Quickr Domino 8.5.1 FP 12 is available
Sun, Jan 29th 2012 1:11p Darren Duke Available on IBM Fix Central. Contains the following fixes: FP 8.5.1.12 12/22/2011 LHFX8NLKSA PPOR8PAPF7 LO65452 LO65920 Date Popup and Last Modified Date format is not correct for en-gb, should be DD/MM/YYYY. 12/22/2011 ESEO8PGKMP LO66016 With a customer specific place, not able to move an item to the very bottom of the table of contents. 12/22/2011 TJOR8PGTGR LO66048 When using a Quickr 8.2 themed place on Quickr 8.5.1, an image uploaded into the rich text editor shows as an att [read] Keywords: connections
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The (somewhat clothed) LS12 review
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 9:58a Darren Duke I'll start backwards..... With the explosion of Social Media and knowing "where to be", Kimono's was really only fun the last night and the first night. In between it was just too packed. Time to find another hang out for mid week me thinks. And with everyone and their dog having a 5MP camera on their phone, it is no longer "what happens as LS, stays at LS". Party accordingly. The Blogger Open : my team won. So someone has really bad math skills! A valiant effort my Mike McGarel on [read] Keywords: admin
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Why you really need Windows 7 x64 and 8GB RAM on PC’s
Tue, Jan 3rd 2012 7:04a Darren Duke So here is a comparison of Windows 7 with 3GB vs 8GB RAM. The machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500. First up 3GB running Windows 7, 32 bit: This machine runs the usual. Notes 8.5.3 + Admin + DDE, Quickr, Skype, TweetDeck Office, vSphere Client, etc. It never drops below 70% used with my normal day to day operation. This same machine with 8GB and Windows 7, 64 bit (you need 64 bit to see more than 4GB RAM)....the penalty? You need to reinstall everything....but with Windows you're r [read] Keywords: admin
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Quickr Connectors 8.5 HF10 available - support for Notes 8.5.3 added
Sat, Dec 17th 2011 5:12a Darren Duke It actually took me a while to find the fix list in the readme document because it was so short! Available from Fix Central (direct download link) and containing the following fixes: 1 Fixed issue in Quickr Domino with creating and navigating very deep directory structures in Windows Explorer 2 Added Support for Notes 8.5.3 [read] Keywords: domino
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Windows 7 tip that I accidentally stumbled upon - or RTFM I guess
Thu, Dec 15th 2011 3:15a Darren Duke See the screen shot below? See the red box I've highlighted? That is a button that will show the desktop. No. More. Constantly. Minimizing. Windows. I've always right clicked on the taskbar and picked the option, but I guess since Windows 7 (at least, never used Vista) is now a handy shortcut. [read] Keywords: desktop
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Quickr Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 11 has arrived
Thu, Dec 15th 2011 3:03a Darren Duke Available on IBM Fix Central (direct download link for all OSes). A small one this time around, containing the following fixes: 11/28/2011 DTRR8LJM53 LO63711 Group can not be expanded in Room Membership when the group name starts with a pound sign (#). 11/28/2011 DWHN8LNCEW LO63705 Quickr doesn't display Scandinavian characters correctly for documents published From Quickr to Filenet. 11/21/2011 RSOI8N8F2T LO65163 When a notification is sent to a Member via the Member’s Page - More [read] Keywords: domino
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Traveler 8.5.3 Fix Pack 1 (aka 8.5.3.1) is available
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 5:10a Darren Duke My iPhone DA Address fix should work with this provided you put it back in.....see this post for more details. Available from IBM Fix Central and contains the following fixes: APAR # Component Abstract LO62996 Server Cancel "This and Future" from Apple device not handled as expected. LO64280 Server Upgrade on Linux OS may cause classpath issues since program directory changes. LO64553 Server Silent install on Linux ignores user and group name from installer.properties file. LO64563 Andro [read] Keywords: ibm
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Quickr Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 10 available
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 5:10a Darren Duke As usual get it from IBM Fix Central. Fixes include: FP 8.5.1.10 11/16/2011 DWHN8MYD5B LO64891 Cannot create a version of a document when using Domino Native Authentication and the logged in user is a member of more than 2000 groups. 11/15/2011 CAML8NAUYL LO65283 When a page contains more than 10 attachments and the last attachment name contains an ampersand (&), the error “Page was not saved due to an error” will display when the page is saved. 11/15/2011 HMON8M7M3A LO6438 [read] Keywords: acl
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Quickr Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 9 available
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 8:12a Darren Duke Containing fixes all the through to 10/19 and available from Fix Central. It contains the following "repairs": 10/19/2011 XZSU8MA4PE LO64371 When creating a task and select “Display in calendar”, the task will display one day earlier. 10/19/2011 MMOI8ME54W LO64530 If a subroom contains [All Members] as Reader and then remove [All Members] from the parent room, a user with Reader access trying to access the subroom will crash the Quickr Domino server. 10/19/2011 DA [read] Keywords: domino
