Notes / Domino by Rainer Brandl
Problem when uploading ID file to Vault with Admin Client 14.x to Domino 12.0.1.x 
By Rainer Brandl | 8/27/24, 9:57 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Today I had the problem that a customer complained about the problem of uploading the ID of a new registered user to an existing vault. I could see the following entries in the local log.nsf:27.08.2024 11:03:00 ID 'C:\HCL\Notes\Data\user\testuser1.id' failed to upload to vault 'O=customer_vault' on server 'CN=SERVER01/O=SRV'. 'Test User1' made request. Error: Remote system no longer responding
After opening a case I received the link to a TechNote where a problem with Admin Client V14.x and HCL Domino 12.0.1.x is documented. I afterwards modified the setting in the NOTES.INI of the client and now the upload of the ID for the newly registered user is working fine !!!
Be aware to put the setting “TCPIP=TCP,0,15,16000” only in the NOTES.INI of a V14 client !!! If you set this value in a NOTES.INI of V12, the client will not startup and will cause serious troubles !!!
HCL Domino TOTP & Passkey authentication
By Rainer Brandl | 8/19/24, 7:45 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In a customer environment I have enabled the great working TOTP authentication. After migration the environment to Domino V14 I also enabled the Passkey authentication in the same Internet Site document.Afterwards neither TOTP authentication nor Passkey Authentication worked. A clarification of the HCL Support delivered the following information: You cannot enable both authentication types for the same internet site document !!
Running offline activities on databases with Domino V14
By Rainer Brandl | 2/22/24, 1:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Last week I migrated a HCL Domino V11 server to V14 and tried to run the compact task to upgrade the databases to ODS55 but received the following error:HCL Notes: error 0x1F3After some investigations and a very helpful hint of the HCL Support I could modify my existing script because due to the structural change in HCL Domino V14 the NOTES.INI now is located in the Domino\Data directory and so you have to run an offline compact this way:
– Stop the HCL Domino Server
– Change to the Domino\Data directory
– [dominoprogramdirectory]\ncompact.exe -ODS -# 4
How to make private calendar entries marked “Private” in the Resource Database
By Rainer Brandl | 1/16/24, 3:01 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
By default if you create a calendar entry and you mark this entry as "Private" and schedule either a room or a resource the entry in the resource reservation database has no private mark and the subject still is displayed.This can be customized by putting the following entry in the NOTES.INI of the server:RNR_MAKE_TOPIC_PRIVATE=1
DOMI integration with IPS enabled
By Rainer Brandl | 11/7/23, 2:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
This week I had the issue that a customer has enabled IPS for any outgoing http/https traffic which caused a non-working DOMI integration because the token could not be approved.With a very helpful link from the HCL Support the issue could easily be solved by whitelisting the request to "integration-auth-token.hcltechsw.com" on port 443.
Attachment is missing from meeting invitation
By Rainer Brandl | 5/11/23, 1:53 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Today I received an information from a friend at HCL (a.k.a. "Wickerl" ) that attachments get lost when sending a meeting invitation to another Domino Domain. In the HCL Software Forum a user complained that this issue also occurs when sending a meeting invitation to external users.This issue is described in SPR # SJOICG3K9F.
HCL Verse on Premises and HTTP error 404
By Rainer Brandl | 3/23/23, 3:00 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Today I implemented VoP on a Domino Server running on an iSeries like the "implementation" always is done. But afterwards I received an HTTP error 404 when trying to open the URL https://mailserver.company.com/verse.After some rechecks ( did I put the JAR files to the correct location and did I modify the owner ) I recreated the redirect database, rechecked the server configuration but could not get rid of this issue.
HCL Nomad Web – User moved to another Domino Server
By Rainer Brandl | 2/23/23, 3:44 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Today I had the issue that a user could not successfully complete the initial setup of HCL Nomad Web. The user always received the following error message: Afterwards I checked the result of the LDAP request for the home server which looked fine and the Domino Server also was available. So what could cause this error message ?
