We CAN Move From SharePoint to IBM!

So I have not posted for a while, and for good reason.  I have been working almost exclusively with the same customer since November on a really cool project and it is finally reaching a point that I can talk about it… a bit.  We (Ascendant) partnered with IBM and T-Systems to bring to fruition a working content migration utility that can take content FROM SharePoint and populate it into Connections / Quickr / WCM.  (Yes… any or all of the three mentioned have a native connector for the utility from T-Systems now thanks to our project.)  Beyond just grabbing the content, transforming it, and then pushing it into the correct content area, we are able to maintain content ownership and impersonate other users at migration time without impacting those users.  This is truly a first of it’s kind solution to the best of my knowledge.  Hats off to the whole team we have been working with.  I know I am excited to be part of this, as I am sure most of the other team members are as well.  This brings real choice to the market as people now have the availability to move their content between platforms.

Thank You everyone that made this possible!

Sametime Applets to Expire

Sametime Meeting applets certificate expires March 19; updated applets available
The Sametime Meeting Server applets are signed with a certificate that expires on 19 March 2012.  If you administer a Sametime 8.0 server or a Sametime 8.5.0 environment that uses the Classic Meeting server, you should download and apply updated Sametime applets to prevent your users from seeing a warning about the expired certificate.  For more details and links to the updated applets, refer to "Sametime applets signer certificate expires on 19 March 2012" (#1580492)

QuickrD Bug

A while back, I was made aware of an issue where the Notes client will increase the size of fonts in emails when sent back and forth multiple times.  This link points to the problem description:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21201323

The work around is to add a few variables to your servers notes.ini to address this.  So what does this have to do with Quickr?

I was recently discussing a Quickr 8.x > 8.5.1 upgrade when this was encountered.  If you have implemented the work around as listed in the above technote, it will break the Quickr login page.  The rendered HTML will be malformed, and you will not be able to use the Quickr login page which allows for non-directory members logging into the server / places.

Took a bit of figuring and a PMR, and I suspect this is a rare combination of circumstances, but if this can help anyone else, here it is.

Messaging and Collab SlideShare

http://www.slideshare.net/mediamutt/ibm-messaging-and-collaboration-details-and-whats-new-in-v853

Came across this on Twitter today and figured some of you may not have seen it so thought I would put it here where it was a bit more permanent.  Good stuff!