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Don’t forget to turn on the new 8.5.3 mail notification "slide out"
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 6:32a Darren Duke Go to preferences, mail, sending and receiving: Select slide out summary and watch the sexiness happen. When new mail arrives you will see a slide out window at the bottom right of you screen: Note that the pop up is tied to the "Check for new mail every x" interval and doesn't seem to be tied to the auto refresh inbox timing. [read] Keywords:
The IBM XWork Server - the little engine that should (or here endeth the PVU nightmare)
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 4:04a Darren Duke So IBM broke it's own embargo so now we can talk about this. First go read Ed's and then Mat Newman's post if you haven't already....OK, your back... OK, so this wasn't entirely what I was hoping for as a replacement for Domino Utility Server. But it isn't aimed at the "normal" Utility customer, it is aimed at the Lotus Domino IBM ISV. This is a dual win. One for IBM and one for the ISV community. It significantly reduces the barrier to entry when selling a Domino based application ( [read] Keywords: domino
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Want to know the Quickr version and running QuickrD 8.5 or higher?
Tue, Sep 20th 2011 10:52a Darren Duke With Quickr 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 is was pretty easy to find out the version of Quickr Domino you were running. Simply open a browser navigate to Quickr and view the source. Right there are the top was the version. With the change to 8.5 and higher of QuickrD it is still there just a bit hidden: View the source, just as you would with 8.2, but this time search for "QPVersion". Voila. No need to restart HTTP to see it. Still it would be nice to have a "tell quickr version" from the Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Finding and downloading Domino 8.5.2 server when you have Express licensing
Fri, Sep 16th 2011 7:34a Darren Duke So this is one of those posts it pains me to write....how to find software that an STS and IBM customer paid good money for by they cannot find it on IBM Passport Advantage. They is only one reason IBM PPA is hard to use and that is due to IBM taking relatively simple activities and complicating the heck out of them (heck was not the word I was going to use here, but as this will be sent to numerous STS customers it is a PG post.....). So how do you find the actual server download? Simply fol [read] Keywords: collaboration
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CHUG, CHUG, CHUG - drink up lots of Lotus goodness on the 16th
Tue, Sep 13th 2011 2:10p Darren Duke That's right Chattanoogians, later this week on the 16th of September IBM's own superman Michael Lee will be presenting to you. He is from the IBM SWAT team so he really knows his stuff. Michael Lee from the IBM SWAT team will present on how his team routinely deals with the most complex support issues related to Notes and Domino. Michael will share some of the most challenging problems his team has faced and how they solved them and will share his insight and experience as a SWAT team mem [read] Keywords: domino
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If you use Lotus Protector for Mail Security and use Reverse DNS checks do this when you upgrade to 2.8
Tue, Sep 6th 2011 12:11p Darren Duke So over that last few weeks the 2.8 firmware update for Lotus Protector for Mail Security (LPMS) rolled out. It adds some nice features but after the upgrade some STS customers (and ourselves) saw reverse DNS issues after the upgrade. Specifically LPMS would seem to drop emails even when a correct reverse was available in DNS for the sending server. Off we go to PMR land and within a day or so IBM came back with this suggestion that has cleared up the issue: 1. Disable the Border IP Check [read] Keywords: ibm
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This Week In Lotus live from MWLUG on Thursday - and other sessions (aka Duke vs Duke)
Wed, Aug 24th 2011 10:32a Darren Duke That's right the This Week In Lotus circus is traveling to Milwaukee, WI to record the now infamous live shows we've done occasionally. When we do these we usually kidnap some people mere minutes before for the panel. If you have a burning desire to be famous simple tell Lisa or I you want to be on....or you may just get press ganged into it. Or if you really want to see someone on the live show (who is at MWLUG obviously) let us know too. We could maybe target them :) The show is schedule [read] Keywords: domino
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8.5.2 FP3 iNotes issue - maybe a i18n issue with number formatting
Mon, Jul 25th 2011 6:50a Darren Duke I've said this time and again on various mediums lately but I have yet to see the now famous 8.5.2 FP3 iNotes formula error: At first I though it was because I was using the English as my language, but that was not the case as several on Twitter had the issue but were using English. Well I was close but no cigar. Based on this technote it looks like the issue maybe with locales that use a period or full stop (.) as the thousands separator maybe causing the issue. For some (according to t [read] Keywords: ibm
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iNotes now supports Firefox 5 and IE 9 with 8.5.2 FP3
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 6:50a Darren Duke There is no Chrome support. Please move along ;) Released late yesterday afternoon (for me at least) this fixes a few more issues than just the browser support but that is the biggie for me. You can check out the rest of the fixes from the release notes. Go get the fix pack from Fix Central or this technote. [read] Keywords: ibm
