25.01.2012 21:13	Disabling Domino redirectto URL argument A phishing attacker sends an email with a link purporting to be to your website. It begins with your domain name, but employs the &redirectto argument to actually steer the user to their site if they click the link.This feature is used legitimately to create authentication pages that on logout, redirect the user to another page onsite that doesn't require authentication. But for some high-security sites, the functionality may be problematic. We are not giving a specific example here on the theory that one should avoid giving instructions on how to attack server security...	by IBM Lotus Support
11.01.2012 21:35	Redbooks Wiki: Lotus Domino Development Best Practices This wiki covers what is needed to build or enhance an application, regardless of client, and the general practices to make development easier, less time consuming, and easy to support changes within the lifecycle of an application. It also includes instructions on infrastructure and operational improvements which can benefit performance and maintainability of your environment...	by IBM Redbooks
09.01.2012 22:41	Feiertage in der NAMES.NSF automatisch aktualisieren Es gibt tatsächlich eine wenig bekannte Möglichkeit. IBM aktualisiert die Feiertage bei neuen Versionen des Temples (PUBNAMES.NTF), doch diese werden beim Update des Domino Servers nicht aktualisiert (es erfolgt lediglich ein Design-Update der NAMES.NSF)...	by Manfred Dillmann
09.01.2012 23:05	Improving IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.5.x performance and stability This white paper explains how to improve IBM Lotus Notes Client 8.5.x performance from the perspectives of the operating system and applications. It is based on recommendations made to customers in real-life production environments that, when implemented, will increase performance for the Lotus Notes and the entire OS as a whole...	by Elliott Harden
06.01.2012 01:45	What's New in 8.5.3 Notes, Domino, Traveler & XWork Server A webcast covering all the new features in 8.5.3	by Chris Miller
03.01.2012 21:40	Chat with IBMers from an external Sametime Client When switching jobs from beeing an IBM'er to becoming a business partner, I knew about the possibility to use an external sametime client to chat with internal IBM'ers. So I googled a bit and came up with this page...	by Robert Farstad
27.12.2011 05:51	BUG in Dialoglist of Client 8.5.3: Field "HTTP_SSOCfg" (Dialog list) in Domino Directory If you have more than one SSO-Configuration-Document under "Internet Sites" and you want to select one of these SSO-Configurations in a Website-Document, it will always select the (n-1)-Entry, not the selected! Tested and confirmed with two completly different environments/clients/servers. Update: spr RMAN8Q2CPX	by Christoph Arras
04.11.2011 07:49	Interim Fix 1 for Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 now available for download from Fix Central Technote #1570612 - Interim Fix 1 for Lotus iNotes 8.5.3 / Technote #1568710 - Clicking 'Logout' button in iNotes 8.5.3 full mode logs user out of Sametime but not iNotes	by Joy Freeman
03.11.2011 05:53	Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages - Available on OpenCourseWare on the IBM Lotus Greenhouse ISSL Education is pleased to announce an OpenCourseWare Pilot in IBM Lotus Greenhouse. The free courseware available, as part of this pilot is the material used in the instruction of Course D8L55 - Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages. The timing for building Social Business application development skills that leverage XPages technology could not be better - especially with the recent announcement of the Domino 8.5.3 XWork Server. To access and download the free courseware you need to be a member of Lotus Greenhouse. Already a member? Login to access "Introduction to IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 XPages" courseware...	by Dave Hay
02.11.2011 23:03	LotusScript Gold Collection 1.3 A new version of the "LotusScript Gold Collection" toolkit is available on openntf.org. It includes the much requested NotesGroupManager library which used to be in the Lotus Sandbox, and a way to call Notes C API functions without having to check which OS you're using before each call. The latter might not work on all servers, but the problem has been reported to the LotusScript team in development. It works great on all clients (and you could easily make a server version, it's just not as efficient as you must load the classes for all supported OS instead of using dynamic loading)...	by Andre Guirard
27.10.2011 01:30	Doing THIS with XPages Views - could NOT have been done in a standard Notes View Notes Views is a fantastic feature of Notes/Domino and has been a true friend over the years. If the users work profile is "write few - read many" the standard view is really fast and versatile. But as we all know standard Notes Views has its limits...	by Jesper B. Kiær
27.10.2011 01:33	How To: Mitigate the SSL/TLS Vulnerability for Lotus Domino I've been doing quite a bit of research into the BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) vulnerability...	by John Lawren James
