 Time Technology 01483 863000 | Ian Raffle 15 December 2011 16:01:17Depending on your point of view, you may regard one of the enhancements to Domino in the latest 8.5.3 release as fantastic, or neither here nor there. IBM's announcement letter has a one-liner that states: "Support for applications and mail files exceeding 64 GB logical size." If you make use of DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Store), then you probably don't really care, because you've moved attachment storage out of the Domino database, and (hopefully) onto another disk. Coupled with the I/O advantages of correctly configured Transaction Logging your Domino databases are probably running at an optimum level. On the other hand if you can't make use of DAOS, and archiving or splitting your data isn't an option, you have a single compelling reason to upgrade to 8.5.3. Of course Domino 8.5.3 has lots of other enhancements and performance improvements, which would be a bonus. If you'd like to know more about upgrading your Notes and Domino environment, please give us a call. Comments Disabled Mike Davey 17 November 2011 13:00:00In addition to the Service Desk position, Time Technology offer you another exciting opportunity to be part of a team delivering technical solutions to customers. This position involves project based development and customisation of the customer's key applications which are a mixture of Notes client and web-based Domino applications. The role would suit a customer focused, professional developer with excellent communication skills. Strong knowledge of web and Domino application development is a must. You would need to use your own initiative and would be involved in all lifecycles of application development. Follow this link for more details http://www.time-technology.co.uk/jobs/LotusNotesWebDevelopmentRole.pdf Contact us at recruitment@time-technology.co.uk.
Comments Disabled Mike Davey 11 November 2011 11:50:25Time Technology offer you an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team delivering outsourced services to our customers against contracted service levels. The role would suit a customer focused, personable, conscientious, ambitious individual who is looking to develop their experience in, and contribute to, the workings of a professional technical Service Desk team. Qualifications or experience in Information Technology a must. Job relevant technical training will be provided as needed. Follow this link for more details http://www.time-technology.co.uk/jobs/ServiceDeskConsultant.pdf Contact us at recruitment@time-technology.co.uk.
Comments Disabled Ian Raffle 4 November 2011 15:26:15Domino policies are great. You can configure almost anything for the user (and stop them from breaking it!). You can set mail disclaimers, but what you can't do is control email signatures (not electronic signatures - that's different!). Email signatures are controlled by the client software that updates the local calendar profile document. Wouldn't it be great if you could apply a corporate signature for everyone, that included their name, role, department and contact details, company logo etc? Well, you can. With Crossware Mail Signature you can do all of these things and more. You can have targeted adverts to specific groups of people or domains. Do some people operate on behalf of two different corporate entities, and you'd like their signature and company to change depending on who the email is going to? Yes, you can do that too. Better still, you control the font, colour, all without allowing the user to 'adjust' the corporate standard to their own preferred style. You can even update the local signature on the client if you want to. Installation is pretty simple and is supported by all Lotus Domino platforms, and versions from 6 upwards, Icing for your cake sir? Certainly: it can even put signatures on emails from your iPhone, Android device, and BlackBerry. If you'd like to know more, give us a call. Comments Disabled Ian Raffle 21 October 2011 11:34:27A: When the Domino service is running under the Domino Java Server Console OK, that statement isn’t strictly true, but it helps to describe what appears to happen with a problem I encountered recently. Following a recent server upgrade a customer reported that they had to restart Domino the following morning as it wasn’t running. I was sure that I set that service to Automatic . Sure enough the service was set to automatic and was reporting as running. Unfortunately, the Domino server wasn’t responding. I restarted the service, and all was fine again. Or rather it was until the next morning where we had the same story. Just to fill in the (important) background detail here: there was a program document on the server scheduled to shut the Domino server down each night to allow an external batch file to run that would make an OS level copy of the data files for backup (this is not the recommended way to perform backups!). The Domino server log confirmed server shutdown. At the end of the batch file was a NET START command to start off the Domino service again. But……if Windows thinks it’s already running, then it won’t start it. The solution? Well, you could insert a NET STOP command prior to the NET START to stop the service and start it again immediately. If you can live without the Java console on the server you can edit the registry to remove the “-jc” parameter from the Service. As ever when you need to edit the registry - take a backup of it first. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Lotus Domino Server (ELotusDominoData)
Data : C:\Program Files\Domino\nservice.exe "=C:\Program Files\Domino\notes.ini" "-jc" Simply remove the “-jc” parameter and Domino will start as a regular Windows service. The program document stops both the Domino server and the Windows service and the customer doesn’t need to manually start the Domino server every morning.
