Firstly, it would be remiss to not state the obvious here:- in Domino 12 there is a complete overhaul of how you initiate certs and cert requests within Domino. With the new CertMgr you can “magically” get a cert with LetsEncrypt. If you haven’t tried the beta of Domino 12 please do. It is magic.… Read the full article
Category: IBM Domino 9
Domino Admin ID Expired? Here’s what you need to do…
What happens when your only Domino Admin type ID expires? Not a lot really because you won’t be able to do anything! You will need to recertify your Admin ID with a new certificate and expiration date but you need an Admin ID for that right? Not if you follow this simple guide which should… Read the full article
Working with Views outside of .nsfs
Ok, so it’s been a long time coming. Been promised and “in the pipeline” for a long time. Well with Domino 9.0.1. Feature Pack 8 we can now move views outside of .nsfs. Why would you want to do this? Well the two primary reasons: 1. For potential performance improvements on large databases. This is… Read the full article
Working with SHA-2 in Domino
Any production web site on Domino will have been flagged for months (if not years) on lack of support for SHA-2. Since the poodle scares last year, a lot of third party certifiers made the decision to no longer support SHA-1 certs, just in time for Domino to begin supporting SHA-2 (phew). So by now… Read the full article
Unread marks auditing plus Design Dumps…
Every Domino Admin worth their salt will have experienced incidents with unread marks not working correctly and will have “fixed” these in variety of ways, mainly either marking all documents as read, or exchanging unread marks between replicas There’s another type of unread marks issue, where someone wants to audit unread marks (i.e. find out… Read the full article
Traveler 9/Apple issue – “mails from other people appear to come from me”
An issue was reported by multiple users on a customer site recently. Since a Traveler 9.0.1 upgrade :- mails coming into user’s inbox that are from external Internet senders are showing up in the “who” column as being from the recipient’s name rather than the sender. This is only for some mails though, not… Read the full article
Domino 9 – DBMT in program documents
The Database Maintenance Tool in R9, promises an awful lot; essentially, that it does everything compact, fixup and updall does, with more options including: controls on number of threads for each task conditional options such as running a fixup if compact doesn’t run a certain number of times all from one single command/program document. However,… Read the full article
New iNotes 9.0 Undocumented Security Feature.
In iNotes on a Domino 8.x server you can view encrypted mail over http, once you’ve uploaded your ID. In iNotes on a Domino 9.0 server you get this message: It’s an interesting that this is now forced, I haven’t seen it documented anywhere. Not that we’d recommend that anyone use HTTP for any production… Read the full article
