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News4Notes | IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 (Server/Client) is available | by IBM Lotus Support

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:07:33 -0700

IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.2 (Server/Client) is available via Passport Advantage...

News4Notes | Users stop receiving mail and SMTP task on server shows 50-100% CPU utilization | by IBM Lotus Support

Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:57:21 -0700

After upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5.2, users stop receiving SMTP mail. Your Domino server CPU spikes on SMTP and may appear to be hung...

News4Notes | (July 2010) Fixes for potential security vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes file viewers | by IBM Lotus Support

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:28:56 -0700

iDefense Labs, Secunia, and TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) contacted IBM Lotus to report potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in several Lotus Notes file viewers...

News4Notes | New Designer wiki articles on the basics | by Andre Guirard

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:46:40 -0700

Part of the reason I've been blogging less lately, is that I've been working on articles for the Designer wiki. A couple of new ones are published today: Searching for Documents discusses different search techniques and how to decide which is appropriate in different situations, and How to Write a Controlled-Access Section Editors Formula. These go toward a series of articles that will be referenced by a new FAQ for beginning developers, also to appear in the wiki...

News4Notes | Using @SetViewInfo in a Notes client application to create a user-specific view | by Andre Guirard

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:55:19 -0700

The requirement: Create a "my documents" view for the user.
The obstacle: @Username can't be used in a shared view selection formula. That's because for a view index calculated by the server, @Username is the name of the server.
Common approaches: ...

News4Notes | Pop Quiz - who knows the encryption strength and alogrithm that Lotus Notes port encryption uses? | by Darren Duke

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:10:56 -0700

Nathan got me thinking, and when I think I search the web. In an earlier post Nathan commented about Notes encryption. Now I swear that every 6 months or so I am asked by a customer about the strength and algorithm that Lotus Notes uses when connecting over an encrypted port. I also swear I search for this information every 6 months too and I always come up with...

News4Notes | OpenNTF IdeaJam -- please participate | by Andre Guirard

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:15:14 -0700

We want OpenNTF to work for you! Please check out our exciting new content for XPages, and join our IdeaJam to tell us what we can do to make this a more useful resource for Domino developers and administrators. Open source is great! We want to improve our execution, encourage contributions, and make sure people can find what they want and rely on its quality. Please join in. Thanks...

News4Notes | New Designer wiki article on upgrading your apps for 8.5.1 | by Andre Guirard

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:13:34 -0700

This is an article about reviewing your Notes/Domino applications to see whether they will break when you upgrade to 8.5 or later. It's a very short article because I didn't find that much that needed to be done. Thanks to those who responded to my earlier thread asking for known issues; if I missed anything important, please comment here or on the wiki (or make the necessary changes yourself; that's why it's a wiki). This isn't about adding XPage functionality to your apps, by the way; just doing the minimum to make sure they're still functional in the new version.

News4Notes | The Front End and the Back End | by Andre Guirard

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:44:05 -0700

I don't expect this will be news for most of my regular readers, but it's a good topic for novice developers (and gives me something to link them to in the forums). Using NotesUIDocument and NotesDocument together...

News4Notes | 8.5.1 FP3 IF1 is available - togther with the fix list | by Darren Duke

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:05:02 -0700

Yesterday I tweeted about 8.5.1 FP3 IF1 being available but that the time there was no documentation as to what it fixed. As outlined in Technote 1433721 there is a potential issue with Domino server performance with authentication when policies are bring downloaded to clients. Apparently this is can particularly affect Domino servers that are part of Directory Assistance. As usual it is available on IBM Fix Central...

News4Notes | Old-school document selection in a view | by Dwight Morse

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:22:37 -0700

In version 8, we changed the user experience for selecting documents. The new way to select documents followed the Windows model, using the Shift and Ctrl keys. While this is intuitive to new users of Notes, our existing base asked us to re-instate the old school model that employs the space bar and check marks...

News4Notes | Portal der StaedteRegion deutschlandweit auf erstem Platz. Gewinn des DNUG-Awards. | by regio iT aachen

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:06:19 -0700

Die regio iT überzeugte auf der diesjährigen DNUG Frühjahrskonferenz in Berlin die Jury und das Publikum von den Erfolgen des Projektes "AixPort"...

News4Notes | New documentation is available for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 | by Jeffrey Alberts

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 03:16:59 -0700

The Release Notice for Notes/Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 is now available and contains a list of SPRs addressed in this release and related technotes...

News4Notes | Deleted mail rules still run and/or enabled mail rules do not run | by IBM Lotus Support

Thu, 27 May 2010 21:47:55 -0700

In Lotus Notes, you may observe the following behavior regarding rules:
-- A deleted mail rule continues to function, even though it no longer appears in the Rules folder.
-- An enabled mail rule does not run.
-- After a new rule is created, it runs correctly, but it never appears in the Rules folder...

News4Notes | The nearly useless NotesView.TopLevelEntryCount property | by Andre Guirard

Thu, 27 May 2010 06:59:26 -0700

Recently got a question about the NotesView.TopLevelEntryCount method, and I had to do a little research to answer it well. Here's what I found...