Paul Mooney: Setting up your iPhone to use your business mail, calendar and contacts

October 14 2009

Paul was kind enough to blog this simple guide to using Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.1 on the iPhone last week, but 8.5.1 had not yet shipped.  Now that the code is out, I wanted to link back to Paul's tutorial:

I presented on Lotus Traveler and went through the iPhone setup using a webcam.  I figured it may be useful to someone to screenshot the set-up process, just so you see how easy this is.  Setting up the traveler server is very straightforward, and installation instructions are in the admincamp 2009 presentation on my resources page.  So, here is the client set-up.
I think the end-user setup is one of the more elegant aspects of the Notes Traveler implementation on the iPhone.  Unlike the Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian devices, we don't deploy a client -- we just use what's already on the device.  Further, we don't ask the user to do much of anything -- they don't have to go into the configuration and set the service up.  As with most things Apple, it.just.works.

Now if you are interested in the back-end plumbing, don't forget Declan Lynch's excellent blog entries on configuring advanced settings: Part 1 and Part 2.

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Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  notesdomino lotusnotes 8.5 lotus  Add/View Comments [8]

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  1. 1  Paul T Calhoun  | 10/14/2009 9:07:07 AM

    Ed is there any chance we will be getting Travel for the Linux Server Platform ?

    Myself as well as several of my customers are Linux based server only, but would like to take advantage of Traveler.

    Thanks.

  1. 2  Denny Russell http://www.lotusdr.com | 10/14/2009 9:36:12 AM

    I can attest to Traveler being easy to set up. Upgraded my server and installed traveler last night ans setup some users this morning. { Link }

    Nice work IBM>

  1. 3  Tom  | 10/14/2009 10:06:28 AM

    Where can we find Traveler 8.5.1? I just checked passport advantage listings under "Associated products included at no additional charge" and a download link for Traveler 8.5.1 is not listed, however Traveler 8.5 is listed. Does traveler 8.5 support the iphone assuming the domino server is at 8.5.1?

  1. 4  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 10/14/2009 10:24:17 AM

    @1 Linux is on the roadmap for Traveler, but no formal announcement or release plan has been determined.

    @2 Thanks!

    @3 search for part number CZ5SYML . It is in within three eAssemblies -- CR9TXEN, CR9UZEN, CR9VLEN.

  1. 5  Tripp Black http://www.mindwatering.com | 10/14/2009 10:30:52 AM

    @3 Traveler 8.5.1 was needed for iPhone. We found it under the client + twistie. We set the server up the night before last. We set up a couple of our iPhones and iPods yesterday morning. As advertised "it just works".

    @1, We already asked. We are a Linux and Mac shop. There are others asking, too. It's on the "roadmap" was Ed's response a few days ago. It took a while for Sametime, too. Specifically, we had questions how to run a "free" add-on when to do so would require another "not-free" server license. It took a while to get a response from the IBM sales and technical support folks about Sametime. Basically, what we ended up being told, was we can either wait for it to come out on Linux, or we can set up a second server on Windows with ST and make sure we don't use the server for anything but ST chat. As long as we didn't use it for any "user access other than ST", we'd be okay in their eyes. Although it wasn't a quick response, we were very pleased with IBM Lotus' flexibility and response. So, we have done the same thing for Traveler. We cloned a test XPSP2 vitual machine, installed the 32bit Domino server, reused a demo server ID from a few years back, and installed Travler. In less than 40 minutes, we were up and running. It works supurbly!

    Also, we noticed the 3.12 iPhone and iPod touch software includes LDAP and iCAL settings. Ironically, this would have been good before, too, even w/o Traveler. However, as I wear multiple "hats" and the iPhone and iPod only support one Exchange account (used w/Traveler), the additional settings allowed us to setup secondary mail and LDAP accounts, too.

    Very cool.

    The only thing we have not been able to do is have an additional calendar overlay come down to the iPhone. We didn't see it on the limitations in the documentation (yes, i actually read it, afterwards of course), but otherewise, it all works GREAT!. As @2 said, Very nice work IBM :-).

  1. 6  Tom  | 10/15/2009 10:26:11 AM

    It wasn't easy but I found the installer. What was easy was installing it on the server and getting it to start pushing PIM data down to the iphone. All this at no additional cost - this is great!

  1. 7  Nazeer Aval   | 10/16/2009 6:57:16 AM

    Ed, we use Traveler extensively. Do you have any plan to include SAmetime IM?

  1. 8  Jean Brossard http://iphonefordomino.blogspot.com | 10/19/2009 10:57:57 PM

    Loved Paul's article. His was actually part of the inspiration for my own attempt at providing a super detailed, step-by-step instructional guide for setting up native iPhone support for Domino:

    { Link }

    Would appreciate any feedback!

    JB