Notes / Domino by Roberto Boccadoro 

Upgrading OnTime in a container | Roberto Boccadoro  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/25/24, 5:32 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Running Domino in a container is becoming more and more popular in these days. I assume the reader is familiar with the topic, I am not going to explain how to create and run a Domino container. If you want to know more about Domino containers watch the replay of the webinar that Martijn did for OpenNTF and read his presentation. OnTime is included in Domino, starting with Release 14, is a great tool and I encourage my readers to use it, the version included in Domino is free and very powerful. The issue is that Intravision, creates new releases of OnTime faster that HCL creates new releases of Domino, which is obviously understandable. For example the OnTime version included in Domino is 11.1, but the most recent is 11.5. Hence if you want to keep updated your environment, you need to upgrade OnTime. That is easy if you run Domino on Windows or Linux native, but what if you run Domino in a container ?

Domino upgrade to V14, a consideration  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 12/22/23, 9:36 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I was asked by a friend, who is mostly a developer and not a Domino Admin about upgrading his dev server from V12 to V14. He told me that he uninstalled V12 and installed V14 but then the Domino server would start in setup mode. The reason in simple, but if you were not part of the V14 beta program you may have missed it.

Upgrading Notes client to V12 on Terminal Server  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 9/13/23, 12:07 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I worked with my friend and lady geek, Marianna Tomasatti, at a customer to perform an upgrade of the Notes client to V12.0.2 FP1 on Terminal Server Windows 2019 Datacenter (multi-user installation) because the Notes clients had some issues.

HCL Domino on Docker Whitepaper  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/6/21, 10:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Together with Shrikant Jamkhandi and Aniket Salve, both from HCL, I co-authored a whitepaper that covers the installation of the HCL Domino Docker image.

Domino Online Meeting Integration   

By Roberto Boccadoro | 5/4/21, 1:16 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Now that this has been announced publicly at NCUG, btw congrats Hogne for setting up a very useful event, I can talk about DOMI. Me and other Ambassadors have tested it in the last weeks but we were under NDA so we couldn’t share our thoughts.

Follow up to the OpenNTF webinar on Domino administration best practices  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 5/4/21, 1:15 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

During the webinar me and Heather ran out of time so we did not have time to talk about all the points that are highlighted in the slides. Here are some details on those point that we did not cover

Domino v12 One Touch Setup  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 12/8/20, 7:14 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In the December drop of the Domino V12 Early Access has been introduced a very cool feature that will make Domino administrators very happy.

I will speak at CollabSphere 2020  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/20/20, 11:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

CollabSphere 2020 is another community event that had to turn from in-person to online due to Covid-19. The bad side of this you already know, the good side is that being online now you can attend all these events without the need to travel, is always nice to save money, and also attendance is free.

Use a SSL certificate for the Sametime Proxy – a very easy way  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 6/22/20, 7:52 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

By default when you install Sametime Proxy 11 it will use self signed certificates. My peer HCL Ambassador Ales Lichtenberg has written a blog post, here, about how to use a CA issued certificate. In his article he uses the .pem format for the certificates; I found there is another way to do this using the pfx format for certificates.

Sametime 11 – What to do if person pictures don’t show in the web client  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 2/13/20, 12:49 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I wrote a post explaining what to do to have user pictures show in the Sametime classic client and in the Sametime web client, here . In a case, I found that the pictures did not show in the web client, so I opened a case with HCL Support.

Sametime 11 – Enabling person photo in the client  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/31/20, 9:23 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

If you want to enable photos in the Sametime client, there is documentation available, unfortunately it all refers to versions 9 or 10, where it was told to use the Sametime Console. Now in version 11 the Sametime Console does not exist, so how do you do that ?

Sametime 11 – What to do if file transfer is not working  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/28/20, 10:39 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

I stumbled into a problem at one of my customers. In the client, the icon for file transfer was greyed out and the one for sending a screenshot was missing. I opened a case with HCL and the suggestion was to enable the setting im.3000 in the file policies.user.xml. By default the current-value is 0.

Sametime 11. How to allow access to mobile clients  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/28/20, 9:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

I installed a Sametime 11 server for a customer, everything was working, but the mobile clients could not access the server. Upon trying to login they saw this on their phones. I was not the only one with this problem, other 2 persons I know had the same issue with their installation.

Integrating Sametime 11 with iNotes and Verse on Premises  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/24/20, 2:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I struggled a bit in setting up integration of Sametime 11 with Domino web mail, both iNotes and VoP, but eventually with the help from the great Trevor Tallackson of HCL Sametime Support I succeeded.

Notes 10.x Autoupdate works only for English clients  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 12/4/19, 1:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

I have been working with a customer to set up Notes autoupdate. He had all the clients at 10.0.1 FP2 and wanted to update to FP3. After working with Support in order to make it work, we found out that the English Notes clients were updated, while the Italian clients were not.

Migrating from SmartCloud Notes and Connections Cloud  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/30/19, 10:58 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

As you all know, or should know, IBM will discontinue its cloud offering for Mail and Connections in July 2020. This has raised a lot of questions from customers and partners about what to do, where and how to migrate, etc. Today HCL hosted a webinar where they explained their strategy to address this concerns.

Community written guides on OpenNTF wiki  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 7/10/19, 4:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In the collaboration community, a.k.a yellowverse, the need for step-by-step product guides, installation, tuning, etc… has always been present, not because the official documentation is bad, but because if you follow it, you have to jump from a place to another in order to finish the installation of a product. See for example the installation of Connections where the Knowledge Base tells you “install DB2” and points you to the DB2 KB, then “install WAS” and points you to the WAS KB, and so on.

High Usage Views and publishing statistics to New Relic. Bug in Domino 10.0.1  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 5/8/19, 4:15 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I found a bug, or better an incompatibility between two new features of Domino 10. If you enable the High Usage Views feature, it will break the publishing of the statistics to New Relic.

Step by step guide for installation of a Domino server 10.0.1 on Docker  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 1/22/19, 1:39 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Step by step guide for installation of a Domino server 10.0.1 on Docker I wrote a small guide for the installation of a Domino server 10.0.1 on Docker.

Problems with Verse on Premises 1.0.5 and Traveler  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 11/7/18, 4:49 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

On my server I upgraded VoP to 1.0.5 and Traveler stopped working. Looking at the console there were no errors but the devices could not connect to the server anymore; opening https://server/traveler gave a 404 error.

Verse on Premises 1.0.2 IF1 fixes the problem of broken Notes links  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/27/17, 2:59 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Thanks to my fellow IBM Champion Jan Krejcarek who alerted me of the availability of IF1 for VoP 1.0.2 This fix resolves the problem of the broken Notes links I mentioned in a previous post.

IBM, please fix the Feature Packs installations!  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 9/6/17, 1:53 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Every time there is a HotFix applied on top of a FixPack or Feature Pack, the installation of the new version of the FP fails. It says it found the wrong version. You have to uninstall the HotFix reverting back to the Base FP, then you can upgrade to the newest FP.

Domino Feature pack 8 breaks Verse on Premises  

By Roberto Boccadoro | 3/7/17, 12:38 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I installed Domino Feature Pack 8 and the new templates and Verse on Premises stopped working. The installation of the FP replaces a lot of files in Domino and it had reset the \data\osgi\shared\eclipse\plugins directory removing the files I had copied there for the VoP installation.