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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
When you intend to start your DAOS rollout using the recently released Domino 8.5.2, you will get a warning, when the DAOS repository is located under the Domino data directory. Having the DAOS repository in this location is not a recommended configuration.
Domino will show a warning
And IBM makes it very, ...
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2 provides a new feature to upgrade multiple local databases to a new ODS.
This document contains information that is not contained in the help files shipped with Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2.
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
"Do you need to write a Domino add-in task in Java? The JAddIn frameworks greatly helps you to create Java tasks for Domino by freeing you to learn all the Domino add-in specifics. It supports all Domino server versions since 7.0 on all platforms and processor architectures."
more ...
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2 is just around the corner. GA has been announced for 24-August-2010. The fixlist is already available and contains almost 1.500 fixes. One of my favourites is:
DWON84BSU3 Fixed issue with Sametime Chat status text being displayed in Portuguese instead of Brazilian Portuguese.
Didn't know that there is such ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
I will do two sessions at this years Admin Camp 2010.
Admin Camp is a 3 days ad free conference held from 20. - 22 September 2010 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The organizers put together an impressive agenda. They invited national and international speakers. Paul Mooney, Christian Henseler, Andrew Pollack and also IBMers ...
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Friday, August 13th, 2010
I recently had an issue with photos in businesscards in my "Lab" Sametime 8.5.1 installtion on SLES 10.3. I had configured names.nsf as source for the picture in my dual repository configuration. This configuration works in a productive environment with Sametime 8.5 Community Server on Windows 8.5FP1 ( + HF ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
A few minutes ago, I got an e-mail saying:
Your ILUG session: "Compact, Compress, De-Duplicate" has been accepted.
I've already booked flight and hotel a few weeks ago and now I have to start to prepare my session.
OK, so let's see ... File - New - Presentation ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Have you created a policy and do not think it has been assigned to a user or group?
Are policies not in effect for Community Server users that you have configured in the Sametime System Console?
Then you should check your sametime.ini. Search for POLICY_DB_BB_IMPL=
If the result is
POLICY_DB_BB_IMPL=com.ibm.sametime.policy.databasebb.notes.DbNotesBlackBox
replace it with
POLICY_DB_BB_IMPL=com.ibm.sametime.policy.databasebb.xml.DbXmlBlackBox
The ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Just finished a Sametime 8.5.1 installation on SLES 10. The clean install was painless and ran without any issues.
For Sametime 8.5 I wrote my own shellscript to start and stop the different components of the Sametime installation automatically at startup.
In 8.5.1, IBM creates the start/stop scripts during installation. The only ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
If you have Sametime 8.5 installed and you intend to upgrade to the new 8.5.1 release, then you might be encountered with an error that will neither let you upgrade your meeting server and media management installation nor allow a new installation.
I wrote about the problem earlier in in this ...
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
I installed FP4 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 today on my office pc. Its a Lenovo R500, 4GB RAM with Windows 7 Ultimate (64Bit). I've already heard from others that there are some "timing problems" with the recent fixpack. But I never expected this
Anyone more ??
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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
This book written by Russel Smith and published by PACKT Publishing in July 2010 contains detailed step-by-step instructions for implementing Least Privilege Security and related management technologies.
It has solutions to the most common technical challenges and Microsoft best practice advice. It also covers techniques for managing Least Privilege on the ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
The new Sametime 8.5.1 Meeting Server and Media Manager still refuses to install or upgrade. So I decided to re-install the recently unregistered and uninstalled Media Manager 8.5.
I started to create a new deployment plan because the previous plan was intended for version 8.5.1. There is now a dropdown where ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
I have downloaded all the necessary files yesterday and started the upgrade earlier today.
It went fine for the System Console Server, the Community Server and the Proxy Server. All components are now running on version 8.5.1. on Linux.
I have some problems upgrading Meeting Server and Media Manager Server. I have ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
For a few days now, I tried to get Business Cards working in Sametime 8.5 using a dual repository ( LDAP / DominoApplication). I red almost all articles in the samtime wiki and in the sametime forum and was sure that my configuration was correct and should work. But nada. ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This article by Jack Downing and Michael Herring describes how to use the Sametime System Console to configure your 8.5.1 Sametime servers with an 8.0.2 Community server.
The article is also a good ressource when you have to troubleshoot a community server installation, because it describes some configuration files that are ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Least Privilege Security is the practice of assigning users and programs the minimum permissions required to complete a given task. Implementing this principle in different versions of Microsoft Windows requires careful planning and a good understanding of Windows security. While there are benefits in implementing Least ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Found this information in the IBM Lotus Knowledgebase ( Technote #1438255 )
The working sets information is kept in a file called workingsets.xml in the following location in your Notes installation folder:
Notes\Data\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.workbench
Copy this file to the new Domino Designer client in the same location while Domino Designer is not running. When ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
I have done a some 15 sametime installations over the past few month. Most of them to prepare a session for the upcoming AdminCamp in Gelsenkirchen later this year. All installation are on Linux.
I have also setup a productive environment for our company which runs fine except a few issues.
During ...
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
If you are running Sametime 8.5 either on Windows or on Linux you need to create some script to start all components automatically on server startup. Michael Urspringer has already done this for Windows and Enio Basso contributed a script for Linux.
In addition, Sasa Brkic recently posted a script to ...
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