IBM Lotus Domino Change Manager
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:57a Christian Brandlehner I found a product at the Lotusphere Showcase that seems to be worth having a look. IONET Software offers a change management tool for auditing changes in the Domino Directory. The Change Manager seems to be designed to work fine in a distributed server environment. All software is in Notes databases so no software needs to be installed on the OS or as an extension manager to Domino. [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
lotusphere
notes
server
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Cool Paragliding Video
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:57a Christian Brandlehner I found this cool video on YouTube with lots of impressions of the Pre-European Paragliding Championship in Abtenau.
See more information on the European Paragliding Championship 2010 page or on facebook. [read] Keywords: application
facebook
Could not renew Lotus Domino Server SSL key
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:57a Christian Brandlehner IBM Lotus Domino can use an SSL key to provide encrypted network access. To get SSL working you have to use the database cetsrv.nsf, create a certificate request (CSR), paste that into your PKI-providers form who will return a signed certificate. Once you merge that signed certificate into your servers keyring you are ready to go.
The problem I see is that the CSR created by Version 8.5.1 is based on the MD5 algorithm and most PKIs started to refuse MD5 in CSRs in favor of SHA-1 or newer algori [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
database
network
server
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What happens if a kid finds that solving a rubix cube is not enough
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 3:25p Christian Brandlehner Last Christmas my son, now 14 years old, got a robotic toolkit present. This is a video showing the result. I was honestly stunned by surprise.
He uses the robotic toolkit to move the cube. A webcam is linked to a PC to feed the algorithm. A Visual Basic program feeds the robot with instructions.
Sourcecode available on his website. [read] Keywords: application
19
Why IBM Lotus Symphony?
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 12:11p Christian Brandlehner IBM released a document explaining why IBM decided to release a free office product and how IBM positions Lotus Symphony in the market. It also contains a brief feature comparison showing the difference to another popular office suite. [read] Keywords: document
ibm
lotus
symphony
office
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Once in a lifetime
Thu, Jul 16th 2009 8:10a Christian Brandlehner This is a interresting story about a dairymaid living in Annaberg which is the village just next to Abtenau where I grew up. [read] Keywords: application
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IBM announces Plugins for Lotus Notes Standard client
Thu, Jul 16th 2009 5:46a Christian Brandlehner IBM announced a press release regarding Widgets in Lotus Notes. Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Software said: "Whatever Lotus customers need, there's a widget for that."
The press release mentions two Widgets, the first one is a LinkedIn Widget the second is a TripIt Widget.
Both widgets install easy, all you have to do is to drag and drop an xml-file onto your Widgets-Sidebar, you can even drag it directly from a browser to Notes so you do not have to use th [read] Keywords: collaboration
ibm
lotus
notes
linkedin
widget
widgets
xml
Comparison of Email Clients
Wed, Jun 3rd 2009 8:30a Christian Brandlehner The link to ITcomparison.com I posted yesterday received some critics. With todays link I am trying to get you involved and ask you to share your knowledge. [read] Keywords: email
wiki
AdminP tip
Thu, May 7th 2009 8:05a Christian Brandlehner Chad Scott posted a good tip regarding AdminP I want to share with you:
http://bleedyellow.com/blogs/chadscott/entry/caveat_with_adminp_direct_deposit30 [read] Keywords: adminp
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
Weird problem with Ubuntu Linux and Alice ADSL
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 12:24p Christian Brandlehner I am currently on vacation in Italy and stumbled apon a weird problem with the network I am using here. While there is no problem using Windows XP, I had massive problems with Ubuntu Linux. I was able to connect using 802.11g WPA2-AES and I was able to make namelookups and ping was working BUT the browser just hang after retrieving a short part of the page and some pages did not load at all. So I had to analyze the problem:
This is an ADSL connection from Alice, the router is a Alice Gate 2 Plus [read] Keywords: javascript
linux
network
ubuntu
9
"Operation aborted" when using the Dojo Framework with IE6
Fri, Feb 27th 2009 2:53a Christian Brandlehner As IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 now ships with the dojo Toolkit included you may have seen problems using your site using Internet Explorer 6. In my case, the website rendered just fine with Firefox and IE7 but in IE6 all I got was an empty page and an error message "operation aborted".
