We recently upgraded our clients to Notes R8.5.3 which included the Admin and Domino Designer clients. One of our developers is a real keyboard shortcut nut and is complaining bitterly about what may be a bug or “feature” in this new release. Previously, when pressing Ctrl+Shift, he was able to select words and upon releasing… Read the full article
Author: Steven Vaughan
“No Network Connection” icon in Notes Client
Have never seen this before (maybe because our network is so reliable) but our network had an outage today and this icon appeared just to the left of the selected Location Doc: Now that is cool ! When the network came back online, it disappeared ! Nice one IBM !
Show config *
It’s always a joy to learn new shortcuts and commands even after all these years đŸ™‚ Try at the Domino server console : show config * This will not only list all of the contents of the NOTES.INI file, but magically puts them in alphabetical order and outputs to the console. Perfect if you don’t… Read the full article
Restrict email to Domino directory Groups – now coming to iNotes !
It’s fairly well documented that you can restrict users from emailing certain groups if you change the readers field on the group to specified users/groups. That works great (in later releases). You can’t however say the same about iNotes. When a user addresses a memo to a “restricted” group in iNotes, they get the following… Read the full article
Domino Server Console – Copy database command
Happy new year ! This is a great tip brought to my attention by one of our developers which allows you to make a new database copy, replica copy or database template on the same or different Domino server. Very useful for large databases if you don’t want to use the Notes client or don’t… Read the full article
Lotus Foundations Start – Syncing Users and Groups
For anyone with Lotus Foundations Start with the Domino add-on here is some undocumented information for you ! If you have a requirement for users Internet email addresses to be different from the Lotus Foundation Start account name, you can change the person document to reflect the new Internet Email Address (but don’t change the… Read the full article
Compact -b -S10 Does it work ?
Just had an instance where a customer running Lotus Domino R8.5.2 had a program document running a nightly Compact -b -S10 The compact -b is the recommended option or switch for Domino Servers running Transactional logging as per quote from the help file below: Uses in-place compacting and recovers unused space without reducing the file… Read the full article
Domino R8.5.2 HF16
Just to confirm that the documented problems with SMTP hanging in R8.5.2 and the subsequent interim fix does indeed solve the problem. The problem is described here: link Downloading the interim fix pack from IBM (http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/) shows the following files (for Windows platform): interim fix: DominoServer_852IF1_W64 interim fix: DominoServer_852IF1_W32 The Server however shows: Which is… Read the full article
Email Signatures with Graphics
A question that comes up on occasion from our customers relates to having graphics in email signatures. Do they work ? Why do the graphics appear as attachments for some recipients etc ? Of course some companies love using graphics in email signatures. It promotes the brand, can make the email look very professional but… Read the full article
Troubleshooting DAOS
If you are having problems with your Domino DAOS data store, there are a wealth of technical documents out there to deal with the various problems. I have gathered some of this information which I will share with you below. This assumes you had DAOS up and running prior to experiencing problems. You have tried… Read the full article
