Last weekend I undertook a Migration from one Office 365 tenant to another – manually. Whilst we normally work in the enterprise space migrating thousands of users, this was a special case project undertaken deliberately as a manual process end to end. It wasn’t without issue and hiccups, made more worrying because it was for […]
Marking email as Private
Tagging a message as private (this doesn’t prevent sharing or printing) If you just want to let people know that you’d like them to treat your email as private, you can tag it as such. This doesn’t stop them from forwarding or printing your message. Instead, it includes “Please treat this as Private” at the […]
Deleting an Outlook Profile
We’ve all been there. The time comes when we resort to deleting the Outlook Profile and simply start again. For IT Professionals this is pretty straight forward and we understand the implications of doing so – and the inevitable new OST download. If you are a big user of email, this could be a pretty […]
Outlook “Quick Wins”
Often in the world of Notes to Exchange migrations we run into resistance at all levels at the organisation, but never more so than the incumbent Messaging Admins themselves. The best way around this is sell this as a new skill to learn at the opportunity to become dual skilled at two Messaging Platforms. If […]
Configuring IBM Lotus Domino Server for SNMP
At a recent client engagement, we were asked to configure Domino for SNMP monitoring and alerting – Simple Network Management Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol Now, whilst there are some enterprise tools available for Domino Monitoring like GSX http://www.gsx.com/ and Microsoft SCOM Management packs http://www.nice.de/ibm-domino-management-pack sometimes a free tool will give you enough of what you need. This […]
Just How Private are Lotus Notes Private Items?
Lotus Notes Private Items, Read Receipts and Encryption Following on from my colleague Twan’s brilliant blog on Private Items in Outlook / Exchange, (see here -> https://neroblanco.co.uk/2015/08/how-private-are-private-items-in-exchange/ ) we thought we would put together a similar one on Lotus Notes. My colleague Neil Langston already touched on parts of this with his equally brilliant Blog on detecting […]
The Shared Mailbox Dilemma
The Shared Mailbox Dilemma Microsoft Teams (and Office 365 Groups) whilst having gained serious traction, and by serious – Teams has become Microsoft’s fastest growing App in their history. Shared Mailboxes still have a place in our heart and in the organisation for now, but inevitably they will perhaps fade away, maybe even email will […]
Exchange Global Address List and the Outlook Offline Address Book
Introduction This document seeks to address and clarify the small misunderstanding surrounding the GAL (Global Address List) and the OAB (Offline Address Book). Quite often all Administrators, even Exchange Administrators simply refer to the users they see in the Address section of Outlook casually as the GAL for ease of reference, but really more […]
Domino Routing Rules – Binary Tree Coexistence Solutions
Exchange to Domino Routing Rules specifically relating to Binary Tree Coexistence Solutions Introduction This document seeks to identify the potential pitfalls of Inbound SMTP routing to Domino in a Coexistence environment, particularly when using a static targetAddress that is built by a Directory Synchronisation solution. Routing from Exchange/Office 365 to Domino In a Binary Tree […]
Migrate from Lotus Notes
It’s a stampede… In my humble opinion I believe that IBM could have saved themselves from the juggernaut of Notes to Exchange Migrations. More accurately stated, it is in fact “Domino to Exchange” and “Notes to Outlook” migrations. Why is that relevant? The fact of the matter is that user’s actually don’t care about mail […]
Permissons and Delegations – Lotus Notes vs Outlook
Lotus Notes ACL & Delegation versus Outlook Permissions & Delegation – Part 1 By Conrad Murray Introduction Delegate Access is most commonly used between a manager and assistant, where the assistant (delegate) is responsible for processing the manager’s incoming meeting requests or email messages and coordinating the manager’s schedule. Delegate Access can be used […]
Avoiding and converting winmail.dat Files
Avoiding winmail.dat files in Domino It’s happened to most Notes users at one time or another: someone who uses Outlook sends you an e-mail, and instead of getting a nicely formatted message with an attachment, you end up with some plain text and a big file at the end called either “Winmail.dat” or “ATT0001.dat” […]
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