I found [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
dojo
firefox
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Require SSL connection seems to be broken with Lotus iNotes in Domino 8.5
Thu, Feb 26th 2009 1:11p Christian Brandlehner If your users are using Lotus iNotes to access their email from PCs located at insecure network locations you surely want to encrypt at least username and password.This can be done by checking the database property "require SSL connection" on domcfg.nsf which holds (by default) your login form. This is all fine but once authenticated your users may change the URL from https back to http for whatever reason. I tried to prevent that by checking the same property "require ssl connection" on the use [read] Keywords: domino
inotes
lotus
database
email
network
password
Need help: Anybody from Italy willing to help?
Thu, Jan 29th 2009 10:06a Christian Brandlehner I need your help: my brother in law, living in Italy but not speaking italian has to cancel his ADSL connection because he moves to another address. I need somebody speaking italian to call the provider to cancel his account.
If you are willing to help me out please contact me on skype or drop me an email to christian(at)brandlehner.at [read] Keywords: email
skype
DAOS error message and solution
Tue, Jan 27th 2009 5:44p Christian Brandlehner I upgraded an IBM Lotus Domino Server to Version 8.5 and configured it to use DAOS. As I used the compact task I saw this ugly error message:
01/27/2009 23:16:32 The database /home/domino01/data/common/smartup4.TMP was unable to write to file /home/domino01/DAOS/0001/462C1A5581296F54C125754B007A5D302462C1A5581296FP.nlo: Release 8.5HF23 December 31, 2008
I remembered I heard at Lotusphere that DAOS does not work when using 2048 bit server id-files so I added DAOS_ENCRYPT_NLO=0 to the notes.ini [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
lotusphere
notes
database
server
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Using Domain Search to index files in the filesystem
Sat, Aug 9th 2008 9:33a Christian Brandlehner After posting a trick regarding Domino Domain Search I was asked to provide some basic details on the configuration. I am going to show how to configure Domino Domain Search to index files so you can search for content. [read] Keywords: domino
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A Domain Search trick
Tue, Aug 5th 2008 11:10a Christian Brandlehner Domain Search is quite an old feature of IBM Lotus Domino but not quite popular. One reason may be that using Domain Search from a browser has some limitations (read on for a workaround). Basically, it is a fulltext search across multiple databases (even on different servers) and files (yes files on the filesystem, not attached to documents in a database).
The problem is that usually not all of your applications are fully web-enabled so you prefer to open search results from Domain Search with [read] Keywords: document
domino
ibm
javascript
lotus
notes
notes client
applications
database
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What makes a Notes Client a Standard Client opposed to Basic Client
Tue, Aug 5th 2008 9:47a Christian Brandlehner You may already know that even if you install a Notes Standard Client (the one with the Eclipse stuff) you can force the start of a Notes Basic Client by creating a new shortcut to notes.exe adding the parameter "-sa".
Now think of a situation where you want to have ONE software installation pack for all your client but make it up to the user to decide if he wants to start the Standard or the Basic Client. You will find out that using a second shortcut is not sufficient as Notes may be fired up [read] Keywords: notes
notes client
eclipse
email
22
Saving network bandwith sending outbound SMTP to relay host
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 7:43a Christian Brandlehner There is a notes.ini parameter RouterKeepRelayedBCCsIntact which is almost unknown as there is no equivalent in the servers configuration document. Given that you are using a SMTP relay hosts (as customers of postini or messagelabs do) this setting will allow your outbound SMTP email having several recipients on the BCC list to be sent as a single mail to the relay host instead of sending separate emails for each BCC recipient. [read] Keywords: document
ibm
notes
email
network
smtp
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Implementing a CAPTCHA with IBM Lotus Domino
Sat, May 3rd 2008 6:42p Christian Brandlehner I am currently having some problems with form SPAM. Although the form is save and does not allow cross site scripting or even the execution of injected JavaScript it is still a pain in the as to have to delete SPAM from whatever web based database (guestbook , feedback, trouble-ticket, ...).
