Notes / Domino by Ulrich Krause 

HCL Notes Client – “Invalid RTF Data On The Clipboard”  

By Ulrich Krause | 12/3/22 11:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

The issue applies to HCL Notes 12.0.1 standard and basic as well as HCL Notes 12.0.2 32/64Bit standard and basic. When you try to change your signature in the Calendar Profile, you get the error message

DOTS – “An error occurred while processing the command”  

By Ulrich Krause | 9/15/22 3:33 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If you are using DOTS in Domino 12.x, you might have seen some NullPointer Exceptions after you have updated a DOTS plugin. Recommendation was to delete the complete workspace-dots folder prior to starting DOTS after the upgrade. This issue has been addressed in SPR# SJAAC3BNWV: DOTS – Workspace need to be deleted on every change and add of new plugin. With this fix it is no longer necessary to delete the workspace-dots folder. Not sure, when the fix was provided. There is no information about it in the fix list database. But this is only true for Domino on WINDOWS. If you are using DOTS with Domino on LINUX, you will see an error on the Domino server console ( “An error occurred while processing the command”) or even worse, the NullPointer Exceptions. The problem is that the underlying API in Domino does not delete files starting with a dot. (hidden files on UNIX systems).

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known  

By Ulrich Krause | 6/24/22 9:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Without question, this quote by the great statistician George E. P. Box certainly applies to software development in general and Beta testing in particular. Beta testing is one of the most important phases of the software development lifecycle. Quality, performance, stability, security and reliability are some factors that are achieved by doing beta testing. Beta testing is the best chance to find bugs and usability issues before a product is fully released. While internal testing can uncover many problems, nothing can truly simulate real users trying to complete real tasks.

Domino Early Access Program drop 2 is available  

By Ulrich Krause | 6/23/22 7:04 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

Domino Early Access Program drop 2 is available HCL Domino 12.0.2 Early Access Drop 2 is available for download on flexnet.

Using AdminQ to process (web) user requests  

By Ulrich Krause | 6/2/22 4:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

First of all, AdminQ is not a typo. Administration Quick (AdminQ) is new as of Domino 12.0.1 and can be used to expedite the processing of Administration Process (AdminP) requests that affect the user IDs of web users, for example, HCL Verse users. The users must have IDs in an ID vault.

Error: Index does not exist. (No such file or directory)  

By Ulrich Krause | 3/26/22 5:13 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I recently ran into an issue with the new feature in Domino 12 to exclude fields from full-text search indexes. You must enable this feature by adding the notes.ini setting FT_DEBUG_DISABLE_DB_RULES=0 to the Domino server AND restart the Domino server. Navigate to Application Properties -> Full Text Index and select the items to exclude fron the FT index.

Unable to uninstall Domino 12.0.1 HF  

By Ulrich Krause | 2/21/22 5:02 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I wanted to upgrade my Windows 2016 Domino 12.0.1 HF18 server to Domino 12.0.1 HF24 today to fix an issue with DAOS. You need to uninstall any existing HF prior to install a new one. When I start the HF installer to revert the HF 180 installation I get an error message even when I start the executable as administrator. Found the solution here https://blog.nashcom.de/nashcomblog.nsf/dx/solution-for-notesdomino-related-process-is-still-running-when-applying-a-fixpack-or-hotfix.htm?opendocument&comments

Domino 12.0.1 – new compact option  

By Ulrich Krause | 11/8/21 2:09 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Domino 12.0.1 includes an interesting enhancement to the compact task options. Together with the options -c and -X, -RESTARTensures that a compact that terminates because the limit set with -X is exceeded continues at exactly the same point during the next run. This ensures that even large files are compressed, which at the moment would never be fully compressed due to exceeding the time limit.

HCL Domino 12 – Active Directory Password Sync (Part 2)  

By Ulrich Krause | 4/18/21 3:10 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

During my tests with HCL Domino 12 Beta2 I ran into a couple of issues where the Active Directory Password Sync did not work as expected. The problems are not caused by the beta code. However, I am writing down my observations here, since the errors may also appear later in a productive environment. Maybe my lines will save one or the other a long search.

HCL Domino 12 – Active Directory Password Sync  

By Ulrich Krause | 4/7/21 6:05 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Active Directory Password Sync applies the Windows passwords of users registered in an Active Directory domain to their Domino HTTP and/or Notes ID passwords. To setup and configure Active Directory Password Sync, you need at least 2 Domino v12 servers. One server acts as Request Creator and the other one has the role Request Processor.

Mailrules extended ( 2021 edition )  

By Ulrich Krause | 3/1/21 1:38 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

A few years ago, more precisely in 2008, I already wrote about an extension of the Rules Engine in Notes / Domino. Although the existing programming covers a large part of users’ requirements, it would sometimes be desirable to be able to create more flexible rules.

NSD -monitor on Linux  

By Ulrich Krause | 12/3/20 2:52 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

NSD is a great tool to find the cause of a crash or hang ( if you are familiar with how to do the analysis ). But sometimes the log file created by NSD does not include enough information to find the root cause of a problem. In this case, you can start NSD in monitor mode.

DirSync – OID rules for bitwise comparison.  

By Ulrich Krause | 11/30/20 2:37 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

As of FP2 for Domino / Notes 11.0.1, DirSync now supports filters using OID rules for bitwise comparison. This extension of the filter options is very useful if you want to filter on attributes that contain the information as bit patterns.

