Admin2009 will deliver 90 minute sessions with tips, techniques, and insights you can use on the job. 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. Don´t worry if you can´t get to all of the sessions. Some sessions will be repeated and all of them are included in the CD you receive only when you attend Admin2009. Plus, your registration lets you attend any sessions from Lotus Developer2009.

Track 1: Messaging, Collaboration, and Mobility
Track 2: Monitoring and Performance Tuning
Track 3: User and Application Management and Maintenance
Track 4: Security and Compliance
Track 5: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.x
Vendor-led Sessions

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 list for you to take home and paste on your cube wall.

They’re here, so don’t fight them. Face your Mobile Application fears head-on so you understand the impact mobile applications could have on your environment and know how to prepare for them. Gain insight into the different types of mobile applications, and their impact on users, security, network and system utilization, administrative overhead, and more. Examine specific capabilities of the Domino platform that make it an excellent choice for mobilization and dive into how important cross-platform compatibility can be for your organization. Walk away with the foundation you need to successfully accommodate mobile application growth and complexity.

Come see the latest release of the premier browser-based access solution to your Domino mail. Learn about the new features and enhancements to Lotus iNotes 8.5 that provide significant improvements for your traveling and mobile users, from a more consistent UI to administration enhancements with per user configuration flexibility, and much more. Discover the new Web 2.0 features that enable integration to IBM Lotus Quickr, external Google calendars, and Notes widgets. Get expert insight on Full, Lite and Ultralite modes for the iPhone. You’ll walk through live demos and get a sneak peak of what’s to come!

Come get a complete functional, technical, and architectural overview of Lotus Quickr. Learn how this innovative product integrates with Lotus Notes and other desktop applications to allow for a more efficient way to share content, collaborate, and work faster with your colleagues and partners. If you’re already running Quickr then come get new ideas on how to further enhance your experience. Take a sneak peek at the next version, and walk away with a solid grasp on how Lotus Quickr has been designed to meet your current and future needs.

Learn how to scale and deploy Lotus Quickr to your users, and how to fully engage your users in utilizing Lotus Quickr through connectors. Gain an understanding of the differences between the Domino and J2EE versions. Explore numerous security settings, features of the qpadmin tool, and how to control your Place Catalog. Get best practices for integration of Quickr with other extended products such as Lotus Connections, Sametime, and Lotus Notes. Move beyond the documentation and see live demos of a Quickr environment and how to make collaboration easier for you.

In the real world, in your work environment, you need Notes and Domino and Microsoft SharePoint to work together, not go head to head. Whether you’re an experienced administrator or developer, this session teaches you everything you need to know about integrating these two technologies. For the administrator, examine topics such as single sign on, user and group management, and more. Developers tackle topics like how to integrate Notes and Domino applications with SharePoint using .NET technologies with LotusScript, Web services, and much more. Plus, get a look at third-party software solutions that can provide integration out of the box. This session is recommended for people with some SharePoint experience - we will not cover the basics of the product.

Bolster your knowledge and get critical answers to the important questions you need for a successful enterprise installation/upgrade of your Sametime environment to release 8. Examine the hardware, software, and bandwidth requirements, and understand the key decision points you’ll encounter along the way. Drill down to the beginning infrastructures, get step-by-step instructions for upgrading from previous releases, and find out how to avoid gotchas and pitfalls. Discuss capabilities of the updated Sametime Connect 8.x client and walk away with a list of ports that Sametime can utilize, sample infrastructure designs, and the know-how to begin fitting Sametime into your firewall and security environment.

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, 3rd party tools, and security appliances combine to reduce the risks of Internet access to your corporate HTTP backbone.

Come experience the new social software revolution! You’ve heard about Facebook, Linked In, Delicious, and other "social software" sites; now see how you can bring these capabilities inside your firewall. Watch loads of demos of these real-world sites, see how they operate, and get a live tour of Lotus Connections — the first Web 2.0 social software for the enterprise. Observe the integration points with Notes and Domino, different features of Lotus Connections, and learn about the benefits of bringing Connections to your organization.