Comments Disabled Andy Brittain 2 October 2011 17:23:14For those that want an "extra" webinar on 8.5.3 join Paul Mooney and Chris Miller October 4th, details here -> http://idonot.es/CIYPSeries4c Comments Disabled Ian Raffle 30 September 2011 12:40:28Notes/Domino 8.5.3 has been announced as being released on 4th October. All good Admins will be booked up to the LotusUserGroup webinar thingy on 6th October to listen in to the launch announcements. The list of fixes for this release at the time of writing stands at 1170! It's worth scanning through the list, which is available here, to see if anything catches your eye . Of more interest is the list of new features. Sadly, this one seems jealously guarded but Ed Brill's blog, states: Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 provides numerous feature enhancements that benefit end-users, developers and administrators. ....... Lotus Notes and iNotes improvements for Mail and C&S; expanded device support, usability and administrative enhancements for Lotus Notes Traveler; performance/scalability improvements for XPages; Domino Designer productivity improvements; and expanded virtualization and data storage enhancements for Domino. In the last but certainly not least category, ..... 8.5.3 accelerates your ability to find people and content as you embark on becoming a social business. Not sure what the last sentence really means but it sounds good. I think I'm most interested in some of the new features in Traveler 8.5.3, in particular the enhanced Android support, including Android OS 3.0 and encrypted mail support. Planetlotus list a number of enhancements here. If you'd like to discuss upgrading your systems to this new release, please give us a call. Not long now...... Comments Disabled Rupert Kiero-Watson 29 September 2011 16:36:17Do you dread that weekly (ok, quarterly) task of filing your emails into the correct folders and enjoying the temporary joy of an empty email inbox? You know that you should be disciplined enough to file them immediately after you've read them, but you never quite get into the habit. Well, IBM's free add-on for Lotus Notes can help you do that. Once you've installed it, you'll find that you can choose whether you only want to do filing on your server replica, or local replica, or both. If you want it active on your server replica, open it up and in 8.5 go to More-Preferences-Mail then select the the Swiftfile tab. Similarly, if you want it active on your local replica, open that up, and follow the same procedure. You may have to restart Notes to make it active, but from then on, each time you open an email (including preview), Swiftfile shows three folder icons at the top left hand corner of the email. Click on the one you want the email in, and Swiftfile does it there and then. These folders will be the folders that Swiftfile thinks are most likely to be the ones you want to file that email to. At first, some of the suggested folders will appear curious choices, but Swiftfile learns as you file, and over time will usually make the correct suggestion. Swiftfile is currently only for Windows users and is included in your client installation CD (usually in the APPS folder). If you can't locate the CD, you can download it from the link below (only 5.7 MB): https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24019219 Comments Disabled Ian Raffle 31 August 2011 10:55:27Like all good Domino and Domain admins you reboot your servers periodically. You don't? Well you probably should, but that's another story. (Note to self, to write a short paragraph on why it's a good thing to reboot servers periodically). So, back to the subject. You've rebooted your server (in this case a Windows server), and you check your services to make sure that everything is back up and running. Hmmmm, Lotus Domino Server says "Starting". Ok, I'll check that again in about 5 mins. 5 Minutes later and it's still starting, and nobody can access it through Lotus Notes. Windows won't let you stop it, or restart it, disabling it does nothing, so what next? If you load up Task Manager, select the Processes tab, you'll see nservice.exe is active. End that process (acknowledging the warning), refresh the services display and you should see that the word 'Starting' has gone. You can then successfully start your Domino service again. The final step, is to try to find out why it wouldn't start properly in the first place. For the second time in this blog entry I'm going to use the words "but that's another story". Ian Raffle 8 August 2011 16:30:23Lotus Notes on Mac is fine on the whole (so our sharp-suited marketing man tells me). The downloaded OS X Lion upgrade from the App store seemed to work fine. All the same stuff was there, maybe a bit shinier. All his data was still there (thankfully untouched). Even Lotus Notes 8.5.2 seemed fine until suddenly it crashed whilst opening the inbox. Following a small "Oh bother" moment, he restarted it, and it was fine for a while, until it happened again. And again. Fortunately for us, IBM have also spotted the problem. It seems that a change introduced to the semaphore mechanism (controlling how two processes can access the same item of data) in OS X Lion has caused a problem in Notes. For version 8.5.2 and below, you need to add a value to your Notes Preferences of:
POSIX_SEMAPHORES=1 Restart Notes, and the problem shouldn't occur again. A fix included in Notes 8.5.3 for Mac should hopefully solve the problem without the need for the change to Preferences. IBM Technote can be found here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21504652 |
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