My attempt at installing a demo/practice Lotus Connections environment has been a fairly haphazard affair as I try to find the time to work on it in between work and family commitments. I invariably end up spending whatever time I can cobble together struggling through infocentres and numerous websites trying to work out how to get Websphere, DB2, TDI etc installed, patched, configured, and playing nicely together so that Connections will work when I finally get around to installing it. I’m a Notes Admin with very limited to almost non-existent experience with Websphere et al, so it’s been a really challenging process trying to get my head around everything that needed to be done. In fact, a couple of times I got pretty close to giving up and going back to the pilot installation.
So you can imagine my relief – bordering on sheer excitement – when today I found what I’ve been wishing was ‘out there’: a clear, easy to follow set of instructions stepping through the whole process, courtesy of Mitch Cohen and Chris Whisonant and their Lotusphere presentation “Getting Your Feet Wet with Lotus Connections”.
Mitch has made the presentation available on his website and you can grab it from here. Whilst you’re there, check out his Resource Pages for Connections and Quickr.
Mike, thanks for the post! If you need any further assistance, please let Mitch or I know.
Comment by Chris Whisonant — February 6, 2009 @ 8:27 am