WSE Redbook Draft Available
For those of you toiling away in Workplace Services Express hell like myself, Lotus has posted a draft of the RedBook here. 546 pages of instructions as a matter of fact. Maybe it can help you out. Me, I think I’m just waiting for 2.5 to hit before I waste any more of my time. Anyway, it says that the publication of this is slated for June 30th, so is that when 2.5 will be released perhaps?
UPDATE: A couple of quick hits. There’s an appendix that shows the changes in 2.5.
- First off, there is no longer a Workplace Server thread, they’ve moved all the functionality into the Webphere portal thread. Nice.
- You can now use an external database. DB2 UDB Express, MS SQL Server Enterprise 2000 SP3, DB2 for iSeries, or Cloudscape.
- Says there is full Mozilla and Firefox support
- Installation will detect a previous version and upgrade it (didn’t do that before)
- They’ve actually added a real Windows Service to allow auto start-up of the server.
It still looks like connecting to Domino LDAP will be a royal pain in the ass. But at least they’ve made SOME improvements above.
May 17, 2005 @ 12:42 pm
Looking forward to trying it out actually. Not looking forward to it giving me grief. Here’s a thought though (logic applies so everyone sit down and take a breath)
1. 118 Million Notes seats
2. Your Mail directory is always going to be the most accurate LDAP directory in your environment. Why? Cause users complain if their mail details are wrong.
3. The majority of sites looking at workplace already have Domino (ok that is an assumption, but I would imagine a safe enough one)
4. In order for WSE to be practical, it should connect to an LDAP directory
Ergo Domino should be the primay directory that IBM are testing WSE with? Right?? Am I missing something? Am I?
Take out the extra functionality if you need to concentrate on the product working correctly with an LDAP directory. Make it easier to configure. Make it solid. It doesn’t have to be too easy, we can take a level of pain, as long as it works.
Galactic ranting will stop before it starts now.