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| Darren Duke April 9 2012 09:43:00 AMOn April 25th in Chattanooga, TN, STS is hosting a free "Connections Proof of Technology" to show the power of the Files and Profiles entitlement now included with all Lotus Notes licenses. Given the nature of the install process (read "Websphere") it may even be worth your while coming from further afield (Atlanta, Nashville, Huntsville, etc) if IBM Connections is on your to-do list with in the next 12-18 months. Space is limited so it is a first come, first served session. The session will last most of the day, see the STS registration page for more details..... Darren Duke March 22 2012 03:40:29 PMAvailable on Fix Central and containing the following fixes: | 03/15/2012 | HMON8K7RW7
LO62684 | A document upgraded from 8.2 which displays as an Upload in Connectors changes to a Page icon when checked out via the Connectors. | | 03/07/2012 | GAKI8RZGEK
LO67785 | With a customer specific place, searching the place resulted in either no results found or garbage was displayed in the search results. | | 03/07/2012 | No SPR | When using Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Pages with attachments are not being saved giving the message "Page was not saved due to an error". | | 03/07/2012 | CSTS8R5UV3
LO67106 | When a member of a Place is also a member of a large number of LDAP groups, that user does not see any members listed in the Members page. | | 03/07/2012 | TJOR8QUT2J
LO66880 | Policies to Warn or Lock places based on inactivity of the place do not trigger if the server is part of a cluster with the following qpconfig setting enabled:
<always_update_using_master_cluster_server="true"/> | 03/07/2012 | PPOR8K7LBE
LO62665 | If a user modifies a List and that user is different than who created the List, the Last Modified information isn’t updated with the current modifier’s name. | | 03/07/2012 | CSTS8RVTKZ
LO67651 | Unable to edit or save imported Microsoft Office documents in a wiki place after upgrading to Quickr FixPack 25. | | 03/07/2012 | RSOI8RXP46
LO67715 | When Quickr is set up with Domino Native Authentication, searching for names in the Add Members page does not respect the Person or Group radio button. | | 03/07/2012 | DTRR8RKLCA
LO67383 | If a member of a place copies the URL for a preview and then logs out, that URL may still display the preview.
(see fix DTRR8RKLCA in “Additional Information for special fixes” section) | | 03/07/2012 | DTRR8QWG9A
LO66903 | 'qptool changemember' does not update the user's display name after being run. | | 02/24/2012 | MHLU8RS86J | If a imported Microsoft Office document from Quickr 8.2 was replaced or renamed using Quickr 8.5.x before FixPack 25, after upgrading to FixPack 25, that imported document may not be available in connectors and may not have it's preview shown in the browser client. | | 02/21/2012 | ASHH8QZCFQ
LO66940 | When editing Microsoft Office document checked out via Connectors and from the Office application choosing "Save As" and saved to a different name but within the same directory as the checked out document, you can no longer access the document from Connectors. | | 02/21/2012 | CSTS8QWRTU
LO66939 | In a customer specific environment, not all of the customer's places were being shown in the "Add Place" Connector dialog. | | 02/21/2012 | DAMC8LJF3N
LO63676 | When a List item contains an ampersand (&) a document using that List will not load. | | 02/21/2012 | DAMC8QSLV3
LO66790 | In a customer specific place, the customer cannot remove a version of a document. | | 02/21/2012 | DWHN8NEGEV
LO65263 | Custom HTML forms are not mapped correctly when publishing to FileNet.
(see fix DWHN8NEGEV in "Additional Information for special fixes" section) | | 02/21/2012 | HHIE8R3F8P
LO67005 | Wiki response page links within Search Results cannot be opened when searching the place. | | 02/21/2012 | HMON8LXQ4M
LO64147 | Using a Custom Form with an Options control, if you create a document and select an item in the list and then later modify the Custom Form to not include that item. The document will have the wrong item selected. | | 02/21/2012 | HMON8QGSNT
LO66584 | An email sent from Lotus Notes to a Quickr Mail In database displays as text but also displays html attributes. | | 02/21/2012 | MMOI8QGPG2 | When importing a file via ActiveX, if you replace that file, the preview will display both the old and new file previews. | | 02/21/2012 | MMOI8QZRUM
LO66968 | Customer does not want qptool upgrade to add Anonymous to the ACL if they have removed it.
