Lockout ID has no effect when using security policies
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 12:13p Dennis Ruddigkeit If you are using Domino security policies – e.g. to define password quality or password change interval - and the “Lockout ID” functionality to prevent users from accessing the Lotus Notes environment, you should pay attention to the following technote:
-> Global policy setting ignores ‘Lockout ID’ setting in Person document
From what I have tested so far it doesn’t [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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IBM Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1: iOS app and push notifications
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 11:09a Dennis Ruddigkeit While testing Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 Proxy Server + native Sametime App on iPad + Apple push notification, I ran into a small problem which seems to be a minor bug of the app itself.
It seems that the Sametime app always stops working, after you receive a push notification about a new message, click on it and [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interoperability of Sametime – a never-ending story?
Fri, Sep 16th 2011 11:12a Dennis Ruddigkeit More than a year ago, IBM started to bother Sametime administrators and users with audio and video interoperability between Sametime 8.5.x clients and earlier versions. This topic has never been solved satisfactorily and it was on the administrators to find a solution how bring all Sametime clients (and embedded Sametime clients as well) at least to version [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections: Thumbnails in Media Gallery
Fri, Sep 16th 2011 6:09a Dennis Ruddigkeit When uploading pictures to a media gallery in Lotus IBM Connections 3.0.1, an event is triggered to generate a thumbnail for the uploaded image. This process may not run, if it is triggered to run on behalf of a user which does not exist in IBM Connections – i.e. the user does not have a profile [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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How to add IBM Connections search to IE search bar
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 9:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit Adding the IBM Connections full text search functionality to your Internet Explorer (tested with IE 8) is quite straightforward, just follow these steps:
Navigate to “Add search providers to Internet Explorer”
Enter the IBM Connections search URL
(https://<your IBM Connections host>/search/web/search?query=TEST),
a descriptive name and click install.
Select the Connections search provider from the search bar drop down list and [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Blackberry Playbook + WPA2 = fail
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 9:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit It seems that RIM’s Blackberry Playbook has problems using WPA2 encryption for WiFi in conjunction with some WLAN routers. In some cases the Playbook “only” disconnects from WiFi after a few minutes, but in other cases it makes the WLAN router stop working at all, so that a restart of the router is required.
I can reproduce it with [...] [read] Keywords: blackberry
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IBM Connections apps for smartphones – leak or mistake?
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 6:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit Something strange happened to the blog posts regarding the release of native IBM Connections apps for Blackberry, Android and iOS.
Does anybody know, why most of the (IBM) bloggers removed their blog entries without any notice or replacement?
Some examples:
Luis Benitez
Chris Pepin
Technorati [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections apps for Android, Blackberry and iOS
Mon, Aug 1st 2011 6:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit IBM released native applications for IBM Connections for the three major mobile OS and has pushed the apps to the respective App Stores last friday. After going through the different “app store approval processes” the apps will be available there for free. Great!
Source: IBM Releases BlackBerry, Android and iOS Native Apps for IBM Connections [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Quickr: Round-trip editing without Quickr Connector
Thu, Jul 28th 2011 10:12a Dennis Ruddigkeit Since Lotus Quickr 8.5 the round-trip editing feature is no longer available if you do not have the Lotus Quickr Connector installed, but IBM provides a documentation how to enable the “old-style” round-trip editing.
-> Lotus Quickr Wiki: Enabling round-trip editing in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino without using Quickr Connectors
This works well, except for one [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime Gateway: Yahoo! awareness extended
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 8:12a Dennis Ruddigkeit Due to some “unexpected non-technical issues” regarding the new Sametime Yahoo! plugin the Yahoo! Messenger service through Sametime Gateway has been extended through at least August 31st, 2011.
Originally the service was announced to be discontinued at the end of June, 2011.
Source: IBM developerWorks
Related post: Yahoo! and Sametime integration [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime Gateway: ICQ awareness *updated*
Sat, Jul 16th 2011 6:12a Dennis Ruddigkeit Two weeks ago I already assumed that the outage of ICQ awareness through the Sametime Gateway connection has to do with the disposal of ICQ to DST one year ago.
Unfortunately, I was right – since June 10, 2011 ICQ does no longer belong to the AOL network and therefore it is no longer reachable through AOL [...] [read] Keywords: sametime
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IBM Connections: Tagclouds
Fri, Jul 15th 2011 10:14a Dennis Ruddigkeit If you ever wondered why not all tags are displayed in the various tag clouds in IBM Connections, you should investigate the settings in “<AppServerRoot>profilesinstalledAppsBlogs.earblogs.warWEB-INFclassesroller.properties”.
By default, the most popular 100 tags within the most recent 30 days are displayed in tag clouds. While 100 tags should be enough, using only tags from the most recent 30 [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections: Remember your security settings
Tue, Jul 12th 2011 10:13a Dennis Ruddigkeit After upgrading to IBM Connections 3.0.1 (the same happened from 2.5 to 3.0) do not forget to check your module security settings if you adjusted them. The installer sets the default values (at least in some modules) so that your Connections environment may be accessible for everyone.
Verify your settings in the ICS under Enterprise Applications [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Sametime Gateway: ICQ awareness
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 10:16a Dennis Ruddigkeit Since several weeks the connection to the ICQ network (via AOL clearinghouse) through Lotus IBM Sametime Gateway seems not to be working anymore.
The probable reason is, that ICQ has been sold to Digital Sky Technologies (DST) one year ago and does no longer belong to the AOL network.