I have seen CAPTCHA solutions for other platforms but not for Domino so I started developing my own implementation... [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
javascript
lotus
database
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I am currently on vacation
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 4:00p Christian Brandlehner I am on vacation in Marocco, see this single picture or our guides paragliding travel homepage. [read] Keywords:
My Lotusphere URLs
Wed, Jan 23rd 2008 3:00p Christian Brandlehner I would like to share some URLs with you linking to new Lotus products/services announced at Lotusphere 2008. First is bluehouse, which is currently under development but accepts Beta nominations.
A new offering is Lotus Foundation, an offering for smaller companies. Lotus Foundation addresses customers with limited or no knowledge in Domino administration.
This is the full pressrelease. [read] Keywords: administration
, bluehouse
, domino
, lotus
, lotusphere
, development
, linking
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The Walt Disney World and Swan hotel - first negative experience
Fri, Jan 18th 2008 3:00p Christian Brandlehner Sorry but I have to rant again. Sure, it is Lotusphere and I will be there, so why complain?
The problem is, I had a reservation at the SWAN but they are overbooked so they relocated me to antoher hotel in the area for some days. As there is no Lotusphere shuttle bus service I have to go by Taxi and the worst thing: the Swan is NOT paying the extra costs for needed transportation.
Update: I just checked out and found that I was not charged for the days being relocated. Asking at the check-out d [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, reservation
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Lotus Quickr for Domino hotfixes available for public download
Mon, Jan 7th 2008 3:00p Christian Brandlehner Customers using Lotus Quickr should check the fixlist in this technote and upgrade using the download link on the bottom of the document.
Lotus Domino Quickr 8.0.0.0 HF17 is the most current version for NON-english installations, when using the english version the most current version is 8.0.0.2 HF7. [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, lotus
, quickr
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NNotify for Lotus Notes, the new Notes Minder?
Sun, Jan 6th 2008 3:00p Christian Brandlehner I have seen NNotify at one of my customers recently and tried it myself. Basically it gives you a better information about the simple fact, that you have a new mail.
The "Problem" with Lotus Notes is that the information about new mail is either a sound, a symbol in the Windows system tray or a popup window - or any combination of the three. Personally I *hate* the popup notification.
I hate to find that the text I was writing did not go into a document as I was writing into the new mail dialog. [read] Keywords: admin
, designer
, document
, domino
, lotus
, notes
, notes client
Where does the integrated Sametime client store the location information?
Wed, Dec 12th 2007 3:00p Christian Brandlehner I am using Lotus Notes 8, the full featured Eclipse based version, with Sametime and really like the location awareness.
Unfortunately I messed up some location information by mistyping or saving incomplete data by accidentially hitting the enter key. I was wondering where that location information is stored and what format that data is. I found that the information is stored in a XML file containing the information I typed in, the IP I had at that location plus a MAC address (of the default gat [read] Keywords: collaboration
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, sametime
, eclipse
, mac
, workspace
, xml
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New Nokia PC Suite 6.85
Thu, Nov 29th 2007 3:00p Christian Brandlehner Nokia released a new version of Nokia PC Suite this week. I use it to sync my Lotus Notes 8 calendar and contacts with my Symbian based Nokia E61. You can download the software there: http://europe.nokia.com/pcsuite [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
Changes in Lotus Notes 8 that surprized me
Tue, Sep 11th 2007 3:00p Christian Brandlehner I am going to update this blog entry with things that puzzle me in the final version of Notes 8.
