Are you thinking of having a Comprehensive Faxing  solution for your Organisation? If yes the Domino faxing solution is one of the easiest ways to implement a secure and low maintenance fax solution.

This extends the functionality of Lotus Notes Domino in your organisation into another dimension. Integrating Fax facility with Lotus Notes adds a lot of value to the organisation as it is virtually equivalent to providing every employee an individual fax machine.Faxes can be sent and received easily with other features like getting alerts making it even more attractive. Faxes can be sent to multiple recepients in seconds by using the contacts saved in the Address Book of your mail box without difficulty as in manual faxing.

To  setup this system you will require a Domino Fax Software that runs as an application in the Domino Server. A Fax Windows Services system to convert the content into faxablw content and a fax device connected to the domino server to relay the fax. An administrator workstation is required to install and configure the Domino fax server and manage it.

This can be a great resource in organisations where documents have to be frequently faxed using a common fax machine shared by several employees.To know more on the domino fax solution visit this page.

Lotusphere, the annual summit of the worldwide Lotus Community is scheduled to take place in January next year. The mega event where developers, administrators, IT and business professionals looking for collaborative and software solutions get together will be for 5 days from January 21 – 25 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

Registrations have already begun and are still open for reservation. Hectic planning on the programs for the 5 days is on and the conference content also suggests having lots of Practical core Lotus Notes and Domino content, Hands-on sessions and Real-Time Collaboration.

The registration fee for a single user is US $ 2095, which includes fee for all 5 days of activity and JumpStart technical primers or hands-on sessions. This registration fee however, does not include travel and accommodation charges. There is also an offer of special pricing for groups of 20 or more members from an organization. To know more on Lotusphere 2007visit this page in the IBM’s website.

IBM has announced the release of Lotus Notes 7.0.2 Client for the Mac OS X (Tiger) users. The release is expected to happen before the end of this year and comes close on the heels of its Lotus Domino Web Access 7.0.2. The release of both the web access client and the rich client in the same year has brought in great excitement among Mac users who have been eagerly waiting for this.

Jason Dumont, IBM Senior Product Manager says Lotus Notes 7.0.2 has several features including “Lotus Notes-based and S/MIME-based encryption, secure log-off and the ability to change their own passwords, as well as everyday productivity enhancers like spell-checking, unread marks, out-of-office agents, alarms and much more”.

This makes Lotus Notes and Domino a more versatile messaging & collaboration tool capable of residing in multiple platforms like Windows, Linux and Mac. Although IBM has made inroads into the Mac users market earlier with its web access client, the release of Lotus Notes 7.0.2 rich client will help IBM penetrate deeper into the market and increase its overall market share in the Messaging & Collaboration space.

For more information visit this page in the IBM website.

Some useful Lotus Notes Shortcut Keys are listed below.
ALT+F5           Restore Notes to default minimized size
ALT+F9           Minimize active window
ALT+F10         Maximize active windows
CTRL+BREAK   Stop operation in progress
CTRL+F6         Switch between open windows
CTRL+Q           Exit Notes
CTRL+TAB       Move to next window tab
DOWN ARROW Move to next entry in Replicator
END                 Move to last entry in Replicator
ENTER             Open selected Workspace icon, window tab, menu item, bookmark
ESC                 Close active window
F1                   Get Help on current feature
F5                   Lock User ID
F6                   Move to next pane or frame
F10 or ALT       Access menu bar
HOME              Move to first entry in Replicator
PAGE DOWN    Move to previous page in Replicator
PAGE UP          Move to next page in Replicator
SHIFT+F10      Access Windows context menus
UP ARROW      Move to previous entry in Replicator
SHIFT+ALT+S Open Search menu

There may be occasions when a scheduled meeting has to be post-poned or pre-poned or even cancel sue to unavoidable reasons. Let us check how to get this done.

• Open the calender view and open the meeting schedule.
• If the meeting was scheduled by someone else, you can counter the meeting and propose a new time. There are options to even reject an invitation sent to you from others.
• If the meeting has been scheduled by you, open the meeting schedule note from the Calender and Click Actions and select the necessary Action like reschedule, cancel etc.
• It is always better to write a note explaining the reason for change of schedule along with the meeting schedule Note.

The Lotus Notes mail client has a Calender in it by default. The Calender can be used to keep track of the Meetings, Appointments, Anniversaries, Reminders and other Events. Each of them is a form of Calender Entry and can be created from the Calender view of the Lotus Notes client.

Lets us check out how to schedule a meeting using the calender which is the most frequently made Calender entry. Follow the steps below to schedule a meeting.

• Open the Calender view.
• Click on Schedule a meeting tab or Create button on the top menu bar and choose Calender Entry.
• A new window will open, Fill in the subject, the date, time and attendees of the meeting.
• The time zone can be changed according to the need. Also there is additional option to repeat the same meeting several times, the settings of which can also be chosen.
• You can also give a small description of the meeting and its relevance or instructions in the space provided for description.
• In addition to this there are additional optional fields such as Location, Resources, Rooms, Notification etc. The Resources and Rooms have to be configured with Lotus Notes so that their availability during the scheduled meeting duration is also checked.
• The calender entry can be marked as private so that others are not able to view the detials of the entry.
• After filling up all the fields necessary click Save and Send Invitations.