*please note: this fix requires notes.ini setting QuickPlaceDoNotAddAnonymousToACL=1 | | 02/21/2012 | PPOR8QZRR5
LO66967 | If a Quickr 8.5 place is not listed in the PlaceCatalog, cannot load the place with a direct URL. | | 02/21/2012 | RSOI8QCF2R
LO66416 | When using the SOAP / REST APIs, creating a draft of a Page and adding content to the body of the page and checking in resulted in the body not to be saved. | | Darren Duke March 21 2012 04:37:46 PMOver the past few weeks we've seen several issues with Windows 7 failing to logon for apparently random users. We've tried several methods (Google the error and there seems to be a whole lot of peeps) and none seemed to be "the" solution. The error looks something like this:  Well today, I had two more PC's fail.They are on a domain, but two users can not get past the error. So I go searching again and I believe I found the smoking gun for my issue......drum roll please......Lotus Notes. Well, I think it is Windows 7 but the symptom is Notes. Maybe the fix is too, and I may PMR this later. There are occasions when Windows 7 doesn't seem to have the correct permissions on *some* folders (note, so far I have only seen this issue with none Admin rights, none Windows roaming users) under this location: C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\ folder. In my case the two computers that had the issue today were with the Lotus folders contained in the above path:  The affected computers had the Lotus folder padlocked which apparently stops "normal" users from reading it. After I added "Domain Users" to the security with Read and Execute the issue went away and the users could log on. I would also think making the affected user a local admin may fix it too, but I refuse to go down that rabbit hole with Windows. I have a feeling (but nothing more than that right now) that if Notes is installed before the PC is joined to the domain then this may kick off the problem. Again, this is just a feeling so far and I don't have time to test that. What I *think I know* is the following: - It appears to affect Mutli-User Notes installs
- The users are none admin rights users
- Only seen on Windows 7
Hopefully this will help someone. Darren Duke February 21 2012 10:17:26 AMWell, not really fix pack 25, more like "Upgrade Pack 1". It resolves a whole lot of issues inadvertently introduced moving from Quickr 8.2 to 8.5.x and add some oft requested features (internet site docs). Specifically addressed are the following (from Luis Benitez's blog): - Addition of the Folder Navigator for libraries with deep folder hierarchies and the Index
- Improved preview for Microsoft Office file attachments and imported pages
- Support for importing HTML
- Display of an attachment's last modified date on Attachments tab
- Simplified place creation process that eliminates the requirement of reauthentication
- The ability for editors and authors to create folders in a place.
- Support for Internet Site documents
(bold is my emphasis) Watch out, as FP25 does have a new qp2.cab to that will need to be pushed out in most organizations. And a request to IBM, please enter the date added to the "Additional Information for special fixes" section so we can easily tell what is new in the qpconfig.xml or notes.ini files. Fixes are cumulative and contain the following in addition to the above (and I'm including FP13 here as I missed that one myself): | | | FP 8.5.1.25 | | 02/08/2012 | CRAY87TRS5
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LO56200
LO63160 | Enable the browser client to remember View preferences, such as how many items to show per page.
(see fix CRAY87TRS5 in “Additional Information for special fixes” section) | | 02/08/2012 | CSTS8AERK8
LO55720 | Unable to view the Modified Date on attachments on a Page. | | 02/08/2012 | TJOR8AGLA2
LO55776 | The "Log Out" link is not being displayed if using Domino Internet Site documents. | | 02/08/2012 | WBSI8LY8EN
LO64632 | SameTime Awareness not working if using Domino Internet Site documents. | | 02/08/2012 | PPOR8P4JH4
LO65783 | The manager can make changes to the Table Of Contents in connectors even if they do not have permission to do so. | | FP 8.5.1.13 | | 02/08/2012 | XNXN8MG4XK | When using an older theme images attached through the rich text editor show as attachments in the page. | | 01/13/2012 | CAML8N7UBB
LO65183 | When a Calendar Event has been saved into a different Folder than the Calendar, the Event shows as a Task. | | 01/13/2012 | ESEO8PAPFG
LO65900 | When printing a 1 or 2 week Calendar when there are a lot of entries in the Calendar causes the page to never finish loading. | | 01/09/2012 | HHIE8PL8FS
LO66130 | Quickr Domino server crash due to an incorrectly formatted URL. | | 01/09/2012 | CSTS8N8TWE
LO65218 | RSS Feeds are limited to a maximum of 10 documents.
(see fix CSTS8N8TWE in the “Merging Notification Template Updates” section) | | 01/09/2012 | CAML8N8VBM
LO65216 | The last modified time / date of a folder is updated even if the user cancels out of the Folder Properties. | | 01/09/2012 | RTIN8PPNXP
LO66168 | When running 'qptool newsletter', the newsletter shows a document modified by the original author even if that document was modified by someone else. | | 01/09/2012 | RTIN8PPJPQ
LO66150 | After upgrading from Quickplace 7 to Quickr 8.2 to Quickr 8.5.1, a Task loses the display name of who the Task was assigned to. | | 01/09/2012 | HMON8LXQ4M
LO64147 | Using a Custom Form with an Options control, if you create a document and select an item in the list and then later modify the Custom Form to not include that item. The document will have the wrong item selected. | | 01/09/2012 | LHFX8NUJR4
LO65635 | Using a Custom Workflow Form with both a Text field and a Rich Text field, modifying a document where the Rich Text field is changed, the modifications are not saved. | | 01/09/2012 | TJOR8Q6NHY
LO66377 | In a customer specific place that has a Custom Form, when logged in as an owner or manager and going into a Room, that Custom Form is not shown, though it is shown for regular users. | Also handy is this little gem: | CLOH8PBCJ3 - When upgrading a place to 8.5.x, a document based off a custom form that contains an attachments field has the Connectors default action of opening the document in the browser. | This is by design when importing documents based on a custom form.