Roaming is supported with the basic client, but not with the full featured (Eclipse based) Lotus Notes Client
Lock Notes ID (Ctrl-F5) does not blank the screen, you can see all information display when locking. This makes locking the PC when leaving the desk even more important.
The bookmarks. I can't find a way to display them as workspace. This is going to make users return to the workspace.
[read] Keywords: document
, lotus
, notes
, notes client
, roaming
, sametime
, eclipse
, workspace
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Linux boot options for VMware to address time drift problem
Tue, Aug 14th 2007 3:00p Christian Brandlehner When running a Lotus Domino Server a wrong time can be very annoying, just imagine you have some agents not triggered at the expected (real) time. I have seen some Operating System time drift especially with Linux virtualized into VMware. I made some google searches and found that this problem seems to be quite common and there is lot of information on that issue.
I found a solution that works for me, which is to edit the boot options settings to add the following parameters: acpi=off noapic nos [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, google
, linux
, server
, vmware
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IBM Lotus Domino Web Access (DWA) now supported for Windows Vista
Tue, Jul 31st 2007 10:00p Christian Brandlehner Due to the fact that IBM Lotus Domino 6.x was released some time before Windows Vista was released, there was no support for Internet Explorer on Windows Vista. A couple of customers asked for a fix for Domino 6.x so they do not have to upgrade to Domino 7.x to solve the issue. A Fix for Domino 6.5.6 FP1 is now introducing this support for DWA on Vista.
More Information from IBM: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24016489 [read] Keywords: domino
, dwa
, ibm
, lotus
, vista
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Transparent cluster failover coming with Notes 8
Tue, Jul 31st 2007 1:36a Christian Brandlehner Currently, in Notes 6.x and 7.x a Notes user is being prompted if he want's to try to switch to another server in case the current server does not respond. This prompts says:
The server with this database is no longer responding. Should Notes switch to a replica on another server?
Customers opened PMRs asking for a change* so Notes 8 introduces a new notes.ini parameter HidePromptFailoverInc =1 that eliminates the prompt by defaulting to yes.
This information is based on Technote 1115373 [read] Keywords: notes
, database
, server
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NSD improvements
Mon, Jun 18th 2007 3:00p Christian Brandlehner Notes System Diagnostics (NSD) has been improved and downloads are available for the 6.5.x and 7.x codestream. Technote 1233676 explains what has been improved and fixed. For better NSD performance on AIX 5.3 you should install APAR IY95879.
Link:
Updated NSD [read] Keywords: notes
, nsd
, aix
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Ytria aclEZ tool (Beta)
Mon, Jun 11th 2007 12:25a Christian Brandlehner Ytria released a beta version (30 days free use) of aclEZ. This tool allows you to browse multiple databases ACL in a flexible way and allows you to edit the ACL on multiple databases as well. [read] Keywords: acl
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What is new in ytria scanEZ
Tue, Mar 13th 2007 7:18a Christian Brandlehner In March Ytria added a new tool to scanEZ, their database-viewer and mass-modification tool.
The "Post Replication Auditor" immediately shows all documents that reappear after deletion stubs are purged.
These documents can then be treated using scanEZ powerfull mass-modification features.
Give it a try and let them know what you think. [read] Keywords: database
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New Microsoft Exchange with IBM Lotus Domino interoperability service
Sun, Feb 18th 2007 3:29a Christian Brandlehner A customer who is migrating from Exchange to Lotus Domino (for whatever reason and less likely the other way round) will be looking for a coexistance solution. Microsoft Transporter for Lotus Domino features directory syncronisation and free/busy lookup.
With IBM Lotus Domino 7 a new webservice based freetime lookup feature was implemented but as Microsoft Exchange does not support that yet this tool is currently the only way to have free/busy information in a mixed environment with the two pro [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, exchange
, exchange
, microsoft
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A WIKI theme for IBM Lotus QuickPlace
Sun, Feb 18th 2007 2:23a Christian Brandlehner IBM Lotus QuickPlace is in the market for some years now featuring some extras still missing in most web based applications. This is the rich text editor plus an easy way to upload (attach) files.
