to the person speaking)
* Control how much bandwidth is taken up by audio and video
* How is the upgrade from 8.5.0 or 8.5.1?
* Can upgrade from 8.5.1 but Gab’s advice would be to build a new environment
* In 8.5.1 you needed a deployment manager for each server, now have just one for all servers.
* What issues does it solve?
* NAT traversal
* Multiple deployment managers
* What’s the experience been like so far?
* Gab has done 4.5 upgrades so far, have worked really well
* How many boxes are needed now?
* Can get all servers on one 4way-4GB box now (for pilot purposes)
* Has Sametime Advanced been updated?
* Yes, same four features as previously
* Can connect a Sametime persistant chatroom to a Connections community
* Now runs on WAS 7
* Expecting Advanced to be more popular now
* How about Sametime Gateway?
* Now runs on WAS 7 and connects to the System Console
* Dropped the Lotus name, now IBM Sametime
The state of ‘Lotus’ in Australia
* Some high profile customers migrating from IBM in Aus lately.