CAUSE: the user was moved to another mail server some days ago !!
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Calendar entry not displaying notes in HCL Verse 3.x
By Rainer Brandl | 2/3/23, 4:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Today I had the issue that a customer complained that notices on the calendar form keep on loading and loading and you're not able to create a calendar entry or even display the content of the notes an existing calendar entry.After some conversation with HCL Support ( which again was working extremely fast in person of Suraj Joshi ) I received the information that the upgrade to HCL Domino 12.0.2 could cause this issue.
As mentioned in the official Defect Article this only occurs when the display language of the browser is set to another language than English.
Domino Backup to Windows Shares
By Rainer Brandl | 10/18/22, 10:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
In a customer environment I had the request to put the backups of Domino ( with the new feature Domino Backup which is really working fine ) to another Windows Share.
Domino V12 – Password Sync / Lesson´s learned
By Rainer Brandl | 8/3/22, 3:57 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
After some issues to get the new feature of the Password Sync up and running I’ll summarize the pitfalls I went through. The process is documented well on the official HCL Product Documentation but with this summary I’ll document some issues.
HCL Verse 3.0 is available
By Rainer Brandl | 7/22/22, 5:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
HCL released the new version of HCL Verse with some great enhancements:
Create and search for contacts in Verse
Until now the contacts app always switched over to iNotes. This feature currently is in Beta version and is off by default.
HCL Domino TOTP authentication with Directory Assistance enabled
By Rainer Brandl | 6/21/22, 8:40 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Today I had the issue that TOTP was not working fine at a customer site. The main issue was that a user could bypass the TOTP authentication, was routed to the MFA setup site, clicked “Finished” and was routed to the homepage.nsf.
After opening a case I received 2 informations very quick informations
( thanks to Neha Bansal !! )
Error “Cannot convert Notes Rich Text message to MIME message” when answering meeting invitations
By Rainer Brandl | 5/9/22, 6:11 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
I had the issue that after a migration of a Domino environment all users received error messages after answering meeting invitations.
The customer prepared 2 Ubuntu LTS 20.04 server with Kernel version 5.x for the new Domino environment and we moved the data partitions to the new servers, installed 12.0.1FP1 and afterwards the troubles started.
Domino 12.0.1 TOTP activation / Lesson learned
By Rainer Brandl | 4/6/22, 11:40 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Since last week I struggled with activating TOTP on a Domino 12.0.1 server. After the configuration ( which is very well explained here ) I could not get the MFA setup page working.
Domino crashes when scheduling repeating Meeting Event with Ressource reservation – Tips and News for Collaboration solutions
By Rainer Brandl | 3/8/22, 4:31 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
In a customer environment I had the issue that the Domino Server crashed when a repeating Meeting Event was scheduled for a very long time ( in my case it was a weekly meeting for about 20 years ) and where a ressource was booked.
Set a “Welcome Page” on HCL Nomad Mobile
By Rainer Brandl | 2/15/22, 2:44 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
I had the customer request to set a specific database on the HCL Nomad Mobile clients when opening HCL Nomad.
If you also have this request you can use the free ( for HCL Nomad ! ) panagenda Marvel Client to get this issue solved. Here are the single steps
Room and Resource reservation with HCL Verse on Premises 2.x
By Rainer Brandl | 7/14/21, 10:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Today I had the issue that a customer complained that there´s no option to book rooms or resources within VoP 2.x.
After some investigation the reason was found and corrected. If you are using the React form form appointments with the NOTES.INI entry VOP_GK_FEATURE_168=0 you’ll not be able to book rooms or resources within a calendar entry.
HCL Domino SNMP Agent and HCL Domino 11.0.1FP3
By Rainer Brandl | 6/22/21, 3:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
I had the issue that after upgrading a Domino Server to 11.0.1FP3 the followingerror message was displayed in the server console:"HCL Domino SNMP agent is not available"Due to some dependencies the service of the Domino Server was running with aspecial AD account while the HCL Domino SNMP Service was running with theLocalSystem account.
