Lotus Notes R8.5.1: Mail Stuck on Server During Cluster Failure … Why?
Mon, Aug 23rd 2010 7:30a Marc Champoux The Devil Is In The Details …
And this is going to be a quick post about one of those “details” … let’s say your running two servers in a cluster and the 2nd server catches on fire (not that mine did).
If half of your users are on Server A and the other half are on Server B … what will happen to the mail being delivered to the users on Server B when it goes out in a ball of flames?
Logic dictates that, since you are running in a cluster, the m [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FPx: My Fonts Are HUGE After My Upgrade! Why? The Answer Might Surprise You …
Thu, Aug 12th 2010 8:26a Marc Champoux If You Have Any Users With 1 Inch Thick Glasses …
You might want to continue reading… because a few days ago, I was called in to help an employee (who had been recently upgraded) with a strange predicament.
Basically speaking, after his Lotus Notes R8.5.1 upgrade, his fonts in Lotus Notes were so incredibily HUGE that I could probably have read his emails from across the room.
Why did this happen? I wasn’t sure and the answer surprised me … Let’s see w [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Sametime and mobile clients – iphone/ipad really
Thu, Aug 5th 2010 11:30a Marc Champoux I sit here at my desk with a somewhat vexing issue. You see, we are a Blackberry standard shop. By being so, it does offer some simplification in how we support our infrastructure from a support and security point of view. However, we are also in the midst of an ERP refresh, that does have some challenges with that mobile platform choice. One of those choices is the iPhone. Now the iPhone is a great device, with some distinct comparative limitations. I am choosing to speak about one of those lim [read] Keywords: calendaring
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Lotus Notes R8.5.1 FP3: The Greatest Message Recall … that Never Happened …
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 6:34p Marc Champoux Sometimes, I Just Want To Share the Pain …
And this blog does allow me to do a bit of that. But before I explain what happened, I must mention one thing …
My users just L-O-V-E the Message Recall feature in Lotus Notes R8.5.1! They really do. When any employee starts to complain about their new Lotus Notes, I listen to them, I fix whatever they need fixed and then I show them some of the new features of Lotus Notes. And it never fails: as soon as I show them the Message R [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Notes: 8.5.2 Appeared In My List Of Products That I Can Open PMRs For … Is This A Sign?
Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 5:31p Marc Champoux Ever Get a Surprise?
Well, I did this afternoon! I was opening [yet another] PMR and I was a bit surprised to see that I could select Lotus Notes R8.5.2 and Lotus Traveler 8.5.2. I took a screen shot just to share it with my coworkers (and you).
Oddly enough, , 8.5.2 wasn’t in my list of products when I opened a PMR [yes another!] last Friday.
So, I presume that someone at Passport Advantage went a little bit too fast when updating our entitlements … or … maybe it [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Traveler 8.5.1: A Short User Guide (That You Can “Borrow”)
Mon, May 24th 2010 11:27a Marc Champoux The Best Things in Life are Free …
And Lotus Traveler is just one of these things! It’s free and it just plain works. Of course, if you want to avoid running into JVM memory issues from time-to-time, you should put the latest and greatest fixes for Traveler on your server (pick them up from Fix Central here).
But what happens when you start getting more and more calls from your users who want to activate their shiny new iPhone with your Lotus Traveler server (or their iPad [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes R8.5.1: Can I Change the Fonts in my eMail Signature? No… Not Without This Trick …
Thu, May 13th 2010 9:24a Marc Champoux Summary
Since Lotus Notes R8.x was introduced people discovered that it was now possible to tweak their mail signature a bit more than before. In the Pre-R8.x days, you could only type text into the Signature section of the Preferences dialogbox … or use a file stored on your hard drive.
In R8.x you can now change the font size, the font color, add an image and do a few more things right from the Signature tab of the “More -> Preferences” dialogbox.
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Lotus Domino: Journal ‘Til You Can’t Journal No More (by Hitting the 32k Limit of Text Fields)
Tue, May 4th 2010 11:24a Marc Champoux There are Some Rules in the Universe that you Cannot Break…
Like the speed of light for example (for now anyway) and the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (see here).
For entirely different reasons however, the creators of the Yellowverse have imposed upon us, the little creatures inhabiting this world, different kinds of limits. Like, for example, the 32k limit on text field.
Sometimes, creative developers have found work around or coded around that issue & [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes R8.5.1: The 1 Tiny Feature My Users L-O-V-E
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 2:24p Marc Champoux The Devil Is In The Details (a.k.a. Sometimes Users Love Something Because of 1 Tiny Feature) …
As you know, the Lotus Notes R8.x Eclipse based UI is a departure from our beloved version 4,5,6 and 7 clients. And, just like everyting in life, some people don’t like when things change.
So, for some of my users here, Lotus Notes R8.5.1 is the best thing since sliced bread and for others … well it’s the worst thing we’ve ever installed on their computer [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus Domino: The Simple Joy of Making a Server Fault (on Purpose!)
Thu, Apr 22nd 2010 11:25a Marc Champoux To Make A Server Crash, You Must Find The Right Tool For The Job
This is going to be a short post. I have been dealing with a few server crashes recently. Some of them having to do with Tivoli and others … well, the PMRs are still opened. However, I got sick and tired of always manually collecting the IBM_TECHNICAL_SUPPORT folder, the log.nsf, the notes.ini, the Event Viewer Files and the WinMSD NFO file each time I was opening a PMR for a crashed server.
So, I wrote myself [read] Keywords: domino
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