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I think Sametime needs a mobile only license to extend "limited" entitlement
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 11:03a Darren Duke So on the PACLUG keynote today IBM did a great job on the demos (time to start the #CrummyForLS12 hashtag me-thinks). Anyway during these demos they showed off the Sametime clients for mobile devices. It stuck me as a bit odd that a customer needs to purchase a full Sametime license to have access to this feature. I mean it is a mobile app right? $5 app territory. So here is an idea....why don't IBM add a license to Sametime to allow current "limited" users (the ones who use the built-in Note [read] Keywords: ibm
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What’s in a name? XPages gets X-tended
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 7:17a Darren Duke Note, I have not seen any of these so this is just 3rd party knowledge. But I get asked about the following all the time.... In several IBM events since the advent of XPages they have touted the "X" stands for XML. Well, in XML the "X" stands for extensible. Ergo, XPages are extensible. IBM have already extended XPages with the releases of the XPages Extension Library and the XPages Mobile Controls projects. Both are excellent and no XPagerizer (?) should start a project without them. [read] Keywords: connections
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Do you subscribe to the IBM daily product update newletter? You should
Mon, Jun 20th 2011 4:20p Darren Duke There is a daily digest of news, updates, issues and hot fixes released for pretty much every IBM product. This is known as "My IBM Notifications" and is available to notify the interested public of a wide variety of useful product related news. I use it to keep appraised of fixes and issues with the product I support. The digest looks similar to this (some days have way more....): To sign up head on over to https://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications and you too can know about stuff [read] Keywords: domino
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CHUG goes to Knoxville for their meeting this Friday - one of the presenters is yours truly
Mon, Jun 13th 2011 9:37a Darren Duke I'm off to Knoxville, TN this week to present at the Chattanooga Lotus User Group (CHUG) which will temporarily relocate there this quarter. The kindly Tennessee folk will get a more targeted version of my Lotusphere 8.5 policies presentation. If you're in the area (and there are some folks already registered from Chattanooga making the trip) simply head on over to the STS Event page and register. It is this Friday, June 17th. See you there. [read] Keywords: lotus
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IBM Lotus Quickr Connectors - now with 64 bit goodness - aka HF7
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 8:10a Darren Duke Yesterday I was shocked by IBM again. This time in a good way :) Mac Guidera posted the with the immediate availability of the 8.5 HF7 connectors x64 bit workstations can now enjoy full use. Added to that Office 2010 is now supported too! Oh, and they beat their own deadline! Way to to guys! It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Quickr Connectors now support Microsoft Windows 64 bit and Office 2010. As promised at this year's Lotusphere, our development teams were hard at work o [read] Keywords: ibm
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Domino and semaphore errors - the fix you would never believe (I didn’t)
Fri, Jun 3rd 2011 11:57a Darren Duke So a curious set of events sent a Domino 8.5.2 upgrade a bit pear shaped before my departure to UKLUG. This was an AS400 with Domino 8.5.1 FP3 and was taken to 8.5.2 FP2. Additionally we were adding in a Lotus Protector for Mail Encryption server into the mix too. Here in lies the issue. See the customer routes all mail to Message Labs and had that set in the server config document as something like: So we added in the LMPE server (let's say at address 192.168.0.237) and therefore cha [read] Keywords: domino
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Some things can’t be said in 140 characters or less - my really quick take on the exit of Loti from IBM
Tue, May 31st 2011 6:38a Darren Duke So this morning there has come some rather shocking news that UK based IBM Lotus peep Darren J Adams is off to Microsoft. Alas this is not the first and only Loti off to those pastures in the last six months. I won't list them here as that is really no the point of the issue. I have also been reminded that some things should not be aired in public. To an extent that is true. This is not one of those times. Private conversations with IBM are, for the most part, a pretty futile effort. So I am [read] Keywords: collaboration
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When IBM is not going to fix a problem they let you know - "This problem was resolved as: No Plans to Fix Ever"
Sat, Apr 30th 2011 2:40p Darren Duke We just ran into this strange error moving from 6.5 to 8.5.2: You Must Supply the Bulk Decryption Key in Order to Extract This File Object Off to Google we skipped, merrily searching our phrase. we come to IBM document PK82022 which stipulates in no uncertain terms that it will not be fixed: Yes, I know this is an R6.5 TN but we're seeing this issue in 8.5 and I thought the wording was funny. [read] Keywords: ibm
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DCT issues in Windows 7 and Vista? Here’s your fix....
