[Webinar] IBM Mail Next and Notes Domino Roadmap – YouTube

[Webinar] IBM Mail Next and Notes Domino Roadmap – YouTube:
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I have listened to Kramer Reeves in the UK and was very underwhelmed. He has great ideas but how that fits into Lotus Notes is dubious. It seems the strategy is to deploy every single IBM product behind the scenes to deliver IBM Lotus Mail Next. The only way to deliver this beast is via the IBM cloud. The message is move to IBM SmartCloud or leave. Prepare to be assimilated!

The mail server Kramer is now talking about is called the “Smartcloud Notes Service”. The real Notes Client and Domino server is as dead as a dodo even though it still has amazing features but in the same sentence, annoyances and uniqueness that gives new meaning to the word frustration.

I am sorry, I feel strongly about this. IBM has killed thousands of jobs and companies with the way they managed Lotus Notes. They could have been in the forefront of IoT.

Being a big fish in a small pond is was great but when the pond loses lost water…

OMG, I am listening to this now. All I hear is Apple this, Apple that, blah blah blah, “delight our customers” (SIC).

Lotus Notes is now an “anchor” (weighing things down?) in the portfolio. Protect their investment – Huh? Bring your own client strategy? BYOC?

Yahallhavetoldus…

Mail Next – 2 points – evolve, enjoy working, make it elegant. “Delightful experience” (SIC) – Seriously! Point 2 – The system should work for me?

Job done. Everyone relax, IBM has fixed the world. email is the next big thing. Huh, I thought email was dead?

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Gartner names Microsoft a leader in social software in the workplace

Gartner names Microsoft a leader in social software in the workplace:

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Karl Tyler shared this on Facebook with this comment:- “It’s official, IBM will now start using a different buzz phrase to “Social Software” as Microsoft now appears above them in the Gartner magic quadrant.”

I have never seen a phrase that more accurately describe IBM marketing than this. IBM will always claim to adhere to standards but it will be standards that suits themselves and not the industry.  If they are not in a magic quadrant they will simply invent a “phrase” for a rehashed technology that will put them on a new slide. Well said Karl. However, that does not mean that Microsoft is any better.

Gartner is a technology research firm and one of their evaluation techniques are “Magic Quadrants.” In a study evaluating Enterprise Social Software, they named Microsoft as a ‘Leader.’ You can see their quadrant for this study below.

Microsoft, as a leader has shown the vision and execution in social enterprise software. The social software market for enterprise is defined by Gartner to focus on “virtual environments that engage participants across a while organization in creating organizing sharing information, as well as encourage them to find, connect and interact with each other.”

Gartner favors Microsoft because of their integration of components of Office 365 and easy access to features of Exchange, SharePoint, Yammer, and Lync. Microsoft has also shown off a road map for products such as Office 365 which show deeper integration and enhancements. Lastly, viability – the interest and adoption of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, is very high.

Some cautions Gartner has about Microsoft is the change in architecture, which involve unanticipated migrations; a faster pace of innovation than some customers find easy to keep up with; and lastly, a complexity of product bundles that create confusion in choice.

Other leaders in the quadrant include IBM, Jive, Salesforce, and Tibco Software. However, Microsoft is no doubt pleased that they are the most upper-right in the quadrant. You can read the full study here.

This study shows how strong Microsoft remains in the enterprise market, and the potential for even more growth. Do you use Microsoft solutions in enterprise? How do you feel about the collaborative functionalities? 

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Sean Cull – SNTT : Using Active Directory to authenticate web users

Sean Cull – SNTT : Using Active Directory to authenticate web users:

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It took me ages to find this on Sean’s old blog so just saving it in case. Thanks for the good writeup Sean.

Sean Cull  10 March 2011 21:24:59

Introduction

This article describes how you can use Active Directory via LDAP and Directory Assistance to authenticate your web users. This is particularly useful in our case where we have an XPages based application running in on a black boxed  appliance in a MS shop. 
The example uses a Windows Server 2008 R2 for AD and Domino 8.5.2 running on Linux. The scheme is simple enough but I struggled to piece the bits together so I thought a write up would be useful. 

Useful tools

I found that the Apache Directory Studio was really useful. This allows you to explore the Active Directory LDAP feed and get a feel for its structure. 

Useful debugging parameters

I found the following two parameters very useful because you can see the structures of the names and groups in AD as they are queried by Domino – these settings are for temporary use only as they create overhead and also show users passwords on the console in plain text ( somewhat disconcerting ) 

Webauth_verbose_trace=1 
LDAPDEBUG=1 

Setting up an AD test environment

This was very straight froward. I installed a 2008 R2 server as a VM and used the Server Roles Manager wizard to install Active Directory accepting the defaults and dependencies. 
I then created a new user ( joe bloggs ) and used that account to authenticate the LDAP feed.