13.10.2011 23:48	Button to query the Windows Registry (useful for Citrix etc.) While chasing a Citrix/Lotus Notes issue today, I needed to read values from the Windows Registry that user Citrix sessions see (which are prohibited from running RegEdit), so wrote the following button - Hope it is useful for you in the future. Create a Form, Memo etc. and add a new button, then paste in the code below. The button will allow you to read a value from the Windows Registry by specifying the Registry Key, Sub-Key and Value to retrieve (these are defaulted to show where the Internet Explorer 'Favorites' folder is set to). e.g. if you want to read the registry that a Citrix session sees, run Lotus Notes under Citrix and then access/click the button from say a draft memo in your mail file...	by James W. Stuart
10.10.2011 04:34	Roadmap for Notes/Domino from here Now that we've shipped Notes/Domino 8.5.3, there seems to be some confusion about what comes next on the Notes/Domino roadmap. We'll be discussing this in detail next week with an initial group of customers at our Leadership Alliance event, and of course, at Lotusphere 2012. But to clarify for now since there is discussion...	by Ed Brill
04.10.2011 02:02	IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 now available, including entitlement to IBM Connections Files and Profiles Today, IBM is releasing Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 [Page to be updated 4 October US morning time...]. New features in this release include substantial updates to the Notes Traveler client for Android, improvements in Notes email and calendaring, parity features in Lotus iNotes, substantial new power in XPages, and incremental updates to Domino. This is anticipated to be the last 8.5.x release with new features, as we turn our development focus to a new feature release ("Notes Next") coming in 2012...	by Ed Brill
03.10.2011 01:56	Introducing IBM XWork Server Tomorrow, IBM will announce IBM XWork Server 8.5.3. The new server is part of the IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.3 family, but with a completely different licensing approach, different branding, and different packaging (installer). The new IBM XWork Server will be available for ordering tomorrow, and the software release is scheduled for Friday, October 7, in English...	by Ed Brill
26.09.2011 23:16	Notes/Domino 8.5.3 launch dates set I've been slowly teasing this out as we near the finish line, but we now have a launch date and activities set up. Unless something last minute changes, our planned announce/ship date for the Notes/Domino 8.5.3 family is Tuesday, 4 October 2011. We will have new news at the time of launch, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, LotusUserGroup.org has opened registration for the launch webcast, taking place on Thursday, 6 October 2011...	by Ed Brill
23.08.2011 23:29	Interesting quirk when forwarding HTML emails from Lotus Notes 8.5.x This from one of our my UK customers: <i>Notes R8.5.x will crash when forwarding an HTML format e-mail that refers to images on remote web servers, IF your Notes client's proxy settings are enforced by a policy AAAAND the list of proxy exceptions on the Desktop Settings policy document in the Domino Directory uses semi-colons to separate the hosts (like Internet Explorer does): The proxy exception list must be separated with commas.</i><br>So, in summary, use commas (,) rather than semi-colons (;) to separate hosts in the Lotus Domino proxy exception list. Will see if I can find an IBM Technote and update this...	by Dave Hay
04.07.2011 21:37	All-in-one Admin Tool for agent-based troubleshooting & problem solving This technote contains an all-in-one Admin Tool that consists of a collection of tools that IBM Support provides in various technotes and wiki articles. These technotes usually require an Administrator to create agents to troubleshoot or workaround various issues. This goal of this tool is to eliminate those steps in favor of guided options to perform the required tasks...	by IBM Lotus Support
27.06.2011 05:49	IBM announced XPages Functionality coming to OpenNTF: Mobile, Social, REST, Relational Today at PACLUG, Philippe Riand announced four significant features that IBM will make available to XPages developers in the next several weeks. This contribution to OpenNTF will deliver capabilities requested by customers and partners as well as reinforce XPages' strategic direction. Support for building mobile applications is improved, new functionality to build social applications is added, new data sources to access relational databases are added and Domino gets a new API to access Domino databases via REST...	by Niklas Heidloff
10.06.2011 22:06	Domino and Notes 8.5.3 has reached Code Drop 5 - that means the embago is over so what is new? While you won't see it anytime soon (my guess is October) you should be aware of some great features making it's way into this release. Again, this is in a 1/100th point release, so kudos for IBM for adding new features. (As usual this is beta software and functionality covered in this post has no certitude of being included in the product) This is no means an extensive list but these are the things currently floating my boat....	by Darren Duke