Fri, Apr 29th 2011 2:57p Darren Duke So you want to use DCT (Domino Configuration Tuner), but each time you open the app you get following: And an error message in the Status bar indicating "Unable to deploy 1 updated file (probably locked and in use)": Well, the file isn't locked, it is a security feature provided by those goodly Microsoft folks. Good news is that the fix is simple. Simply start Notes with the "Run as Administrator" option in Windows: Voila, DCT. Happy scanning. [read] Keywords: domino
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Backup Exec Domino issue - if your backup hangs after BE HF 147674 try this
Thu, Apr 21st 2011 8:38a Darren Duke So everyone has Backup Exec automatically download and install updates via live update right? Right! So you read the technotes right? Wait.....there are technotes? Apparently so ;) So hidden away inside of TECH147674 is this gem: After installing this Hotfix, make sure the following steps have been performed: 1. On the media server, open a command prompt 2. Change to the Backup Exec Program Files folder 3. Enter the following command sqlcmd -E -dBEDB -i catupgrad [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Domino 8.5.1 FP3 hits the streets
Sun, Apr 3rd 2011 10:33a Darren Duke Available from Fix Central and includes: 03/29/2011 ESEO8D7PGJ LO57734 Inconsistent error messages when deleting a document via the browser client. 03/29/2011 MPUL7YTJF9 LO47139 External Groups Members Expand as "Undefined" In Room Security 03/29/2011 HHIE8DEAVS LO57905 When sending a notification, if the “To” field contains more than 256 characters, an error is generated. The “To” field should allow more than 256 characters. 03/29/2011 JRIE8ERLTH LO59062 In extremely rar [read] Keywords: connections
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Windows 7 and/or Window 2008 SP1 install bork-fest - if you are doing a SP1 roll out READ THIS
Wed, Mar 30th 2011 8:12a Darren Duke I've lamented before on the fragility of Windows 2008 and installing SP1 is no different. This MS technote outlines what to do if you install SP1 and end up with some boot up error like: Fatal error C0000034 applying update operation xxx of …….. Basically the issue involves installing the service pack with other updates. The contained vbs script in the the technote works on 2008 R2 servers as well. To avoid the issue install SP1 on it's own with no other updates. [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Domino 8.5.2 FP 2 available
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 1:22p Darren Duke That's right...go get it. Here a direct link to the Windows download page on Fix Central..... Oh, and IBM please don't shut don't Fix Central on a weekend.... [read] Keywords: domino
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Is Domino RAD? I don’t really care....what I care about is TCO
Thu, Mar 24th 2011 2:57p Darren Duke So we've had a whole day of people spending 8 hours to do 5 minute demos.....ok, that was a snarky joke. Yeah, I can hear you now, "Darren? Snarky?" So is Domino RAD? I'd say yes. The reason? Because I can build a pretty functional application with the minimum amount of time and effort. There are some other questions though: Is it easy? No. Do XPages help? Yes. Does it usually look good? Not really. Is security really, really easy? Yes. Is workflow easy? No. Do I have to resort to [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Connectors 8.5 HF5 available
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 7:09a Darren Duke The latest and greatest got released a few days ago. From the release notes: Key features of HF5 - French translation changes - Option to suppress Connector install when sending .qkr file links through Explorer - Prevent Lotus Symphony 3.0 lock files from being uploaded - Fix problem with multi-language custom property editing through Connectors - Fix problem with “upload unsuccessful” errors with Microsoft Excel during document save - Fix problem wi [read] Keywords: ibm
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So you are thinking of moving from BlackBerry to an iShiny or Android? Some food for thought