SNAPPS tried to use that product as a WIKI
by building a QWiki
theme for the right look and feel plus a PlaceBot that extends logics. [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, quickplace
, rich text
, applications
, wiki
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Editing the Lotus Notes Preferences (notes.ini) on Mac OS
Sat, Feb 3rd 2007 1:31p Christian Brandlehner As documented by IBM there a difference between Lotus Notes for Windows and Lotus Notes on Macintosh platform in editing the preferences. While you needed just a text editor on Windows you needed a separate tool for Mac clients.
This changed with Lotus Notes 7.x as you do no longer need any tool. I post some screenshots to show how much easier this is with Notes 7. [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, mac
, macintosh
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ID214, Best Practices for Clustering Performance
Wed, Jan 24th 2007 10:34a Christian Brandlehner Attention: Cluster Replication bypasses Formula Replication!
Nice recommendation for Domino with SAN: Install OS and Domino on the SAN, have another RAID on the SAN for Domino data and use the local disk(s) for Transactional logging because the local disks should be the fastest ones. This will give you a very fast system. [read] Keywords: domino
, formula
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AD301, Calendaring and Scheduling
Wed, Jan 24th 2007 8:30a Christian Brandlehner This session is about how to create calendar entries and invitations.
Very important is a document that lists and somewhat explains all the fields used in calendar documents.
It is planned to provide API functions and webservices to create calendar entries. [read] Keywords: calendaring
, document
ID206, Be the first to know about IBM Lotus Domino 8 Performance
Tue, Jan 23rd 2007 12:44p Christian Brandlehner Angelo Lynn and Harry Murray were takling about Perormance.
Key news:
Domino needs configuraiton on Linux for optimal performance.(MEM_AddressableMemSizeMB, MEM_EnablePreAlloc, ...)
When using Domino 7.0.2 or higher on 64 Bit Linux use Tunekrnl to leveralge 4GB of memory to Domino.
When using Domino on 64Bit Windows the performance is better than with W32 on the same box.
Domino on AIX is able to use the very large memory model which will give better performance.
Recommendation: when thinking [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, aix
, linux
, server
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AD302, What is New in the IBM Lotus Domino Web Server
Tue, Jan 23rd 2007 8:20a Christian Brandlehner In addition to the notes.ini parameter DominoCompleteDocType which has been introduced in 6.5.3, IBM added a field to complete the doctype. Even more useful is a new URL parameter to get JSON from a view instead of XML by using ?ReadViewEntries&OutputFormat=JSON. Although this is on the list of new features for Domino 8 it is available in Domino 7.0.2 and up.
You can add special $$fields to disable Passthru HTML and even narow down on what kind of Passthru HTML you want to disable (by square [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, richtext
, server
, xml
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Microsoft Exchange Gateway problem
Tue, Jan 9th 2007 6:43a Christian Brandlehner I know some customers using the Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus Domino for coexistence of Notes/Domino and Outlook/Exchange (after migrating from Exchange to Domino). You should be aware that the connector uses Notes RTF export functionality to transfer Notes Rich Text (CD) emails to MS-RTF. Due to the fact that the RTF export was entirely rewritten in 6.5.5 the connector stopps working correctly. With version 6.5.5 (and up) you can use the notes.ini parameter UseOlderRTFImportExport=1 to [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, notes
, rich text
, exchange
, exchange
, microsoft
, outlook
, xml
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Lotus Notes 7.0.2 on Mac OS X, Problem with MIME emails
Fri, Jan 5th 2007 2:03a Christian Brandlehner As already posted here, Notes 7.0.2 for Mac OS X does not load HTML resources (images) in MIME emails and in databases using passthrough HTML. The problem source does not seem to be a missing perweb.nsf though, I found that this database is being created during setup as expected. [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, database
, mac
Performance Tuning Lotus Domino Transaction Logging
Wed, Dec 6th 2006 2:25a Christian Brandlehner IBM Lotus Domino can use Transaction Logging circular, to prevent data loss or data corruption in case of a server crash, or archive style. This allows use of certified backup software that will frequently store the translogs in addition to eg weekly full-backups to save diskspace compared to daily full-backups. Of course this configuraiton requires correct configuration and you should think about performance BEFORE implementing. [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, archive
, server
Support for IBM Lotus Domino in WMware
Fri, Oct 6th 2006 1:18a Christian Brandlehner There is a Lotus Technote about Lotus Domino support when installed in a virtualized OS on VMware. The Technote warns that there have been no performance testings from IBM so performance could be a problem.
