I’ve come across few “gotchas” in recent months that seem to be catching customers over and over again. Particularly when it comes to installing Domino Fix packs on 8.5.X on Windows 2008 R2, I’ve heard the following scenarios multiple times: 1. You get an error saying you don’t have a valid version of 8.5.x installed. You will probably need… Read the full article
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Domino Server – Java Security vulnerability fixes
Hot off the press. IBM have issued a series of Interim fixes to plug four identified JVM vulnerabilities, details of which are here and the fixes are available here (for all operating systems) ** IBM ID Required to download Cormac McCarthy – Domino People
Useful view for Replication or Save conflicts
This is a quick tip that can be used to find Replication or Save Conflicts in any Notes application, but as an Admin I’ve found it most useful for a Domain’s NAB. In a Notes application, click Create -> View Change the view name to something appropriate. Change the “View type” to “Private” from the drop down… Read the full article
Lotus Domino R8.5.3 Interim Fix for Traveler (Win 64bit)
If you are running Lotus Traveler on Domino 8.5.3 FP1 (Windows 64 bit), there’s a new interim fix available that may avoid serious issues (such as server crashes). Details are available at this IBM tech note – http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21591859 (please note to download the fix requires an IBM log in)
Compare Domino Server/Configuration Documents
This is a really good tip for checking what changes have been made to Server and Configuration documents over the lifetime of a server and can be really useful when a number of changes have been made in a short period of time especially when things are not working correctly! If you open up the… Read the full article
Domino BES – testing handhelds are functioning
A quick and easy test to ascertain if one or more of your Blackberry Enterprise Server users is setup correctly server side or if their device is configured correctly is possible and here’s how…… From your normal Lotus Notes mail (I’m assuming you are using Notes mail !), send the user, users or group an… Read the full article
Yellow Status on Lotus Traveler – What to do ?
Scenario: Every time you connect to the traveler server and issue a “tell traveler status” command from the Domino console, you get a yellow status returned or more particularly “The response times for opening databases on mail server X are above the acceptable threshold.” Mail users on server “X” are perfectly happy with how quickly… Read the full article
Show config *
It’s always a joy to learn new shortcuts and commands even after all these years 🙂 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
