Notes 8.5.2 Ships with Embedded Sametime 8.0.2 you can Easily Upgrade to Sametime 8.5.1
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 1:58p Mitch Cohen Lotus Notes 8.5.2 ships with the Sametime
8.0.2 embedded client (as have previous releases of Notes 8.5.x) Beginning
with Notes 8.5.1 FP2 (FP4 Recommended) and in Notes 8.5.2 you can upgrade
the embedded Sametime version to 8.5.1.
To determine which version of Sametime
you have embedded in your Notes client click on Help / About IBM Lotus
Notes/ Feature Details and you will see the Sametime Version there.
To upgrade the embedded client you need
to download the SametimeStand [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Connections Communities Fix for Authorization Failures
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 10:41a Mitch Cohen In Lotus Connections if you create a Private
Community, if you shared the link with a person who was not a member of
the Community when they tried to access they would get a very unfriendly
error.
A fix was released today with APAR LO53703
to resolve SPR AMYS7STQ6M
When you apply this fix it will not
display a friendlier "Access Denied" message when this condition
occurs. I will have to test later and see how "Friendly"
the new message is. [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino 8.5.2 iNotes Redirector Setting for Ultra-Light
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 9:55a Mitch Cohen I suspect by now you have heard that Notes
& Domino 8.5.2 shipped earlier this week. If you use the iNotes
redirector make sure yours is up to date. Domino 8.5.2 delivers Ultra-Light
support for Android and iPad (in addition to iPhone and iPod). Check
out the new default settings.
Traveler
for Android is still on target to ship later this year. [read] Keywords: domino
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The Server Rack (a.ka. The Office Cleanup..... Part 3)
Wed, Aug 25th 2010 8:23a Mitch Cohen My home office cleanup effort continues
(Part
1, Part
2) today I regained quite a bit
of space in my office, though in the process lost the first thing any guest
to my office would comment on. Today the Server rack, 3 servers,
2 drive arrays, a couple of backup drives, and other miscellaneous equipment
all got picked up for transport to it's new home InfoAge
- Science-History Learning Center and Museum
in Wall,
NJ. [read] Keywords: office
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TDI Solution Directory for Lotus Connections 2.5 Fix Pack 2 (2.5.0.2)
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 2:50p Mitch Cohen I spent a few minutes today trying to find
this, so putting this here as much for myself, as well as anyone else.
If you are upgrading to or installing
Lotus Connections 2.5.0.2 you need to replace your existing TDI Solutions
Directory with LO52087:
TDI UPDATE FOR 2.5.0.2 FIXPACK.
The package available from fix central contains
tdisol.zip for Windows, and tdisol.tar
for Linux
As best as I can tell this is cumulative
and supersedes the two previously released TDI Fix [read] Keywords: connections
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Do You Maintain Test Accounts on your Social Networks?
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 6:49a Mitch Cohen If you have been paying any attention on
Twitter the last few days you probably saw a bunch of tweets from Twifficiency
that looked like this
Once it started I saw these tweets popping
up everywhere, as people ran to find out their score, most people not realizing
that they were granting the application access to tweet on their behalf
(slightly embarrassing for some, extremely
embarrassing if you are a google exec).
This got me thinking, how many of you
bother to maintai [read] Keywords: connections
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Notes Shared Login.... Gotcha!
Tue, Aug 3rd 2010 12:26p Mitch Cohen If you have implemented Notes Shared Login,
or if you are thinking about Technote
1405060 New 8.5 Notes Shared Login "Gotchas"
should be of interest to you.
First off a couple of points of clarification.
There are two different features Notes has available to allow an
end-user to sign on to Lotus Notes with out providing a password when launching
Notes. Both methods work on Windows based machines only.