Create random files with random content with Java  

By Ulrich Krause | 11/16/20 4:28 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I was playing with DAOS in Domino 12 recently and needed a way to create thousands of test files with a given file size and random content. I did not want to use existing files with real data for my tests. There are several programs available for Linux and Windows. Google for it. But as a developer, I should be able to create my one tool. Here is some sample Java code that uses java.util.Random to create filnames and content in an easy way.

Update HTTPPassword item in names.nsf (backend)  

By Ulrich Krause | 10/26/20 3:29 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Yesterday, we ran into an issue with the HTTP Password in the person record in names.nsf. The problem occured after we upgraded the customers Domino server from V 9.0.1 to V11.0.1FP1. The customer has some backend processes installed that let them delegate the process of register, update and delete users and groups to different departments. One part of the process is a piece of code that sets the HTTP password in the person record. The issue was that the password was stored in clear text after upgrading the server. I looked into the design and could spot the root of the issue.

HCL Domino DirSync & the ‘&’  

By Ulrich Krause | 9/14/20 3:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

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))

Problem importing certificates into keyring with LE4D after upgrade to Domino V11.0.1  

By Ulrich Krause | 4/13/20 7:47 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Due to an issue with the JVM installed with Domino V11.0.1, LE4D throws an error when the tool tries to import the new / renewed certificate into the Domino keyring file. The agent calls the kyrtool and passes the required parameters to the tool.

HCL Nomad On Android Smartphones  

By Ulrich Krause | 2/23/20 7:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I do not own an Android smartphone. But I saw a couple of forum entries from people with up-to-date Android device complaining, that HCL Nomad does not run on their devices. I found an interesting post by Erik Schwalb in the German Notes Forum.

DAOS – JAR files in Java agents  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/24/20 12:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

If DAOS is activated on a database, in addition to the attachments from data documents, the jar files contained in a Java agent are also transferred to the DAOS repository if they exceed the set size. I have been able to reproduce the problem with Domino V11. I started with a freshly installed server, activated DAOS on the server.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 7  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/22/20 2:39 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

When you use Directory Sync, you can register Active Directory users in Domino to create mail files and Notes IDs for them. To register Active Directory users in Domino, open the Admin client and navigate to “People & Groups -> People“. Select the name of an Active Directory user to register. Right-click and select Register Selected Person.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 6  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/21/20 7:23 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

In this part of the tutorial, we want to look at what happens when DirSync synchronizes objects from Active Directory. Let’s first take a look into the Directory Assistance document for the AD domain to find the BaseDN. Using LDAPAdmin, we can now navigate to CN=Sync under the root entry DC=ad,DC=fritz,DC=box.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 5  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/20/20 6:53 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

To monitor DirSync output, you can use the server console or the server log.nsf. This in general lets you identify possible errors during DirSync processing. If you need a more verbose output, or you want to dig deeper into DirSync functionallity, use the following notes.ini variable to create some kind of trace mode.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 4  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/20/20 5:56 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

In this part of the tutorial about Domino V11 Directory Synchronization, we want to take a closer look at the actions that can be performed on DirSync configuration documents. To enable a DirSync configuration, select it in the view and click the Enable button. You will be presented a dialog box where you can select from 2 options.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 3  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/19/20 11:32 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

fter you have created a Directory Assistance document in part 2 of this tutorial, that is enabled for Directory Sync, create a Directory Sync Configuration document in the Domino® directory. You use this document to select Directory Sync configuration options and then to enable Directory Sync.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 2  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/19/20 4:27 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

In part 1 we covered the basic concept od DirSync. In this part, I will explain, how to setup and configure directory assistance. The first step to configure DirSync is creating a DirSync-enabled directory assistance document in the directory assistance database.

HCL Domino V11 – Directory Synchronzation – Part 1  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/19/20 4:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

When the Domino® server is installed in a Microsoft Windows domain, as an administrator, you typically need to maintain two separate directories for the same set of people and groups. Maintaining user and group information involves adding entries to both directories, deleting entries, ensuring that passwords are the same.

Notes 11 – Splash Screen Redesign  

By Ulrich Krause | 1/7/20 6:17 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

With version 11 of HCL Notes & Domino we also got a new splash screen. To be honest, I think the new screen is butt ugly. The gradient isn’t a proper gradient, and the logos are low quality. Here is a redesigned splash screen. I have used Krita do create the gradient. In fact there are two gradient on 2 layers.

DNUG Domino Day 2019 – First Look into Domino 11  

By Ulrich Krause | 12/2/19 5:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

DNUG Domino Day 2019 – First Look into Domino 11. Here are the slides from a presentation at DNUG Domino Day last week where Daniel Nashed and myself presented a First Look into Domino 11.

NotesUser Activity Class  

By Ulrich Krause | 9/22/19 10:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

The NotesUserActivity Class is a customizable LotusScript library that returns database user activity summary information. The usage statistics for the prior day, week, and month since user activity recording began is provided. The number of documents a user or server has read, added, updated or deleted during each session.

Be careful when using DAOS and compact -c -ZU  

By Ulrich Krause | 9/19/19 8:47 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger

Be careful when using DAOS and compact -c -ZU. There has been a change in Domino 10.0.1 FP2 how the -ZU switch in the compact task behaves. As of Domino 10.0.1 FP2, -ZU will pull all attachments of a DAOS enabled application back into the application!