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To set or not to set "Do not modify Names fields," that is the question.

David Brown |   | Tags:  acl mail administration author modify reader | Comments (2)  |  Visits (193)
 
After seeing a Technote like this, you might be persuaded to set a user's mail application Admin server Action to (the default) "Do not modify Names fields."

Technote 1432267: Some messages have lost the information in the From field

However, your trusty Admin infocenter/guide gives a slightly different impression...

Specifying an administration server for databases

The recommendation for names.nsf and admin4.nsf is clear enough (and, believe me, you should trust IBM about those two).  However, there's a judgment call regarding what to do about mail applications...

<begin direct quote from infocenter>
We also recommend that you set Modify Names or Reader and Authors with caution on mail databases. Also, For heavy users of Calendar and Scheduling specific to recurring meetings, the user's mail database should be set to "Modify All Names fields." For users who are not frequently involved in the use of Calendar and Scheduling, the user's mail database should be set to "Do not modify Names fields".

Because, (IMHO) it isn't practical to use a "prevailing winds" approach regarding if a user is a "heavy recurring meetings" candidate, (except in specific cases) I tend to go with "Do not modify Names fields."

What is your preference and what helped you make up your mind about which way to go?
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Sung to the tune of "Money for Nothing"

David Brown |   | Comments (2)  |  Visits (157)
I want my 8.5.2...
 
But all Download Director will give me it the equivalent of:  Well, LA-DE-FREAKIN-DA!
 
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8.5.1 FP4 and "DNSServer="

David Brown |   | Tags:  fp4 8.5.1 | Comments (0)  |  Visits (452)
According to this, 8.5.1 FP4 will be available by August 4th.
 
Get a jump start on what's included by reviewing the Preliminary Fix List. 
 
For instance, the "DNSServer=" Notes.ini variable will no longer be supported.
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Domino Directory is not part of the Notes and Domino product

David Brown |   | Comments (0)  |  Visits (476)
 
Maybe it's just me, but this prompt doesn't seem to be a very good match for what should happen after clicking the "Enter Password" button in the Internet Password field of a person doc.
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But let me back up a step while I'm at it.

To change or set a new internet password, I click a button called, "Enter Password."
Ok.  I'll let that one slide, although using a word like "Reset" or "Update" of "Set" probably should have been on the short list.

Then, the Window title and instructions before the blank aren't indicative that you are setting/resetting anything.  It seems to be prompting me for the current password.

Finally, I'm warned of something that is completely untrue followed by an incomplete sentence that ends in "to."

I have one final thing I want you to consider.  Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca.
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Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk.  But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor.  Now think about it; that does not make sense!



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Upgrading your chat-logging-enabled Sametime server to 8.5?

David Brown |   | Tags:  group stchatlogging stplaces sametime chat services | Comments (0)  |  Visits (307)
StPlaces and StChatLogging will not start and things like Group chat will be broken until/unless you perform the following workaround:
In sametime.ini set:
[ST_BB_NAMES]
ST_CHAT_LOG=

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21429679
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UAC is annoying, mmmkay?

David Brown |   | Tags:  2008 uac | Comments (2)  |  Visits (291)
 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21406031

When attempting to run a hot fix or fix pack installation you receive the following error message:
"Lotus Notes/Domino or a Notes/Domino related process is still running. Please close it before pressing OK to continue."
 

Cause
This issue can occur in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 when User Account Control (UAC) blocks access to .dll files that the file needs to read/modify.

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When gateways go bad...

David Brown |   | Tags:  fix domino central | Comments (2)  |  Visits (315)
 Bad Gateway!  Bad!
Is anyone else having trouble getting their fix of fixes today?
When I search for the latest Domino fixes, I see this after clicking "Continue":

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Just my luck to be downstream.

I see where there's a planned server outage for Fix Central tomorrow.  But tomorrow isn't today until today is yesterday. 

While we're on the subject, I attended this really great LS10 session, "ID206 IBM Lotus iNotes High Availability and Cloud Enablement." 
Why the heck hasn't the concept been utilized for IBM sites like Fix Central?

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BES with Traveler and/or ST on the same host?

David Brown |   | Tags:  http services" jvm traveler "starting bes sametime | Comments (0)  |  Visits (408)
Ensure the notes.ini setting HTTPDisableJVM=0
It's something I seem to ALWAYS forget to check.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21315376

Ted, UR my hero!
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NotesBench Consortium outsourced to Japan?

David Brown |   | Comments (2)  |  Visits (561)
 Spoken in my best impersonation of Inigo Montoya's voice:

"The link you provided - I do not think it goes where you think it goes."

http://www.notesbench.org/

Note to IBM's Admin Help file editing team:  time to nix the link on the "Sources for improving server performance" page.

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BrowserRenderPrintNotes=1

David Brown |   | Tags:  print html ini preview | Comments (0)  |  Visits (547)
 
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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ONE! TWO! FIVE!

David Brown |   | Tags:  8.5.1fp1 | Comments (2)  |  Visits (392)
 
"Three, sire!"
"THREE!"
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More fun with excel

David Brown |   | Comments (0)  |  Visits (465)
 
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:
 
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Here is how you want to separate the data for easy sorting later:
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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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Where is the "Fuller Access Adminstration" button?

David Brown |   | Comments (2)  |  Visits (525)
 
What is wrong with this picture?
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Please, Sir, I want some more.
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Another Excel tip...

David Brown |   | Tags:  excel | Comments (0)  |  Visits (566)
 Using an Excel LEFT function - everything to left of a delimiter (comma in this case)
=LEFT(A1;FIND(",";A1)-1)
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Client upgrades will be hotfix/CCH/FP savvy starting with 8.5.1

David Brown |   | Tags:  client fp upgrade cch 8.5.1 notes hotfix | Comments (0)  |  Visits (579)
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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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