IBM Lotus Traveler 8.5.1 On The iPhone
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months you'll know that in the upcoming IBM Lotus Traveler 8.5.1 release, support for the Apple iPhone has been added. This is probably one of the most important bits of news in the upcoming release for any admin out there who needs to support this device.
I have been testing the latest beta release of traveler ( code drop 8 ) for a little while and even rolled it out to a number of users in our corporate environment and so far the feedback has been a positive one. The simple fact that the Notes calendar and contacts are now synced to the device is one of the big winners with our corporate users. Most of these users were blackberry users in the past and this is something they really missed.
From the admin point of view installation was a snap. Just stop the domino server, run the setup file, answer a few quick questions and then start the domino server. I would guess that this took me about 10 minutes max on my test server. Once your domino server is back up and running getting the iPhone running on Traveler is just as easy. Just open the web browser on the iPhone and point it to http://yourservername/servlet/traveler and then login and generate a profile that will download to the iPhone and within a few minutes the users mail, calendar and contacts will start syncing with the device.
If your expecting a big long blog posting on doing the install and configuration then keep looking. It is so simple and just works that there really isn't a need for one. I will, however, in a future posting explain how to customize the profile document sent to the iPhone to add in a few extra security settings.
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is prerelease software and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality presented will be in the final shipping product.
Bookmark :
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months you'll know that in the upcoming IBM Lotus Traveler 8.5.1 release, support for the Apple iPhone has been added. This is probably one of the most important bits of news in the upcoming release for any admin out there who needs to support this device.
I have been testing the latest beta release of traveler ( code drop 8 ) for a little while and even rolled it out to a number of users in our corporate environment and so far the feedback has been a positive one. The simple fact that the Notes calendar and contacts are now synced to the device is one of the big winners with our corporate users. Most of these users were blackberry users in the past and this is something they really missed.
From the admin point of view installation was a snap. Just stop the domino server, run the setup file, answer a few quick questions and then start the domino server. I would guess that this took me about 10 minutes max on my test server. Once your domino server is back up and running getting the iPhone running on Traveler is just as easy. Just open the web browser on the iPhone and point it to http://yourservername/servlet/traveler and then login and generate a profile that will download to the iPhone and within a few minutes the users mail, calendar and contacts will start syncing with the device.
If your expecting a big long blog posting on doing the install and configuration then keep looking. It is so simple and just works that there really isn't a need for one. I will, however, in a future posting explain how to customize the profile document sent to the iPhone to add in a few extra security settings.
IBM Lotus Notes/Domino and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 is prerelease software and there are no guarantees from IBM that the functionality presented will be in the final shipping product.
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No need for Mobile me ? Is it push too ? When does it sync ? I know nothing about traveler. Sorry for the newbie questions.
Posted by Theo Heselmans At 04:46:52 AM On 08/30/2009 | - Website - |
I still wonder if you can merge business contacts/calendars with existing ones on the iPhone - I don't want to loose my private stuff on there when testing it - while testing it with Greenhouse I declined the contacts/calendar...
Posted by Michael Kobrowski At 10:03:42 AM On 08/30/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Hubert Wagner At 10:33:16 PM On 09/02/2009 | - Website - |
I'm new to iPhones. Am I doing something wrong?
Posted by Gary Cousins At 10:10:41 AM On 10/13/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Jason At 11:57:05 AM On 10/14/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Luc Sainte-Marie At 11:55:06 AM On 10/15/2009 | - Website - |
I have just upgraded our mail server to 8.5.1 and have the same issue, traveler works with all devices other than the iphone. "an error occurred while contacting the server"
Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
Regards
David Lemon
Posted by david lemon At 04:23:36 PM On 10/25/2009 | - Website - |
The domino Directory needs to be running at level 8.5.1
Although i upgraded the Domino server, i chose not to upgrade the Domino Directory at this stage and that is why i have been getting the same errors as Gary.
I upgraded the design, shut down notes, ran ncompact -B -D -C and then restarted Domino and VOILA
All was good once more.
Posted by david lemon At 06:56:22 AM On 10/27/2009 | - Website - |
I can not get this to work, We are getting autentication error when trying to "install" from the traveler.
Traveler and DD is 8.5.1
Is there some "special" config that need to be done to make it work?
Maybe "Redirect TCP to SSL" in traveler?
Thanx very much!
/JZ
Posted by JZ At 05:08:38 AM On 11/12/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Nick At 04:59:44 AM On 12/04/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Nick At 05:00:26 AM On 12/04/2009 | - Website - |
Afterwards it was working for me. Great product once it works.
Posted by Antoon Leurs At 11:31:17 AM On 12/24/2009 | - Website - |
Posted by Steffen At 05:30:32 PM On 01/14/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Steffen At 05:32:04 PM On 01/14/2010 | - Website - |