You’re already aware of the value Lotus Connections can bring to an enterprise, but that’s just the beginning! This session will demonstrate the additional value that Connections brings through integration with common collaboration tools such as Lotus Notes, WebSphere Portal, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Office. We’ll thoroughly explore the Activities sideshelf plugin for the Notes 8.x client and its compatibility with both browser and rich client interfaces. You’ll leave this session understanding all the integration points with the Notes client and how Connections complements your existing desktop environment.

Find out how mashup technology can help your organization to improve productivity, increase agility, and reduce IT backlog. Come get an overview of what mashups are and observe several real-world examples. Learn about IBM Mashup Center and watch a comprehensive demonstration of building a mashup, including creating a new feed from an enterprise source, transforming and remixing feeds, developing and discovering widgets, wiring widgets together, and sharing mashups. Finally, see what’s coming next from the IBM Mashup Center.

Attend this technical session to see how Lotus Foundations Branch Office 1.0 allows businesses to extend the Lotus Domino skills and data that already exist in their organization to a remote branch office that may have previously lacked IT support. Hear how to achieve Domino server administration within the branch office using existing business processes and tools. Gain insight into how Lotus Foundations Branch Office provides the essential software that allows remote branch offices to focus on running their business instead of managing their computer systems. See how businesses use Lotus Foundations Branch Office to provide secure remote access and email while extending collaboration capabilities to their employees. Come away with an understanding of how this software supports companies to set up a secure office network, connect branch offices, and protect and back up their data.

Attend this session and see how to get the best possible performance from your servers. Learn the settings that will keep idle users from wasting valuable server resources and discover the optimum way to use transaction logs for performance. Find out how to configure view indexing, one of the biggest server burdens, to minimize the performance hit for your user community. Get valuable information on load balancing clusters, off-loading agents to specialized servers, and keeping big mail files from needlessly robbing server resources. Leave with a solid set of configuration options that can make the difference between mediocre and ultimate performance to ensure you’re getting the most from your Domino environment.

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 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 time-saving 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.

Explore how the hundreds of entries in this small configuration file impact the health of Notes clients and Domino servers and prepare yourself for new Notes and Domino 8 .INI 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, 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 through the Server Configuration document, and pick up lots of practical undocumented notes.ini settings.

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 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 NSDs, 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 to 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.

Get expert advice and best practices for managing your Notes client environment to reduce support costs and time spent on troubleshooting issues. See firsthand how to do a proactive analysis of client crashes using Automatic Diagnostic Collection and Fault Analyzer. Learn how to audit your environment to collect data on everything from hardware configurations to the ODS of a user’s mail file. Once you’ve determined exactly what’s going on in your environment you can then leverage the tools you need for a consistent setup using policies and easy to deploy scripts that will give you complete control over every setting on the client.

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 clients and Domino servers, regardless of the local drives or SAN s used. This session examines the impact of Domino on disk arrays, including the effect of buffers, transactional logging, raid configurations, data compression, and statistics collection. Drill down into the architecture of your Notes and Domino environment 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.

Help your company go green! Learn how virtualization enables enterprises to consolidate underutilized servers and reduce costs while helping to increase flexibility, improve availability, and simplify disaster recovery for today’s dynamic environments. Gather best practices for deploying mission-critical applications, like Domino and Sametime, in a virtual environment. Get advice on mixing virtual and physical environments, proactive monitoring to limit help desk calls, and licensing in a virtual world. Don’t reinvent the wheel; just put into practice these proven methods for migrating from a physical to a virtual environment and what to do once you are there.

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 2009, 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, plus a full description of over 70 tips on Domino 8 configuration, clustering, HTTP, AdminP, iNotes, performance, and much, much more.

