LCTY

That was a busy few days.
Quite a few of my colleagues were involved in presenting and hosting the LCTY events in Wembley and Manchester.

I think the Manchester event was the better one. It was more suited to meeting up with people, rather than Wembley which was a little too large.

Personally - in Manchester I was able to dump the pre-prepared demo's and go with the live demos across the intermittent hotel wireless network. It was fun.

WeFi

WeFi appears to be a really cool way of finding other people on WiFi networks around the country.

I'm not sure if it's simply American focused - however - is it just an updated version of plazes?

Quickr and Sametime together

Here's a pdf from Developerworks explaining a few of the intricacies.

ST + Quickr Integration

Quickr and qptool

After installing Quickr 8.0.0.2 and the fixpack - I ran these commands.
You could too, just make sure you're happy with what they do!

Unlock all the places:
load qptool unlock –a

Upgrade all the databases on the server:
load qptool upgrade -f –server

Upgrade all the places and Placetypes:
load qptool upgrade -f –a

Unregister and re-register all the places with the Place Catalog:
load qptool unregister -a -placecatalog
load qptool register -a -placecatalog

Adding plugins in Notes 8.0.1

I wanted to add the "Quickr plugin" for the Symphony document editors to my notes client after completing a new installation of 8.0.1.

The install instructions are a little sketchy but are included in the comments at that link.
One issue I had was the option "File - Application - Install" was missing from my Notes menu options.

The work around, as provided by developerworks, is to edit the plugin_customization.ini in the /framework/rcp directory.

Add this line to the /framework/rcp/plugin_customization.ini file:


com.ibm.notes.branding/enable.update.ui=true

After you restart the Notes client, you see a new menu option: File - Application - Install.

Obvious really.

Sametime VOIP

I was working with certified genius (and ex-lotus support analyst) Andy Dennis on a problem where a Sametime customer wanted to use VOIP via Sametime.

Inside the corporate firewall this was no problem, however outside the firewall VOIP would not work.

To enable VOIP outside the firewall it was necessary to move the "ST Reflector" service off the Sametime server and onto a separate server (nothing too powerful - a glorified workstation would likely do).

The installation of the ST Reflector is covered in the Sametime Infocenter here in the doc "Using the audio STReflector".

The ST Reflector service on this box gave an error -2147483108 every time it was started - which means the reflector service does not have sufficient privileges to contact the Sametime server.

Working with Andy, we were able to get around this issue.

The instructions had stated that the VPS_HOST parameter was needed in the Sametime.ini on the ST Reflector server, however the -2147483108 error was received every time. The problem was that the parameter had to be placed within the "connectivity" section of the ini file - as shown below...

[CONNECTIVITY]
VPS_HOST=server.com

Once this was done the service started properly.

Intermittently we began receiving error -2147483129 when starting the ST Reflector task. This was due to starting the task before the Sametime services were up and running properly after a server restart - just go make a cup of coffee for a few minutes and try again.

In addition to the above info you need to allow the Sametime server to accept connections from the ST Reflector. Add this to the sametime.ini on the Sametime server...

[Config]
VPS_TRUSTED_IPS=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx being the ST reflector servers IP address.

When doing this in a test environment you could use the following ini parameter on the Sametime server to allow any ST Reflector server to connect from any IP address - but you would not do this in production of course...

[Debug]
VPS_BYPASS_TRUSTED_IPS=1

Big Waves

I was watching the documentary "Riding Giants",and it reminded me of the old National Geographic advert that was shown in the cinemas a few years back.

I managed to track it down



Watch it full screen as it is simply gorgeous

The surfer is Laird Hamilton