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 the server log.
Add debug_autopop=2 to Continue reading →

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 for logging with 8.5.1, which Continue reading →

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.”
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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 discussion on my blog, but Continue reading →

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 set the correct value:

Launch the Continue reading →

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 the cache size by adding Continue reading →

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 no information about this parameter. Continue reading →

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 it will take effect.  Without Continue reading →

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 current application is no longer Continue reading →

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 on.
This is useful if you Continue reading →