I have hear from a customer, that while you can have several thousand Notes users on a Intel/AMD-box, in a VMware you will see the limit with 100 users, so the performance is degraded by factor 10 as a minimum. I would like to hear if you have seen similar results. [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, vmware
Import PNG images with Lotus Notes
Wed, Sep 13th 2006 11:20p Christian Brandlehner As reported, Lotus Notes does not support PNG images but you can configure Lotus Notes to import PNG graphic files into a rich text field by adding the following line to your Notes clients notes.ini
EDITIMP18=PNG Image,0,_IW4W,,.PNG,,8,
I recommend to also add the following parameter to your notes.ini file
OptimizeImagePasteSize=1 [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, rich text
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Update your NSD
Wed, Sep 13th 2006 12:48a Christian Brandlehner NSD is an important tool to dump information in case of a PANIC or other software problems. The NSD files contain information you can provide to IBM to determine the cause of the software problem. Better NSD files means it is easier to determine the root cause of your Domino servers problem! So update your NSD now: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24013182 [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, nsd
Sametime Servers
Wed, Aug 16th 2006 8:15a Christian Brandlehner I just made a simple NETCRAFT search looking for hosts having "sametime" within their name. The list contains 29 servers but the important message is, that a high percentage of these servers do not require authentication, you can just use them to make online meetings. [read] Keywords: sametime
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The Lotus Notes password
Wed, Aug 2nd 2006 8:09a Christian Brandlehner Wouldn't it be nice to have a Lotus Notes password dialog that shows you when you have to change your password and when your certificate will expire?
I made a fake screenshot to impress what I am thinking of, knowing that there are situations where you can't show that information BEFORE you entered the password, for example if you are trying to retrieve the id from the person document or the roaming names.nsf if you are a roaming user. But in cases we have the id file locally, I think this shoul [read] Keywords: document
, lotus
, notes
, roaming
, password
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Sending a contact to a mobile phone using bluetooth
Fri, Jul 28th 2006 10:03a Christian Brandlehner I found an agent that sends any contact from your local names.nsf to your mobile phone using bluetooth. You can download a template containing that agent here.
The prerequisite is that your computer is using a bluetooth stack from WIDCOM as the agent relies on a dll file called btsendto_notes.dll. If you have that dll installed on your PC, this agent should work. [read] Keywords: agent
, template
, mobile
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IBM Take Back Control
Tue, Jul 25th 2006 3:36p Christian Brandlehner There is a new fancy site called "Take Back Control", have a look there: http://www.ibm.com/takebackcontrol/sametime [read] Keywords: ibm
, sametime
4
Logitech Newsletter
Thu, Jul 6th 2006 11:41p Christian Brandlehner Logitech sent me a newsletter and I have to blog about the first sentence. It says "If you are using Lotus Notes or display is incorrect, please click here". Clicking on the link will sent you to a HTML site showing you that newsletter in the browser. Needless to say that the newsletter displays just fine in Lotus Notes, so the "warning" is unneccesarry.
