PlanetLotus Profile: Marc Champoux

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Lotus Traveler: Need To Support Galaxy Nexus Phones (i.e. Android 4.0 Devices)? Upgrade to R8.5.3.1 And Apply The New Interim Fix! Tue, Dec 20th 2011 193
Lotus Domino On VMware: Got a Dell MD3200 Storage Array? You Might Run Into This… Mon, Dec 19th 2011 79
Lotus Domino Administrator Client: Just Got The Weird “Database list is full” Error (Here’s The Solution) Fri, Dec 16th 2011 133
Lotus Support: Does Anybody Remember When Lotus Stopped Offering “Pay Per Incident” Support? And Why? Wed, Dec 7th 2011 26
Lotus Domino On VMware: Running A Mix of ESXi 3.5 and ESXi 4.x Servers? Your License Server Settings Will Be Removed When You Upgrade vCenter to 4.1 Update 2 Tue, Dec 6th 2011 44
Lotus Traveler: My New Phone Has Anorexia (Motorola Droid Razr) Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 111
Lotus iNotes: Addendum To My iNotes_WA_MacIM=1 Post From Yesterday… Remember to Disable Pop-Up Blockers! Thu, Dec 1st 2011 52
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Lotus Notes R8.5.1: I Lost My Follow Up Mini View … Why? I Don’t Know But Here’s How To Get It Back … Tue, Aug 24th 2010 308
Lotus Traveler: Need To Support Galaxy Nexus Phones (i.e. Android 4.0 Devices)? Upgrade to R8.5.3.1 And Apply The New Interim Fix! Tue, Dec 20th 2011 193
Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: My Upgrade Steps and My Problem with STMux.exe Wed, Sep 14th 2011 149
Lotus Domino Administrator Client: Just Got The Weird “Database list is full” Error (Here’s The Solution) Fri, Dec 16th 2011 133
Lotus Notes R8.5.2: Solution To The “Unable to find valid target platform” When Installing a Fix Pack Fri, Apr 8th 2011 126
Lotus Traveler: My New Phone Has Anorexia (Motorola Droid Razr) Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 111
Lotus Traveler 8.5.2 for Android: A Short User Guide (That You Can “Borrow”) – Version 1.0 Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 105
Lotus Notes R8.5.1: The Sametime Business Card Feature Does NOT Like Return Carriages Thu, Jan 27th 2011 102
Lotus Domino: Keeping the Holidays in the Domino Directory Up-To-Date Easily… Fri, Mar 25th 2011 101
Lotus Notes R8.5.x: Where’s the “Insert - Symbol” button like is Outlook? Answer: Nowhere! Wed, Sep 1st 2010 95

Marc Champoux

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Recent Blog Posts
193	Lotus Traveler: Need To Support Galaxy Nexus Phones (i.e. Android 4.0 Devices)? Upgrade to R8.5.3.1 And Apply The New Interim Fix! Tue, Dec 20th 2011 3:11p Marc Champoux My Amazing Manager (Patrick Darke) Likes To Try New Phones… So, I was not really surprised when he showed me his brand new Galaxy Nexus… however he was only showing it to me because he could not activate it with Traveler. Basically speaking, every time he would go to log into the Traveler server on his Galaxy Nexus phone, he would get a message on his phone that said: Error 500 HTTP Web Server: Invalid POST Request Exception At first, I thought something had gone wrong on the [read] Keywords: ibm lotus R8 traveler google server
79	Lotus Domino On VMware: Got a Dell MD3200 Storage Array? You Might Run Into This… Mon, Dec 19th 2011 4:12p Marc Champoux This Story Has It All… Suspense! Wonder! Stress! And bad customer service from Dell to boot! It’s got everything except Bond Girls and explosions… so long story short, if your Dell MD3200 Storage Array suddenly starts acting completely wonky, your VMware ESXi servers can’t see any of the LUNs on it and are getting bad customer service from Dell… you might want to try this… … simply re-create the Host Group configuration! [read] Keywords: admin domino lotus vmware wiki
133	Lotus Domino Administrator Client: Just Got The Weird “Database list is full” Error (Here’s The Solution) Fri, Dec 16th 2011 11:10a Marc Champoux I Just Had A Weird One… While troubleshooting a DAOS issue with XLS files becoming unreadable, I noticed that could not use the “Files” tab in my Administrator client (R8.5.2 FP2) anymore to browse all the files on the server running DAOS . My admin client would stop after loading a few databases and say “Error getting files on ARCHIVES/UU – Database list is full” in the status bar at the bottom. Here’s a screen shot: The Simple Soluti [read] Keywords: admin administration domino ibm lotus notes R8 database server
26	Lotus Support: Does Anybody Remember When Lotus Stopped Offering “Pay Per Incident” Support? And Why? Wed, Dec 7th 2011 3:12p Marc Champoux I Called Lotus Support Often Over The Years… Maybe a bit too much: I used to l-o-v-e Lotus Support! I got great service, fast response times, and generally had an excellent experience with them. I still like them… but the magic is gone. Nowadays, service is a “hit or miss”. Response times have gone out the window. My “call back” preferences are ignored 50% of the time. And to top it off, I’ve had really bad experiences recently with some support reps [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes R8 blackberry google vmware