Exploring the LDAP Feed with Apache Directory Studio

Use File New and then choose LDAP Connection 







Press the check Authentication button and all should be well 

Next you can browse the LDAP tree and see information on the users and groups 


The equivalent “Notes name” as used in an ACL would be 

CN=joe bloggs/CN=Users/DC=ad/DC=focul/DC=net 

Configuring Domino to use the Active Directory LDAP

You need to create a Directory Assistance Database and then list this in the server record 
The directory assistance template is an advanced template called called Directory Assistance ( da.ntf ) 

The server document entry looks like this 



In the Directory Assistance Database create a record as follows. 

Note that Gabriella Davis and Marie Scott  on page 20 of their very useful presentationOne DirectoryTo Rule Them All, Yes suggests encrypting the LDAP configuration document – not sure how to do that just yet. 






Note that the suggest and verify buttons are very useful, particularly for the Base DN for search 

Testing Authentication

Start with the most basic example you can. 
With a test database set anaonymous access to No Access and Default Access to reader or higher. 

Open the URL and attempt to login – in my case as Joe Bloggs. In the console you will see something similar to this : 


Your authentication is working. 

You can now test it with a specific name. You can see the shape of the name from the console output 

The AD name CN=joe bloggs,CN=Users,DC=ad,DC=focul,DC=net gets mapped to CN=joe bloggs/CN=Users/DC=ad/DC=focul/DC=net for use in the ACL 
Groups also work but note that if you put a group into the AD as a peer of “Users” the group name construct includes “Builtin” as in CN=testgroup/CN=Builtin/DC=ad/DC=focul/DC=net so it is better to put the groups within the users branch. 



In our case the group name is CN=testgroup4/CN=Users/DC=ad/DC=focul/DC=net 

Further Integration

This OpenNTF  Active directory name picker project and search by Rishi Sahi looks really interesting. He also has some good blog articles on LDAP integration 

Other useful presentations

As mentioned above I found Gabriella Davis and Marie Scott’s presentation very useful – One DirectoryTo Rule Them All, Yes 

I also attended Warren Elsmore’s Directory Integration session at ILUG which was very useful. You can download all of the ILUG slides here => http://www.ilug2010.org/ilug/ilug2010.nsf. 

A mild rant

In pulling this material together I have come to the conclusion that it is a real shame that IBM has not published the slide decks from lotussphere 2011. 

It would make it a lot easier for developers to make the IBM products more popular if IBM asan organisation was a good citizen of the community in that respect. 

I have huge admiration for many individuals within  IBM that do their best despite IBM in this regard. I also think it is unfair to expect the community to contribute to the IBM Wikis when they are sitting on hundreds of excellent presentations by the world experts in this area – experts who gave up thousands of hours to prepare those slide decks. 

Its hardly what I would describe as a good example of a Social Business. 

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1Marie Scott  10.03.2011 23:59:30  Directory Assistance Database

Sean – to encrypt the Directory Assistance Database you would go to Database properties and select Encryption Settings to locally encrypt the database, so that anyone who may be able to physically access a copy of the database would not be able to review the LDAP password credentials. Additionally, you should enable SSL for the connection to Active Directory. But it does mean that you have to have a secure LDAP port open on the AD side.

2Sean Cull  11.03.2011 0:13:20  Thanks Marie

Thanks Marie, I thought it was encryption of just that document. Encrypting the whole database makes sense.

Thanks for the help, Sean

3Alberto  12.03.2011 8:22:19  Other scenarios

Two more scenarios I’ve tested. They are relevant when you share the same users in domino and AD.

1- Try Tivoli Directory Integrator to synchronize users. There are couple of good papers about that.

2- Try Websphere plugging in IIS for Web Single Logon. Tip: You’ll need to duplicate names in Domino to establish the DN equivalence

4Sean Cull  12.03.2011 8:29:46  Thanks alberto

Thnaks Alberto – you are correct.

I looked at these but quickly discounted them because in this use case the potential customer needs something very simple as they will have no Domino skills at all. TDI is reported to have a steep learning curve and using IIS is complex to set up.

I was quite pleased to find that the LDAP / DA method above was so straight forward once you understood the nomenclature of the names and groups.

5Nick Wall  12.09.2013 10:55:41  LDAP

Just done proof of concept integration of AD on one of our Test servers, works great. Thanks for reference to Apache Directory Studio, nice tool. If anyone is following install instructions here: directory.apache.org/studio/users-guide/ldap_browser/gettingstarted_download_install.html …and you are as slow on the uptake as me(!)…the bit where adding new remote site, it has the url: directory.apache.org/studio/update/1.x which obviously doesn’t exist, so you will get a 404, go here: { Link } click link on one of the versions, e.g. { Link } and use that as url for remote site.

Thanks again for “rounding up” this LDAP info, saved me a bunch of time.

Lialis Notes to SharePoint migration – part 2

Lialis Notes to SharePoint migration – part 2:

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Notes to SharePoint: Migrating applications away from Notes – part 2

Notes to SharePoint migration part 2, including: Comparison Notes / SharePoint, tools we use and the people we have.

 

6 months ago I wrote the first blog about this project I am working on, moving Notes and Domino applications to SharePoint (SP). We are now (August 2014) developing the SP applications, so I thought it’s a good moment to write down how this project is going. The client started with approximately 200 Notes applications identified, at the end many where archived, many are planned to be moved to SAP and 60 Notes applications will move to SP. Don’t be mislead by the number, some applications are build up by multiple Notes databases.

