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Password quality scale in Notes

When registering new users, administrators assign a password strength to the user’s Notes ID file. This setting is stored in the user’s ID file and is enforced by the client software when the users changes their passwords. Prior to R5, password strength was based on the length of the password. Beginning with R5, this feature was enhanced to use a password quality algorithm, instead of relying solely on password length. The algorithm was designed to encourage users to choose better passwords to protect their ID files.

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Visual Studio 2005 gratis zum Download

Microsoft bietet ab sofort die speziell auf Privatanwender zugeschnittenen Express-Versionen von Visual Studio 2005 und SQL Server 2005 zum kostenlosen Download an.
Angeboten werden die englischsprachigen Versionen von Visual Web Developer 2005, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition, Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition und Visual J# 2005 Express Edition.
Die Anwendungen können bis zum 6. November 2006 kostenlos heruntergeladen werden können.

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How to migrate mail messages and contacts from Outlook Express to ND 6.x and later

How can you migrate mail messages and contacts from Microsoft Outlook Express to Notes?

You can use the Upgrade Wizard (Nupgrade.exe) release 6 or later to convert messages and contacts from Outlook Express to Notes. This can be accomplished by following the steps detailed in each of the following sections:

Launch the Upgrade Wizard to create an account for your Notes mail file in Outlook Express.
Transfer messages from Outlook Express to your Notes mail file.
Transfer contacts from Outlook Express to your Notes Personal Address Book.

Launch the Upgrade Wizard to create an account for your Notes mail file in Outlook Express:

1. Open a Command Prompt window by selecting Start -> Run and then type:

cmd.exe

2. Change to the Notes Client program directory. For example:

cd Program Files\Lotus\Notes

3. Enter the following command to launch the Upgrade Wizard:

Nupgrade.exe 4

4. Click “Next” to continue past the Welcome Screen.
5. Click “Finish” to begin the conversion.
6. When prompted, enter the password for your Notes ID file.
7. Specify the following information to create an account for your Notes mail file in Outlook Express:

Account Name: (For example: Lotus Notes)
User Name: (Your Notes shortname)

IMAP Server: (Your Domino mail server)

8. Click “OK” and “Exit”.

Transfer messages from Outlook Express to your Notes mail file:

NOTE: In order to complete the steps in this section, the IMAP task must be running on the Domino server. Otherwise, users will receive the error “The connection to the server has failed” when attempting to transfer messages.

1. Launch Outlook Express.
2. Open any folder in the Local Folders mail account.
3. Perform one of the following steps to transfer messages to your Notes mail account:

Drag and drop messages into your Notes mail account folders, or
Copy messages to the Notes mail account folders, or
Move messages to the Notes mail account folders.

Transfer contacts from Outlook Express to your Notes Personal Address Book:

The Upgrade Wizard adds a “Lotus Notes Personal Address Book” option to the Outlook Express Address Book Export Tool dialog box. Perform the following steps to export your Outlook Express contacts into your Notes Personal Address Book:

1. Launch Outlook Express.
2. Select File -> Export -> Address Book.
3. Select “Lotus Notes Personal Address Book”.
4. Click “Export”.
5. Select your Notes Personal Address Book.
6. Click “Migrate”.

Lotus Notes Knowledgebase #196232


Lichtbildbelehrung

epassWozu die Bürokraten in diesem unserem Lande fähig sind, zeigt sich bei der Einführung der neuen Reisepässe ab dem 01.11.2005. Auf einem Chip in dem Dokument werden biometrische Daten erfasst.
Grundsätzlich kann es einem Chip herzlich egal sein, ob meine Nase schief oder meine Ohren zum Segeln neigen. Nicht aber so den deutschen Behörden.

Damit die Technik nicht zusammenbricht und beim Vergleich des dem Reisepass beigefügten Foto des Inhabers nicht zu viele Varianten berücksichtigen zu müssen, hat man eine sog. Foto-Mustertafel erstellt.

Wer diesem Idealbild nicht entspricht muss bei der Beantragung des Reisepasses folgende Erklärung unterschreiben:

“Hiermit bestätige ich, dass ich von der Ausweisbehörde über die Qualität/Beschaffenheit meines vorgelegten Lichtbildes belehrt wurde.

Ich bestehe auf Annahme dieses Lichtbildes durch die Passbehörde.

Entstehende Schadensersatzansprüche, wegen Abweisung an einer Landesgrenze oder auf Grund polizeilicher Identitätsvorstellungen, kann ich gegenüber der Passbehörde nicht geltend machen. Die Kosten für einen neuen Ausweis habe ich voll zu tragen.”

Quelle: heise online


Neuwahlen im März 2006 ?

Höre ich mir so die Nachrichten an, sieht es fast so aus … was juckt es mich; da gehe ICH nicht hin.
“Münte” hat seinen Kandidaten für den Vorstand nicht durchgebracht und schmollt nun; Stoiber zieht es nunmehr wieder in die Wälder ( “Schickt den Stoiber in die Wälder wegen der Semestergelder hallte es 1979 durch Münchens StraÃ?en ).
Und “Angie”; blass und farblos, sieht sie sich nun mit einer “neuen Linken” konfrontiert, die sie bei den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der “alten Garde” gar nich berücksichtigt hatte.


Verbalizer: Updated code using MSAgent to read e-mail aloud

After receiving years of email, feedback, and support for my first published article on SearchDomino, Using MSAgent to vocally/audibly read e-mail aloud, I ( = Brian Downs ) discovered that implementing the code on a Win2000 system required more than a few changes, and I thought I might share that updated and commented code with all my good friends here.

What this code does is to hijack Clippy….ah, err… I mean, utilize Microsoft Agent (MSAgent), to audibly read any text string fed to it aloud. Having no need to display the agents’ animation, we send Clippy to the netherregions of negative coordinates, enabling users to hear the agents’ “voice” without subjecting them to MSAgents’ animation.

Insofar as MSAgent is automatically installed with every modern Windows OS, its a pretty sure thing that this code *should* run on nearly all Wintel boxes in your organization. You may need to reorient the location of the “Merlin.acs” file to match your configuration, though.

Additionally, beyond the code and the Merlin.asc location, there is one last piece necessary for this to operate — an MSAgent object must be placed on the form on which the code is to run. Select whitespace on your form, and select ‘Create/Object’ in Designer. Switch the first option from ‘Object’ to ‘Control’, and in the Object TYpe selection list search out the “Microsoft Agent Control 2.0”, which will place a small icon representing the object. You can hide this object using the Text Properties box.

As in my original post, you’ll need to cobble together your own @ReplaceSubstring and @Contains scripts; SearchDomino has more than a few posts concerning both. And, as before, I’m still searching for a more elegant means of determining where a response post ends and its quoted original begins; currently, we’re testing for a “—-forwards” string, but I’d be pleased if anyone might suggest a better way.

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Control e-mail with Domino Mail Rules

Using Domino Mail Rules and Passwords, you can control how e-mail is sent to a large number of recipients and protect inboxes from unwanted messages.

1. Create a Group named ej: “Mail Password” and add your own name to the member list.
2. In the Internet address field put the password followed by your domain — Ej: 987654@yourdomain.net
3. Save the group document.
4. Create a Domino Mail Rule in the Configuration document with this content.
5. If “To or CC” is All Company and “BCC” is not 987654@yourdomain.net – don’t accept the message.

via searchdomino