Notes
Client Single Logon to use this
feature during the installation you [read] Keywords: domino
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Live Blogging the 2010 #IamLUG Keynote (sort of)
Mon, Aug 2nd 2010 9:28a Mitch Cohen I was not able to make it to St. Louis
for IamLUG
this year, but since there is a
stream available I thought I would
take the opportunity to live blog
the Keynote from afar. I
don't know if anyone attending live will be able to blog while the keynote
is in progress as the keynote session takes place in the theater which
is part of the
Casino and wifi is not allowed
in the casino. Last year I managed to
live blog the keynote with my
air card, so it is possible that someone inside ha [read] Keywords: blogging
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Managing Profiles on 64 Bit Websphere Application Server (WAS)
Fri, Jul 30th 2010 3:07p Mitch Cohen I have been doing some work with Websphere
Application Server this week,
prepping a beta install of Lotus
Connections 3.0. My Beta
environment is Windows
2008 64 Bit. Most of my
sandboxes until now have been Windows 2003 32 bit. Not a lot of difference
between them, just one small thing you need to be aware of.
When you Install WAS during the install
you have the option to create a Profile
My personal preference is to not install
a profile at this time, but rather [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Connections 3.0 is Coming to the Greenhouse
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 9:17a Mitch Cohen Interested in trying out Lotus
Connections 3.0? Yes it is in
managed beta, but if you are not in the beta and you want to try it out
some good news. The Lotus
Greenhouse has announced they
will be upgrading
Lotus Connections in the Greenhouse
to 3.0 beta in the next few weeks.
If you don't have a greenhouse ID yet
sign
up here, and follow
LotusGreenhouse on Twitter for
all of the latest Greenhouse news. [read] Keywords: connections
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Happy Third Blogiversary
Thu, Jul 15th 2010 8:30a Mitch Cohen I completely missed this last Friday,
but curiousmitch.com is now 3 years old. Some changes coming soon
to this blog, but I suppose that is a topic for another day. For
now hard to believe it has been 3 years, and thanks to all of you who stop
by and participate. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Do you have old Lotusphere Videos?
Wed, Jul 14th 2010 11:05a Mitch Cohen Another installment in the
home office cleanup series.
I finally assembled in one place my
entire collections of Lotusphere DVDs. I have been to Lotusphere
every year since 2005, though it seems my video collection begins in 2006.
Every year I have ordered a few DVD's
either to share with others back at the office, or to catch a session I
wanted to get to, but just couldn't. Here is a list of the sessions
I have on DVD. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Maybe I Should Just Install a SAN
Thu, Jul 8th 2010 11:49a Mitch Cohen I have been working over the last few weeks
(OK months) to clean up my home office, and finally starting to make some
progress. I have been getting
rid of a lot of older hardware,
in some cases replacing, in other cases just discarding. Today I
got to cleaning up old hard drives, which looked something like this:
I still have to destroy all those drives
before discarding them. [read] Keywords: office
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Observations on the FIFA World Cup
Tue, Jun 29th 2010 10:53a Mitch Cohen I have to admit when this thing started
I had very little (OK actually zero) interest in the world cup.
.bbpBox{background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1277242272/images/themes/theme1/bg.png)
#9AE4E8;padding:20px;}Who
else is with me in ignoring the world cup? (except of course to see how
I am doing in @flyboytyler
world cup pool)Fri
Jun 11 12:47:16 via TweetDeckMitch Cohencuriousmitch
That changed pretty quickly, I don't
know if it was the USA being involved in exciting games, [read] Keywords: css
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Announcing Tri State LUG 2010
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 7:28a Mitch Cohen I am happy to announce Tri State LUG
2010 Scheduled for October 11, 2010 in New York City. Visit the Tri
State LUG web site for more details,
and check back often as we will be announcing our keynote speaker, agenda,
and speaker line up over the coming weeks.
If you are interested in sponsoring
or speaking at the event please
get in touch.
Follow TriStateLug
or it's organizers on Twitter
Jim
Casale
Kathleen
McGivney
Mitch
Cohen
Tri
State Lotus User Group [read] Keywords: lotus
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Finally an Honest Software Installer
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 6:31p Mitch Cohen I was installing
DoubleTwist this evening, and
while I have installed it before this is either new or I never noticed
it on previous installs. [read] Keywords:
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If you are running SMTP on Domino 8.5.1 read this
Mon, Jun 21st 2010 9:35a Mitch Cohen The other day ran in to a problem with
SMTP Routing via a Domino Server. The server was running 8.5.1 FP2.
Off to search some technotes and work with IBM support and we identified
SPR
TPON83FH62
Regression in 8.5
SPR# TPON83FH62 - Fixed a problem in the Router where a failed message
transfer to a destination host caused subsequent valid messages to be non
delivered for the same reason. Typically this error is "SMTP Protocol
Returned a Permanent Error".
