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Series of Interesting Announcements this week from HCL

DNUG/DACHNUG IS going on this week, and HCL have had a couple of very interesting announcements, The first (chronologically) is Domino 10.0.1 FP8 is out. This contains a series of low risk, high impact fixes, and should be applied ASAP to anyone on that release. The second is the announcement about the end of support… Read the full article

Danube – Early Access 1 – What are you getting?

On my blog last week recapping Engage, I mentioned the Early Access Program for Danube (Domino 12.0.2). This is quite unusual how early for a release of this type in that usually there will be some form of closed early access program ahead of a public beta. What this shows us is that HCL are… Read the full article

26 points of interest from Engage in Bruges

All I can say is “Wow” what a few days in Bruges. I’ve been trying to break my thoughts out into something coherent and really I can do is set out a set of bullet points. The event itself. It’s hard to overstate how well run an event Engage is. Theo and his wife Hilde,… Read the full article

Sometimes obvious and straightforward is good

While troubleshooting a (relatively complex) issue with a customer recently, I was involved in troubleshooting call with several “Subject Matter Experts”, and the problem came down to, what attributes are in Azure AD. AD Attributes don’t all synch by default. (even if ticked in AD Connect). We needed a PowerShell developer to check which attributes… Read the full article

Another great free tool from Panagenda.

Bundled in HCL Notes Client 12.0.1 was new Document Properties functionality. This gives you the ability to view, search and sort, fields within a document, from within the Notes client (As well as delete profile documents). It’s really nifty addition. If you haven’t yet upgraded to HCL Notes/Domino 12 for whatever reason, and would like… Read the full article

Introducing: Discover for Domino

We are very happy to announce the launch of Discover for Domino! After hearing of many customers expressing frustration when replying to a Freedom of Information request or other queries requiring a search over all Domino data, here in Domino People HQ, we decided to do something about it. We are certain that Discover for… Read the full article

Seamless SMTP failover(and round robin) in outbound Domino connections

We still get comments on a blog post I did 9 years ago on SMTP Debug for Domino SMTP Routing. (I’ve updated non-working links today). This got me thinking on what other SMTP config would be useful to people. Here I’m going to cover an often underused setting relating to Domino SMTP Routing. If you’re… Read the full article

Domino 12.0.1 Delivered by end of year as promised

HCL Domino 12 has been out since July and I’ve written multiple times on the new features, in particular the security features It’s the first Domino dot zero release we’ve ever advised multiple customers to upgrade to at time of release and there are many reasons for this mainly the amount of new features but… Read the full article

DKIM signing comes natively to Domino

HCL continues to deliver on it’s beta program in 2021 by the release of 12.0.1 Beta 2 today. Again the vast majority of these betas are being delivered completely publicly, meaning anyone with a valid license has access on Flexnet. And can provide their feedback completely publicly. It means when the full release hits market… Read the full article

12.0.1 Beta is (nearly) out

HCL have announced that the new beta for Domino 12.0.1 is out. It’s freely available from tomorrow (Tuesday) for anyone who is licensed on Flexnet. There’s incremental improvements everywhere here, with many of the newer features of R.12 more tightly integrated. For example: Cert Manager no longer requires a specific DSAPI filter The Domino Directory… Read the full article