Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Today I encountered an issue when triggering the console command "tell adminp process mail poliy" .
AdminP processed the command but ended displaying
While it is clear from the output that a problem exists, there is not enough information to determine how to correct the issue.
So I searched the KnowledgeBase and found ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Found several "Clearing DBIID" in the log of a recently updated server. The IBM Lotus Software Knowledgebase explains this entries as follows:
The entry is a new logging message specific to cases where a server (and database) use the transaction logging feature. The feature was introduced in Domino releases 8.0.2 and ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
I a recent post I wrote that under some circumstances a database compact on a Domino 8.5 server can corrupt java applets in the database design.
Today, IBM support confirmed this as a bug:
Hello,
I was able to reproduce the issue you reported following your steps to
recreate.
This seems like a bug alright. ...
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Lotus Notes Standard and Basic Client 8.5 and Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5 are available on Passport Advantage in the following languages:
Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese Brazilian, Spanish
You cannot find these downloads? Well, you have to open the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Multiplatform ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Just a hint; i guess, Notes is working as designed.
I have Notes 8.5 Standard client with Designer and Administrator installed and added UseBasicMode=1 to notes.ini to start the client in Basic Mode. Then I opened my mailfile and clicked "View - Agents".
This is, what I found in the statusbar:
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
This document answers the following questions:
What is File Server roaming?
How does File server roaming differ from Domino server roaming?
How does an administrator configure ("upgrade") a user to roam using a file server?
How does an administrator "downgrade" a user from file server roaming?
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
After upgrading 2 production servers to Domino 8.5 yesterday, I found this entry on the console when running a compact -c on the users mail mailfiles.
I have seen this on several databases, but the amount of KB ( ~ + 11MB ) surprised me. Can someone explain this behaviour, pls?
All ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
on Passport Advantage.
UPDATE: Installed, Server up and running !!
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
In Lotus Domino 8.5, you find that user rename and user delete fails to update group membership, except in the case where the renamed or deleted user is also listed in the LocalAdmin field for the group. A fix (DominoServer_85IF1_ ... ) for this issue is available on Fix Central.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Watch this video to learn how to use this Tuner (available in the upcoming Domino 8.5 release) to help you identify Domino configuration problems.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
In Notes 8.5 you can automatically compress images pasted into documents. Note that bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes document are compressed; bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes document are converted to .gif or .jpg format.
Choose "File -> Preferences -> Basic Notes Client Configuration", and ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
There are two new options you can choose during the installation process of the Notes 8.5.client.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
After installing Domino 8.5 Beta 2 and reading Jack Dausmann's post "ND8.5 Beta 2 with XPages Baked In To Templates" I immediately created a new discussion application on the server and opened it in the browser.
The new GUI looks great and using xPages and css it can be easily modified ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
With Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5, a new version of Lotus Notes Travel(l)er will also be available. Here is a list new features for the IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.
Mobile device security policies
An administrator can now define mobile device security policies, along with other Lotus Notes Traveler application settings. The ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
In yesterdays post about how to automatically populate a group document, I published code to do the job in the foreground only. One of my blog readers complained about this. Maybe I was to naive to think that even an unexperienced java developer like me could modify the given code ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
A few days ago, I wrote about a new feature of Domino 8.5 to automatically populate groups via a LDAP selectioncriteria. This is a great feature and I have successfully tested it on my sandbox server.
Since we run Domino 8.0.1 on our productive servers, we cannot use this very useful ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Yesterday I wrote about the new Auto-Populated Groups in Domino 8.5 . Today I want to show, how you can tweak this feature by just adding a new subform to names.nsf on the server and not using any additional code or modifying existing code to make the feature work.
As we ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Domino 8.5 comes with a new feature to use predefined criteria to automatically determine and update group membership.
Complete these steps to set up an auto-populated home server group.
Set up a Home Server auto-populated group in a Group document.
Specify the update interval for auto-populated groups in the Domino Directory Profile document.
and ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Mary Beth Raven explained in her session The Full Monty - 8.5 , how to enable the "Notes Explorer" in Notes 8.5. Here is a photo of the slide
And here is what the client looks like when you follow the instructions
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
After installing the Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5 Beta 1, I could not find any Lotusscript Class browser in the new Eclipse based Designer.
Then I found this blog entry by Julian Buss
There is no new LotusScript editor. And the new, Eclipse based and class browsing LotusScript editor will NOT make ...
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