A customer noticed the "print preview" button wasn't always available when choosing Ctrl-P for certain messages.
I was able to trace the issue to this technote.
Depending on the content of the message, "the browser will own the print job and the default Windows based Print window is displayed for printing."
This can cause some confusion because simply choosing File>Print Preview appears to generate the preview as if Notes will own the print job in all cases (and it doesn't necessarily print the way that it's shown in the preview).
To let Lotus Notes handle print jobs for all mail, use the following notes.ini parameter:
BrowserRenderPrintNotes=1
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I'm running some server decommission reports today and needed a quick way to sort the results by directory. When you have nested layers of directories, this can be a bit of a challenge because Excel evaluates text from left to right. So, when you want to extract an application's path from the filename, and that application is more than one folder deep, getting the path is not as simple as extracting everything to the left of the first backslash. There are some cool methods for solving this with VBA in excel, but I wanted to create a stand alone solution. Everything could be solved in a single formula- and you could/should also include "if error" checking to substitute the "#error" you'll receive if you reference an application path in the "root" of data- but, for simplicity of explanation, I've broken it down into two steps. Let's assume you've run your decommission report and have opened the results in excel: Here is how you want to separate the data for easy sorting later: Here are the formulas for B2 and C2: B2 =RIGHT(A2;LEN(A2)-FIND(CHAR(1);SUBSTITUTE(A2;"\";CHAR(1);LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2;"\";""))))) C2 =LEFT(A2;(LEN(A2)-LEN(B2))) The B2 formula finds the right-most backslash and substitutes everything to the left, including the backslash itself, with null. Now you have the filename. Now that you can calculate the filename's length (everything to the right of the last backslash), you can use that value to lop off that many characters from the length of your full path. This is what the formula in C2. Now you can sort the results by Directory and then Filename to ensure you have everything in tidy buckets for your replica creation requests.
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What is wrong with this picture?
Please, Sir, I want some more.
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Using an Excel LEFT function - everything to left of a delimiter (comma in this case)
=LEFT(A1;FIND(",";A1)-1)
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. Hooray. No more worries about manually downgrading clients before upgrading. That is to say, the client installer will is supposed to remove any previous obsolete fix as part of the upgrade process.
Can we have that for Domino now, too? Pretty please.
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. Here's a slick little console command you can use to quickly force a value change for an ini setting that already exists in a server's config doc.
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. Thank goodness the days of single threaded Admin client initiated tasks are a long gone relic. Oy! Just put a [red] stapler on top of the left mouse button and go to lunch. ; )
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This one left me scratching my head, though.
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This is a set of concurrent requests on 3 separate servers. No, there's not even a remote chance that each server just happens to have the same number of databases for processing.
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At any rate... 4633/3671 != 96%
Not on this planet, anyway.
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. If you choose to impose mail database quotas (btw, doing so probably isn't going to solve the issue you are trying to address, imho) AND also utilize the Mail Quota Status thermometer (introduced in 8.0.1), ensure that you also set a warning threshold. Without a warning threshold set, the database is considered to be at "Warning" level straight out of the gates. It seems like a couple more lines of lines in the feature code could check if the warning is not set so as to avoid this issue. Oh well.
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That little tidbit is mentioned here and still applies as of 8.5 client, template, and server combo. I'll have fries with that.
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. I've been an Excel (actually, it was initially Lotus 1-2-3) junkie ever since my first data analyst job.
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If you happen to be working in Excel with, for instance, exported mail database application server and file path info, here's a way that you use that information to generate a hyperlink that will open the database application in Notes.
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The concatenate formula in A2:
- prepends notes://
- extracts all text to the left of the first forward slash in cell C2 (now you have the server's common name) and inserts it in the string (in this case, you'll need a way for that name to be resolved in hosts or DNS)
- inserts a forward slash to indicate the file name is coming next
- inserts the filename (the value of E2)
- appends ".nsf" (if .nsf happens to be in all your mail file paths, you can leave that part off. if you have a mix (some with, some without extensions, use a "text to columns" action to separate the file name from it's extension (specify a period as the delimiter))
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TIP: You'll probably want to disable Excel's hyperlink warning message if you are going to be clicking on more than a few links in your spreadsheet.
