Notes / Domino by Hogne B. Pettersen 

Notes Tip #54: From Microsoft Outlook to HCL Notes  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/14/23 3:44 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

After some false stops and starts, Brainworker and I can finally publish my full user guide for Notes Mail, Calendar, Contacts and To do. Perfect for new employees used to Outlook, but also as a user guide for any Notes user. While Notes is so much more than just an email, calendar, and contacts application,these features are nevertheless some of the most important features of the client.

Notes Tip #22: Notes Manual for Previous Outlook Users  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/12/21 1:02 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

So, you have new employees who have never used anything but Outlook for mail and calendaring. Download my manual on how to ease the transition for them when they start using Notes in your organisation.

Notes Tips #20: Repeat Meetings Randomly  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/4/21 3:33 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

We’ve all been there: You want to create a repeating meeting, but realise that one of the dates within the repeating interval collides with another meeting. Notes and Domino is the only system that can deal elegantly with this. Read on to learn how!

Tell Notes That 2020 Has 53 Weeks  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 12/9/20 2:09 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Did you know that there are 53 weeks in 2020? If not: Neither does HCL Notes, unless you have the right setting.

Notes Tips #8: Control Your Windows – The Domino Elf  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 7/10/20 3:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Tired of all your Notes windows, tabs and documents just keep piling up on the right side of the client? Would you like to group them? Or have them open in their own windows? Then read on! I once had a user that complained that Notes kept running out of memory. It was then I discovered that he had 538 documents open in his Notes client!

Notes Tips #6: Notes knows what you did last week  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 6/29/20 7:14 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Did you know that Notes remembers every single application and document you’ve accessed in the last seven days? I give you: Notes history! How many times have you been searching for that email or that document in Notes that you are sure you read just a few days ago. Notes can help you with that!

Notes Tips #5: Find Notes Application in Three Seconds  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 6/18/20 4:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

How many times have you, or one of your users, been desperately looking around on their Workspace in Notes to find an application? After this tip, you will never do so again! There’s no need to spend time looking for a Notes application or database on your workspace or in the bookmark menu.

How to Import Your Microsoft Teams Calendar into Your HCL Notes Calendar  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/29/20 1:59 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

A lot of organisations are using both HCL Notes and Microsoft Teams, despite no integration between these two products. Here is how you can see all your Teams meetings inside your Notes calendar.

Here Are All the Domino Licensing Models and What they Contain   

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/20/20 12:36 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

After the Domino Volt announcement two new licensing models for Domino were introduced. This created some confusion regarding what licensing models for Domino that are available after HCL took over. Here they are!

HCL Showed Us The Licensing Money   

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/17/20 1:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Yesterday the HCL Masters were invited to a webinar where we were given a presentation about Domino Volt. This webinar also revealed very interesting stuff about the future of Domino Licensing

And They Say Whining and Complaining Doesn’t Help  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/19/20 11:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

On Friday HCL announced what languages will be supported with V11. And it seems that certain Nordic languages are on the table after all! There will be no Norwegian, Finnish, Danish or Icelandic versions of V10. Notes V11 will come in a Norwegian version! On Friday the following languages were announced for the first quarter of 2020.

That’s What Reply with Internet Style History is Used For  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/14/20 4:38 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I sometimes get asked what the hell “Reply with Internet-Style History” means in the Notes client. It used to be to give you the chance to quote correctly. But today I used it to solve a problem where a mailing list rejected all my emails

See All the New Downloads Waiting For You From HCL   

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 9/12/19 2:55 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

HCL keeps on delivering and you can now download a bunch of Domino related upgrades and fixes. See them all here.

What We Know About HCL’s Roadmap for Domino and Connections  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 8/30/19 6:09 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Confused about what is happening in the world of Domino and Connections now that HCL is in complete control? Let me help you clear up a few things. All information presented here are taken from presentations, webinars and documents distributed by HCL in the past weeks.

The Mystery of the Duplicate Mail Folders  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 7/6/19 9:17 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

A user contacted me and said that in the dialog box for moving an email to a folder, several of his folders were suddenly duplicated, but not in the left side menu in his Notes mail. This is how I found what had happened and managed to solve it. Usually you would just drag and drop an email into a folder in the left side menu in Notes.

