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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.x local mail replicas: Advantages, considerations, and best practices
Lotus Notes and Domino provide the benefit of working “locally,” using local replicas of Notes applications/databases. The main benefit—and the original idea behind the local-replica mode—is to allow users to work while offline or when connected via slow networks (dialup, reduced bandwidth, etc.). Users can do their work, reply to mail messages, access applications, etc., and then connect and replicate, simply and painlessly.
However, most Lotus Notes users today can connect via the Internet, Wireless Cards, etc., and most of these ISPs provide excellent speeds, which begs the question: Is it still a good idea to deploy local mail file replicas, and what are the benefits, considerations, and best practices for doing so?
Over the years, it’s been common for companies to debate whether to deploy local replicas vs. server replicas for their employees, even if they are working on site when the servers and users are all on the same LAN.
Most organizations have based their decision on technical needs, security, user training, and the level of support they can provide (since they now have an additional configuration to support); however, the debate continues for some others.
So, the purpose of this article is to clarify why—or if—local replicas are a good option for your environment and how you can deploy this option.
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IBM Multimedia Library for Lotus Notes
The fastest, most affordable way for end-users to learn Lotus Software.
The Multimedia Library for Lotus will quickly teach your employees the essential skills they need to be successful. New employees will learn key tasks and seasoned employees will learn new features and productivity tips. “What’s New” tutorials teach valuable skills and benefits of new features. This is the ultimate training solution for end users, administrative assistants, mobile users and tech support teams.
IBM Lotus Expeditor Logs – What are they good for?
IBM Lotus Expeditor Logs – What are they good for?
With the broad collection of components (see figure 1) provided in Lotus Expeditor-based products and the many different logging and tracing standards available today, it can be quite challenging to locate critical Problem Determination (PD) data when attempting to diagnose problems.
LEOnline: Lotus software Tutorials, Online classes, Training materials
Lotus Education Online has a full range of training solutions: » Instructor-led online courses » Self-paced, self-guided content » Custom learning solutions for your team IBM Authorized Independent Training Center with Certified Instructors
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1. Lotus Connections: Downloads and drivers
– TITLE: LO45526 GlobalSearch: Location codes only appear in the first search view
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24024886&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Profile search results initially contain a location code. Upon filtering or changing the page of results, the location no longer shows.
– TITLE: LO45588 News: New entries not displaying correctly in Home page updates tab
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24024955&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: New entries are not displaying correctly in Home page updates tab with some version/platform combinations of Oracle.
– TITLE: LO46341 Search: Install Search ifix fails if Activities is not installed
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24025261&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Mandatory: Install Search ifix fails if Activities is not installed.
– TITLE: LO46170: Secure and non-secure warnings using Internet Explorer in Blogs
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022865&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Secure and non-secure warnings using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 and HTTPS.
– TITLE: LO44490 GlobalSearch: Legacy code causing errors in log during indexing
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24024460&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Bookmarking a Profiles record causing errors in the logs.
– TITLE: LO46274 News: Install News ifix fails if Activities is not installed
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24025260&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Mandatory: install News ifix fails if Activities is not installed.
– TITLE: LO43994 GlobalSearch: Recommended ifix: Search indexing tasks taking too long
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24024461&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYGQH&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Recommended ifix: Search indexing tasks taking too long.
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2. Lotus Domino: Problem solving information
– TITLE: Rebuilding daoscat.nsf / How to resync the daos catalog with the server down on IBM i
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410403&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTMJ&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Rebuilding daoscat.nsf / How to resync the daos catalog with the server down on IBM i
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3. Lotus Notes: Problem solving information
– TITLE: Is it possible to disable Instant Messaging in Notes at startup?
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197367&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mynp=OCSSKTXQ&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Is it possible to set Instant Messaging to connect mode manually in the Location document when a new user starts using Notes?
– TITLE: ‘Block Mail from Sender’ blocks any addresses partially matching a blocked email address
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21253152&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: “Block Mail from Sender” blocks any addresses partially matching a blocked email address. This issue has been reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# DADS6RKH97. The issue is related to the usage of the @Contains function to perform the check. The function is working as designed, but the overall formula check needs revision to avoid the partial match case observed.
– TITLE: Overdue ToDo’s don’t display on calendar
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410786&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Overdue ToDo’s don’t display on calendar entries, when trying to change the preferences to display overdue items, LotusScript error “Object Variable Not Set Pref_Save
– TITLE: Delete icon does not display on parent document of repeating To Do
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21412236&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: In Lotus Notes, if you select most of the To Do documents in the To Do list, there is a red X icon visible in the action bar indicating you can delete them. However, if you select the parent document of a repeating To Do, the icon doesn’t display.
