Debug AutoPop process

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The auto-populated groups feature in Domino 8.5.x is great, but when you run into problems an error message like: "Search for auto-populated group members failed for group TEST.: Error looking up name on LDAP Server; See server log for further details." is not very helpful, because there is no more info in ...

DISABLE_LOG_DBGROUP

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Found this in my inbox today: "Thanks to help from the IBM development team and support the issue some customers have been experiencing when running custom server tasks and Extension Manager on Domino 8.5.1. has been resolved. The root cause of this issue was that IBM has introduced some I/O performance improvements ...

How To Enable RSS For Domino Web Access

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I found this article by Dale Cole in the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino wiki. "In order to enable RSS for mail databases based on the mail 8 template, you need to add ini parameters to the Domino server notes.ini where the mail databases reside. I did this in 8.0.2." {Continue reading}

Notes.ini WiKi

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

A few days ago Vladislavs Tatarincevs sent me this email Hi, Ulrich, in your blog, you have posted some posts that relates to notes.ini, Maybe we could join forces to create a set of Notes.ini for server and client, and post it, I think many young administrators will benefit from this.  ;) I have opened ...

Look Into Your Notes.ini, Please

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

If you recently have installed a new Domino server and enabled the compression of the TCPIP Port during install, the server notes.ini parameter has a wrong value set. The line added to the notes.ini file is as follows: TCPIP=TCP,0,15,0,,32 The correct value is TCPIP=TCP,0,15,0,,12320 To correct the problem, take the following steps to ...

EVENT_CORRELATION_POOL_SIZE

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Have you ever seen this error message on the Domino server console? Error: "11/24/2006 10:51:05   Event: Error updating a Domino Domain Monitoring event document (NoteID 0xF2AA): Event correlation cache is full. You  can increase its size via the NOTES.INI setting  EVENT_CORRELATION_POOL_SIZE" If so, then I assume you know that you can increase ...

Delete_Duplicate_Puid_Notes

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Recently had an eMail contact with Bastian Wieczorek about his post on "HowTo Fix: duplicate PUIDs found". I proposed to add a notes.ini entry Delete_Duplicate_Puid_Notes=1 to let Domino do the cleanup instead of doing it manually from the console as Bastian wrote. One problem we both have is that there is ...

Why Is the Last Line in the NOTES.INI Not Taking Effect?

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Although all experienced Notes administrators and developers (might) know why, I would like to commemorate the anwer to the question. Any parameter that is added as the last line in the NOTES.INI file requires that there be a hard carriage return (the ENTER key) after the last line to ensure that ...

Suppressing The Prompts On Failover

Monday, March 31st, 2008

If a failover condition occurs , Notes will close the current tab and prompt you to switch to a different replica of the database, allowing you to attempt the action again. A notes.ini variable has been introduced in Lotus Notes® 8.0.1 to prevent the failover prompt when the server holding the ...

Use mail.box When Multiple mail.boxes Are Enabled

Monday, February 11th, 2008

When multiple mail boxes are enabled, they are titled mail1.box, mail2.box, and so on and the router uses these mail boxes for routing messages. To force the router to use "mail.box", add the parameter to the notes.ini file: Mail_Enable_Mailbox_Compatibility=1 The parameter keeps the "mail.box" file and still will create mail2.box, mail3.box, and so ...

Notes.ini Preferences Plug-In For Lotus Notes 8

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Notes.ini preferences plug-in (sreenshot) is the Eclipse 3.2 compatible plug-in integrated into Lotus Notes 8 client's File/Preferences area, which allows you perform such tasks as: - view all settings of your local Lotus Notes 8 client's notes.ini file in sorted way - quick lookup of each setting via the type ahead control - ...