Is Notes Running or Starting Up Very Slowly? This Might Be the Solution | The Domino Elf – Hogne B. Pettersen's Social Biz Blog  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 4/26/19 4:32 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Sometimes users are blaming Notes for problems that isn’t really Notes’ fault. Here’s how I fixed a ten minute startup time, for both my client and the Designer.

Is this What the Notes V11 Client Will Look Like?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 3/15/19 8:18 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday IBM held a presentation about the continuous road map for Notes. Highlights: Cloud customers, you are no longer forgotten and you will get all the good stuff! Oh, and: Bye, bye Eclipse. Bye, bye Xpages. Bye, bye iNotes and hello IBM Verse on Premise. Bye, bye Verse app on Mobile and hello lightweight web-version for mobile. Hello different Notes clients. Read all about it here.

How to Drag Attachments Directly from IBM Connections and into Webmail  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/18/19 1:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If you have your files in a cloud solution like Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, IBM Connections or Google Drive, you can connect Windows Explorer directly to these services. By doing this, you get direct access to your files from your Explorer window, as if they were stored locally on your computer. You can even access them while offline.

Report From the Domino V11 Jam in Stockholm  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/23/19 5:17 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

A lot of worries were calmed, especially for Cloud customers and Xpages developers, during the Domino V11 Jam in Stockholm. And there were great ideas and discussions. Read all about the event here.

This is Why You Should Stay on Domino  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 1/10/19 1:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

If you are looking for arguments about why you should stay on, or maybe even move to, Domino? Look no further than here! It’s no secret that Domino has vanished from a lot of organisations in the past ten years. But there are still thousands of organisations using business critical Domino applications every day.

Paaaartyyyyy! Domino Forever!  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/24/18 4:30 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

The superlatives and positive messages about the Norwegian user group’s (ISBG) launch of IBM/Notes Domino V10 in Norway yesterday has been pouring in all morning. As the leader of ISBG, this makes me immensely happy. And it gives bright hope for the future, and we will use this momentum when we’ve now started preparing for the spring seminar. Read on to see what happened at the launch!

IBM Notes Application Running in Office 365  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/10/18 5:33 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday IBM Notes/Domino V10 was unveiled to the world in the first of a whole series of launch events around the world. We in the Norwegian user group, in cooperation with IBM, is doing the Norwegian launch in Oslo October 23rd. One of the biggest features (among a whole list of cool features like auto repair, Domino Query language etc) is that you now can use Node.js to develop solutions for the Domino platform. And ISW has now done something awesome that can give your Notes app increased life, even if your company has moved to Office 365.

IBM Notes and Domino Version 10 – A Glowing Saphire?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 10/25/17 1:00 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

IBM made some pretty big announcements tonight. First of all, Notes and Domino will have a version 10 released in 2018. Yeah, I know. I am as shocked as you.

IBM Domino is not dead - it's just gone into the Clouds  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 9/26/17 2:07 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I’ve heard since 2002 that IBM Notes and Domino was dead. And while the platform is certainly an endangered species these days, there’s still stuff happening on the Domino front that companies and organisations contemplating on leaving the platform really should pay attention to.

Using IBM Verse (and Notes) to Keep Track of My Traveling Plans  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/7/17 3:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I’m a pretty disorganized person who had to force myself to become organized. And I have succeeded pretty well with it, even if I do have a few relapses now and then.

7 Great Tips About IBM Notes  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 11/18/16 5:33 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

The IBM Notes client is an important tool for a lot of IBM customers. It’s a powerful client (albeit a bit cranky at times), which has a lot of features that people don’t know about. So here are 7 quick tips to make your work day even more efficient.

Whither IBM Part 2: Is Domino being silently killed?  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 11/7/16 6:05 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Last week there was an online presentation co-hosted by TeamStudio and TLCC where IBM presented their roadmap for IBM Notes/Domino. I didn’t listen to the whole thing, I skipped some parts, because I could basically read the slides. In addition, they didn’t present anything new that they didn’t present at IBM Connect 2016.

Connect 2016 Day 3: Future of Domino, Connections and Hogsmeade  

By Hogne B. Pettersen | 2/3/16 5:19 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Woke up half past five in the morning. My internal clock is still not up to snuff. The humidity outside was unbelievable and there was so much fog that I opted for a 4 x 4 interval run on the thread mill instead of running around the lake.