iWildfire goes live in the AppStore

Very please to let you all know that iWildfire is LIVE in the AppStore and it is FREE!

Please check it out and feel free to rate it and leave reviews!

Visit the iWildfire for IBM Connections site for more information.

Or search for iWildfire in the AppStore.

ISW has only just started with iWildfire. Shortly we will be developing iWildfire Pro. iWildfire Pro will do just about everything you can do within Connections. Create Activities, Create and edit Blogs, Upload and Edit Files, Modify Wiki's, Receive Notifications, Interact with Communities and more. We are keen to get your feedback on the first release of iWildfire so if you have any great ideas for iWildfire Pro let us know.

iWildfire web site goes live......we are getting close!

We are still waiting on final AppStore approval for iWildfire for IBM Connections however in the meanwhile we are pleased to provide you with some more information with the launch of the iWildfire web site.

http://iwildfire.isw.com.au

There is plenty of information and screen shots that show the capabilities of the app. You might also help us spread the word of the impending release via the social links provided on the site.

Follow out Twitter account to be the first to hear when the App becomes available.

The countdown begins.........

Well what a great reason to dust of the blog!! I am sure those IBM Connections fans out there already know what we are about to announce.............The public release of iWildfire for IBM Connections to the Apple AppStore.

Will it be before the end of May? Maybe! That depends on those folk that approve Apps! My guess it will be a couple more days so watch this space!

And the even more exciting news is how much it will cost! Will it be $10? or $5 or $3 or $1 or Free as in Beer! I guess you will have to wait and see ;) We Australians do get quite thirsty though.

ISW wins the IBM Distinguished Business Achievement Award for Asia Pacific!

Very excited to hear that ISW has taken home a big award at Lotusphere this year:

The Distinguished Business Achievement Award honors the top IBM PartnerWorld Business Partners from each of the 8 major regions of the world. Winners must demonstrate increased revenue attainment and loyalty, along with the ability to open new regional markets, and to maintain a positive stature in the Business Partner community. Business Partners considered in this space significantly impact IBM Lotus software's position in the marketplace and will be considered rising stars amongst their peers. 

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The mystery of the undelivered email notifications in Lotus Connections 3

We recently implemented Lotus Connections 3 for a client in Australia. The new installation manager process is a vast improvement over LC2.5 which was great. Everything worked smoothly however we soon noticed that email notification messages were not being sent in all cases that they should.

We spent quite a bit of time going thru the configuration etc to make sure the email notifications were all set correctly and we could not find any reason why they would not be sending. We tested with an alternate smtp server however it didn't make any different and for that matter there didn't seem to be any errors in the various logs. It was just like they didn't get sent.

When we installed we used the Medium size install option which resulted in the following:
LCCluster1 – Activities, Communities, Forums, Profiles
LCCluster2 – Blogs, Bookmarks, Files, Wikis
LCInfraCluster – Help, Homepage, News, Search

Now what we found was that Files, Wikis, Blogs, and Bookmarks were all sending notification emails correctly however Activities, Communities, Forums, Profiles were not. After much frustration we found that the message bus between the LCCluster1 and the LCInfraCluster didn't seem to be sening the messages, hence the News feature could not send the emails!

So we thought maybe it was a blocked message or something strange like that. The solution was to clear out the existing messages and restart the servers:

1. Stop all clusters
2. Delete all subdirectories under
d:\IBM\LotusConnections\data\shared\messageStores\
3. Delete all subdirectories user <WAS_HOME>\profiles\AppSrv01\tranlog
4. Restart all clusters

Bingo! Once we restarted all email notifications worked again. Note this is only any good if you don't mind loosing all the undelivered messages. Now we don't really know what blocked the message bus however once cleared it worked fine.