10.06.2011 22:07	New interim fix available for iNotes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 ActiveX MSI Installer issue (Technote #1501797) A new interim fix titled iNotesIF_v8.5.2.2_ActiveXMSI is now available on Fix Central that addresses an iNotes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 ActiveX MSI Installer issue. See the technote linked below for more details. Technote #1501797 - Interim Fix for IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5.2 Fix Pack 2 ActiveX MSI installer	by Joy Freeman
07.06.2011 06:40	Creating a replica ID item for adminp requests When automatically generating an adminp request that applies to a specific database, there's an item in the request that you may find hard to create. If you create adminp requests manually and then examine the items in them, you can see for instance that you might have the item ProxyReplicaID with a date/time value. Doesn't look like you would expect a replica ID to look. How do you convert the value of (say) NotesDatabase.ReplicaID, a string, to the TIMEDATE value that gets stored in the note? All the bits are used, so there's a 100ths of a second value that you can't see, but it's in there. Likewise, the timezone is stored in there and has to be preserved...	by Andre Guirard
06.06.2011 23:40	Help - new Notes/Domino Wiki page to list Domino hosting providers I asked my team to compile a list of the xSPs who provide Domino hosting services globally. Because of the highly distributed nature of IBM's channel relationships, this turned out to be harder to do than I had hoped. Never mind the complexity, though, we have technology and humans who can solve the challenge. We put up a wiki page on the Notes/Domino wiki to compile a list of all the Domino hosting providers. At V1, it only has US, Japan, Sweden, and Canadian entries (and clearly not all of the hosting providers in each of those countries). This is the first time I've actually edited one of our wikis and it took me like ten seconds, so it should be easy to build this into a robust list in a matter of hours. Can you help all of us by filling in others? Thanks!	by Ed Brill
27.05.2011 23:28	LS2J static method calls and a little introspection I've been needing to use LS2J recently so that I could code DNS lookups and web page requests as part of a testing system I'm working on for LotusLive. The documentation is a little vague on how you work with methods in a Java class from LotusScript, so since I had to experiment to find out how it worked, I figured it would be nice to record the information here. In most cases, you're writing the Java classes you're calling via LS2J, so you get to decide whether there are static members. But maybe you got the class from elsewhere and you don't want to have to modify it, or maybe you're just using a built-in class that you don't get to change. So it may occasionally be helpful to know how to use the static members. So here goes...	by Andre Guirard
25.05.2011 22:40	Managing 64-bit memory in IBM Lotus Domino 8.x This article discusses IBM Lotus Domino 64-bit on Microsoft Windows 64-bit and on IBM AIX platforms, comparing characteristics, advantages, and limitations...	by Leslie Gallo
25.05.2011 22:41	(May 2011) Fixes for potential security vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes file viewers Both iDefense Labs and CoreLabs Research have contacted IBM to report potential buffer overflow vulnerabilities in several Lotus Notes file viewers. The specific issues vary depending on attachment type; however, they are all related in how the buffer overflow denial-of-service could be accomplished. In all cases, the issues involve viewing a malicious attachment from a Notes client on a Windows-based machine. Domino servers are not impacted...	by IBM Lotus Support
24.05.2011 23:00	Another way to make an efficient date/based view This technique isn't applicable in all situations, but it's a way to make a date or time-based view whose index is only rebuilt when needed, and doesn't require that the date be hardcoded into a design element. The example is intended for use in the Notes mail file, where there's only one user who we're mainly concerned about. It could be used in a shared app context, but in that case it should be set up to use the server's time settings, not the client's as in this example, since different users would be plugging in different formulas and causing constant rebuilds based on their client's settings as opposed to someone else's...	by Andre Guirard
23.05.2011 22:04	Best practices for mail rules We've highlighted rules in a few previous posts (Let Notes sort some of your mail for you and Keep the office in order while you're on vacation), and there are tons of other ways to use rules. But sometimes you can get carried away, and end up with a lot of rules, which makes your mail slow (and after a point can even cause errors). So here are some tips from a recently-posted wiki article on what the limits for mail rules are, and how you can use rules more efficiently...	by Julia Brown
04.05.2011 21:48	Keep track of To Dos on your calendar To help me keep track of to dos, I like to display them on my calendar, and get reminders when they're due soon. Here's how to dos look on the calendar (in the sidebar)...	by Julia Brown