Wed, Mar 9th 2011 5:47a Darren Duke Since 2005 I've had BlackBerry attached to my hip during every waking hour. I think I started with a 7230, the hockey puck looking ones that you really could play ice hockey with ;) Six months ago I added an Android Samsung Galaxy S (in my case an Epic) to compare against the BlackBerry and last week Lisa exchanged my BlackBerry Tour for a Verizon powered iPhone. So over the past few weeks I've used all the major devices. Added to that we've moved some STS clients to non-BlackBerry device [read] Keywords: ibm
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Some LS11 highlights for me
Sun, Feb 6th 2011 2:28p Darren Duke I try to stay away from the "river of drivel" posts and this may turn into one....I also refuse to turn this into a "OGS sucked post" (it did, but you can read that elsewhere).... Anyway, LS11 is over and here are the things that stuck with me: 1) Mary Beth Raven winning the PL Blogger of the Year. The first #NerdGirl and a very well deserved recipient. Mary Beth and Ed are both now winners. IBM take note on "why" they constantly rate as top read bloggers. Period. 2) I guess I am [read] Keywords: admin
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This Week In Lotus - recording live from Lotusphere today @5:45 in the SW Pelican so come along
Wed, Feb 2nd 2011 10:26a Darren Duke It will be the usual panel type of format you have become accustomed to with This Week In Lotus, but this time there will be an audience! And the audience will be anyone who turns up.....which means you could be there! On the panel will the luminaries from around the Lotus world including Paul (the quiz master) Mooney, Bruce (the social maven) Elgort, Mary Beth (blogger of the year) Raven, Sharon (I'm on TWIL more than Darren) Bellamy, the lovely Kat (she really is a social IBMer) Mandelstei [read] Keywords: lotus
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LS11 Ask the Product Managers - what I want answered
Sun, Jan 23rd 2011 9:49a Darren Duke Will the session be completely locked down? Who knows. Still after the furore of the last week or so I figured I'd get my questions out in public so as not to appear a "negative Nancy". For the record I think Lotus developers, managers and executives should use the exact same version of Notes that you sell. When will I be able to invite others to a meeting that I'm a participant in? I occasionally have minions others I need with me on trips to client sites, conf calls, etc. Adding them now [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Notes 8.5.2 FP1 IF1 - important if you use Notes Single Login (NSL)
Sun, Jan 23rd 2011 8:51a Darren Duke There is a replacement Fix Pack 1, that fixes Lotus Notes upgrade issues with Notes Single Logon. The IF1 update rectifies the issue below: SPR# YGAO7UPHML - Under some circumstances Notes Single Logon may delay windows logon because of a delay while interacting with Windows perfomance data on the local machine. With this fix, Notes Single Logon will no longer look for performance data so it will not slow down Windows logon. (Technote #1405603) This is all outlined in Technote 1460346 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Quickr Domino 8.5 Fix Pack 2 available
Sat, Jan 22nd 2011 8:13a Darren Duke For QuickrD 8.5.0....not 8.5.1. Available from IBM Fix Central. Fixes include FP 8.5.0.2 Cannot lock a place through Place Administration when Web Site documents have been created within Domino configuration. Unable to add members to place when the place name contains and ampersand (&). Under certain circumstances, an HTTP Error 500 is given when downloading a file. The specific error is “Unable To Process Request During File Download Http Jvm: java.Lang.Illegalargumentexception [read] Keywords: administration
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Looking for a session on Managed Replicas as LS11? You’ll need to attend my Policies SHOW101 session
Thu, Jan 13th 2011 5:13a Darren Duke My Show and Tell session is back for LS11. There is more than a changed background in the presentation though :) Titled "Using IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 Policies to Manage Your Clients" it covers Domino related policies in a depth rarely attempted in the history of mankind. When working through the 8.5.x updates it became apparent that no other session at LS11 will cover managed replicas. I was shocked when I realized that and I'm sure it was an oversight on someone's part. Any way....as usual [read] Keywords: domino
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Meet the ’casters - live, interactive and recorded BoF session at #LS11 - VOTE NOW!