44	Lotus Domino On VMware: Running A Mix of ESXi 3.5 and ESXi 4.x Servers? Your License Server Settings Will Be Removed When You Upgrade vCenter to 4.1 Update 2 Tue, Dec 6th 2011 1:11p Marc Champoux This Will Be A Quick Blog Post… I ran into something interesting in my VMware environment today. One of the PC LAN Admins had to reboot an ESXi 3.5 server that runs one of our Lotus Domino servers and got a nice error message in vCenter after the reboot. Basically speaking, the PC LAN Admin and I got this error message when we tried to access that old ESXi 3.5 host it via our vSphere clients: The license server is not configured to perform the operation That’s an odd error to [read] Keywords: admin domino lotus server vmware
111	Lotus Traveler: My New Phone Has Anorexia (Motorola Droid Razr) Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 11:11a Marc Champoux I Got A New Phone… And I think it has anorexia! It’s a Motorola Droid RAZR from Verizon and I seriously think that this phone suffers from anorexia! It’s extremely thin and light compared to my BlackBerry Torch 9800… truth be told: I feel like I’m going to break it just by holding it! This picture might convey a bit more how “thin” that Razr is: Does It Work Well? Well, my previous experience(s) with Android phones weren’t [read] Keywords: lotus traveler blackberry development iphone server widgets wiki

52	Lotus iNotes: Addendum To My iNotes_WA_MacIM=1 Post From Yesterday… Remember to Disable Pop-Up Blockers! Thu, Dec 1st 2011 7:12a Marc Champoux This Will Be A Short Post… Yesterday, I blogged about adding iNotes_WA_MAC_IM=1 to your servers notes.ini to enable the little Sametime chat icon in Safari on Mac’s. After you do that, the Sametime icon appears in iNotes and you can display your contact list… but if you forget to disable the pop-up blocker in Safari, you won’t be able to send or receive chats from anyone! So a word of advice, remember to warn your Mac users to disable pop-up blockers if they want [read] Keywords: inotes lotus notes sametime firefox mac macbook
41	Lotus iNotes: Got a Mac And Want Sametime In Safari? iNotes_WA_MacIM=1 Is Your Friend! Wed, Nov 30th 2011 3:11p Marc Champoux Mmm… That Was Weird (For Me Anyway)… I work in a nice worldwide company that I really like. And like most companies we have standards and policies. For example, we say that we do not support any Apple computers on our network. It doesn’t mean we don’t have any Macs here and there (some graphic designers will only let you pry their Mac from their cold dead hands for example), but they are very very very rare. So, our story begins with the fact that we have some consult [read] Keywords: ibm inotes lotus notes notes client policies sametime apple email google mac macbook network server
28	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: Weird Solution To The Cryptic “Logged out from server reason 0×80000224″ Error Messages In Sametime.Log Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 10:12a Marc Champoux This Was Weird… You may (or may not) have read my previous blog post in which I wrote that I was going to apply an updated Hot Fix (#NTOR-8N5C2Y) on my Sametime R8.5.2 Classic servers to, hopefully, resolve the “Timed Out” errors we’ve been seeing over the past 2 months. I applied the Hot Fix on all 3 regional servers and each server appeared to work correctly afterwards… it turns out that there was a problem… just nobody was awake at that time to “ [read] Keywords: admin ibm lotus notes R8 sametime bug community google office server wiki
40	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: Trying Out A New Hot Fix For My “Timed Out” Problems Tue, Nov 22nd 2011 2:12p Marc Champoux To Paraphrase Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth… Good News, Everybody! Lotus Support provided me a new Hot Fix for Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 Classic to, hopefully, help resolve my “Timed Out” issues that we’ve been seeing for the past two months. The hot Fix number is NTOR-8N5C2Y in case anybody needs it. The Lotus Support Rep who sent me the HF wrote this in his email: “While we are awaiting that data we have an update to the hotfix you are running on your servers t [read] Keywords: domino lotus R8 sametime email server
21	100th Blog Post! Looking Back On TNDA’s “Greatest Hits” And Some Random Thoughts Fri, Nov 18th 2011 9:07a Marc Champoux 100th Blog Post! Who-hoo! I Survived (Much To My Surprise)! It’s surprising how fast time goes by! Two and a half years ago my amazing boss, Mr. Patrick Darke, created this blog to shut me up. Yep, I’m not kidding. He was sick and tired of hearing me say “one day, I’m going to start a blog” over and over again… and he got soooo fed up of seeing me never getting around to starting a blog that he did all the heavy lifting for me and started up this blog! Once [read] Keywords: admin agent domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes notes client policies R8 sametime smart upgrade sntt traveler blackberry blogging bug community enterprise exchange exchange google iphone linkedin openntf planetlotus planetlotus.org profile properties security server vmware widgets
83	Lotus Notes R8.5.2: Notes2.exe Taking All CPU Cycles After Upgrade… My Weird Solution Tue, Nov 15th 2011 3:11p Marc Champoux This Was Weird… A few days ago I decided to start reading the Mastering XPages book. Why? Well, since we are planning to move to Google Apps, our current plan calls for us to web-enable most of our apps using that “XPage” technology (so that we don’t need to use the Notes client as much). So, I started reading that book and right into chapter 2 (page 9), it says you need to use Designer R8.5.2 for the book. So, I upgraded my clients (Notes, Designer and Admin) to R8.5 [read] Keywords: admin ibm lotus notes notes client R8 sametime updall xpages database google properties server workspace
21	Lotus Symphony: Included In PC Mag “25 Apps That Can Make You More Productive” Article Fri, Nov 11th 2011 5:10p Marc Champoux This Will Be A Quick Blog Post… Congratulations to the Lotus Symphony product team! I just saw that Lotus Symphony 3.0 has been included in PC Mag’s article titled “25 Apps That Can Make You More Productive” in the category “Productivity for Desktop (Windows and Mac)”. I actually use Lotus Symphony on my MacBook Pro and it works fine for me. Here’s a direct link to the article where Lotus Symphony is mentioned (you’ll need to scroll down a bi [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes symphony desktop mac macbook
43	Lotus iNotes: A Quick Tip To Help Troubleshooting the “Java has discovered application components that could indicate a security concern” Warning Mon, Oct 31st 2011 7:12a Marc Champoux And Now For Something Completely Different … Again! I recently upgraded some of my Lotus Domino servers (from 8.5.1 to 8.5.2 with Fix Packs). Before the upgrade, my iNotes users were happy little campers: no complaints, no kicking and no screaming. Shortly after the upgrade, some people who prefer to use the FireFox web browser called me up to ask me if I could fix this nice Java Warning message about “STLinks” that they were now getting: “Java has discovered applic [read] Keywords: domino ibm inotes lotus sametime application firefox java oracle security server
32	Lotus Traveler: Why Does My iPhone Says That I’m Optimus Prime Now? Here’s Why… Mon, Oct 24th 2011 12:11p Marc Champoux No Decepticons Were Harmed In The Making Of This Blog Post… This is going to be a quick blog post (and solution) about a two weird support calls I received last week. In the two related “incidents”, one with a C-Level executive and another with one of our guys in IT, both employees reported the same issue: when they opened an email that was sent to them on their iPhone, the “To:” field didn’t have their name! In the case of the C-Level executive, the To: [read] Keywords: lotus traveler blackberry email iphone ipod wiki
24	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: A Discovery About My Post-Upgrade “Timed Out” Problems Wed, Oct 19th 2011 4:12p Marc Champoux This Is Not A Solution… It’s Just An FYI That Might Help You… A few weeks ago, we upgraded our 3 regional Sametime servers from R7.5.1 CF2 to R8.5.2 “Classic” (i.e. the Community Server) and the latest hot fixes. After our upgrade, we ran into various issues. At this point in time, in the Americas region, we are still getting “Timed Out” errors intermittently and, I regret to report this, our users of our Sametime server in the Asia-Pacific region [read] Keywords: domino ibm lotus notes quickr R7 R8 sametime traveler blackberry bug community database network server virus
22	Lotus Notes R8.5.x: I Asked For An Enhancement To The Archive -> Archive Selected Documents Agent Mon, Oct 17th 2011 12:12p Marc Champoux And Now For Something Completely Different… Over the past few weeks I blogged about my Sametime server woes and our upcoming Google Apps migration. However, between fighting Sametime and planning to move everybody to the cloud, I still have to answer support calls about the Lotus Notes R8.5.x client. Which brings me to a call I had this morning with the Executive Assistant of the CEO: she was trying to archive emails and was getting this error message: “Notes error: Some of the [read] Keywords: agent lotus notes noteslotus R8 sametime archive community database email google server
23	Migrating from Lotus Notes to Google Apps: Step 2 – The “Statement of Work” Thu, Oct 13th 2011 11:10p Marc Champoux The Dust Has Settled… It’s been two weeks since my last blog post in which I wrote that our CEO has given us the order to migrate Lotus Notes mail, calendar, address books and to-do’s out to Google Apps. The week that I wrote that blog post, we had met with our “Integration Partner” (i.e. consultants) that would help us with the migration and with the Google sales rep that’s been working with us since the beginning of the “talks”. What happened [read] Keywords: lotus notes R8 sametime blackberry consulting enterprise google integration rim server
21	Life, The Meaning of It and Moving from Lotus Notes to Google Apps Fri, Sep 30th 2011 6:11a Marc Champoux “This Meeting Is To Kick Off Our Migration From Lotus Notes to Google Apps”… … that’s exactly how a meeting began yesterday morning. And truth be told: I’m not ashamed to admit that I felt a bit of pain in my heart as I heard those words. As Lotus Notes Administrator for the Americas at the company that I work for, I had traveled from Canada to our company Head Quarters in the USA for the explicit purpose of being present at that meeting and to hear those [read] Keywords: admin calendaring domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes notes client R8 xpages applications email exchange exchange google microsoft outlook virus vm vmware web 2.0
21	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: Why Can’t I Get Help Outside of Normal Business Hours? Wed, Sep 21st 2011 11:11p Marc Champoux Going From Bad to Worse… Does anybody know how to go “downgrade” a Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 Community Server back down to Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 CF2? Out of sheer curiosity, I’d like to know if that’s even possible! Actually, I think a quick un-install and keeping a copy of the vpuserinfo.nsf would do the trick but I’m not ready to go there yet. The reason why I’m blogging tonight (at this late hour) is that I’m not very happy right now. [read] Keywords: admin collaboration lotus notes R8 sametime blogging community google microsoft network server skype vmware
35	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: An Update To My Post-Upgrade Problems Tue, Sep 20th 2011 12:11p Marc Champoux Things Aren’t Going So Well… It has been almost a week since we upgraded our 3 regional Sametime “Classic” servers from Lotus Sametime R7.5.1 CF2 to Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic” (also called the “Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 Community Server”). And if you ask me how things have been going for the past week, I’d have to say “not so well”. As I documented in a previous blog post (link), we first ran into problems with the stmux. [read] Keywords: lotus R7 R8 sametime community server
52	Lotus Domino: Blue Screen of Death (STOP 0x0000007F) after Virtual-2-Virtual Server Move Sat, Sep 17th 2011 10:11a Marc Champoux Ok Ok … I Know This Isn’t 100% Domino Related But … It just so happens that I had a very “interesting time” last Friday moving a Lotus Domino R8.5.2 server running on an “ancient” VMware ESX 3.0.2 server over to a brand new server running ESXi 4.0.1. If you’ve never had to virtualize a Lotus Domino server, it just so happens that fellow blogger Darren Duke posted slides of a presentation he did about that very same topic. You can pick up [read] Keywords: domino lotus R8 blogger microsoft server vm vmware
149	Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”: My Upgrade Steps and My Problem with STMux.exe Wed, Sep 14th 2011 10:10a Marc Champoux When An Upgrade Goes Wayyyyyyyyyy Too Smoothly … … you know something will go wrong the next day! And this blog post is about my experience upgrading my Lotus Sametime R7.5.1 CF2 server to Lotus Sametime R8.5.2 “Classic”. Before you ask: yes, my upgrade went very smoothly. Too smoothly in fact. So the next day, something did go wrong. Before I keep talking about the upgrade steps I took and what went wrong, I need to mention “Sametime Classic” is n [read] Keywords: domino ibm inotes lotus notes ods quickr R7 R8 sametime updall community database email firefox integration interface office password server
34	BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3: No More Support for my SQL 2000 Server … And How To Migrate to Another SQL Server Tue, Sep 6th 2011 2:30p Marc Champoux If It Ain’t Broke … Don’t Try To Fix It! … and those are words to live by when you have a very stable BlackBerry Enterprise 5.0.2 server. But what happens when RIM releases an upgrade (5.0.3 MR4) that contains a fix for a particular issue you’re dealing with? Well: you have to upgrade! Fortunately for all of us, applying a patch on a BlackBerry Enterprise Server has recently (in the past 2 years or so) gotten easier and easier. It’s still not as ea [read] Keywords: admin domino ibm lotus R5 bes blackberry database desktop enterprise microsoft rim server sql
39	Request for Help: I Cannot Launch Lotus Notes R8.5.2 FP2 and Designer At The Same Time And I Can’t Figure Out Why… Fri, Jun 17th 2011 3:12p Marc Champoux After 80+ Blog Posts With Solutions: I Decided To Ask For Help… Because it’s Learn XPage Month, I decided that it was time for me to get in on the act and start learning XPages. I purchased the book titled “Mastering XPages: A Step-by-Step Guide to XPages Application Development and the XSP Language” and I also purchased access to the Learn Xpages videos on xpages101.com (thanks to their discount). However, I have a problem and I can’t figure out the solution. I [read] Keywords: admin domino ldd lotus notes notes client R8 xpages application bug development google java planet lotus planetlotus planetlotus.org vista workspace
47	Lotus Traveler: Solution For The Error “The external memory card is not available at this time” On Your Android Phone Wed, May 18th 2011 6:11a Marc Champoux Android vs. iPhone… Who Will Win? As a Lotus Traveler server admin… I don’t care! Lotus Traveler supports both iOS devices and Android phones so we don’t really have to “pick a side”… which is really nice for us. In reality however, I have a ton more iOS devices on my Traveler server than Android phones but I suspect that I will get to see more and more of them over time. In fact, if I check the devices activated on our server, my device [read] Keywords: admin ldd lotus traveler bug iphone server wiki
86	BES Server: Upgrade to 5.0.3 MR2 Gone Wild! I.E. Some Interesting Facts About It… Tue, May 17th 2011 12:11a Marc Champoux BlackBerry Enterprise Server Upgrades Experiences… … range from “smooth as silk” to “omg why did I do this … why oh why???”. And tonight, I experienced the “omg” version of the upgrade. You see, we’ve been running a BES server “in house” since 4.0 and upgraded it release-after-release throught the years all the way to BES 5 Service Pack 2 Maintenance Release 2 (a.k.a. 5.0.2 MR2). So, what went wrong when I t [read] Keywords: lotus notes traveler bes blackberry database enterprise server sql
37	Lotus Notes: Got Problems Scheduling Meetings With Participants In Many Time Zones? Use This Web Site! Mon, May 16th 2011 7:11a Marc Champoux Creating A Meeting With Participants In Many Time Zones… Has NEVER been a strong feature in Lotus Notes. I get complaints about this from Administrative Assistants all the time actually. Yes, I agree – you can “somewhat easily” create a meeting and set it to be in a different time zone… but when you need to schedule a conference call with people in New York, Brussels, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Australia — the interface for creating a meeting wonR [read] Keywords: lotus notes interface
61	Lotus Domino Clusters: Code To Scan Mail Files On Your Clusters To Find and Fix Quotas That Are Not In Sync Fri, May 13th 2011 6:11a Marc Champoux More Than A Decade After The Introduction of Clusters… …Mail quotas settings still don’t replicate between cluster members! And I only have 1 comment about this: Arrrgggghhhh! Why does it bother me? Because I’m getting helpdesk calls often from employee’s whose Lotus Notes clients switched them to a different replica of their mail and their quota isn’t the same on that server! Once again: Arrrgggggghhhh! Why does this happen to me? Well, as I sai [read] Keywords: admin agent domino lotus notes notes client css database email ideajam ideajam.net server
41	Lotus Notes R8.5.x: “When I Print An Email, The Date Doesn’t Show Up!” – Here’s Why… Wed, May 11th 2011 8:10a Marc Champoux This is Going To Be a Quick Post… An employee just asked me “Is Lotus Notes broken? When I print an email, there is NO DATE on the print out!”. For example, this is what she showed me and she highlighted the fact that the date was not printed on the right side as it normally is… So, what’s the super simple answer? The Super Simple Solution… Well, the answer is really super simple: when you print a DRAFT … there i [read] Keywords: lotus notes noteslotus R8 email
36	Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FP1: Code To Fix All Day Events Created in a Different Time Zone (That Are Currently Messing Up Your Busytime) Thu, Apr 21st 2011 10:11a Marc Champoux The Nice Thing About Working For A Global Company… Is that you get to work with people from all around the world. The bad thing about working for a global company is that some of those people will move from one office to the next during their career and effectively jump from time zone to time zone during each move. Recently, one of our VPs moved from Europe to the Americas. Shortly after his arrival in the US, his Windows machine and Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FP1 client were both re-conf [read] Keywords: lotus notes R8 office
59	Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FP1: My Simple Solution to the Cryptic “‘Notes IPC Asynch Message processor (166)’ has encountered a problem” Error Message Mon, Apr 18th 2011 3:10p Marc Champoux Another Day… Another Weird Error… This is going to be a very quick post: here’s what I do when one of your users calls me up and says “Hey, I just started my Lotus Notes this morning and I got a strange error message, what should I do? Oh and here’s what the error message says…”. ‘Notes IPC Asynch Message processor (166)’ has encountered a problem The [Simple] Solution… When a user repor [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes R8 sametime desktop instant messaging widgets workspace
126	Lotus Notes R8.5.2: Solution To The “Unable to find valid target platform” When Installing a Fix Pack Fri, Apr 8th 2011 4:10p Marc Champoux I Love Cryptic Error Messages (NOT!)… But there’s one thing I love: when Lotus Support simply says “here’s a Technote and the instructions on how to fix this”. One of our Developers has upgraded his client from R8.5.1 Fix Pack 1 to R8.5.2 … but he was not able to install the Fix Pack 1 and/or 2 because of that strange “Unable to find valid target platform” error message he would get each time he tried to install it. So, after openin [read] Keywords: ibm lotus notes R8
49	Lotus Domino R8.5.2: How I Installed the Brazilian Portuguese Language Pack On My Servers Fri, Apr 1st 2011 1:10p Marc Champoux Quick: What Are The Differences Between “Portuguese” and “Brazilian Portuguese”? Well, from the Lotus Domino perspective, the answer is “none”: they both require the same amount of work to load on a server! If you’re completely familiar with Language Pack installations, this post might not be for you. But if you happen to be working for a company that acquires other companies in foreign countries from time-to-time, and are asked to install a L [read] Keywords: acl domino ibm inotes lotus notes notes client ntf R8 smart upgrade database enterprise laptop properties server
101	Lotus Domino: Keeping the Holidays in the Domino Directory Up-To-Date Easily… Fri, Mar 25th 2011 9:12a Marc Champoux “Holiday” … Is One Of The Best Words in the English Dictionary! And I think I’m not alone with that thought … here’s why: a few weeks ago an employee asked me why, when he imported the US holidays into his calendar (using the More – Import Holiday option) there was nothing added to his calendar for 2011! If you wonder where that “More → Import Holidays” option is, here’s a screenshot: [read] Keywords: agent domino lotus ntf server
105	Lotus Traveler 8.5.2 for Android: A Short User Guide (That You Can “Borrow”) – Version 1.0 Thu, Mar 3rd 2011 8:13p Marc Champoux I’ve Said This Before … And I’ll Say It Again … The best things in life are free … but they don’t come with a manual! Need a few examples? How about love, marriage and kids for starters? Do you want another example? It’s simple: it’s called “Lotus Traveler”. I’ll repeat what I’ve said beofre: Lotus Traveler is just one of these things! It’s free and [amazingly] awesome but all the documentation is online. So this [read] Keywords: ibm ldd lotus notes policies traveler apple application email iphone ipod linkedin mobile profile security server
35	Lotus Domino: An Oldie but Goodie -> Monitor your Disk Space For Free … with an Event Handler! Thu, Feb 24th 2011 10:09p Marc Champoux Have You Ever Ran out of Disk Space on a Domino Server? I did! … and Lotus Domino does not like it at all when this happens (duh!). Although it had been a few years (or months, I can’t remember) since it last happened to me, it appears that our current monitoring tool (it shall remain nameless) was not working quite right and it failed to “see” and notify us that my Sametime server was about to run out of disk space on its C: drive. What made me “ [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes notes client R8 sametime application database email server
32	Lotus Domino SNMP: Solution when the SNMP Service Stops Working with the error “Error 2. The system cannot find the file specified” Wed, Feb 9th 2011 5:14a Marc Champoux Must … Share … The … Information … Well, this one had me stumped for a while and I decided to share the solution… read on if SNMP is something you have a [slight] interest in … or skip to a more entertaining place by clicking here (it’s sorta safe for work). The Symptom… Our SNMP monitoring tool started screaming that one of my Domino Server was down … but in reality it was up and running (and humming along just fine). The [read] Keywords: domino lotus applications google server snmp
10	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – I Figured Out What Was Odd About My Badge … Sun, Feb 6th 2011 5:14p Marc Champoux It Had Been Nagging Me All Week … Last week, when I arrived in Florida, I headed straight to the Lotusphere registration desk and picked up my conference badge as usual. As soon as I had it in my hands, I thought something was odd about it. I couldn’t put my finger on it but something was missing… But a few seconds later, it was around my neck and I was very pleased to see that they had brought back the agenda in “booklet” format instead of the evil &# [read] Keywords: ibm lotus lotusphere lotusphere2011 bleedyellow bleedyellow.com
17	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – Thursday Recap Thu, Feb 3rd 2011 10:18p Marc Champoux I Am Sooooo Burned Out… But it’s normal! Each and every year is the same: when Thursday comes around, everybody is either part of the living-dead walking around the halls of Lotusphere or simply still in bed because they are too tired. I for one missed the 1st session I wanted to attend at 8:30 AM because I had some trouble with my luggage and my airline check-in with the Disney Magical Express. Oh well, this happens… ID404 – Trusting your Data to IBM LotusL [read] Keywords: agent calendaring connections domino dwa ibm id vault inotes lotus lotusphere notes notes client quickr R8 sametime smart upgrade symphony traveler xpages blackberry community desktop development email firefox google ideajam ideajam.net integration interface javascript linux mac microsoft mobile network office openntf outlook password properties red hat security server social software tivoli virus websphere websphere portal wireless workspace
21	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – Wednesday Recap Thu, Feb 3rd 2011 9:21a Marc Champoux The End Is Nigh! Lotusphere 2011 is Almost Over… Each and every Lotusphere is the same: Wednesday marks the “beginning of the end” of yet another Lotusphere. In the morning if you attend any sessions, you’ll notice people that are either half awake (because they party’ed too late on Tuesday night) and/or people that are still half drunk from the previous night’s party (and never went to bed)! I for one did neither … I actually had to log [read] Keywords: collaboration domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes R8 applications community database desktop email interface java network office oracle password profile sap server sharepoint tivoli vmware widgets wiki xml
15	TNDA Goes to Lotusphere 2011 – Tuesday Recap Tue, Feb 1st 2011 6:15p Marc Champoux Alrighty, Lotusphere 2011 Is Well Underway… And I find myself wishing I had more time to sleep! And today was a busy day … so here’s my recap. SHOW106 – XPages 101: How to Build a Simple XPages Application by Matt White and Tim Clark Well, given the fact that it was the only session on the agenda apart from the keynote, I should have figured it would be overflowed! So it took about 15 to 20 minutes for the team of the Swan and IBM to open up another room, prep [read] Keywords: acl admin agent domino ibm lotus lotusphere notes notes client R8 rich-text sametime traveler xpages ajax application bug community css database db2 dojo javascript microsoft network office openntf oracle properties server smtp vm vmware wireless xml
18	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – Monday Recap Mon, Jan 31st 2011 7:15p Marc Champoux After the OGS … The Breakout Sessions Start! So, now that the OGS (see my blog post here about it) is out of the way, it’s officially time for the good ol’ brain smashing to begin! It’s now time to figure out which session to attend out of the 4 you want to attend [all in the same time-slot as usual] and it’s time to run between the Swan and Dolphin like an insane asylum escapee who doesn’t want to miss a single thing … ah Lotusphere … each a [read] Keywords: admin administration collaboration domino ibm inotes lotus lotusphere notes notes client R8 symphony applications development email enterprise integration java server skype
14	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – Monday Opening General Session Recap Mon, Jan 31st 2011 9:15a Marc Champoux I Survived The Jump Starts Sessions … So today starts with the goal of surviving the Opening General Session. To starts off the OGS, Kevin Spacey was the guest speaker. Since the topic of Lotusphere 2011 is “Social Software”, Kevin’s speech had some points about how social software helped him (and his company) become more productive and and find new talents “out-there”. He also explained how mentorship helped him and other people around him too (pr [read] Keywords: collaboration connections domino ibm lotus lotusphere lotusphere2011 notes sametime symphony traveler application applications blackberry development mobile rim social software wiki
60	TNDA Goes To Lotusphere 2011 – Sunday Recap Sun, Jan 30th 2011 8:17p Marc Champoux Much To My Surprise … I’m at Lotusphere 2011! I’m really surprised because I had absolutely no plans whatsoever to come to Lotusphere this year! In fact, my only way to get into Lotusphere this year was to be accepted as a speaker because I wanted to do a Show’n'Tell based on my R8.5.1 Smart Upgrade presentation … but I was not accepted (I was not surprised however since I have never spoken at any events before) so I simply had made up my mind that I w [read] Keywords: admin collaboration domino ibm lotus lotusphere lotusphere2011 notes ntf policies R7 R8 sametime smart upgrade sntt xpages community database integration oracle password sap security server vmware widgets
102	*Lotus Notes R8.5.1: The Sametime Business Card Feature Does NOT* Like Return Carriages** Thu, Jan 27th 2011 5:15a Marc Champoux My Users Love the Sametime Business Card Feature … And it works pretty well once you’ve configured it! However, when it doesn’t work it’s a bit difficult to troubleshoot. Simply put: the difficulty of troubleshooting a problem with the Sametime Business card goes from “simple”, for example when it doesn’t work at all, to “extra complicated” when business cards aren’t working for ramdom users. In my own personal opinion, ther [read] Keywords: admin agent domino lotus notes noteslotus R8 sametime blogging firefox server xml
17	Friday Funny: TELL BES ABOOT Doesn’t Work on my BlackBerry Enterprise Server … eh! Fri, Nov 5th 2010 7:30a Marc Champoux It Would Have Been a Nice Easter Egg … While I was on the phone last week with BlackBerry Support, I had to type “TELL BES ABOUT” on the server console to get some info … but for the fun of it (ok, I was sleep deprived), I deliberatly typed “TELL BES ABOOT” to see what would happen. The results … nothing … and that made me a bit sad. As a Canadian, I would have laughed my brains out if that command would have worked … but I gue [read] Keywords: domino lotus R8 traveler apple bes blackberry community enterprise iphone rim server
79	Lotus Traveler 8.5.1: A Short User Guide (That You Can “Borrow”) – Updated with Version 1.4 Wed, Nov 3rd 2010 7:26a Marc Champoux The Best Things in Life are Free … But They Don’t Come With A Manual! Lotus Traveler is just one of these things: free and awesome but all the documentation is online. So this is why a while ago, I posted a presentation about Lotus Traveler on my blog to help out. In fact, some of you “out there” have probably read my previous version of the presentation here and I’ve received a lot of good comments on it – thank you for all your comments, it’s very� [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes policies traveler email iphone ipod profile security server
