Life is too short to drink che...

Over the last week or so, working on a mail file for one of our users who gets truncated messages appearing in his inbox. He does not have a local replica, but his mail file is replicated to another server. Checked replication settings and it is set to replicate full documents. Interesting thing is that the replica copy does not have truncated messages. Only thing I can figure out is that the replica copy of his mail file resides on a server that has transaction logging running. So, I disabled transaction logging on his file. IBM tech support recommends I delete his production mail file and create a new replica of it from the other server. We'll see what happens.

I've been working with one of our directors on an issue that when they send out a large email to a large group of recipients, they get invalid structure errors. I have already run maintenance (fixup, compact, updall) on the file. So, I ask this question - Just to confirm, when composing the newsletter, you are doing it from "scratch" (new, memo...) and not a pre-existing memo/stationery? Here is the response I received: I am really sorry. I have absolutely no idea what any of this means. I do not know whether I am using stationery or not, I do not know if it is pre built, I do not even know what a mail file is.

This is why life is too short to drink cheap beer!

I just found this page today after reviewing some documentation in the admin help file
Notes.ini settings

Ever since we upgrade Tivoli Storage Manager to v5, we can no longer RDP into the server and run the TSM applications; it causes Domino to hang. We upgraded TSM because we turned on transaction logging on the Domino server. We have to use mstsc /v:servername /console (or actually go into computer room and access server locally). Anyone else experience this and/or have a fix? 

Silent install of Notes 8.0 Standard configuration client does not install Sametime component
Doc #:        1287212
URL:        http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21287212

I usually can tell when a McAfee update is sent out to the user community; they start complaining about slowness in their notes client. Sure enough, McAfee adds 2 lines to the notes.ini file that causes this slowness:

• AddinMenus=NCMenu
• EXTMGR_ADDINS=NCExtMgr

Removing these lines from the notes.ini speds the client right back up. I'm now trying to plead my case to my network admins to exclude this the next time mcafee is updated.

Another thing that was driving me crazy - blackberry manager wasn't saving the info I put in the relative path field for the address book:PIM Sync settings

Figured out something interesting today while activating a user's device. I normally set up the user and go through the enterprise activation - no problems, only single entries on the calendar. However, if you then go back in to the Blackberry manager and edit the person's address book location (for example, there is share copy of their address book on the server so others can see/maintain it), when you click OK a new enterprise activation occurs. This causes duplicate entries on the calendar. This just started happening after I upgraded the server to v4.1.6 for Domino. So word to the wise, before doing the activation, make sure the address book fields are populated up front.

Ever needed to add a connection document to alot of user's personal address book easily? It's easy - just create an email with a button that contains lotuscript to do it.
Create a new email
In the body of the message, click on Create, Hotspot, Button
Give your button a name (ex. connect to ABCServer)
Change the type of code from Formula to Lotuscript
Copy the following lines of code:

Sub Click(Source As Button)
    Dim Workspace As New NotesUIWorkspace
    Dim UIDdoc As NotesUIDocument
    Set uidoc = workspace.composedocument("","names.nsf","Connection")
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("ConnectionType","Local Area Network")
    Call uidoc.refreshhideformulas
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("PortName","TCPIP")
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("LanPortName","TCPIP")
'The FieldSetText method could be used here to set the values of other fields
'For example, the below allows the connection to only be used when
' either the OfficeA or OfficeB location documents are in use.
    Call uidoc.refreshhideformulas
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("Destination","PUT SERVERNAME HERE; ex. ABCSERVER/ABC")
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("OptionalNetworkAddress","PUT DESTINATION SERVER ADDRESS HERE; ex. ABCSERVER.abc.com")
    Call uidoc.fieldsettext("Source","*")
    Call uidoc.refresh
    Call uidoc.save
    Call uidoc.close
End Sub

Send the email to your users telling them to click on the button and the connection document gets created.

Hello all; I've been nudged by my twitter friends to create a blog to share information, so here we go...