Fri, Dec 17th 2010 1:50p Darren Duke I have alluded to this several times on This Week In Lotus but were hoping to be able to a BoF with as many podcasters as we can fit in a Mini Cooper room. This is actually in your hands. If you'd like to ask the questions, get the scoop on how these are done or just tell me I'm an idiot a genius then you need to vote for this BoF. Pretty much everyone who 'casts has agreed to partake providing their schedules allow, so vote it up and come on along......it's rock throwing time! The BoF [read] Keywords: lotus
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Quickr Domino 8.5 Fix Pack 1 available
Mon, Dec 6th 2010 8:13a Darren Duke The first fix pack for QuickrD 8.5 is out for Windows and AIX platforms. I don't see Linux or i5. Anyway I didn't see it listed on IBM Fix Central yet, but it is linked from here. Fixes included in FP1: FP 8.5.0.1 11/23/2010 TJOR8AMMCN LO55878 After adding a member to a room the room manager is taken back to the room's home page instead of staying in the manage room members page. 11/23/2010 SHEZ8B3CPE LO56228 No error message is given if you enter more text in the rich text e [read] Keywords: connections
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Doing the do with the PUV - or ’How many PVU’s do I need?’ - Physical server edition
Fri, Nov 19th 2010 10:27a Darren Duke ----SNARK ENGAGED One of my absolute favorite things in my daily job is PVU's. I just loving being the bad news bear to a customer that was sold the wrong thing. ---SNARK DISENGAGED I get asked this a lot: How do I know how many PVU's I need for Domino? For this post I am presuming you are running a physical Domino server (aka 'full capacity licensing'). Virtual will be covered in a later post. This also presumes Intel architecture. If you know the steps it is pretty straightforw [read] Keywords: domino
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The This Week In Lotus pimp out podcast icon
Sun, Nov 14th 2010 1:00p Darren Duke On the right side of this blog you will see an icon for This Week In Lotus, the weekly podcast hosted by Stuart McInyre and yours truly. A few weeks ago Stuart posted a request to "Support This Week In Lotus" and several tweets and comments asked for a "pimp my podcast" icon (my words not theirs). I don't do any graphics work (and the world thanks me for that on a daily basis), but I can resize images with the best of them, so here is the image you see on the right. If it pleases you, fe [read] Keywords: lotus
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Atlanta Lotus User Group - ATLUG - is this coming Friday, 19th Nov with THE Ed Brill
Sun, Nov 14th 2010 12:43p Darren Duke The day has changed this quarter. It is NOT Thursday but Friday. If you know who Ed Brill is then you know why this is the must attend event of the year if you are in, around or with 5 hours drive of Atlanta. If you have no earthly idea who he is (which is highly unlikely given you are reading my blog) then Ed is one of the most open and informative speakers you will ever have the pleasure to listen to. All that and he works for IBM! If you want to know (and hopefully see) the future of Domi [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Connectors 8.5 HF3 is available
Tue, Nov 9th 2010 4:15a Darren Duke This is from a few weeks back which I missed. As usual it is available from IBM Fix Central. This fixes a few issues: Fix issue where duplicate servers may be added with trailing slashes Fix issue where Versions “created date” in versions dialog shows “Last-Modified” date Fix issue where user’s can get the wrong authentication prompt with auth extensions installed Fix issue where concurrent work on multiple versions of the same document can cause one user to not be able to open a ve [read] Keywords: ibm
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How to find your BES SRP key
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 4:49p Darren Duke Every know and again I'll do a blog post when someone asks me the same thing over and over or when I get asked the same question by several different people. This post and the next post are such blogs. So the BlackBerry Enterprise Server SPR ID is the keys to the castle, This is what links you to the BES infrastructure and you BlackBerry phone to your BES. This is unique to a given BES (BES 5.0 HA notwithstanding). In BES 4.1 it can be found by opening BlackBerry Manager, expand to the BE [read] Keywords: administration
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How to find your VMware ESX or ESXi key
Fri, Oct 29th 2010 4:00p Darren Duke Continuing in todays thread of doing blog posts so I can be introverted and happy.......That's a joke. I'm as big an ASW as they come. Anyhow. For VMware log into the vSphere Client, pick the server of choice, then navigate to the "Configuration" tab: Note, is you are running ESXi your server keys may all be the same. [read] Keywords: server
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Reminder - the free 2 day LTAP virtual conference starts today
Wed, Oct 27th 2010 5:20a Darren Duke As outlined on This Week In Lotus last week the "Lotus Technical and Professional Users Virtual Conference" (LTAP) starts today at 9AM EST. This is a free 2 day virtual training event that you can attend from your desk. What are you waiting on? Go register at http://www.ltapconference.com/ . [read] Keywords: lotus
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This Week In Lotus - the greatest hits - and a free book
Mon, Oct 25th 2010 5:01a Darren Duke Every few or days or so there is a tweet or a Linked-In message asking about early episodes of This Week In Lotus. I love the fact that new listeners are going back to earlier episodes so if you are looking for earlier ones, simply go to the TWiL site and look on the right side of the page for the "Archives" section. Start at the bottom and work up. While we are on the topic of TWiL there various ways to stalk contact Stuart McIntyre and myself including but not limited to: This We [read] Keywords: ibm
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Climbing the Corporate Ladder - in High Heels - WITI event on Oct 12th in Tampa, FL
Fri, Oct 8th 2010 10:27a Darren Duke A Women in Technology International (WITI) event is being held in Tampa on the 12th October. If you're in the area and even if you a MIT (man in technology) head on along. Remember Nerd Girls rule so go support them. Hosted by no other than STS's own Lisa Duke it is sure to be an interesting and thoughtful discussion. Allison K. Tirado, Business Development Manager, Intel, Adrienne Graham, CEO of Empower Me! Corporation and Hues Consulting & Management, and Sarah Perez, Professional Blo [read] Keywords: blogger
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The 500 lb gorilla in the room - how does a Lotus BP make a living with LotusLive?