According to Techno [read] Keywords: domino
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Yet Another Way to Use Profiles
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 10:08a Mitch Cohen Since deploying Lotus
Connections Profiles
we find new and inventive ways to use it every day. Sure people like
the product features, tagging, about me and background information, organization
structure, links to a persons other content, Sametime integration etc etc..
Every day though people are finding new things to do with it that
we never thought of. Todays example, print a profile as a mailing
label, as seen here on a package a colleague of mine received today.
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Traveler Beta for Android Announced
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announces beta of Lotus Notes Traveler for Android - press release on the
wire, link soonWed
Jun 16 15:20:24 via Twitter for BlackBerryEd Brilledbrill
Will update with Link to Press Release
when it becomes available [read] Keywords: ibm
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How do you know when a mail file is too big?
Wed, Jun 16th 2010 10:06a Mitch Cohen Generally when you find this on your server
you know someone has gotten our of control with their mail file (please
note this is NOT my mail file)
[1446098:00002-00001] 151 Retry(41)
NRPC [$LocalDelivery] mail/xxxxxx.nsf
[1446098:00002-00001] Last error: Database (.nsf) has grown too large;
use compact to reduce the file size or use File New Replica to recreate
your file with larger capacity.
The mail file in question was 64GB which
is the
maximum size for an NSF file.
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Lotus Connections Fix Pack 2
Tue, Jun 1st 2010 8:09a Mitch Cohen Lotus Connections Fix Pack 2 (2.5.0.2)
was released this past Friday. Here are some of the relevant links
Update
Installer for 2.5.0.2
Fix
List and installation instructions for Lotus Connections 2.5.0 Fix Pack
2 (2.5.0.2)
Lotus
Connections Fix Pack 2 (2.5.0.2)
Remember if you have customized any
of the JSP files the customization will be overwritten by the fix pack.
There is a Wiki article on
Preserving customized JSP files through an upgrade of Lotus Connections
you mi [read] Keywords: connections
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Coming Soon Lotus Connections 2.5 Fix Pack 2
Fri, May 28th 2010 8:56a Mitch Cohen Lotus
Connections 2.5 Fix Pack 2 is
due out any day now, Fix Central already has the 2.5.0.2 Update Installer
I can't seem to find a published fix
list yet, but FP2 will be cumulative of FP1 and all the fixes since (100
if not more) [read] Keywords: connections
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LotusLive Events - There Has to be a Better Way
Thu, May 27th 2010 6:41a Mitch Cohen I don't complain very often, at least I
try not to, but today I had to register for 6 different "Events"
Running on LotusLive, and in the process discovered that the process is
quite cumbersome.
To step back a moment I am talking about
the LotusLive
Events service, not simply LotusLive
Meetings, Meetings could not be
easier to join, you simply need the URL or the Meeting ID.
Now lets take a look at the Event registration
process
1. Go to the URL for the event and Registe [read] Keywords: notes
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A Flying Start to my week in Boston and #Admin2010 (or @flyboytyler didnt kill me)
Wed, May 12th 2010 5:34p Mitch Cohen I am in Boston this week for Admin
2010, I presented my session this
afternoon on building custom TDI
Scripts to populate Lotus
Connections Profiles, and customizing
Profiles..... but before all that
Carl
came through on his long time promise to take me on a flight in
his plane.
Here is our takeoff
This is the plane
And here are some images from the flight
This
is the New Hampshire Motor Speedway
This is (still snow covered) Mount
Washington, [read] Keywords: admin
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LotusLive Meetings on the iPhone and Android is Coming Soon
Tue, May 11th 2010 11:28a Mitch Cohen You might have caught yesterdays announcement
about the new iPhone App for LotusLive meetings. Today IBM is announcing
that mobile access to LotusLive meetings will be extended to iPad and Android
soon.
More than ever,
businesses are embracing the model of a mobile enterprise -- employees
working wherever, whenever. In fact, according to analyst firm IDC, there
will be more than one billion mobile workers worldwide by year end 2010.