As far as I know, IBM is already [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Quickr: Language of policy warnings
Fri, Jun 10th 2011 10:14a Dennis Ruddigkeit A huge improvment of Quickr 8.5 services for Domino is the multilingual user interface, but if you use place policies to manage the size and usage of your places you should remember the following:
The default policy subject and text is created in the language which the respective administrator used to create the policy. While you can edit [...] [read] Keywords: domino
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Solution for default browser issue in LN 8.x Standard
Thu, Jun 9th 2011 10:15a Dennis Ruddigkeit Since Lotus Notes 8 (Standard Version) the client does not recognize the browser settings in the location documents, but uses the settings from the client preferences.
Basic client (location document settings):
Standard client (client preferences):
Under certain circumstances (I have no idea why) if a user changes the OS default browser to Mozilla Firefox and then back to [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Connections: Newsletters are sent out twice
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 10:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit If you are running your Connections environment in a cluster you may notice that email newsletters / digests are sent out twice to the users. This can happen if both clusters generate the newsletter independently.
To fix this issue there are two ways (in the meantime).
Solution 1: Change the scope for email digest creation in the [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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IBM Connections: Who connects Us widget
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 11:11a Dennis Ruddigkeit There is a “nice-to-have” widget in IBM Connections which is called “Who connects Us”. It calculates the path between two employees and shows what they share.
Who Connects Us
The widget is enabled by default, but in my two Connections environments (development and production) it did not work at all, but it showed an error message instead.
To [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Yahoo! and Sametime Integration – my summary
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 10:12a Dennis Ruddigkeit I just took part at the IBM Webcast: “IBM Sametime Client Yahoo! Integration feature” and as expected, I am a bit disappointed about the replacement of the Sametime Gateway connection to Yahoo!
This is what I took out of the presentation:
Yahoo! will discontinue the gateway service at the end of June 2011
IBM provides a simple Lotus [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Quickr Connector: 64-bit Support
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 6:29a Dennis Ruddigkeit I can’t believe it, a new Lotus Quickr Connector version is available which fully supports 64 bit versions of Windows.
Lotus Quickr Connector HF7 key features:
Windows 7 64-bit support, including Windows 64-bit Explorer Connector
Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit Connectors
Microsoft Outlook 2010 64-bit Connector
Fixed problema in HF6 where MS Word can crash opening Quickr-D attachments directly through the [...] [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Quickr Connector: Login with email address
Mon, Jun 6th 2011 11:08a Dennis Ruddigkeit Like Lotus IBM Connections or Activities side-bar plugin for more and more applications it is recommended to use the email address as the login name value.
If you use Quickr services for Domino with LDAP as directory, you may not be able to use the Quickr Connector with your email address, but with your common name (CN) or [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2 FP2 available
Mon, Mar 28th 2011 7:13a Dennis Ruddigkeit Fix Pack 2 for Notes / Domino 8.5.2 has been released in IBM’s Fix Central.
-> Download FP2 for Domino 8.5.2
-> Download FP2 for Notes 8.5.2
As usual, the Fix Pack contains a lot of fixed issues and – I am sure – some new nice bugs. ;-)
-> 8.5.2 FP2 Release Notes [read] Keywords: domino
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20 reasons against social media
Fri, Mar 25th 2011 6:08a Dennis Ruddigkeit I know this has already been reposted on a couple of blogs, but as I am currently “deep into Lotus Connections” and as it’s such a great ironic post, I also have to re-blog it. Sorry in advance ;-)
You are a traditionalist and value the “good old days”
You don’t want to be found
You don’t want to [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Notes 8.5.2 Basic: Fix for EditProfile Bug
Sat, Nov 13th 2010 7:13a Dennis Ruddigkeit There is a fix available for the EditProfile bug in Lotus Notes 8.5.2 Basic.
I still cannot find an official document on IBM’s website, but if you open a PMR you will receive a fix which updates your Lotus Notes to 8.5.2 SHF96. The fix can be easily deployed using Smart Upgrade. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes 8.5.2 Basic: EditProfile does not work
Thu, Oct 21st 2010 2:30p Dennis Ruddigkeit There is a bug in Lotus Notes 8.5.2 Basic version, which prevents you from editing or creating profile documents.
Neither using formula language (@Command([EditProfileDocument] ; formname; uniqueKey) or @Command([EditProfile] ; formname; uniqueKey)) nor using LotusScript (notesUIWorkspace.EditProfile( profileName$ [, uniqueKey$]) lets you edit or create your profile documents.
This behaviour does not occur in Lotus Notes 8.5.2 Standard version, [...] [read] Keywords: formula language
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Sametime Gateway – DoS Vulnerability?
Tue, Oct 12th 2010 3:26p Dennis Ruddigkeit If your Sametime Gateway stops working several times a day and you find a lot of entries in the Websphere log file (SystemOut.log) like
“00000021 SipRouter E SipRouter CWSCT0017E: Mapping for nonexisting siplet: Method=REGISTER, Application: Unknown“
you might be a victim of a denial of service attack on port 5060.
The Sametime Gateway responses to the method “REGISTER” [...] [read] Keywords: ibm
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Quickr Connector 8.5: Is there any reason…
Tue, Sep 21st 2010 12:26p Dennis Ruddigkeit …why IBM changed the Quickr Connector icon in version 8.5?
Well ok, it’s only a little thing and it’s not that bad, but I really liked IBM’s strategy to standardize Lotus product icons.
I wonder why IBM started to have similar icons for Notes, Sametime, Connections and Quickr and now they break their own concept.
…I can already hear the [...] [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino 8.5.2 IF1 available
Thu, Sep 9th 2010 4:25a Dennis Ruddigkeit IF1 for Domino 8.5.2 which fixes the SMTP issue is now available in IBM Fix Central.
-> Technote: “Users stop receiving mail and SMTP task on server shows 50-100% CPU utilization”
-> IBM Fix Central [read] Keywords: domino
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