Thanks to everyone who attended my session on Lotus Notes package customisation and the positive feedback I have received so far.

Don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you need to know more details on any of the topics covered.

Feel free to download the presentation from here. Most presentations should also be made available in the AusLUG community after the event.

Recent Blog Posts

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Fixing crashes in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) Mon, Sep 24th 2012 2:59p Christian Petters I recently started to look at SQL Server Analysis Services to get a better understanding of the design and usage of OLAP cubes. Unfortunately the development environment (Business Intelligence Development Studio) which is still based on Visual Studio 2008 kept on crashing on me for no obvious reasons. Being relatively new to the topic I obviously couldn’t judge whether the crashes where caused by my wrongdoing or something happening in the application itself. To my defence though, I shal [read] Keywords: application development microsoft server sql xml

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Using regular expression with Connections profiles population Sat, Apr 28th 2012 2:22a Christian Petters Today I was challenged to make use of regular expressions in Tivoli Directory Integrator to further filter LDAP distinguished names for the import into IBM Connections Profiles. According to the Connections 3.0.1 documentation this can be achieved in specifying your regular expression in the source_ldap_required_dn_regex property of the profiles_tdi.PROPERTIES file. Looking at the underlying TDI Assembly Line code though I discovered that source_ldap_required_dn_regex is never being read. Instea [read] Keywords: connections ibm ldd lotus community java javascript properties tivoli

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Misleading error message at ST Meeting Server installation Fri, Apr 20th 2012 9:24p Christian Petters This week I was challenged with a completely deceptive error message during the installation of the Sametime Meeting Server. The error message claimed that System Clocks are not synchronized within 5 minutes of one another, Please synchronize for federation. Since I was working in a somewhat unreliable test environment I obviously believed in the message and dutifully compared the system times between the Sametime Systems Console server and the Sametime Meeting server. Without a lot of surpris [read] Keywords: ibm sametime application java password server websphere websphere portal

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IBM Connections Documentation HTML wrapper Wed, Apr 18th 2012 2:43a Christian Petters If you are like me and constantly being frustrated about the performance of the IBM Connections wiki you can try those two HTML wrapper documents for a more instant experience: HTML wrapper HTML wrapper accessible Just note the comment on the top of each document “This draft is refreshed quarterly, as necessary, but does not contain all of the latest updates and fixes made to the community-owned version of the wiki articles.” [read] Keywords: connections ibm lotus community wiki

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AusLUG12 presentation Thu, Mar 29th 2012 8:03p Christian Petters Thanks to everyone who attended my session on Lotus Notes package customisation and the positive feedback I have received so far. Don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you need to know more details on any of the topics covered. Feel free to download the presentation from here. Most presentations should also be made available in the AusLUG community after the event. [read] Keywords: lotus notes community

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Principal field invalidates RFC 5322 compliance Sun, Mar 11th 2012 3:22a Christian Petters Due to lack of time, another post in ‘shorthand’: Issue: Outgoing SMTP messages are rejected by ISP or Gateway appliance with error “Invalid sender address” Investigation: RFC 5322 requires a from field in the header of every email. Emails that were sent from LotusScript* specifying an invalid entry for the Principal field, which caused Domino to create invalid message headers. The mandatory From field was missing. Solution: When using Principal fields, ensure to use v [read] Keywords: domino lotusscript email smtp

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Lotus Traveler: 403 FORBIDDEN Thu, Feb 2nd 2012 1:42p Christian Petters Just a quick note on an issue we discovered lately. Issue: An Apple iPhone was unable to synchronise with the Traveler server. The only error message we got was 403 FORBIDDEN (Access not allowed even with authorization) in the Domlog.nsf. Investigation: Issue tell traveler security status username on the domino console. This will result with a listing of all devices registered to a user and their security status. In this particular case the security approval was pending for the iPhone but the [read] Keywords: domino lotus traveler apple iphone security server

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Sametime: Define path to vpuserinfo.nsf for name changes Wed, Jul 13th 2011 5:42p Christian Petters This may not be an issue for organisations that do have the Domino data directory in the default location (e.g. data). If however you want to run the stnamechange task on a server with an alternative data directory, you must add the following parameter to the [Config] section of the sametime.ini NC_DB_PATH=G:Datadir [read] Keywords: domino sametime server

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Unable to connect to Sametime Community server after upgrade to 8.5 Mon, Jun 13th 2011 5:02p Christian Petters I recently upgraded our Sametime environment to version 8.5.1 from version 7.5.1. Since we also wanted to transfer to new server hardware I figured it would be easiest to do a new installation and just migrate the vpuserinfo.nsf and stconf.nsf. Since no configuration settings are being migrated this was a good opportunity to start afresh. This here is a quick note (from own experience) that the design of the vpuserinfo.nsf is important for the successful run of Sametime. Since the vpuserinfo.ns [read] Keywords: admin connections ibm sametime updall community database server

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Sametime: prevent contact list notification after directory change to LDAP Sat, May 21st 2011 2:17a Christian Petters If you have followed IBM’s instructions on replacing the Domino Directory with an LDAP directory you might notice the user notification below after running the stnamechange command against the vpuserinfo.nsf: I can not think of any valid reason why a user should be bothered that his ‘contact list has been updated to reflect recent administration changes to contact names’. In my experience it would just puzzle people, especially since there is no true information relayed or any [read] Keywords: administration collaboration domino ibm notes noteslotus sametime desktop eclipse