Open Mic conference call: IBM Lotus iNotes for Domino 8.5 - 3 September 2009

IBM Lotus Support Engineers and Development will be hosting a Support Technical Exchange Open Mic call with customers on the topic of Lotus iNotes 8.5 on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (2:00 PM GMT).

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Out of office agent replies to messages again after 6.x or 7.x mail database is converted to 8.x mail template

You are running an 8.x Domino server and you are converting or replacing the mail template design of 6.x or 7.x mail database to 8.x. The mail database has the out of office agent enabled. After conversion you notice three distinct issues:

• The agent sends replies to messages previously replied to again immediately after the conversion
• The agent will now responds to EVERY message received
• While enabled agent sends replies to messages previously replied to again after every design change

Workaround...Disable all out of office agents in databases with an R6 and R7 mail template design prior to converting on a R8 Domino server :-\

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Yellow day - Keep a few hours to..., Chris Blatnick, Chris Toohey, Nathan Freeman, Tony Palmer ...

For the Yellow Day, it's time to get involved!!! I'm not much a graphist but when I'm ask to "modernize" a Notes application, I try to keep a few hours to revamp the UI based on those posts. It's a quick win!! It's easy to get rid of those 1990 UI, 16 colors interfaces.

Take a few minutes, it will worth it!

Interface matters from Chris Blatnick
Set of icons form Martin Vereecken
Domino Guru Chris Toohey
SnTT - Lotus Notes Database Icons posted by Gregg Eldred
Stuff from Tony Palmer
And a new sets Fugue Icon collection posted by Nathan Freeman on OpenNtf

So it will give stuff like this:

Old navigator

New frame
Old form


New form


Oh, and don't forget to wash your hand

Technote - Roaming User feature...

Fun to see that an issue that we had is described exactly in one technote

Roaming User feature does not verify if a replica already exists

Our problem:

The deployment - How to scan 400 users's local Notes data files?

Moving to MS Exchange from Lotus Domino - Random notes of a system administrator

From Random notes of a system administrator

...since most of our customers are interested on the benefits on moving to Exchange from Domino mail environment to Exchange. Even though this will be a cost factor initially long term the ROI really going to help them to streamline the business productivity. We found most of our customers are having hard time maintaining Domino environment as well as support wise.

hehehe, no comments

I prefer this version

An open letter to Ferris Research (and Microsoft)

Addictomatic about Lotus Notes

Cool :-)

http://addictomatic.com/topic/Lotus+Notes

FAQ - The Administration Process (AdminP)

A great reference for our "friend" , the AdminP

Knowledge Collection - The Administration Process (AdminP) in Domino
This Knowledge Collection addresses the major features and most common issues associated with the Administration Process (AdminP) in Lotus Domino versions 6, 7 and 8. It is not a listing of all issues or technotes, but the most common and highest impact ones.

Frequently Asked Questions - The Administration Process (AdminP)

Also, from the Domino Chick ID 113 - Maximize the Power of AdminP in Lotus Domino

Troubleshooting IBM Lotus Domino monitoring tools

This guide addresses the various problems an administrator might encounter when configuring and/or using the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server monitoring tools. The article especially focuses on how to use the Domino Domain Monitoring feature and includes advanced troubleshooting tips as well.
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Using LND to analyze IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Hangs and Crashes

To help you analyze Notes/Domino Crash and Hang Data - The attached video shows how to install and setup and use the Lotus Notes Diagnostic (LND) tool. Link

NSD links

Changes to native embedded browser in Notes 8.x clients

This technote 1268588 describes changes made to the native embedded browser in Lotus Notes 8.x clients from previous releases.

iCal interoperability comparison between Notes/Domino and Outlook/Exchange

Wiki article on iCal interoperability between IBM Lotus Notes and Domino and Microsoft Outlook and Exchange for single meetings and repeating meetings.

The article consists of a table that focuses on Notes/Domino 6.5.4 Fix Pack 3 and 8.5 with Outlook/Exchange 2003 and 2007 to show major enhancements introduced in Notes/Domino 8.5 compared to previous versions.

Follow this link to the article:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/ical-comp-domino-exchange

From technote 1370334

IBM should buy Genii Software

Readers, you know the power of the products....That's why IBM should buy Genii software

CoexEdit
CoexLinks
and the new one IFidelity

My post looks like a bad ad for TV products, but in this case it really works :-)

Infos on the 8.5.1 Managed Beta program

For beta participants *within North America*

For beta participants *outside of North America*

The stealth technote..

From an IBM technote: Link




Maybe I should change my contact lenses


It must be some sort of secret code, like the stoneCutters
You need to highlight the text to find the missing link...

Spam in the Inbox - I've won 200 000 with Michael Jackson

The cousin of Michael Jackson told me that i've won 200 000 dollar!!!

he's not able to write is own name correctly!! :-

Microsoft - Millions wasted?

Interesting articles about a 95000 users organization who did an internal study that shows that they could save up to 3 millions a year (For 20 years) if they would choose OpenOffice over Microsoft licences.

The article is in french but with a good translator, it could do the job.

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Private meeting in resource database- Undocumented ini setting

The issue is that when a meeting is marked as PRIVATE the subject and other details are visible in the resource database

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There is an INI setting you can put on your R&R server so that the subject of all "Private" entries get replaced with:

[** Private entry. The description is not available for display. **]

This was done so that the Subject of the reservation stays private (eg: no peeking using InfoBox). Put the following line in your R&R servers NOTES.INI file and you should be good to go:

RNR_MAKE_TOPIC_PRIVATE=1

The setting is _not_ retroactive, it will not cause RnRMgr to go back and remove the Subjects from reservations that have already been processed. It only affects new reservations (or reschedules) from that point forward.

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Obtaining Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools

The Notes 8.5 addToKit.exe and trimUpdateSite.exe tools were not included in the Notes 8.5 install kits but are available here. These tools enable you to either add additional features to the Notes install kit or removed certain supplied features from the Notes install kit.

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VmWare and Domino 8.5 and perfomance - Any concerns?

A client of mine is having major performance issues with Vmware 3.5 and Domino 8.5. The CPU is almost always at 100%. Nserver is consuming the major part and NRouter too.

Is there any known concerns related to VmWare 3.5 and Domino 8.5?
Is there any limitations (ex:Max number of users)?
Any special configuration to know about?

Other than that:
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Working with personal agents - The final stretch

So, to get rid of all those personal agents,the strategy was:

• First - Scan all the agents and get the infos - Done. Thre was more than 4000 personal agents, yeah 4000!
  
• Copy all those personal agents to a central repository - Done
• Remove all the personal agents copied earlier Done, almost 95% of the personal agents are kept in a central db.
  
• Do another scan, just in case Done, only have about 80 personal agents running right now compare to 4000.
  
• Modify server's documents to prohibit those agents in the future , Will be done later, but the treat is less important right now

The PMR is still open.

Other related posts:

Working with personal agents

Question - $AssistLastRun field in an agent properties

Bug - LS agents property - My solution, well Julian Robichaux's solution
Bug - LS agents property does not list all agents - Ideas? Xml, DXL