In light of a recent issue I had at a client site, I want to share some simple tips that will greatly help you reduce both the amount of SPAM your receive as well as the amount of SPAM you send through your Lotus Domino systems. Yes, I said SEND. One of the largest culprits … Read more
Yet another $h17#3@0 virus maker has spawned his evil on the world with this recent “Here you have” virus. This is a version of the old Anna Kournikova virus from 2001, which in turn was a similar variant of the “Love Bug” virus in 2000. I was working at marchFIRST (USWeb ) when the love … Read more
Earlier this year IBM announced that their development environment for Lotus Notes, the Lotus Domino Designer is now free for download. Although it does require a fee to connect to a Domino server, it costs nothing to run local homemade applications. The rapid application development ability of Lotus Notes (yes, it is a development platform), … Read more
Lotus Domino 8.5.2 was released after much development and testing. IBM appears to be going very slowly through the iteration numbers since 8.5.0. Many thanks to all the early adopters who install it at first download! As such, those early adopters are also the first to discover bugs that can really only be captured in … Read more
So your users are getting these “winmail.dat” attachments in Lotus Notes and can’t open them, nor can they see any special formatting that the sender had added (and the sender is ALWAYS from Outlook). Quick solution: Make sure you are on the latest fix pack of Lotus Domino. That should be 6.5.6, 7.0.3, 8.0.2, or … Read more
Lotus Domino and Notes fix pack 3 for 8.5.1 was released 3 days ago and already you should be considering patching your environment for these 10 reasons. Here are 8 fixes that apply to the server, followed by two that apply to the clients that you should not miss out on. The server fix pack … Read more
As a reminder, Lotus Notes and Domino support for version 6.5 will end on April 30th, which is two weeks from today. If you have a product issue and need support, you should enter your PMR now before time runs out. After that you will have to upgrade your environment to a supported version in … Read more
Several bloggers had posted issues with an error message in their logs on Domino 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1, 8.0.2.2, 8.0.2.3, 8.0.2.4, 8.5.0.1, 8.5.1, and 8.5.1 FP1. This error will show in your log file as “The collection has become invalid.” It is caused by a fix to another SPR where in your LotusScript or Java code, you … Read more
Just saw this issue pop up on my crawlers. http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/lotus-domino-7-probably-8-ldap-heap.html No indication if this is specific to a particular operating system. Secunia, vulnerability intelligence provider, rates this as a moderately critical issue. It is currently unpatched. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
This year, I am sadly missing LotusSphere, IBM’s annual collaboration conference due to some prior commitments. Sigh. I am, however, very intently, watching the blogosphere and the twittersphere for updates, and it appears Lotus is making a LOT of new strides and releasing a dizzying array of new features for their software portfolio. Among those, … Read more