I wonder if Logitech tried to make a statement instead of providing help. [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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Language Pack Installer Problem
Wed, Jun 28th 2006 4:02a Christian Brandlehner Today I tried to install a german Language Pack on IBM Lotus Domino 6.5.5 on RedHat Linux. The installer failed to start with the error message:
Unable to load native library: libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
I found Tecnote 1173500 giving the following help:
1. Get the file ftp://people.redhat.com/drepper/libcwait.c.2. check if gcc is installed with "rpm -qa | grep gcc".3. Install gcc if not present.4. Compile the downloade [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, linux
, redhat
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Alternate Names
Thu, Jun 8th 2006 11:03a Christian Brandlehner Today I was thinking about alternate names and playing around with issuing a cross certificate for /IBM I would like to ask you, if you use this feature because I know only one customer who uses alternate names. What are the issues/problems that prevent using it?
Isn't this feature meant to have also usernames with special characters, like german umlauts, in a person documents without using those special characters in the username? I think yes, but there may be issues not to use it this way as I [read] Keywords: ibm
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Warning for IBM Java Applet used in Webmail
Mon, May 22nd 2006 1:44a Christian Brandlehner There is a current issue with the JAVA Applets provided with IBM Lotus Domino (up to 7.0.1). These applets are digitally signed with a certificate which expired on 18 May 2006. In theory this should be no issue as the certificate was valid at the time being used to sign the code. The only impact should be that the certificate could not be used any longer for signing.
In fact, several JRE's, including Sun JAVA 1.5.0 prompt the user with a certificate error prompt. IBM reacted by providing a fixpa [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, java
Performance Tuning von Domino Webapplikationen
Wed, Apr 19th 2006 11:50a Christian Brandlehner Ich habe nun die finale Version der Präsentation fertiggestellt. Dabei hatte ich am Ende noch mehr Probleme als mir lieb waren.
Ich habe, wie es sich für einen braven Betatester gehört, die Präsentation mit den IBM Productivity Tools, einem Subset des Workplace Managed Clients geschrieben. Diese Productivity Tools gefallen mir auch eigentlich ganz gut im Vergleich mit OpenOffice Impress und MS Powerpoint. Obwohl die Wurzel dieses Tools in Impress liegt, wurde ein eigenes Dateiformat .sxi ei [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, openoffice
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Performance Tuning of Domino Webapplications
Sun, Apr 16th 2006 7:19a Christian Brandlehner I just finished the first part of my presentation and post it here for review. Please leave comments if you find incorrect information or something missing. Stay tuned for more information to come soon. [read] Keywords: domino
4
Exchange must go
Sat, Apr 15th 2006 12:10a Christian Brandlehner I came along this picture on the blog of Chris Blatnick, and found this one is an eye catcher.
This picture would be a nice logo for IBM's Migrate to the Penguin program as well. [read] Keywords: ibm
, exchange
, exchange
Performance Tuning IBM Lotus Domino Webapplications
Fri, Mar 31st 2006 5:05a Christian Brandlehner I was invited to talk about Performance Tuning IBM Lotus Domino Webapplication at the Admin&Developer 2006 convention in Oberhausen, Germany.
I was thinking about talking about the following topics in a timeframe of 60 minutes:
Measure speed, what does it is slow mean in seconds?
HTTP Response Headers, Client side caching
Images. They can be located in the filesystem, can be attachments or resources. How to use them?
JavaScript. Wow do I use it so it loads fast?
WebQueryOpenAgents, what it [read] Keywords: admin
, agent
, domino
, dwa
, ibm
, javascript
, lotus
, ajax
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Microsoft starts a marketing champaign against IBM
Fri, Mar 17th 2006 3:32p Christian Brandlehner Those of you who read my blog frequently know that I usually focus on technical issues but today some braking news, even in the Austrian news got my immediate attention. Regarding the news Microsoft has a budged of 500 Million Dollars just for one purpose: to fight IBM.
Needless to say that they should spend the money to improve their products instead of spending it for marketing, but to be honest: Sometimes the customers does not buy the best solution, but something else.