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 5:27a Darren Duke With each subsequent release IBM Lotus are addressing my concerns with LotusLive Notes. The "old" minimum was 25 users, the new minimum is 1 (thank you IBM). They have a 25GB mail quota which is more than most "on premises" Domino customers have (by a long shot) and there will soon (Q12011) be BES capability. There are some things still to be addressed, like data migration, true monthly service and renewals (more on that gem later) and the ability for BPs to demo the much hyped "hybrid [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotusphere Abstracts due Oct 8th - too close submit or just right?
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 3:21a Darren Duke I had alluded to this on This Week In Lotus last week (episode 20 I think), but the call for Lotusphere 2011 abstracts page is now linked off the main LS page. Mind you, you only have 3 days to get them in. There are some new tracks too so here is a full break down: Plus the BoF section that is not listed here. In my somewhat humble opinion this is some serious piss poor planning by IBM. I believe the first link to abstracts was posted by Stuart on the Lotusphere Blog on Oct 1, so ev [read] Keywords: ibm
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Add a Open Command Prompt Here shortcut to WIndows
Sun, Oct 3rd 2010 3:26p Darren Duke The Microsoft PowerTools for Windows XP site was always a treasure trove of useful (and not so useful) toys for Windows XP. I always use the "Open Commend Prompt Here" one, that allows a Windows Explorer add-in menu to create a command prompt from the current folder: Beautiful. No long paths to type, no issues with the tab key...... Well, with the issues in BES 5.0 SP1 and the contact sync issues, I have been using this quite a bit for Windows 2003 servers. Except the XP "toy" won [read] Keywords: connections
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The cloud apparently has not contact options - when LotusLive goes bad
Sat, Sep 25th 2010 11:09a Darren Duke The other morning on This Week In Lotus I was lamenting the complete lack of robustness with Google Docs. See, we use Google Docs to allow the TWiL guests to see and concurrently edit (and this is really cool by the way) the show layout before we record. During the preamble to the show I had asked if anyone had any news on Project Concord (the reported LotusLive Labs equivalent of G-Doc). Someone mentioned it maybe on Lotus Live labs, so off I toodle and open a browser and go to http://www.lo [read] Keywords: ibm
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If you are within driving distance of Nashville, TN come to LUGNUT this Thursday
Mon, Sep 20th 2010 10:27a Darren Duke The Nashville and Upper Tennessee (the NUT) Lotus User Group will have the pleasure of two very special guests this week.....no, not me ;) THE Ed Brill and Art Fontaine (Art you need to get a blog or a Twitter account so I can link to something) both of IBM will be dishing the latest on all thing Lotus Notes and Domino. I would expect a fair smattering of Project Vulcan in there too if I were a betting man. Any way the event is on Sept 23rd at 11:30 CST. See the STS Events page for further [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Domino 8.5 is now available
Mon, Sep 13th 2010 7:22a Darren Duke That's right, the much anticipated 8.5 release of Quickr Domino is here. See my earlier post on the new features to find out what's new...and there is a lot! As Mr Rob Novak said on This Week In Lotus a few weeks ago: [Quickr Domino 8.5] represents the most significant architectural change in Quickr, ever [read] Keywords: domino
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Update on the Domino 8.5.2 SMTP issue
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 11:22p Darren Duke For those that are waiting on the hotfix, it should have popped out from IBM today. My customer with the AIX 64 server got the ftp site email today. In their case I believe they are just going to leave the 8.5.1 SMTP server in the way for the time being and install the fix when it is rolled into Domino 8.5.2 FP1. For those that didn't see Dan Adams' from IBM comment on my original work around post, the fix should be posted to Fix Central on September 8th. My guess is a PMR will get you it b [read] Keywords: domino
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Ubuntu 10.04 and Lotus Notes 8.5.2 working as expected
Wed, Sep 1st 2010 11:11p Darren Duke I mentioned on This Week In Lotus podcast last week that I would test Ubuntu 10.04 with the 8.5.2 gold client. I have good news....it works out of the gate, with no need to hack symbolic links or anything else. Even check boxes seem to show up OK! There is a dependency that needs to be satisfied, just run this from the terminal to pick them up: sudo aptitude install libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 but once those two UI packages are installed (either pre or post Notes install) [read] Keywords: lotus
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A workaround we did for the 8.5.2 SMTP server issue
