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    What Questions you will be asked if you do Traveler presentation

    Vladislavs Tatarincevs  4 December 2008 21:17:54
    During last 2 weeks, I have done 4 Lotus Traveler presentations to different customers.
    Would like to share what customers asked me during these presentations.

    Half of people who come to presentations are IT Security People :))))

    Hope this will be useful for some people.


    Q0. Supported deviced?
    A0. Windows mobile and starting from Jan2009, Traveler 8.5 Nokia Symbian.
    http://infocenters.lotus.com/help7/topic/com.ibm.help.lnt85.doc/Hardware_requirements.html
    Page says only Windows, but it will be updated soon :)


    Q1. Does it support encrypted mail?
    A1. Yes, Traveler 8.5 supports crypted mails.

    More details here: http://infocenters.lotus.com/help7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.lnt85.doc/Encrypted_email_support.html

    Q2. What to do if device is lost/stollen.
    A2. Lock and Wipe it remotely. Read my previous post http://www.vlaad.lv/lotus.nsf/dx/traveler-security-in-device-is-loststolen
    and also infocenter article http://infocenters.lotus.com/help7/topic/com.ibm.help.lnt85.doc/Remote_Wipe_Lock.html
    It is possible to do it in Traveler 8.5

    Q3. Does it support Address book?
    A3. Yes, it does.

    Q3.1. Address lookup from Domino Directory?
    A3.1. As far as I know NO, Please comment if I am wrong or 8.5 version has different behavior.

    Q4. Supported OS for server
    A4. So far Win32 only. hope linux will be soon also available.
    http://infocenters.lotus.com/help7/topic/com.ibm.help.lnt85.doc/Server_hardware_requirements.html

    Q5. In case customer is running 7.0.3 Domino, and we put additional 8.5 server+Traveler 8.5 in DMZ, will he need an additional Domino licence ???
    this Domino 8.5 will run ONLY Traveler service, no Databases/apps on it.

    A5. Well, at the moment I am searching for answer, hope some one can share his ideas.
    Many customers are on 7.x  and  this question   is rather actual for  me.
    Will Appreciate any help/ideas.



    Q6. If customer has Domino + SameTime,  is it ok to put Traveler on top of It?
    A6. Here is technote, but I remember that IBM advises to run only ONE advanced product on a server, don't make cocktails on Domino, Like QuickR, SameTime, Traveler and Workflow on one server, and wonder why it does not work...

    as well take a look on Ulrich Krause page, it has a lot of valuable info that may help you.

    http://www.eknori.de/2008-04-29/lotus-notes-traveler-knowledge-collection/

    as well other links:
    Nokia Announcement
    http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1271807
    official Traveler Home Page
    http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler.html




    My experience show that after presenting Traveler almost all customer decided to start pilot project, and some finally decided to upgrade from 6.x - > 8.x, or from 7.x to 8.x.


    vlad

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