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Where might you find the following statement lurking in your Domino environment?
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"Authorized for Lotus Notes Mail use by kapDesk/kapDesk"
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Happy searching. :)
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. I was initially impressed that IBM went the extra mile to not only create a couple of agents to help identify and resolve case sensitivity issues, but also package them up tidily into an nsf. I guess I'm the very first person to actually try the database, because the one currently posted in the technote is encrypted. :(
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Baby you can drive my car, but I'm not gonna give you the keys. Where's the love in that?
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. In case you ever have an occasion (outside of using AdminP when moving a user) to run an agent to modify the "Mail server" in a person doc, make sure you force the post-save event.
Otherwise, the router won't pick up the change correctly.
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Error: "Unable to route mail to server..." occurs when server name is updated using agent
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While I'm delighted with the concept that IBM has included a transcript of the August 27th Open Mic Call, "Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5," I am dismayed, for one thing, to see so many typos. I'm not trying to be trivial about it. Hey, I'm as much a pro at peppering in typos as the next guy. I shudder to think how many will be in this post by the time I ready to post it. My real concern is that some of the typos have the potential to cause some real confusion for someone that would typically rely on a technote of this nature. Furthermore, some of the answers could be subjectively qualified as less-than-ideal solutions to the questions posed.
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Again, I am not trying to knock anyone (call hosts, participants, or the transcriber) by writing this. I applaud your participation in taking a multi-faceted approach for dispersing relevant Domino support information. However, I think there has to be a better way to re-process the call's information so dispersed information that references the call is of "technote-worthy" quality.
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---Begin Excerpt 1---
Q: Is Windows 2008 64-bit supported with Domino 8.6 FP1?
A: Yes, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are supported. Refer to Document #7013072, "Domino 8.5 - Detailed system requirements," for more information.
---End Excerpt 1---
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What are the chances a noob might encounter this technote, scan through it just enough to see this "Q" and first part of the "A" and take this typo at face value? Man! I'm gonna have to wait until the first fixpack of 8.6 and 8.5.1 isn't even available, yet? Bummer. Let's make the "most" of our Windows 2008 64-bit box by going with Exchange 2007, instead. (Alright, if they really had that last thought, they deserve all that comes along with that decision.)
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Q: After an upgrade to 8.5, you're supposed to do an ODS (On-Disk Structure) upgrade but in our case, it ran for 18 hours and Best Practices says not to do it that way. What should we do?
A: Depending on the amount of data in the mail file, ODS compacting time varies. Creating a replica and running compact will give you a rough estimate of the time involved. Create sub-files to "hold" the mail files (such as 5 files to contain 40 files each for a total of 200 files) since this will compress the time involved. You can schedule this to run over a few weekends. Be sure to check the logs for errors.
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Huh? Create sub-files to "hold" the mail files (such as 5 files to contain 40 files each for a total of 200 files? What the heck does that mean? I think the intended recommendation is to create sub-folders to hold the mail files. Although that seems like a really tedious thing to do: move the mail files to 5 separate folders just so you can run compact -c "over a few weekends" to complete the ODS upgrades. You do want mail to continue to route to those boxes, don't you? Let's not go there, ok? Please, if you are even considering this, search Admin help for "compact and .ind".
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On more than a few occasions I've performed my civic duty and used the "Rate this page" section to record my 2 cents towards technote content quality improvement. But this one has me thinking the call content is better suited for a wiki format.
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Random thought o' the day: Watch Underworld (2003), Underworld: Evolution (2006) and the Matrix "Trilogy". Compare and contrast.
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Déjà UI: The distinct feeling that you've already clicked the option to indicate, "not now, I have a headache".
Dear IE8, I'll install you when, and if, I choose to. But for now, read my clicks, no new IE.
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