Creating Backups with Domino V12 Beta3
By Rainer Brandl | 4/1/21, 12:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
With the newly released Beta3 of HCL Domino V12 ( the GA has been announced for June 7th 2021 ) it´squite easy to create backups without additional software.First of all you have to upgrade your Domino Server to Beta3.- I upgraded my Beta2 without any troubles to Beta3. So there´s no need to uninstall and reinstall !
Installing Domino 11.0.1 FP2 on iSeries
By Rainer Brandl | 2/23/21, 5:26 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In the weekend I had to migrate a Domino environment from 9.0.1.x to the latest release. What I could see during the migration:Backup the NOTES.INI before you run the "UPDDOMSVR" command (!)Maybe it was in this environment but after running the UPDDOMSVR the NOTES.INI only contained 3 lines and all the other informations have been gone. Therefore we had to restore the NOTES.INI from the backup we took before
Domino V11.0.1 Cookbook
By Rainer Brandl | 2/2/21, 5:18 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
HCL is offering a cookbook about Domino V11.01 where you can findSystem requirementsStep-by-Step instructions for fresh installation, upgrades and removalDownload links.It´s very helpful !!
Advanced Configuration of Meeting Invitations
By Rainer Brandl | 11/20/20, 3:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Yesterday I had an issue at customer site.
The customer is using Microsoft Teams with their official domain “example.com“. This domain is also used as primary domain in the Global Domain document on their Domino Server. The customer has an optional internet domain “example.at“.
HCL Digital Week – Recap Day 1
By Rainer Brandl | 11/9/20, 12:11 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Today, Monday 9th 2020, the HCL Digital Week started with a very impressive opening by Richard Jefts and Dion Hinchliffe where they talked about the Digital Transformation and how HCL is going to support YOU on this very interesting journey. During this Opening Session some very interesting facts have been shown by Dion Hinchliffe.
Domino Server: Copy Database Commands
By Rainer Brandl | 10/29/20, 10:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi
Of course there are multiple ways to create copies or replicas of databases either to other folders on the same server or to other servers ( especially when the servers are running in a cluster ).
I always use the following way and it´s working very fine:
First, you have to set an entry in the NOTES.INI of the server where you want to put the commands directly in the console:
Cluster_Admin_On=1
NOTES.INI parameter for Verse on Premises
By Rainer Brandl | 9/22/20, 3:19 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
HCL delivered a great summary of all NOTES.INI parameters for Verse on Premises:
Using HCL Nice tool silent
By Rainer Brandl | 7/6/20, 2:17 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
With HCL NICE you´re able to uninstall your Notes Client. But you also can use HCL NICE scripted with some options. Here´s a list of all possible options/iDnCGCbGiYXPEF02diIxxzF4I
Enforcing password change at the next time for Internet password could be a problem
By Rainer Brandl | 6/24/20, 2:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Yesterday I had an issue at customer where a case at HCL ( CSCS0131265 ) has been opened. Up to the beginning:
with Domino V11.0.1 the great feature for authenticating users accessing via Web protocol like HTTP(s), LDAP,… against the ID Vault is working like a charm. Therefore I registered a lot of people without setting an HTTP password in the person document. Afterwards I enforced the users to change the password after the first login what also worked fine.
Fixed Mail Templates for 11.0.1 – Multiple Forwarding buttons and wrong translations in Mail template 11.0.1
By Rainer Brandl | 5/21/20, 1:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In the German, Italian, Chinese and Spanish mail template there has been some issues with multiple forwarding buttons, ... HCL delivered fixed mail templates for German Italian
Error “Operation failed” when creating reservation in resource database ( German template )
By Rainer Brandl | 5/12/20, 8:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Starting with 10.0.1 you receive an error message “Operation failed” when trying to create reservations directly in the resource database with the German template.
This is caused by a forgotten bracket in the code.