A few days ago I came across a rather weird issue with HCL Safelinx and HCL Domino. After setting up HCL Safelinx, it was not possible to access the Websites hosted by an HCL Domino Server. The user would just get an HTTP Error, "503 - Service Unavailable".

HCL delivered a great summary of all NOTES.INI parameters for Verse on Premises:

If you have ACL ACTION "MODIFY ALL NAMES FIELDS, OR READERS AUTHORS FIELDS" then upon user rename, user is renamed by adminp in names fields and security fields. Drawback is when user is leaving company and admin deletes user, if you have this setting enabled, then user will be deleted from all Names fields or Readers/Authors fields. Which may lead to strange documents, like Approved by "Empty string", because person who approved left company and adminp deleted him from field. Which is not ok, since breaks logic and compliance, we have to know who accepted document.

Yesterday, Martin Vogel from sirius-net GmbH sent me an email and asked for help with HCL Domino DirSync. He had an issue with the filter syntax and also encountered some strange error messages when trying to sync from an Active Directory to Domino Directory. Let’s first see, what the problem with the filter is. By default, DirSync syncs all person and group objects under the given SearchBase. If you only want to get a subset of the possible results, you can use a filter in the DirSync Configuration document. Here is the filter. (&(objectClass=person)(memberOf=CN=DistributionGroup,CN=Services & Accounts,CN=Sync,DC=ad,DC=fritz,DC=box))

Running HCL Volt Docker test server on Windows is now really easy. New Windows Subsystem for Linux allows easy integration with Linux sub-system that can be used to build a Docker image using domino-docker project. Exploring new Domino and Volt features is now easier than ever.

Some of our customers who upgraded to Notes 11 have experienced out of memory errors in the Notes client. Sometimes it was a message box that said there is not enough free memory, sometimes it was a hang with errors in the trace log. It generally happened after the client had been open for a while, and often when opening MIME emails that were sent from the Internet or clicking on links to open an external browser. If users were logged in to Sametime, it was more likely to happen. The weird thing about this: • The computer had plenty of available memory, and • Task Manager showed that Notes was using a normal amount of memory, maybe 250MB or so. What the heck was going on, and what can we do to fix it?

Do you see it in any Notes application: “Field is too large (32K) or View’s column & selection formulas are too large“? As of Domino / Notes 9.0.x, there is a solution to get rid of this “error” and increase the limit to 16 MB.