You might have missed the announcement from earlier in the week. HCL this week announced that effectively immediately my.hcltechsw.com is the primary resource for all current and future product downloads. It’s been titled My HCLSoftware (MHS) . I’ve written about this portal since it’s earliest beta and it really is a success story that so… Read the full article
Category: 2024
End of Support date for Notes/Domino 11 announced. (June 2025)
Last week HCL announced the end of Support for Domino 11 in June 2025. This follows up on the end of support for Notes/Domino 9 and 10 last month. I don’t think it would take a clairvoyant to predict as HCL have such a regular release cycle now, this will likely become a regular occurrence.… Read the full article
A good reference for Semaphore timeouts
Recently while troubleshooting an issue on a customer site, I can across this Knowledge based article around what the HEX codes when Semaphore messages are thrown in the Domino console. It’s been updated recently and contains information you may need to troubleshoot semaphore issues with a Domino server. I like this type of transparency that… Read the full article
Theo’s last Engage – 2024 Antwerp Recap
So Engage 2024 is finished. The main story from this week is really about Theo (and Hilde!)’s last Engage (as organiser! but I’m sure he will still attend). There were understandably high emotions after Theo’s years of outstanding service. Theo received multiple special gifts and awards including the C3UG North Star award, and a fellowship… Read the full article
Relatively quirky ID Vault error on Traveler.
Recently I came across a problem on a Traveler server. The customer had a pre-existing Traveler server, everything was still working but there was an error in the log (which was also filling up the inbox of admins) “ID failed to authenticate in vault ID for USERNAME ID failed to authenticate in vault SERVERNAME. SERVERNAME… Read the full article
Full instructions for implementing Nomad Server behind an Apache Reverse Proxy
HCL have recently published a technote on how to implement Nomad Server behind Apache reverse proxy This is really useful and noteworthy as previously as far as I know, the only third party instructions for reverse proxy were NGINX. I hope you find this useful. Cormac McCarthy – Domino People Ltd
Gmail and Yahoo changes for Bulk Senders from next week
In October both Gmail and Yahoo published information about restrictions they are bringing in from February 2024 for bulk senders (defined as sending 5000 messages to their addresses in one day). These are not really “new” per say, but are going to become more strictly enforced by next week. They come under three main headings… Read the full article
I’m a HCL Ambassador again for 2024
Before Christmas I was delighted to receive confirmation that I’ll be a HCL Ambassador again for 2024. It can be a bitter sweet time of the year when the confirmations go out, as some people leave the list and others join (for the first time or return). From my point of view it’s such a… Read the full article