Learn how to significantly enhance server performance with Domino clustering. Get the most up-to-date information on the Domino cluster engine, from what it does and doesn’t do well to new ND8 features and methods. Uncover real-world advice that helps you spot potential problems and apply quick solutions. Gather expert recommendations on monitoring, performance statistics, and calculating Server Availability Index so you can tune your servers accordingly.

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 errors. Walk away with a list of key errors, what they mean, and how to resolve them.

Maximize the use of the Notes calendar in your domain with these little-known tips and tricks that will make your users more capable and less confused. Uncover key advice and expert tips that you may not know, and see new tricks for Lotus Notes 8.5. 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 and walk away with the know-how to manage users’ calendars more efficiently. This demo-laden session is guaranteed to show you something that will make you popular and more effective back at the office.

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 will work best for you. Understand how reservation requests, updates, cancellations, and repeating reservations work so you know where to look when problems occur and how to alleviate them. Learn to integrate with LDAP and Sametime, and discover expert troubleshooting techniques. 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. Get insider information that will increase your understanding of the resource system and busy time.

Come discover the inner workings of this powerful assistant and see how you can make it more efficient and more effective. Learn the dependencies of AdminP and use the take-home tools to ward off problems. Gather best practices for efficient replication, processing large numbers of changes, using the new features in Notes 8, and reducing the load on your servers while increasing the use of AdminP. You’ll discover how to fine tune AdminP for big projects and make the database smaller at the same time! You can put these fine tuning tips to the test as soon as you get back to the office.

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 HTTP agents and find out how to troubleshoot Web agents. Leave with a list of tips for code execution on server consoles.

Bolster your skills and save time and effort by leveraging these key development tips for administrators. Don’t wait for a developer to write a simple tool, view, or agent that you need; instead, write your own utility by applying basic coding techniques that automate the tasks of updating documents, finding issues, or fixing values in the directory. Walk through views that automatically find locked documents and unlock them; quickly change mail types; discover improperly formatted server name fields; plus much more. Get tips that will help you avoid headaches when no developers are in the office and even impress your boss with your findings and solutions.

You’ve heard the buzz about Web 2.0, so come to this session to sort it all out. Get a concrete handle on the capabilities of Web 2.0 and exactly how Notes and Domino fit into the mix. Get a thorough understanding of what Web 2.0 looks like and how you can get your organization involved. Understand how the IBM brands have responded with new products, new campaigns, and new initiatives. Come learn new details on the Social Media Center and the “Web 2.0 Goes to Work” project. See demos of Domino playing Web 2.0 tricks and learn how you can integrate these techniques and technologies into your own Notes and Domino applications.

Uncover, and then eliminate, the most common security exposures found during real-world security audits. Learn why directory access can be most dangerous of all, why functional accounts like “Notes Admin” should never have real privileges, and why “training accounts” present a big fat back door. Find out which databases have default of manager access (LOT S!), and why and how to use Internet Password Lockout. Understand what to look for when you inherit a domain so you can avoid dangerously sloppy security like wide-open unmonitored implementations of full access administrator, allowing anyone to run unrestricted agents, and not using the CA process, thereby putting critical certifier IDs into the hands of long gone administrators. Avoid becoming complacent about security with tips and tricks that will be sure to surprise even the most seasoned administrators.

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.

You didn’t create the Notes domain you’re now in charge of so how do you make sure everything is secure and configured correctly? This session steps you through a practical review of your inherited domain and delves into exactly which settings should stay and which should be trashed. Find out how to remove former administrators from the system safely without stopping automated processes from running. Learn how to implement backout systems so you can reverse course if problems occur. See how implementing essential built-in Notes functionality like the Certificate Authority can reduce risk of certificate compromise when current administrators leave the domain. You benefit from real-world domain auditing experience that will help you lower your overall risk and increase the security and stability of your production environment.

Overcome the big Notes admin pain-points of forgotten user passwords and id file mis-management by using the ND8 Domino ID Vault. Leverage the biggest id management breakthrough Notes has ever seen to significantly reduce support calls and save time. Learn how to manage common gotchas that were once difficult to avoid like easily resetting passwords without compromising security. In this session you walk through the step-by-step process of configuring the Domino ID Vault from beginning to end and come away with the best practices for implementation.