The United States has the highest percentage of m [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Technote documenting Support for NSFDB2
Fri, May 7th 2010 5:13p Mitch Cohen If you are running NSFDB2, or are thinking
about it technote
1384421 is for you. The
technote covers the plans for NSFDB2 and it's support.
In short, there are no plans to add
any additional functionality, and DB2 9.1 is the supported version. Support
though will continue
What will happen
with my existing applications that utilize the NSFDB2 feature?
The NSFDB2 feature in Lotus Domino is still supported and defect issues
related to the feature will be investigated and addres [read] Keywords: domino
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Defining and Prioritizing Business Card Data Sources in Notes 8.5.2
Fri, May 7th 2010 9:19a Mitch Cohen Standard Disclaimer: Notes 8.5.2 is in
beta and can still change before it ships. I am not 100% sure this
is a new feature in 8.5.2 but I have never seen this before, and can not
find it documented anywhere else.
If you use Notes, Connections (Profiles),
and Sametime the business card in Lotus Notes can use elements from all
three products to populate the business card information.
The default order used by the business
card is
1. Lotus Connections (Profiles)
2. Sameti [read] Keywords: connections
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What has @edbrill been doing all week on the West Coast
Wed, May 5th 2010 9:37p Mitch Cohen Yes I would really like to know what Ed
was working on here
.bbpBox{background:url(http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/4911841/931577028_background.jpg)
#9ae4e8;padding:20px;}I'm
at Apple Inc. (1 Infinite Loop, at Mariani Ave, Cupertino). http://4sq.com/5FFZXTWed May 05 20:54:39
via foursquareEd Brilledbrill
For now will have to just settle for
these videos of Ed talking about Lotus a the Web
2.0 Expo in San Francisco this
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A checklist for implementing DAOS
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 9:06a Mitch Cohen Newly updated Technote
1415556 A checklist for implementing DAOS.
If you are thinking about implementing DAOS or even if you have already
implemented successfully, this is an excellent resource you should check
out.
The technote contains links to:
- Required Fixpacks
- Downloading and Using the DAOS Estimator
- How to disable shared mail (as if
anyone is actually using it)
- NLO Encryption issues
- Backup considerations
- Transactions Logging
- Upgrading ODS Versions
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Facebook Social Plugins Enabled by Default Opt Out if you want
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 9:39p Mitch Cohen Facebook announced a bunch of changes today
prompting headlines like this on on TechCrunch
I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet.
The net of it is with Social Plugins and Open Graph Facebook is looking
to expand out beyond Facebook on to other pages all over the Web, and take
some of your information with that.
I am not running out and cancelling
my Facebook account just yet, I do think though that when new features
are added that can share your information, they shou [read] Keywords: facebook
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Lotus Protector Integration with Notes 8.5.1 +
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 11:07a Mitch Cohen Ed
has a recent post on ICSA
Certification for
Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5
which reminded me that I had this post in draft waiting to be completed.
Lotus Protector has a feature that allows
an individual to manage a personal blocked sender list, this is useful
for keeping unwanted mail that is not technically classified as SPAM (subjective
SPAM) not only out of their inbox, but completely out of their mail file,
and off of their mail server. In Notes 8.5.1 this process is [read] Keywords: domino
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Google is Recruiting iPhone App Developers
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 7:35a Mitch Cohen Back in early March Google was apparently
offering
a free Droid or Nexus One to developers
who had already contributed to the Android Market. Now it appears
they offering free
devices to successful iPhone App Developers.
This is a very smart move by Google as they aim to encourage more
developers to port their Apps to Android and increase the number of quality
applications available in the Android
Market.
I heard that Google
was reaching out to iPhone App developers not too l [read] Keywords: apple
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Pay Attention to the Details
Tue, Apr 20th 2010 7:22p Mitch Cohen The NFL
released the 2010 Schedule this evening. They made a big deal about
it, with a live show on the NFL
Network to announce the schedule
(teams opponents for the 2010 season were already known, this was just
the schedule).
With all this going on I guess you can
see how a small detail slipped through the cracks. [read] Keywords: network
Happy Birthday Abe Jack
Tue, Mar 23rd 2010 8:26a Mitch Cohen Hard to believe it has been two
years since they were born. Happy
Birthday Abe and Jack [read] Keywords:
