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 All business partners and customers attending MWLUG 2010 next week will receive a voucher for 50% off the IBM certification exams.  We would like to thank Sara Nicklin and Joyce Davis of IBM for helping us get this.  Please let your team or customers know about this benefit of attending MWLUG 2010.  We are 10 days away from the start of MWLUG 2010 and we have already exceeded last year's numbers. If you have not already registered for the event, please visit http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug2010.nsf/uxpages/registration.uxp

Building a Community Through Collaboration
The Midwest Lotus User Group Conference 2010 is two days of intensive exchanges of knowledge and fun with other members of the Lotus community. At the conference you will be able to meet with your fellow Lotus professionals and share your experiences and best practices. It will include:

• Technical Sessions
• Business Development Sessions
• Technical Workshops
• Networking
• Special Events


August 19-20, 2010
Hilton Garden Inn - Cleveland
1100 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115
http://www.mwlug.com

 The Tuning performance of the server document found in IBM's Domino and Notes Information Center for Traveler 8.5.1 is misleading. I found this out the hard way after a server reboot yesterday. All of a sudden, my device users could not communicate with the server, their recipients were getting multiple copies of messages being sent from their devices, and the server log kept showing "Lotus Traveler task did not respond within the allotted time frame. Client request denied for user". I opened a PMR with IBM tech support and after sending them many log files, it was found that the setting for the servlet.properties file is not correct.

AS_REQUEST_TIME_LIMIT is correctly stated as being in seconds. However, ntstimeoutsyncas is in milliseconds, not seconds. Thus, the servlet is only waiting 230ms for the traveler process to respond. That is such a short period of time that you are going to see that timeout very, very often.
You should change ntstimeoutsyncas to be 230000 instead of 230 in servlets.properties.

After making the change and restarting the server, all is well again.

 A week short of 5 years with my current employer, I am moving on to a new opportunity with another company beginning Monday, November 9. I'll still remain in the Lotus Domino arena as well as the Blackberry world. But my new position will open up additional opportunities for me as well. I'm excited to move on, but saddened as well to be leaving behind many friends and good co-workers.

Is there a way to set the field Refresh design on admin server only on multiple databases at once? What a pain it would be to have to do it individually on 2000+ databases. 

Somewhere along the way (I believe starting with v8.5), if you register a user with a Notes ID, they cannot change their internet password. The option in DWA preferences doesn't appear for them. However, they can use the following URL to change their internet password:

http://servername/mailpath/mailfilename.nsf?changepassword

Has anyone had success getting the Notes 8.5 standard config client to work when a user's data folder resides on a file server? If you use the basic configuration, all works well. However, the standard client won't open. The splash screen appears, and in task manager the notes.exe and nlnotes.exe exist, but the notes2.exe never executes. What also happens is that the lotus\notes\data\workspace\.config folder gets renamed to .configbak (why?), but a new .config folder cannot be created because it is using a / slash for the directory name (where this is coming from I haven't a clue). I am using an account with full admin rights so it's not a permissions issue.

If you haven't already registered and are planning on attending....

Why not join us in Chicago and attend what is shaping up to be a very information packed 2 days with your fellow colleagues in the Midwest region. Session information has been posted on the site, but here are just a few of the speakers and session topics we have lined up so far:

Preparing for the Mobile Applications Onslaught - presented by John Wargo
Dust off your servers with a server health check - presented by Kim Greene
Integration and Coexistence: Leveraging Lotus & Microsoft products to build better solutions - presented by John Head
AJAX and JSON - presented by Scott Good
Lowering costs - should we consider Linux for Lotus - presented by William Malchisky Jr.
Getting social in the Lotus space - presented by Gregg Eldred

Ed Brill will be giving the  keynote presentation (worth the price of admittance right there). On Thursday, thanks to our generous sponsors, there is a Chicago River and Lake Michigan Boat Tour Event.

For more information and to register, go to http://www.mwlug.com/mwlug/mwlug.nsf

As part of the MWLUG Conference 2009 special event, attendees will be treated to an architecture boat tour of the Chicago river and Lake Michigan on Thursday, August 27. This event is made possible by the generosity of our MWLUG Conference sponsors.