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, and the new sidebar and feed reader. Learn how to take advantage of new functionality that automatically synchronizes contacts with Domino Web Access and 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.

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 AE S 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.

Find out why Domino 8.5’s DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) is the most exciting new feature to come down the pike in a long time. See how DAOS can de-duplicate your document attachments to yield dramatic savings in disk utilization. Get a comprehensive look at the architecture and configuration of DAOS, its file structure, and what the optimal disk configuration is for attachment storage. Learn how to minimize risk associated with shared objects and find out how the new architecture is designed to be resilient and easy to manage, all while significantly reducing disk costs.

Streamline the upgrade process by learning how to script and package your upgrades, whether they’re just point releases or the latest full release. Explore a variety of tools, including scripting tools like VBScript and AutoIT, as well as packaging tools like InstallShield tuner and Microsoft Installer. Find out how your upgrades can automatically clean up the INI defaults for your Eclipse plug-ins, compact mail files, manipulate your Notes system files, and much more. Don’t just run setup.exe and hope for the best, attend this session and get equipped with everything you need to know to script the perfect upgrade.

Find out how to develop a simple, repeatable, reliable method for deploying new releases and delivering that client to workstations. Avoid the fatal flaw of delaying deployment of new releases to users (whether a simple point or full release). Get expert guidance on using the native SmartUpgrade tool as well as other software distribution tools, such as SMS. Learn how to make the process transparent to your users, and how to implement a variety of methods for efficiently scheduling and communicating with users. Walk away with the tools and knowledge you need to ensure a smooth upgrade.

Get key advice from a member of the 8.5 Upgrade team who shares his best practices gained from upgrading both Lotus’ internal 8.5 deployment and the extended 8.5 beta program within IBM Global Services. Learn how to take advantage of features, such as the Domino ID Vault and extended Roaming User, by utilizing other features like Auto-Populated Groups and Dynamic Policies. Equip yourself with I/O savings steps highlighted by Document Data Compression and utilization of the new 8.5 Document Attachment and Object Service (DAOS). Find out how to avoid common pitfalls before it’s too late. Take away a checklist of steps and real-world recommendations to ensure a smooth and successful upgrade.

Overcome the big Notes admin pain-points of forgotten user passwords and ID file mis-management by using the ND8 Domino ID Vault. Leverage the biggest ID management breakthrough Notes has ever seen to significantly reduce support calls and save time. Learn how to manage common gotchas that were once difficult to avoid, like easily resetting passwords without compromising security. In this session you walk through the step-by-step process of configuring the Domino ID Vault from beginning to end and come away with the best practices for implementation.

Dive into the features and plug-ins that Notes 8 offers through the Eclipse Update Manager. Utilize this new Domino-based tool for secure, logged client updates that you can easily distribute 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 NR PC 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.

Don’t let your Domino server fleet flounder while it rides the waves of operational load. Steer clear of bad design choices and dangerous practices that cause disruption to response times and throughput levels, and identify top offenders that threaten server performance and stability. Explore how the Domino Configuration Tuner automatically leverages a growing catalog of heuristics so that you benefit from accumulated administrative best practices. Walk through examples of configuration changes that can improve server behavior. Learn why certain problems cannot be solved by simply upgrading your server. Protect your armada, attend this regatta!

Come get the information you need to justify your upgrade to Notes/Domino 8.0.2 or 8.5. Compare and contrast the capabilities offered in 8.0.2 and 8.5 and learn how certain enhancements combine to make you more productive, such as federated calendar, offline activities, and other features that can reduce reading time and increase comprehension. Gather data on the value of moving to Notes 8.x in measurable terms and on how your move can save administrators and end users not only time but money as well. Compare Notes and the associated Domino administration on a release-by-release basis so you can easily choose which release to deploy in your environment.