20	Lotus Notes R8.5.1: SnTT – Updated (V4) Step-By-Step Presentation on Deploying R8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 Clients and Widgets using Smart Upgrade, the Install Shield Tuner, SURunAsWizard and Policies Tue, Oct 5th 2010 3:25p Marc Champoux Dear Readers … Welcome to the 4th edition of The New Domino Admin presentation on how to get Smart Upgrade working for you. You may (or may not), have read the 1st version, the 2nd version, the 3rd version or even the “how-to-smart-upgrade” guide for the Fix Pack 1 and, if you did read them, thank you for stopping by and reading those long, lengthy, tedious posts. September was insane on my side so I did not have the time to blog. Because of this, I have about 10 articles that I [read] Keywords: admin domino lotus notes policies R8 smart upgrade sntt database widget widgets
19	Lotus Notes R8.5.1: Smart Upgrade “Limit Concurrent Upgrades to X” vs. Cancelled Upgrades vs. Reality … What’s Going On? Fri, Sep 3rd 2010 8:28a Marc Champoux Once again, I have to ask if I’ve gone mad (and once again answer = probably) I’ve decided to share this blog post with you today because I’m seeing a very strange behaviour in regards to Smart Upgrade and the number that I’ve specified in the “Limit concurrent downloads” in the server configuration document. The behaviour that I see is that when people press the “Don’t Update Now” button when prompted … the “cancelled&# [read] Keywords: lotus notes R8 smart upgrade blogging database office server
95	Lotus Notes R8.5.x: Where’s the “Insert - Symbol” button like is Outlook? Answer: Nowhere! Wed, Sep 1st 2010 7:27a Marc Champoux Kids Say the Darnest Things … And End Users Ask the Darnest Questions … point in case: an employee calls me up and asks the following simple question: “Hi Marc, I want to add an arrow into my email. In Microsoft Word, I click on Insert → Symbol and then I get to pick the arrow from the Wingding font selection and insert it right into my Word document… it’s soooo easy … I need to know where’s that option in Lotus Notes R8.5.1 because I can̵ [read] Keywords: lotus notes notes client noteslotus R8 email interface microsoft outlook
27	Lotus Notes 8.5.1: Death By PowerPoint … a.k.a. My End User Training Guide (That You Can “Borrow”) Wed, Aug 25th 2010 8:31a Marc Champoux Death By PowerPoint Anyone? If you answered “yes” then you’re in luck because you might just want to download the 137 pages presentation below! Why would you want to do that? Well, because those are the slides from the “Show’n'Tell” presentation that I have been giving to the employees who have been upgraded to Lotus Notes R8.5.1 recently. I actually don’t “punish” the employees with this slide deck: I do a live demo and I cov [read] Keywords: lotus notes R8 sametime traveler database server
308	Lotus Notes R8.5.1: I Lost My Follow Up Mini View … Why? I Don’t Know But Here’s How To Get It Back … Tue, Aug 24th 2010 7:37a Marc Champoux Ever Get a Problem That’s Straight Outta Comptom The Twilight Zone? Well, I had a call today that made me go “whhaaaaa?” … and the problem was somewhat simple: the employee had lost his “Follow Up Mini View” in the lower left corner of his mail file. I checked it out and it was true: there was no way for me to get the Follow Up Mini View back. Here’s a screen shot to show that we could not “drag” the mini-view back onto the screen. [read] Keywords: lotus notes notes client R8 widgets workspace
24	Lotus Notes R8.5.1: Mail Stuck on Server During Cluster Failure … Why? Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 7:30a Marc Champoux The Devil Is In The Details … And this is going to be a quick post about one of those “details” … let’s say your running two servers in a cluster and the 2nd server catches on fire (not that mine did). If half of your users are on Server A and the other half are on Server B … what will happen to the mail being delivered to the users on Server B when it goes out in a ball of flames? Logic dictates that, since you are running in a cluster, the m [read] Keywords: domino lotus notes R8 server
46	Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FPx: My Fonts Are HUGE After My Upgrade! Why? The Answer Might Surprise You … Thu, Aug 12th 2010 8:26a Marc Champoux If You Have Any Users With 1 Inch Thick Glasses … You might want to continue reading… because a few days ago, I was called in to help an employee (who had been recently upgraded) with a strange predicament. Basically speaking, after his Lotus Notes R8.5.1 upgrade, his fonts in Lotus Notes were so incredibily HUGE that I could probably have read his emails from across the room. Why did this happen? I wasn’t sure and the answer surprised me … Let’s see w [read] Keywords: lotus notes notes client R7 R8

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