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News4Notes | Customizing Domino Out of Office Service | by Daniel Nashed

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 12:06:46 +0200

I have got this question from two customers in the same week and I have never looked into this before. Thanks for Julie to point me to the right direction. With that information (field names) I found an interesting old The View article. It looks like this is the only documented source for this information. In my customer case the requirement was to not have the OOS (Out of Office Service) reply to potential SPAM messages even OOO replies to Internet email should be enabled in general...

News4Notes | Searching for design elements 100 times faster | by Andre Guirard

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:11:54 +0200

Often, entries in this blog are in reaction to questions I get, or someone else's code I've run across. One of the reasons things have been so quiet here is that my job has changed so that's not happening as often. But every now and them I'm reminded that there are things I know that it hadn't occurred to me weren't obvious, until I run across another developer who didn't know it. That's the case with this tip. Someone mentioned that it was taking their code a long time to scan mail files to see whether there were any design elements that were protected from design refresh/replace (aside from personal folders, where this is expected). I didn't know what they meant by "a long time," so I wrote a few lines of code to scan my mail file, and wrote back that when accessing the file on a server, I couldn't see how to do the search faster than about one or two seconds, and what was their target?

News4Notes | IBM Lotus Notes ID Vault Database Scanner: An overview | by Shankar Venkatachalam / Ranjit S Rai

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:07:26 +0200

Learn how to configure and use the Vault Database Scanner tool, which scans the IBM Lotus Notes ID Vault database and Lotus Domino server directory and reports missing Notes ID files for users...

News4Notes | Notes Single Logon Password Synchronization failed after Windows password change is unsuccessful | by IBM Lotus Support

Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:03:01 +0200

Notes Single Logon (NSL) Password Synchronization failed after Windows password change is unsuccessful with OS password policy reason even though the users provide the right password. It only occurs on Windows 7 platform.

News4Notes | Time/Date views in Notes: What are the options? | by IBM Lotus Support

Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:01:07 +0200

Introduction One of the great features of Notes is its ability to display information in views, categorized, sorted, totaled, and always available. One kind of view that is particularly useful is the Time/Date view. Time/Date views display information based on today's date. If the time/date formula is in the Selection formula, then only certain (presumably recent) documents display in the view. If the time/date formula is in a column formula, then that column can display different kinds of info...

News4Notes | Security Bulletin: Aug-2012 IBM Lotus Domino Web Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (CVE-2012-3302, CVE-2012-3301) | by IBM Lotus Support

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:28:06 +0200

A security researcher contacted IBM to report four security vulnerabilities in the IBM Lotus Domino HTTP server that permit cross site scripting. These vulnerabilities could allow remote attackers to steal cookie-based authentication credentials. While fixes for all four are planned for inclusion in Domino 8.5.4, workarounds exist for two in Domino servers 7.0 and later by enabling a single INI setting. As of 15 August 2012, IBM has not received any reports of customer issues related to these security vulnerabilities...

News4Notes | If you every used .copytodatabase with a replicated or clustered Domino | by Fredrik Norling

Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:54:15 +0200

I had a strange problem with documents that�disappears in a replicated or clustered environment. A more deep investigation lead to the discovery of deletion stubbs being created days/weeks/months before the document even was created, Strange. Documents getting create date the same as the original document. But then a discovery was made .copytodatabase creates the same UNID everytime if the original document isn’t in the database. OK who cares the document isn’t in the database and no other document has that UNID. So far so good, but if you copy the document delete the new document in the new database. And copy it again, it gets the same UNID anyway. OK you might say, do this matter...

News4Notes | Preventing wrong server time and "time too far in the future" | by Daniel Nashed

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:12:01 +0200

"time too far in the future" beside database corruptions this problem is one of the most critical issues you can run into. Not all issues can be completely reverted in an easy way. You might be able to fix most of it by pulling a new replica. But even that might not resolve all issues...

News4Notes | Security Bulletin: IBM Lotus Notes URL Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-2174) | by IBM Lotus Support

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:32:44 +0200

A security vulnerability exists in the IBM Lotus Notes URL handler which permits remote code execution. Malicious URLs could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on installations of Lotus Notes...

News4Notes | Using a Notes.ini file's automatic backup utility | by Tamir Ben-Shoshan

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:13:15 +0200

Learn how to set up a Notes.ini backup utility for IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, which takes the backup of the Notes.ini file, whenever there was a change on the file. The backup copy would be the copy of the Notes.ini file, without that change...

News4Notes | What's New in Lotus Notes by release | by Julia Brown / Amy Smith

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:10:13 +0200

Find out what's new and changed in each version of Notes. Read the highlights, or get the complete list! This table will be particularly helpful if you're upgrading by several versions (for example, from Notes 8.0.2 to Notes 8.5.3)...

News4Notes | Notes Tips Podcast: Episode 1 - Getting Started | by Julia Brown / Amy Smith

Fri, 11 May 2012 08:43:33 +0200

We're pleased to present the first episode of the Notes Tips podcast, with your hosts Julie Brown and Amy Smith...

News4Notes | Share your favorite quick tip! | by Julia Brown

Thu, 5 Apr 2012 07:20:29 +0200

Do you have any simple tricks you use all the time? We're collecting short tips (2 sentences or less) for Notes, so if you've got tips to share, leave them in the comments!

News4Notes | Status 400 "bad request" occurs logging in to Domino using SPNEGO | by IBM Lotus Support

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:06:53 +0200

Attempts to connect to a Domino server over HTTP result in a status 400 error "Bad request" for some users who are authenticating to Domino through SPNEGO. When a web user connects to Domino, the browser sends an HTTP header with the SPNEGO login information in a Kerberos token. Domino reads the information and uses it to authenticate the user with Active Directory, and then it sets an LTPA token for the user, providing authentication with Domino. However, if the HTTP header is longer that 16KB, this will fail, resulting in a status 400 error. This is because Domino has a default HTTP header size limit of 16KB (16,384 bytes)...

News4Notes | BUG in Fulltext Search | by Christoph Arras

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:26:01 +0200

If you perform a fulltext search with "SearchOption=4" against a categorized view on a Domino server 8.x in some circumstances not all found documents get shown. Update: spr YDEN8SBE2W