Lotus Notes & Domino 8: New Interface, New Features, New Gadgets

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1 Lotus Notes & Domino 8: New Interface, New Features, New Gadgets

2 What s New? Notes 8.0 released August 2007 ITS Notes Team has been regular Notes 8 users ever since Decided to wait until released before deploying to campus has resolved many of the bugs of the 8.0 release

3 New Interface Re-Designed Interface fresh look, easier to use basic functions are only two clicks away or less IBM solicited feedback from customers and listened hundreds of improvements! New sidebar feature allows you to dock calendar, Sametime contacts, and widgets

4 New Platform Notes 8 Standard is built on the Java Eclipse Platform allows for composite applications, widgets, gadgets Notes 8 Basic is similar to the 7.0 client and is not based on Eclipse no sidebar or composite applications

5 Notes 8 System Requirements Notes 8 Basic Pentium IV 1.2Ghz+ 512MB RAM 900MB HD Space Windows XP 32-bit Windows Vista 32-bit (1.5GB RAM recommended for Vista) Notes 8 Standard Dual-Core CPU 2GB RAM 900MB HD Space Windows XP 32-bit Windows Vista 32-bit

6 Linux/Mac Client Notes Linux client is available, but not supported by IT Services Notes 8.5 Beta client available for Mac OS 10.5 users not supported by IT Services, expected to be released by the end of the year with Notes and Domino 8.5

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11 Inline Spell Check / Undo Notes now offers inline spell check, which will underline incorrect words with a red line, similar to Microsoft Word Multi-level undo functionality available

12 Domino Web Access Two options Full, and Lite DWA 8 has same look and functionality as Notes mail template Lite version is for slow connections, basic functionality

13 New Out of Office Functionality Out of Office functionality re-written Out of Office notifications occur instantly Automatically disabled by date Can be delegated Send multiple OOO messages to same person

14 Sidebar Easy access to features: Sametime Contact List Day at a Glance calendar information Calendar picker RSS Feeds

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17 New look of Bookmark Bar Bookmark Bar organizes your bookmarks. Each icon on Bookmark Bar can open a bookmark or a list of bookmarks. Bookmarks let you create links that point to Notes or Internet elements, such as databases, views, documents, Web pages, and news groups. Creating a bookmark is as easy as dragging and dropping a document link or window tab to the Bookmark bar. Bookmark Bar was introduced in Lotus Notes R5 Bookmark folders can contain bookmarks or more folders

18 New look of Bookmark Bar cont Lotus Notes 7 Lotus Notes 8

19 Windows Style Document Selection Check mark on the left of documents in Lotus Notes 7 or earlier version

20 Windows Style Document Selection cont Highlighted documents as selected documents

21 In-line spell checker The spell checking happens while sending the message or manually perform the spell checking in Lotus Notes 7 or earlier version.

22 In-line spell checker cont The spell checker in Lotus Notes 8 performs real-time checking. Note: The in-line spell checker is only for rich text field, such as body or document library, etc. The plain test field, such as subject line in , remains the same as in Lotus Notes 7.

23 Consolidated Preferences In Lotus Notes 7 or before, multiple preferences in multiple places. User Preferences Location Preferences Toolbar Preferences Status Bar Preferences Mail File preferences

24 Consolidated Preferences cont In Lotus Notes 8, all-in-one preferences

25 Blackberry Handheld Software (OS) 4.5 BlackBerry Maps with Points of Interest (H) Improved media player with playlist support and automatic playlist generation (H) Voice note recording (H) Streaming support for YouTube and Sling Player (H) Microsoft Office document editing with DocumentsToGo (H) Native format attachment downloading (S) HTML s (S) Over-the-air device upgrades (S) Free/busy calendar lookup (S) Searching the server for old messages (S) *Some server based feature need BES to support with.

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27 Calendar Improvements Visual design was improved. A navigator has been added for the Calendar views, including group calendars and delegated calendars Several new features were added: ghosted entries find available time Event Announcement

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30 Ghosted Entries You can now see unprocessed meeting invitations and reschedule notices in your Calendar. You define the colour, gray by default. You can process them from the Calendar view.

31 Ghosted Entries People with access to your Calendar can see them too. Requires version 8 server, client and template.

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40 Scheduler Improved Ability to exclude people from the free time lookup without removing them from the invitee s list.

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42 Find Available Time Quickly schedule meetings with the sender of the message. Right-click the name for available time. Time saver.

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48 New type: Event Announcement Similar to Meeting Invitation. Use when you do not want any responses from invitees. You can send event announcements to a large group of people and, unlike meeting invitations, the group is not expanded.

49 Contacts Personal Address Book renamed to Contacts Main form was redesigned: nicer look, more fields to store personal info New view: Business Card Recent Contacts feature to enhance type-ahead experience

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55 Sending Attachments Several improvements around file attachments, integration with Quickr (formerly Quick Place). The option to upload the file to a shared space on the server and sending a link to it in place of the file attachment. Requires installation of Quickr connector on your PC.

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57 Adobe Acrobat Integration Adobe Acrobat Professional adds several icons to Notes tool bar. Ability to convert Notes documents ( s, etc.) into PDF files with one click. Ability to convert entire mail folder with all s into a single indexed PDF file.

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59 Known Issues New platform = new challenges Resource intensive (standard) Skipping 8.0, going into Shutting down issues on Vista prior to SP1. Lost focus on active window. Recent Contacts fixed in 8.0.1

60 Non-supported Features Open Office integration free word editor, spreadsheet and presentation tool included (Lotus Symphony). Mail Recall controversial, fate to be decided.

61 Availability Notes 8 Pilot (IT Services, Campus Computer Technicians, IT Leaders) in progress. Will be distributed via the Smart Upgrade gradually thorough Detailed upgrade plan still in works. HelpDesk support coming soon...

62 Beyond Notes 8 Version 8.5 Scheduled for 2Q of Will include client for Macintosh OSX (currently in beta). More improvements for attachment handling. Revamped user ID management. Possible LDAP directory integration.

63 Thank you for coming! x4440 Craig Brown, x2743, Dou Wang, x2742, Bodek Frak, x 2801, bodek@uwindsor.ca

64 Q & A