Michael Sampson is ana [read] Keywords: ibm
, microsoft
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mixed mode - POP3 and DWA - notes.ini can help
Sun, Mar 5th 2006 1:01p Christian Brandlehner If you use POP3 to read your emails from your maildatabase on a IBM Lotus Domino Server, everything works fine, unless you use DWA too. Emails you read using DWA do not download to your POP3 mail application. This is due to the fact that DWA removes the unread flag for that document.
To circumvence this behaviour there is an notes.ini parameter that may help. Use the following console command to set it:
SET CONFIG POP3_READ_ALL=1 [read] Keywords: document
, domino
, dwa
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, application
, server
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notes.ini parameter to customize error messages
Tue, Feb 28th 2006 6:45a Christian Brandlehner As Mikkel is posting on his blog there is a way to configure / override every error message in the Lotus Notes Client just by setting a notes.ini parameter. In combination with the possibility to write any notes.ini parameter using a policy, this is really usefull stuff.
References:
Ed Brill
Manfred Dillmann [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, notes client
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Lotus Domino 7.0.1 regression bug
Tue, Feb 28th 2006 6:18a Christian Brandlehner As Vince Schuurman reported the 64K Limit for @Functions is back. According to Rocky Oliver this is a regression bug.
This regression bug may be related to another issue with the error message "Incorrect data type for operator or @Function: Text expected".
I opened a PMR and IBM is tracking the issue as SPR TTOS6J8JGV. [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, bug
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Problem with shared columns
Fri, Feb 24th 2006 2:02a Christian Brandlehner In Lotus Notes you can have shared columns, a pretty new feature. I discovered some pitfall which is not obvious and I tend to classify it as a bug. [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, bug
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Customize Domino Mailrules
Mon, Feb 6th 2006 5:46a Christian Brandlehner I am using customized mailrules for some time, motivated by Chris Linfoot and dominopower. These customizations add several conditions to the template.
I was looking for a way to customize actions and customized the servers names.nsf even more.
First Task: Add an action to change the message importance
This action is available in the client mailrules but not for server mailrules. In fact, it is there but just hidden in the GUI.
1. Edit the Form (RulesDlg)
2. add "change message importance |2" [read] Keywords: domino
, scriptlibrary
, template
, server
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Login to Domino by URL
Mon, Feb 6th 2006 12:48a Christian Brandlehner I was asked if there is a way to log into Domino by URL if you know the users username and password. You may want to do so if you want to build some kind of single sign on solution between different webservers that don't support a common authentication method like LTPA Tokens in IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Websphere.
This is indeed possible and the trick is quite easy. The URL is (this example does not work as I do not provide a real username here):
/names.nsf?Login&username=John%20Doe&pa [read] Keywords: domino
, ibm
, lotus
, password
, websphere
New 7.0.1 Lotus Notes / Domino notes.ini parameters
Thu, Jan 5th 2006 8:15a Christian Brandlehner The Notes.ini variable "NOLOCALSHARINGFAILOVER=1" can be used to prevent automatic failover when opening a local database that is already open by another user. This restores the R5 behavior when two users attempt to open the same local database.
SPR# PJON6CGQSS - Router non-delivery messages were not transladed with the language pack installed. This fix provides a workaround for customers who wish for certain English failure reasons returned in NDRs by the Router to be translated. These Englis [read] Keywords: domino
, dxl
, lotus
, notes
, R5
, database
, server
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IBM Lotus Domino for Hosted Organisations
Thu, Dec 22nd 2005 5:19a Christian Brandlehner I just tried to setup Domino for Hosted Organisations. This installation mode chaged it's name from ASP (Application Service Provider) to xSP (whatever? Service Provider) over the last years since it was introduced with Domino 6.x.
I tried it with Domino 7: The Administration help says that on W32 you have to use the argument xsp on the setup.exe. This did not work for me, the setup.exe complained that XSP is not a valid argument.
My solution to the problem was that I edited the notes.ini befo [read] Keywords: administration
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, application
, server
