Anthony Holmes: Notes 8.5 Roaming
June 3 2008
Anthony takes a look at the return of -- and enhancements to -- roaming user support in the beta of Notes 8.5:
I've reviewed the Notes 8.5 Public Beta 1 documentation on Roaming. As well as allowing the Notes 8.5 Standard client to roam like previous versions, there are some enhancements, including the ability to use a file server, and the ability to roam Administrator and Designer preferences.Anthony also mentions that support for Notes on a USB memory stick is back in 8.5, and the release notes confirm that:
Notes 8.5 adds support for Notes standard configuration installation and use from a USB drive.Good to see the return of these features to the 8.x codestream.
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René Winkelmeyer | 6/3/2008 10:58:37 PM
IBM Westford told us, that Nomad for the standard client is NOT supported in 8.5
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Anthony Holmes http://www.workingcollaboration.com | 6/4/2008 2:25:16 AM
Rene:
You're right, the Beta Documentation for 8.5 is only referring to running Notes Basic on a stick. I read that bit a little too quickl. My bad. Thanks for pointing to the official statement.
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Lars Olufsen http://www.olufsphere.com | 6/4/2008 2:31:27 AM
How about sametime configurations when roaming? It seems to me, that in 8.0.1, all configuration goes lost whenever you switch user. Will that be fixed?
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Thilo Hamberger | 6/4/2008 8:16:39 AM
Does the Workplace finally roam? Roaming without the chicklets is pretty senseless.
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Darren Duke http://www.simplified-tech.com | 6/4/2008 12:54:19 PM
@4, I completely agree, ST should roam too. And it should be tied to the location.
Glad to see that roaming is coming back as a supported configuration for the Standard client.
Also, support for Nomad was never dropped in 8.0.x. IBM only supported the Basic configuration with Nomad - which should be more than enough for accessing your applications from a stick. And unless you have your Nomad Client on an actual USB external Hard Drive, it should be really fun with all of the reads and writes being performed on a USB flash drive... Did you know that there are more files in a Notes Standard install than the base Windows Server 2003 installation?!?