Rock has posted an interesting thread on suggesting best practices sessions for LS05. This is an opportunity to use what you know from the trenches to identify what the customers want to learn or at least what they are interested in. Read and suggest!

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To keep with the "standard" in Blogland, I added in a brief listing of my professional career to date on the "About me" link to the right. For those that are interested (or really, really bored......).

I decided to keep any personal stuff out of the link, as I doubt it is of interest to anyone. Truth be told, I began to write up some personal details and even I got bored!

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Take a look at Declan's refurbished web site.  Nice

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First come, first served……

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Amid the numerous questions and forum entries on "what is the best AV software for Lotus Domino", and the numerous opinions from the technical resources around the globe, I have come to the conclusion that almost all of them are good.  Its amazing when talking to people, which products they recommend, and why.  I for one, like all of them and see advantages and disadvantages to each product, with one exception.  I will not mention the product directly but there is one AV product for Domino that shines as a masterpiece in inefficiency and bad design.

From my experience, the main players in the market are recommended by various professionals with different reasons.  I know that Dec likes Antigen; many customers of mine love Sophos.  I like Trend (so does many ex-Symantec buddies of mine) and some other friends of mine insist on SAV.  With the technical expertise blogging out there, I thought I would ask the audience.  What is your fav AV tool for Domino.  Or, what one won't you touch...

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Thanks to Volker . And I just bought the xda2 model. What I do like is the built in WI-FI card and all the other trimmings. Click here for details and a detailed review.

Like many other sites, the one I am in currently has Domino servers running in the DMZ to convert mail to SMTP before sending to Mailsweeper for external routing. Corporate sites always try to minimise the risk, and therefore try to minimise the amount of open ports between the LAN and the DMZ on the firewall. If ports have to be open, it is most preferable to have the port open in one direction only, i.e. opened from the LAN to the DMZ. This assists in preventing Joe Hacker from getting into the LAN as he can’t initiate a session inbound. So can Notes operate if you only open the port 1352 in one direction, and only allow the LAN based Domino server to initiate a call to the DMZ based Domino server?

Met “pants”, Bill and Declan for a few pints last night. Good laugh any many beers were had by all. I am sure we had just about every world issue pretty much wrapped up by the end of the night. Dammed if I can remember the great ideas we had

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Positive so far to my laptop upgrade to XP SP2 - Wireless network support is more reliable. So far no mystery drops of my house WLAN (or any other WLAN for that matter)

Negative so far - my Trend Corporate av client software doesn't work anymore.

Damn. Going to check the supported list to see if I missed it already.

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Well, my VM box died over the weekend so all internet-related activity died with it. I suppose that is the issue with hosting the site at home, but as you live by the sword.....

Kudos to my ISP though. Irish Broadband got my call yesterday morning, and were here promptly today with a new VM box and an apology. In my book, that goes down as excellent service.

With the weekend that was in it, I didn't miss out on too much along the lines of service as for the past few weeks I have been working on a major Win2K3/Domino 652 upgrade for a large site. This is tied in with a general clean up of the architecture and consolidation of existing servers. Not too much time for blogging.

On to check the blogs... I miss anything interesting? Also, with Wild Bill in town, it should make for an interesting week. Declan Lynch has told me to be worried.

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