the following is from some EMC Emailxtender course: "Resolving Notes Shortcuts for Offline Users. This ExNotesShortcut.dll [on the domino server] traps replication events and if the replication is local (for example: to a client desktop) instead of to a server, then the full message is replicated, not the shortcut. This a standard feature and requires no additional setup by the user or Administrator.
This function is completely seamless to the end user. When offline, the user can see and use the full message, but cannot search the archive. Synchronization is still controlled by standard Notes and Domino replication."
[] = my comment. In a slide it was said, that the ExNotesShortcut.dll on the domino server differentiates between client desktop or server replication. So when replicating between domino servers, the shortcut will be replicated. Replicating to a client desktop, the full item is replicated/synchronized. This is important: As a user might create a new local replica (the laptop broke and the mail profile is gone, etc.), the local mailbox will contain full emails!
I am not a domino person and can't give you the details, how it's done. Domino users often work with a local mail replication (kind of a Exchange-Cache) and the mail is replicated in the background. This was recommended (at least in the past) and e.g. implemented like that in my company even for users continuously online.
When EmailXtender shortcuts an email, this shortcut is put on the domino server in the users mailbox but doesn't get replicated to the local mailbox replica. This is a domino process and hence the domino users work only with full items with local replicas. They only see shortcuts if they work on the domino database directly.
Thanx for your quick reply. It makes sense, although I have one more question: Are you sure Domino always acts like this with shortcutted emails ? I mean that it doesn't replicate the shortcut to the user's local replica, replacing the original message in the local replica with the shortcut as well. I would think, without knowing how Domino works with this, that the shortcutting EX does looks to Domino like a change in the user's database. A change that, like any other change (e.g. receiving a new email), should get replicated onto the user's local replica. Is Domino acting different for shortcuts ?
I'm asking all these question in order to really understand how this works and be able to explain it to the customer, especially that the customer knows more about how Domino works than I do.
Radu, my pleasure, but your question just raised my interest.
Btw: Very smart and works much much better than UserCache (UC). UC 4.7 was not very stable and I had lots of problems. Apparently UC 4.7 SP1 is much better (in every respect).
jskoecher
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November 23rd, 2007 05:00
the following is from some EMC Emailxtender course:
"Resolving Notes Shortcuts for Offline Users. This ExNotesShortcut.dll [on the domino server] traps replication events and if the replication is local (for example: to a client desktop) instead of to a server, then the full message is replicated, not the shortcut. This a standard feature and requires no additional setup by the user or Administrator.
This function is completely seamless to the end user. When offline, the user can see and use the full message, but cannot search the archive. Synchronization is still controlled by standard Notes and Domino replication."
[] = my comment. In a slide it was said, that the ExNotesShortcut.dll on the domino server differentiates between client desktop or server replication. So when replicating between domino servers, the shortcut will be replicated. Replicating to a client desktop, the full item is replicated/synchronized. This is important: As a user might create a new local replica (the laptop broke and the mail profile is gone, etc.), the local mailbox will contain full emails!
Hope this's helpfull.
Best regards, Jochen.
jskoecher
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November 23rd, 2007 03:00
I am not a domino person and can't give you the details, how it's done. Domino users often work with a local mail replication (kind of a Exchange-Cache) and the mail is replicated in the background. This was recommended (at least in the past) and e.g. implemented like that in my company even for users continuously online.
When EmailXtender shortcuts an email, this shortcut is put on the domino server in the users mailbox but doesn't get replicated to the local mailbox replica. This is a domino process and hence the domino users work only with full items with local replicas. They only see shortcuts if they work on the domino database directly.
Hope this makes some sense.
Jochen.
radui
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November 23rd, 2007 04:00
Thanx for your quick reply.
It makes sense, although I have one more question: Are you sure Domino always acts like this with shortcutted emails ? I mean that it doesn't replicate the shortcut to the user's local replica, replacing the original message in the local replica with the shortcut as well.
I would think, without knowing how Domino works with this, that the shortcutting EX does looks to Domino like a change in the user's database. A change that, like any other change (e.g. receiving a new email), should get replicated onto the user's local replica. Is Domino acting different for shortcuts ?
I'm asking all these question in order to really understand how this works and be able to explain it to the customer, especially that the customer knows more about how Domino works than I do.
Cheers,
Radu.
jskoecher
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204 Posts
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November 23rd, 2007 05:00
Btw: Very smart and works much much better than UserCache (UC). UC 4.7 was not very stable and I had lots of problems. Apparently UC 4.7 SP1 is much better (in every respect).
Keep well, Jochen.
radui
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November 23rd, 2007 05:00
Everything is crystal clear now.
Thanx a lot.
Cheers,
Radu.
P.S. Pretty smart solution, too.