This Friday - last day to save on Admin/Dev 2012

Andy Pedisich  May 2 2012 09:59:17 AM

Lots of good speakers and sessions at this year's Admin/Dev in DC.

Http://www.adminsmackdown.com

Easy to get to, and there will be experts you can interrogate.  It's like education plus free consulting.

I'll be doing a 3 hour jumpstart on Tuesday on "Best practices for successful IT project management."

The rest of the days I'll be doing:
"10 critical policies and other tweaks to boost Notes performance"
"Best practices for Domino server and application tuning"
"Making Lotus Notes sticky in the Cloud, distributed services,
 and other technology transitions"

Join us for this fun event!  Discounts are avaialble until this Friday, May 4th.

Cripes, is it May 4th already?  Time is flying this year.

-Andy

Location: Back in the office

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Purge Interval Replication Control (PIRC) prevents unwanted replication of deleted documents

Andy Pedisich  April 16 2012 01:31:22 PM

I just happened to notice this in the advanced database properties as I was setting up DAOS for a customer doing a technology refresh.



There was nothing about it in the Admin Help database, so I did a search and found this article from November of 2011.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21501675

The very first line of the technote says, "The 8.5.1 Administrator Help database that will be included with release 8.5.3 does not include this information."

It also says that PIRC settings appear in advanced database properties and replication settings only when the Domino server and Notes or Administrator client(s) run 8.5.3.  



I'll just quote from the article here. It's a pretty sweet feature.

"Purge Interval Replication Control (PIRC) is a new replication setting which is designed to prevent old documents which may have been deleted from replicating back into a database after their deletion stubs have been purged. This problem has been encountered by many customers. The most common case occurs when an old version of a NAB (Domino Directory) is brought back online after several months or years. When this occurs, previously deleted person documents, group documents, server documents, and other design elements can replicate back into the environment because the deletion stubs have already been purged. PIRC prevents these documents from replicating back into the environment."

I haven't tested this out but it looks like something that is extremely valuable, especially for the Domino Directory where things go crazy if you pullout an old one that's past the purge interval.

-Andy

Location: Office - listening to Hayden

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Admin/Dev 2012 - just finished a jumpstart

Andy Pedisich  April 15 2012 09:46:12 PM

It's almost time once again for this year's Admin Smackdown.  It's in Washinton D.C., MAY 16-18.  Come on May 15th to the jumpstart day and you'll be able to attend my session on "Best practices for successful IT project management", which I just sent in to the presentation editors at The View.

Unlike some conferences, The View has very strict guidelines for presentations.  Our work is reviewed for content and has to meet certain criteria.  For example, the presentation needs to stand up on it's own, so you can take it back to your enterprise and share it with people who may never hear me speak about it.

That's pretty heavy.  I've been speaking on technical topics since 1985, and they are the most demanding of anyone I have ever presented for.  That makes it harder for the presenters, but better for you, since you are assured of great content.

The session I just sent in is a JumpStart, which is about 3 hours long. I'll be sharing a lot of techniques that I've picked up over the many years I've been running technical projects.  There are some pieces of info that are just classic project management stuff, but also some insights into what makes turns a good project into a great project.  I'll run the gamut, starting with how to pick a project that is appropriate for your limited resources, and then making a list of projects and deciding which ones would be the best to make users happier.

I have 3 more sessions to write.

Be there or be square.

-Andy

PS:
I can do both.

Location: Home

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Another case of dropping AV software from Domino servers

Andy Pedisich  April 10 2012 11:34:27 AM

I'll leave you to decide whether this makes sense to you.

We found out recently that another Notes shop decided to completely rip out the anti-virus software running as a Domino task on their Domino servers.  This was for two reasons.  

First, to ensure that performance was at it's best.  They had just been through a seemingly random instance of performance drop offs for their mail servers and were stripping stuff out in an effort to locate where the bottleneck was.  It wasn't the Anti-Virus software though. It was actually something caused by a recent upgrade of their BES server.

Second, to help get them to that place in their minds where they wondered if they could live without the AV software on Domino, they checked whatever history they had to see if there had been any instances where the Domino AV software had actually found a virus, malware, or other malicious stuff.

Nope. It hadn't.  All the bad stuff was caught by perimeter based AV systems that checked all mail, in and out, and by the AV software on the desktop level.

At that point, it seemed odd to continue using it.  So, it's gone.

It sure makes sense to me.

-Andy

Location: Back in the office

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