BE
Systems, Bluewave
and the Turtle
Partnership are quite chuffed
with this little announcement.  In short, we are partnering our services
to offer a broader and deeper solution set with support to existing and
new customers.  So Warren, Gab, myself Tim and over 40 other staff
now have a LOT more to offer you.

28th April 2009

Bluewave Group and Turtle
Partnership Ltd partner to bring
extended services, size and skills to a wider range of customers.

The
Turtle Partnership and the Bluewave
Group (www.bluewave.ie,
www.besystems.eu)
have been cooperating in the marketplace for many years, offering services
in the high-skill infrastructure and solution development range across
the IBM, BlackBerry and Microsoft product brands. Following on from these
successful joint endeavours, and in order to formalize this relationship,
we are very pleased to announce that The Turtle Partnership has become
a member of the Bluewave group partnering programme.

This new organisation has an unique depth of skills in Development, Support
and Administration; "The addition of the Turtle
Partnership to the Bluewave programme was a natural fit, and will have
a very positive impact on our customer offerings" said Harry Dunne
of Bluewave Group. Mike Smith of the Turtle Partnership added that "The
combination of services, help desk operations, technical skill and personalities
between the two companies allows both entities to seamlessly enhance their
range and depth".

The Turtle
Partnership has been in operation for 13 years offering Strategy, Support,
Administration and Development skills around Lotus Collaborative software,
focusing on the Domino, Sametime and Quickr product ranges. Turtle‘s
customers range from small organisations to major corporates.  Turtle
currently provide support for hundreds of servers in companies worldwide,
with 40% of their customers in the US and 60% in Europe.  As administrators,
Turtle
provide hosting, design and management services for Lotus products as well
as coexistence and integration expertise for Exchange, Groupwise and Sharepoint.
 As Developers they provide high-end Notes, Web 2.0, Blackberry and
iPhone development skills.

The Bluewave group has been in operation for 10 years offering a complete
range of Domino and Websphere related services.  Bluewave’s traditional
market has mainly been the UK & Ireland, but increasingly clients are
availing of Bluewave skills from the far east and mainland Europe.  In
December 2007, Bluewave acquired UK based IBM Business Partner BE Systems
further strengthening the group as a leading IBM Collaborative software
partner.  Consultants from the Bluewave group regularly are invited
to speak at industry events covering topics ranging from advanced Domino
infrastructure topics to mobile development and best practice.

BE Systems will have a stand at the
first 2009 UK LCTY event tomorrow
in the Radisson
hotel, Manchester airport.  Warren
Elsmore and I will be there, with full demos ready of DAOS, ID Vault, Traveler,
Dynamic Policies and more…   So, if you have a question about ANY
of these, we are pretty much doing a "beat the geek" for the
entire day (god help us).  If you are attending the event, be sure
to pop over and say hello.

Thanks vowe.

I have downloaded Gigs of updates to
a product that does not seem to have improved at all.

I wish I didn’t have to use it, but
live in an MS Office format world, so I do

I wish that alternatives would format
.doc and .docx documents perfectly but they don’t

At Admin 2009 I presented on the IDVault
and was asked if it worked with a Mac.  Simply put, I had never tested
it.  So easiest solution to test was to set it up in Bluewave.  I
created the IDVault and policy and sure enough, my id file was uploaded
to the Vault.

The policy applies as I expected to
my client:

And then I reset the password using
an admin client..  When launching my Mac Notes client the old password
was not accepted, and the new one was.  Therefore it worked as expected.
 Keep in mind that my client works in a disconnected "local replication
only" mode.  That means it has never connected to our servers
directly, it just replicates very frequently.

The IDVault is very impressive.  Try
it out.

All done for another year in Boston, as
I sit in terminal E in logan airport, waiting for my 6pm flight to Dublin,
followed by a drive (at 5.30am local time) to Belfast.  As ever from
these conferences, I am completely wrecked.  Presenting so many sessions
and the prep required, tied in with bad jetlag on such a short trip to
the USA leaves you completely and utterly wrecked.  I really hope
I sleep all the way home.

Although smaller then other years (like
ever conference is this year) Admin 2009 still proves itself to be a conference
with meat on the bones.  Lots of technical information, good conversation,
and a very high calibre of attendees.  Like every year, I learn something
now myself.

There were quite a few highlights to
the event for me, not least of which was presenting with Mary Beth Raven
on "justifying your upgrade with 80.2 or 8.5".  The slide
deck is here to take with you.  I have never presented with MBR before,
but it went quite well, as our relative specialist areas compliment each
other.  She talks so enthusiastically about the new features, and
I tell admins how to turn them off ;).  In seriousness, we both want
people to use all the new goodness of 8.5 just with some control and understanding
of the operational impact.

Meeting everyone at Admin conferences
is really a pleasure – Boston (although I have seen very little of it)
is a very welcoming city and place.  The staff of the View conferences
make the logistics a pleasure.   These guys have conference running
nailed and go out of their way to make delegates and speakers feel welcome.
 There is no control on our opinions or session content (aside from
quality of content) and we are let run with it.  The audience at these
events seem to like the quirky ways we approach some topics.  For
the last session (agent troubleshooting for admins) I dragged Matt White,
Rob McDonagh and John Head up to the front of the room to face the admin
audience, to try to defend themselves (they did great).

It wasn’t the same with out Bill there
- I lost count of how many times I heard that being said, and its true,
it did feel like something was missing (no excuses next time Bill).

Presenting with the other speakers,
and watching them in action, always is a learning experience.  The
speakers at these events set the bar for Lotusphere.

I have quite a few admin tip related
posts to write, and will try and get a few of them out this weekend – but
for the next 24 hours, I’m tuning out.

BTW – my 20 year old nephew just got
his CLP in admin (all three exams passed).  I now feel very old.

Another BTW – I think I overdosed on
Twitter – feel free to follow me  - details on the about me page.
 I will setup a contact me page soon enough and split all the details
out.

zzzz

Caption competition

Originally uploaded by pmooneynet

-n-

Interviews, including one with yours truly
are starting to appear on the Lotus
User Group site.

Cover will start approx 8am EST by Matt and myself.