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This post is designed to collate information and guide you towards moving away from Lotus Notes and into Outlook and therefore increase productivity by about 3000%.

Requirements

1. Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook (DAMO) Interim Fix 6 – This is the IBM developed plug-in for Outlook that will do all the work.
2. Outlook - I have only tested this with Outlook 2010.

Setup Guide

1. Download (See link above) and install DAMO.
2. During installation you will be asked for the following information:
   • Lotus Domino Server Name – In Lotus Notes 8 go to File->Locations->Manage Locations->Edit->Servers. For example, for me the server was d23ml006/23/m/ibm. Note that I had to remove the appended slashes to get the following: d23ml006.
   • Lotus Notes ID File – This is essentially your user profile. Its location will depend on where Lotus Notes is installed for you. For example, for me it was in C:\Notes\Data\myUsername.id. If you still can’t find it, do a search for *.id.
3. The installation will create a MAPI profile for Outlook to use, which is basically a collection of settings for talking to your Lotus Domino server.
4. Start Outlook and select the newly created MAPI profile.
   • Note: If you get an error that Outlook cannot access a file, it is because in Windows 7 you must elevate Outlook to administrator. You can do this by right clicking on the Outlook icon in the start menu, and selecting properties->compatibility, and checking the “Run this program as an administrator” checkbox. Please note that running Outlook as an administrator is a bad idea in general, so please set this option back to normal once you have completely setup DAMO.
5. The DAMO plugin will launch another setup process and retrieve mails and other settings from your domino server.
   • Note: You may find that DAMO will not download all of your data or stop. This is ok. It often takes several restarts of Outlook to fully download all of your data. Be patient.
6. Close Outlook if requested.
7. Done! Enjoy a new life free of email evil!

Known Issues

• If you are an IBM employee, certain emails that access the Domino databases such as Payroll and Claim receipts will not render in Outlook. It is suggested that if you want to keep these emails that you open Notes and print the email to PDF and store it elsewhere.

This is a white paper i did for uni last semester that i’m actually quite proud of. A lot of research and work went into it and amazingly i had fun doing it too. Its quite an eye opener.

Abstract— this paper will discuss and disseminate how the Storm Worm operates and the most current forms of mitigation and removal. Considering that its success can be largely attributed to the number of ways in which it can distribute itself, stay aware of the environment it is in, and the use of some intriguing techniques to avoid termination this worm in particular calls for caution.

You can download the PDF version HERE or continue on to read the rest.

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I’ve got to say, Windows Server 2008 is an amazing piece of software. On the surface it feels very clean and simple, yet still very powerful. I’d suggest to anyone who hasn’t tryed it yet, to give it a good go. It is worth it, if not for Server 2008 as a whole, but for IIS7.