We will embark from the IBM Center after the first day of sessions and workshops to the Wrigley Building by trolley where we have reserved one of the largest architecture tour boats. Below is a brief description of the 1.5 hour Lakefront and Chicago River Tour.

There is limited seating so make sure you register for the conference as soon as possible. If you are coming with your family to the conference, there are also a limited number of seats that attendees can purchase at a specially reduced price for your family members.

Wendella 90-Minute Combined Lake and River Tour
Chicago's most comprehensive boat tour. Our signature tour of Lake Michigan and the Chicago River includes a trip through the Chicago Lock and a live narration featuring an overview of architecture and history.

Many guests who took this tour with their parents return years later with children and grandchildren of their own; each new generation creating new family memories. And while Chicago's skyline has evolved over the years, Wendella continues to provide unique perspectives of the magnificent buildings and architecture along the Chicago River before venturing out to Lake Michigan where guests are treated to a rich view of the entire skyline.

The Combined Lake and River Tour is perfect for anyone interested in spending quality time with family, friends, colleagues or others who have an interest in Chicago's rich culture and history.

Join us and your peers at the Northeast Ohio User Group on Thursday, June 25th from 8:30am -1pm at the CDW Building in Brecksville Ohio. Special Guest Speakers are  Declan Lynch discussing xpages,  IBM/RPM presenting a Lotus Connections demo, and Sherpa Software presenting Compliance Attender.  IBM will be sponsoring breakfast, we do not have a sponsor for lunch.

8:30 - 9     Continental breakfast courtesy of IBM
9 - 10:15   RPM/IBM presentation on Connections
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Sherpa presentation on Compliance Attender
11:30 - 12:15 Declan Lynch XPages web presentation
Lunch courtesy of IBM

Please RSVP to Mike Dutiel at mdutiel@emp.com by Friday, June 19th.


CDW
6650 West Snowville Road
Brecksville, OH 44141

Directions:

From The North (I-77 South)
1.        At exit 147, take ramp right and follow signs for Miller Rd 0.2 mi
2.        Turn left onto Miller Rd 0.3 mi
3.        Turn left onto Southpointe Pkwy 0.2 mi
4.        Turn right onto W Snowville Rd
5.        Turn left onto Noble Park Drive
6.        6650 W Snowville Rd Ste A, Brecksville, OH 44141will be on your left hand side.

From The South (I-77 North)
1.        At exit 145, take ramp right for Oh-21 / Brecksville Rdtoward Ohio Turnpike 0.4 mi
2.        Keep straight onto SR-21 / Brecksville Rd 1.5 mi
3.        Turn left onto W Snowville Rd 0.4 mi
4.        Turn left onto Noble Park Drive
5.        6650 W Snowville Rd Ste A, Brecksville, OH 44141will be on your left hand side.

From  (I-80)
1.        At exit 173, take ramp right for Oh-21 toward Akron / Cleveland 0.7 mi
2.        Turn left onto SR-21 / Brecksville Rd 0.8 mi
3.        Turn left onto W Snowville Rd 0.4 mi
4.        Turn left onto Noble Park Drive
5.        6650 W Snowville Rd Ste A, Brecksville, OH 44141will be on your left hand side.

Speaker abstract submissions has been opened for the Midwest Lotus User Conference in Chicago on August 27-28, 2009.

To submit an abstract, click here: Speaker Abstract Submission

OK this is getting old. Seems as soon as we fix one issue with our production Domino 8.5 mail server, another issue arises. Today the server crashed and restarted itself from 4AM until 8AM (when I got the resolution from IBM support) once an hour due to Panic: unexpected internal error returned to logger errors. Find out this is caused by corrupted transaction log files so I have to disable transaction logging and create new ones. It was just 2 weeks ago I had to rebuild the server from the base code and apply a new hotfix to address HTTP memory issues. When will the madness end! (Can you tell I'm releasing some frustration here). Don't get me wrong, I love working with Lotus Domino, but I'm getting tired defending it to my management. Tell me I'm not the only one facing these type of issues...