About the Authors

Keith Brooks is currently the Director of Services, IBM Solutions, for the SAS Group which is a Lotus Leadership Alliance member. Keith previously worked for the Office of the CTO in EMEA, as a Lotus Specialist for Lotus and IBM. Keith has been working with QuickPlace, since it was in beta and with Lotus Notes since Release 2. Keith has written articles for The View magazine, as well as presenting at The View Admin conference, Lotusphere, MWLUG, and industry events from Nokia, Microsoft, and Research in Motion. Keith's blog can be found at http://lotustech.blogspot.com.

David Byrd is an IBM Senior Certified Executive IT Architect with IBM Software Services for Lotus, based in Fayetteville, Georgia. He has been an IBM/Lotus employee for 12 years in a number of consulting positions, covering various technology areas. David has a deep background in virtually all areas of Lotus products and technologies covering areas ranging from low-level API development, to collaborative application architectures, security architectures, and messaging architectures. His current focus is on IBM's Social Software technologies, as well as other collaboration products and their associated deployment within enterprise customers. He has worked with Lotus Notes and Domino for over 17 years. David has authored several books and technical articles during his tenure with IBM.

I would like to thank many people for their support in the creation of this book.

Firstly, I would like to thank my wife and children for their continual love and support of my endeavors.

Thank you to Packt Publishing for providing me with the opportunity to once again be an author. Additionally, thank you to the co-authors for this book of deciding to take the ride as first time authors and get this content out to the masses.

Another group of people that I would like to show my gratitude to are a set of co-workers who have been influential in the many areas covered in this book: Mustansir "Miki" Banatwala, Jonathan F Brunn, Steve Hardison, Mark Harper, Chris Heltzel, David Kajmo, Greg Melahn, Marc Pagnier, Thomas Schaeck, Tim Speed, and Amy Widmer.

Finally, I would like to close by thanking the ISSL management team for their support of this book and my involvement.

Mark Harper is an IBM Certified Consulting IT/Specialist with twenty years of experience in messaging and collaboration system implementation and administration. He possesses a strong knowledge of messaging systems with a focus on Lotus Notes/Domino. He has an extensive background with collaboration including Lotus QuickPlace, Domino.Doc, and Lotus Quickr. Mark also possesses a strong skill set in messaging system migration products and planning. Mark spent 10 years in the IBM Software Services for Lotus, before making the move to Sales and Distribution in January of 2007.

I would like to thank my wife Sonia Harper and my two daughters Amber Harper and Bailey Harper for their support in writing this book. I want to thank my mother LaVada Harper and father George "Woody" Harper for pushing me to be the best I could be. I want to thank David Byrd for his help and patience in completing this process. I would also like to thank other co-workers and friends who drive me to better myself and grow everyday. Some of those who have helped me along the way are Jeff Pinkston, Ann Marie Darrough, Holly Rush, Lori Clark, Gene Leo, Johnny Smith, Larry Berthelsen, Bob Miller, Carl Radino, Chris Biega, Luis Benitez, Ted Stanton, Carla Gillespie, and Steve Hardison.

Olusola Omosaiye (Sola) is an IBM Software Engineer and IBM Manager with IBM Software Group's Lotus Division. He has been an IBM employee for 12 years in a number of positions covering various technology areas. Sola has a deep background in technology and software solutions as a Developer, Technology Specialist in Web Content Management, as well as serving as a Solutions and Services Architect.

Sola is now focused on the business value chain link of social collaboration in the globally connected world. As a Development Manager, Sola leads a team of skilled technical engineers in global delivery of service to the real world deployments of IBM's social software solutions.

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IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration

By : Keith Brooks, David Byrd, Mark Harper

IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration

By: Keith Brooks, David Byrd, Mark Harper

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