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4. Lotus Sametime: Problem solving information
– TITLE: Is it possible to disable Instant Messaging in Notes at startup?
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21197367&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mynp=OCSSKTXQ&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: Is it possible to set Instant Messaging to connect mode manually in the Location document when a new user starts using Notes?
– TITLE: “Show Group Content…” does not display updated non-english user display name
– URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21408835&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTXQ&mync=E
– ABSTRACT: The member is missing in public group after change it’s name in ldap directory
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Security Certificate expiration in Lotus Domino on May 18th 2009
This note contains links (URLs) to technical support documents (technotes) related to an issue affecting IBM Lotus Domino customers. You are receiving this notification because you are a customer who has called us for technical support in the past. If you do not wish to receive notifications like this one on other topics in the future, please reply to this email and change the Subject field to: unsubscribe , e.g. unsubscribe user@company.domain. This is a special mailing separate from regular Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) mailings to urgently provide information about this expiration situation.
What is happening
The certificate for some Java applets in Lotus Domino 6.5.x, Domino 7.0.x, Domino 8.0.x, and Domino 8.5 have an expiration date of May 18, 2009. Starting May 19th, Web users will see a dialog with a message similar to one of the following when loading a Web page that contains a Java applet from the Domino server:
“The digital signature was generated with a trusted certificate but has expired or is not yet valid.”
“The security certificate has expired or is not yet valid.”
This issue can occur even if IBM is set up as a trusted publisher in the browser.
What does this mean
Please be assured that this message does not mean security has been compromised. It simply reflects the expiration of the signature originally provided in the security certificate used with certain Domino applets. You can find an explanation in the following technote:
Title: “Security certificate expiration messages generated from Domino applets (May 18, 2009)”
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21381298
Action needed to resolve
To resolve the situation, you have three options: (1) Instruct users to “Always Trust” content from IBM, (2) if using Domino 7.x, upgrade to Domino 7.0.4, or (3) download and apply fixes. IBM recommends that you replace the affected Jar files (option 3) as described in the following download document for any supported release of Domino:
Title: “Download re-signed Java applets for Lotus Domino (May 18, 2009)”
URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg24022981
Alternatively, an interim fix will be posted to Fix Central for the latest Modification and Fix Pack levels by May 8th. These include Domino 6.5.6 FP3, 7.0.3 FP1, 7.0.4, 8.0.2 FP1, and 8.5.0. If you’re not running one of these releases, access the download document above, which provides fixes for all supported release levels.
General Self-Help Resources
Here are links to other ways that you can access IBM Lotus Notes & Domino self-help support information on the Web:
1. My Support (http://www.ibm.com/software/support/einfo.html)
2. Lotus Support is just a click away (http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/clickaway/); learn more about Lotus Software Self-Assist Options.
3. IBM Software Support Site design update (http://www.ibm.com/software/support/gcnews.html)
4. New Lotus Notes Domino Wiki (http://www.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf)
5. Fix Central (http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/)
Sincerely,
The IBM Lotus Notes & Domino Team
NOTES DOMINO 8 WINS THE 2008 ZDNET CHINA USERS’ CHOICE AWARD
<!– div.lotusnotesemailheader{display: none;} –><!– div.lotusnotesemailheader{display: inline;} –>This week, Ed Brill, Director End-User Messaging and Collaboration for IBM Lotus, announced on his blog that Lotus Notes and Domino 8 won the 2008 ZDnet China users’ choice award. The award, which Ed kindly translated on his blog, cited The most attractive features of Lotus ND8 as being “that it brings Web2.0 to enterprise users.” Check out the award and the rest of the reasons that Lotus Notes and Domino was chosen as users’ choice in one of the fastest growing markets for collaboration software, on Ed Brill’s blog at http://edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/zdnet-china-user-choice-2008-notesdomino-8?opendocument&comments#anc1
Surviving the Rough Economy with Lotus Software — Intranet Journal
As we’re all painfully aware, the current economic climate is far from wonderful. Businesses are looking for ways to cut corners and reduce costs whenever possible, and many times that leads to belt-tightening in your IT departments. I want to share with you some ways that products from Lotus can help you reduce costs in some obvious, and not-so-obvious ways.
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IBM – Lotus Support Technical Exchange Open Mics and Webcasts
Abstract
Lotus Support Technical Exchange is a series of Open Mic conference calls and webcasts where technical experts share their knowledge and answer your questions on specific technical topics.
Content
To help you take full advantage of your software, the Lotus Support Technical Exchange hosts Open Mic conference calls and webcasts where technical experts share their knowledge and answer your questions on specific technical topics. Visit this page often for notices of upcoming events. Events are recorded for those not able to attend the live events.
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