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How to update multiple passwords in ID vault programmatically

HCL recently published a technote on how to reset multiple passwords at the same time. It’s a handy bit of code to have for reference. Couple of obvious points to make. Steps code referenced is below (test, do at your own risk, etc). Open Names.nsfCreate –> Agent –> LotusScript Agent – Name it as ‘Reset… Read the full article

Couple of interesting whitepapers on OIDC

Recently HCL published recent whitepapers on OIDC with a couple of third parties you might have missed namely: OneLogIn and PingOne There’s previously been many whitepapers on other third parties (MiniOrange, Okta, As well as MS EntraID and MS ADFS). It’s really helpful to have these to make OIDC Integration as (for want of a… Read the full article

Redirect multiple Domino commands to text files?

I find that multiple times as a Domino Administrator we find out something interesting, use it a couple of times and then don’t have a use case again for it for multiple years, so we need to re-discover this information all over again. This happened to me this week. I’d reason to need to run… Read the full article

Always keep your internet facing services up to date

The title of this post is decent generic advice I’d give to any organisation (on any platform). HCL Domino will always give you rock solid security if you implement it right, but there is no service that doesn’t have security updates (and for good reason). A couple of recent security bulletins for HCL Nomad Web… Read the full article

Couple of recent releases from HCL

In the last couple of weeks since HCL released the first code drop for the Domino 14.5 early access program, HCL have had multiple releases. The first is a major release of Nomad Web 1.0.13 If you haven’t been paying attention, the release cycle for Nomad web is like clockwork. Every three months there’s a… Read the full article

my.hcltechsw.com goes live!

You might have missed the announcement from earlier in the week. HCL this week announced that effectively immediately my.hcltechsw.com is the primary resource for all current and future product downloads. It’s been titled My HCLSoftware (MHS) . I’ve written about this portal since it’s earliest beta and it really is a success story that so… Read the full article

A good reference for Semaphore timeouts

Recently while troubleshooting an issue on a customer site, I can across this Knowledge based article around what the HEX codes when Semaphore messages are thrown in the Domino console. It’s been updated recently and contains information you may need to troubleshoot semaphore issues with a Domino server. I like this type of transparency that… Read the full article

Engage 2023 – Amsterdam

I’m a week late coming back to write about Engage. What an event it was. Last year I found it easiest to break down the event into a series of series of points of interest from the event I’ll do the same this time out. So here it is 21 points of interest from Engage… 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

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