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With Phase 2′s GSA contract, we have been asked to see if it was possible to integrate our services into the government Smart Card infrastructure.(article continues below the video) One of the most widely recognized flagship government smart card programs to date is the United States Department of Defense’s (DoD) Common Access Card (CAC). For additional security to all government systems, a two-factor methodology has been adopted. This requires the user to enter two separate [unique] sets of credentials … Continue reading
You are using MS CRM 4.0 and receiving error “A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a pop-up blocker”, when opening the site. Client is running Internet Explorer 8 SOLUTIONS: The solutions to this issue seem to vary wide and far from computer to computer. There is much written about it on tech blogs adding to the frustration. You may have to try one, some or all of the fixes to get … Continue reading
One of the key selling features of Lotus Connections 2.5 is the capability to customize your homepage to look and feel the way you would like it. Phase 2 offers many Widgets that can be added to your homepage based on your preference. The process to add the Widgets is very straight-forward: 1. Go to the “Home” tab >> “My Page” click on customize 2. Select the Widget that you would like to add and hit the “Add” button 3. … Continue reading
Phase2 International joins Apps.gov storefront http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=19&sid=1804604 Listen to full interview: http://media.bonnint.net/wtop/16/1683/168308.mp3 When the site was launched a few weeks ago, there were only a few vendors in the storefront; now, new applications are being added all the time. Phase2 International recently joined Apps.gov. Their chief executive officer, Kevin Doherty, said his company had been working on getting onto a GSA schedule for about a year. “When we first started the effort, GSA wasn’t sure whether to put us into the … Continue reading
Phase 2′s support team has received numerous complaints regarding SPAM activity on our hosted Microsoft Exchange and hosted Lotus Notes services. World-wide SPAM volume has increased dramatically in September; estimates are around 30-45% increase in traffic. We have spent a lot of time working with clients to reduce the effect of this uptick as much as possible, and Phase 2 is now actually blocking in excess of 90% of the email traffic it receives on a daily basis, see below: … Continue reading
Lotus Sametime is a great communications tool, that has numerous customization opportunities that we offer as a hosted product. After a default install of the Sametime Connect client, the software is set to bring chat windows to the front. This behavior can be aggravating for users as many will carry on conversations as they work on other tasks. A quick look through the settings doesn’t reveal an obvious setting to change, so where is it? What you have to do … Continue reading
Example: To do the following you would need to install multiple Location documents on the one Lotus Notes Client. In this tutorial I will show you how to set up two Location documents. One for Admin@Work and one Ols@work. I type in my Password in and then my client opens up into the Ols@work Location. To create a new Locations do the following: Go to File/Locations/Manage Locations Click on New or Edit Now enter in all the proper information. See … Continue reading
Whether you are using our hosted Microsoft Exchange Server or simply running Outlook on your computer, creating a rule to deal with spam can be very helpful. Creating a Rule in outlook to handle spam messages. From the tool bar, click tools then rules and alerts. Click “New Rule” Click “move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder” Then at the step 2 section, click “specific words” Type in Spam? Then click OK. Now click “specified” Select … Continue reading
Luis Benitez is a social software evanglist for IBM. He’s one of the lead thinkers and engineers on the Lotus Connections platform. He recently posted the interview of his colleague Suzanne Minassian recently at Lotus Sphere, the Annual get together for the IBMers, customers, and partners interested in Lotus products. Watch it below, and let us know if you have any questions for the upcoming release.