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 5:31p Darren Duke As you are probably aware of by now, there is an issue with the SMTP Listener task on 8.5.2 gold. IBM are currently working on a fix and this will hopefully be available soon. If you can't downgrade back to 8.5.1 then you also have another option we just did for a STS customer. We quickly registered a new Domino server, created a Windows 2003 VM, installed Domino 8.5.1 and configured this server to be the inbound SMTP server. Outbound SMTP does not seem to be affected (at least at this cu [read] Keywords: domino
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Reminder CHUG (Chattanooga Lotus Users Group) is tomorrow
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 8:32a Darren Duke If you are in the greater Chattanooga, TN area then come on along to CHUG. It is scheduled to start at 11:30am and will go until 1:30pm. On the agenda are new 8.5.2 features and Quickr use cases. Registration is required and the web registration page is available here. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Quickr Domino 8.5 - new features, screenshots and overview
Sat, Aug 28th 2010 7:35a Darren Duke With the recent release of Quickr Domino (QuickrD) 8.5 to Greenhouse IBM have relented and will now allow us to talk about the features that are present in beta 8.5 CD 8. CD8 is expected to be the last beta so hopefully gold will be shipping soon. As always, the features I outline here are present in the latest beta code, but the shipping product may have different functionality. All screen shots are from the STS 8.5 CD8 server. A tip to the QuickrD team, you really should have released th [read] Keywords: acl
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Quickr Domino 8.2 Fix Pack 16 available - fixes some Java issue
Sat, Aug 28th 2010 6:01a Darren Duke In an obvious "out of schedule" release, IBM have released FP 16 for Quickr Domino 8.2. This fixes a couple around Java and Java Applets, and also using an IP sprayer. I'm not sure if these issues were introduced with FP15 or a specific Java update, but either way, upgrade to this as opposed to FP15. As usual get it from IBM Fix Central. There is no new qp2.cab file in this release. The latest qp2.cab is 8.2.0.14-005. Fixes contained in FP16: 08/25/2010 CWIR87BJWY Under certain [read] Keywords: domino
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ATLUG is this coming Thursday, August 26th - with the great Bob Balaban
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 8:15a Darren Duke If you've never heard of Bob Balaban then you need to be at ATLUG. If you have heard of him, then you know why you need to be there already.....he created the backend classes for Notes and Domino. Yes, those classes..... Anyway, as usual if you are in the Atlanta area come along. Register with Randy Davison (randy_davision@matrixresources.com.The event will start at 11:30AM and ends around 1:30PM. Also presenting is Steve Heil from IBM on the latest on LotusLive! See the ATLUG site for [read] Keywords: domino
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GLUG Q3 2010 presentations available - covering Notes and Domino 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.5.2 and Lotus mobility
Sat, Aug 21st 2010 6:34a Darren Duke I gave two presentations at the Greenville Lotus User Group (GLUG) this past week in SC. There was a tremendous turnout and thanks to all who came. There were so many questions that this great interactive session went 60 minutes over schedule! And almost everyone stayed too.....although admittedly that could have had something to do with the rain ;) Anyway the presentations are available for download over on the STS site. [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Domino 8.2 Fix Pack 15 available
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 2:28a Darren Duke As usual get it over at IBM Fix Central. There is no new qp2,cab file in this release. The latest qp2.cab is 8.2.0.14-005. Fixes contained in FP15 (ohm and as usual Fix Packs are cumulative, so all previous fix packs are also included): 08/09/2010 CLOH87TMSV Custom policy where an alert limit in days has been set, that setting isn’t respected. 08/09/2010 PNOT87UP2J In certain circumstances, uploading files through Connectors when using EMM may cause an error “Block size il [read] Keywords: connections
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GLUG - Greenville SC Lotus User Group - is this coming Tuesday (08/17/2010)
Thu, Aug 12th 2010 8:26a Darren Duke This coming Tuesday the 17th August is GLUG. This is already looking to be a pretty packed event so if you are in the Greater Greenville SC area come along. I'll be presenting on what was new in Notes and Domino 8.5.1 and what is new in 8.5.2. With the impending release 8.5.2 on 8/24 this will be a timely presentation. Head on over the STS events page to register and find out further details. And GLUG still has to be the best named LUG. [read] Keywords: domino
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