Let me first start with what I think of SP these days, compared what Domino can do for clients. Please, this is not a complete comparison of the two products.

• SP has some great features. It has many out of the box functionality, compared with a Domino server on application level has none besides a few useless Notes database templates.

• The SP user interface (browser) is great, when a new app is deployed in SP users will find the link somewhere in SP when they log in. Compared with the Notes client, the Notes database links have always been a nightmare, users have to manage the workspace them self. I understand now that IBM tried to get rid of the Notes client desktop and replaced it with the bookmark bar which was so bad people were forced to find the hidden workspace again.

• All SP apps will look the same because of the style sheet used in the browser, I find this great and it will increase the professional look of the app environment, compared with Notes apps, they all look different and most Notes apps I have seen look from design UI point of view very bad, simply because Notes developers are no UI developers. This is where SP does a good job as well, the things you can do from designing an app are streamlined and bordered by SP. What I mean is that all views look the same, all forms look the same – when you stay in the out of the box area SP will help you in making many apps that have a consistent UI, so you users will understand them more quickly because they look and work the same.

• You know I have been doing Domino for many years, I know this product very well. There must be a area where it’s better as SP. No worries, there is. But will this be a reason for clients to choose Domino in favor of SP, I don’t think so. Domino is better is developing complex Notes and Web applications (with help of xpages). In SP when you want to do complex stuff you are forced to step out of the save out of the box area. Sure you can still do complex stuff in SP, but the development time will become huge because SP is not meant  for building complex applications. On the Domino server you can build anything, it supports the very powerful formula language, lotus script, java script and you can even run java servlets on Domino. With xpages great Web and Notes client apps can be build. It’s nice to have the mail server on the same system as well and Domino is very secure. But why do so many clients choose SP instead of Domino? Simply because they don’t need to build many complex custom applications. When I look at this 8000 users client I am currently migrating away from Notes to SP there is only 1 Notes application that is so complex we have no clue how to build it in SP. Only 1 Notes app!!!! This is not a reason to keep Notes running compared with all the other great features SP offers. I guess the client will try to buy something of the shelf to replace this xpages application finally. Writing this I realize that these days clients can buy so many applications on the internet there is no need to maintain Domino and the developers to build complex apps.

Anyway, how is the migration project going, 6 months after the start? I have to say it’s going great. We are now actually building SP apps to replace the Notes apps. We started with the simple ones and move up to the more complex ones next year. The development time we calculated is huge, so I will have something to do in 2015.

There a 3 items in this project I have found to become very import and are a must have to make projects like this a success. I will share these with you so you can benefit from it.

• Dell Quest NMSP. We use this product to migrate Notes apps to SP. First NMSP makes an inventory of the Notes apps you have. I use this to see which forms are used in the Notes apps I must migrate to SP. The not used forms I omit. Then NMSP creates the SP lists, it moves all the Notes app ACL, author, readers fields and other security stuff to the SP list, then it creates the columns in SP (= the Notes fields) and finally it will migrate the Notes content to SP and it will try to match all the Notes names it finds with AD user names. At this moment each app we migrate starts with creating a NMSP job. When the jobs are finalized a big deal of the Notes application is present in SP. Then the final SP design work must be done.

• This leads me to the roles of the people you need. In our project the Notes developer does the NMSP part. This is logical because he understands the Notes apps, The Quest NMSP tool has many features, so if you find a Notes consultant who understands NMSP very well you are lucky, else he/she had to learn to use the tool which will take a few months on the job learning. On Youtube you will find 7 NMSP training sessions which are great. Back to the people in this project. Off course you need a SP developer as well. In my project I do the NMSP stuff because I am the Notes guy. I create the jobs in NMSP and I do some easy development work in SP. Then I tell the SP developer what functions we need in the new SP app. I can do this because I understand how the Notes app works. When all the SP stuff has been build I do the final tests and when the application is 100% it is moved to the client for user acceptance test and then to production. In our project the Notes guy is critical because he does the NMSP work, he instructs the SP development team had he is responsible for testing the end result. Off course the SP consultant has to do a proper job as well.

• Dell Quest NMSP can migrate the Notes form design to infopath, but infopath is crap so we replaced it with a tool we found on the market spform.com. It’s a Russian tool, it’s cheap and we love it. It has made our live much easier because it speeds up form design work, it can do tabbed tables (which we find a lot on Notes forms), it can make fields not editable when other fields can be edited, it’s a drag and drop tool in the browser and no need to waste time on making pixel perfect forms (it does this for you). In this project we have to migrate 170 forms to SP, so at his moment my company Lialis is building a tool that can convert Notes forms to spform.com forms, this will save a lot of time because the Notes tables on the form will be migrated to spform.com and all the Notes fields will be at the right spot in spform.com tool.

I think in the next blog I will focus more on how the organization succeeds or struggles to implement all the SP apps we develop.

If you need help with migrations like this feel free to contact me at marten@lialis.com