To allow a document based off a custom form that contains a single attachment to be launched from the Connectors set the following notes.ini setting and restart your Quickr Domino server:
QuickPlaceUpgradeCustomFormsSingleAttachDocBecomesSingle=1
Then you must run ‘load qptool upgrade -f -a’ on the server to update the documents.
The upgraded documents with a single attachment will now appear in Connectors so that you can double click to open them.
Please note, if each document based off your custom form will only contain a single attachment, you should modify your custom form to remove the Attachments field and then add a Single Attachment field, this way newly created documents will have the default action of launching within the Connectors. | Oh, how I wish that had been in since 8.5 shipped. But that must surely be one of the longest notes.ini settings in history...... Darren Duke January 29 2012 02:22:18 PMAvailable on IBM Fix Central. Contains the following fixes: | FP 8.5.1.12 | | 12/22/2011 | LHFX8NLKSA
PPOR8PAPF7
LO65452
LO65920 | Date Popup and Last Modified Date format is not correct for en-gb, should be DD/MM/YYYY. | | 12/22/2011 | ESEO8PGKMP
LO66016 | With a customer specific place, not able to move an item to the very bottom of the table of contents. | | 12/22/2011 | TJOR8PGTGR
LO66048 | When using a Quickr 8.2 themed place on Quickr 8.5.1, an image uploaded into the rich text editor shows as an attachment to the page and that attachment's modified time is wrong. | | 12/22/2011 | HHIE8PL8FS
LO66130 | Quickr Domino server crash due to an incorrectly formatted URL. | | 12/20/2011 | LHFX8NLJ6E
LO65445 | Unable to move documents from a parent folder to a child folder if there are 10 or more documents in the parent folder. | | 12/20/2011 | CRAY88AM5P
LO65545 | Images uploaded to server when creating a blog comment do not show in the comment.
*please note, limitations in blog comments prevent uploading an image to the server for blog comments. This fix removes the Upload to Server tab from the Insert Image button in the rich text editor. | | 12/13/2011 | DWHN8NFGVK
LO65314 | When accessing a document through Connectors where that document is based on a custom form containing a “Single Attachment” field, but the document itself does not contain an attachment, you will receive the error message “Unknown Error 500”. | | 12/13/2011 | CSTS8M5MMD
LO64311 | When selecting More Actions - Print from a document where the Rich Text field would span to the next page, the text on the following page does not print. | | 12/13/2011 | No SPR | When creating a Quickr Wiki place via Connections, the Domino server name is displayed in Connections as the owner.
*please note, for this fix to take effect, you must run qptool upgrade -f on the places having this issue. | | 12/08/2011 | CSTS8NAT6N
LO65286 | The Edit button is missing from a Workflow Approval Cycle For Approver after first logging in through Portal to Quickr using DN remapping. | | 12/08/2011 | LHFX8NVHGY
LO65643 | When a place has the option “Show Editors and Authors a link to the Members page” disabled and an Editor or Author sends a notification, but deselects the “notify everyone” box, the member list is presented. | | 12/08/2011 | CLOH8PBCJ3
LO65882 | When upgrading a place to 8.5.x, a document based off a custom form that contains an attachments field has the Connectors default action of opening the document in the browser.
(see fix CLOH8PBCJ3 in the “Merging Notification Template Updates” section) | | 12/05/2011 | PPOR8K7LBE
LO62665 | If a user modifies a List and that user is different than who created the List, the Last Modified information isn’t updated with the current modifier’s name. | | 12/05/2011 | HMON8HVHW4
LO61646 | When in a notifying users within a Room, the text should say “Notify All Members of this Room” instead of “Notify All Members of this Place” | | 12/05/2011 | CAML8MKVYL
LO64655 | When uploading an image to a custom form containing a non-editable Rich Text Field, the Quickr Domino Server will crash. | | 12/05/2011 | MMOI8NXMP6
LO65715 | Quickr Domino Server crash when creating a new list when the Quickr Domino server is on AIX. | | 12/05/2011 | TDON84VL8C
LO51011 | Quickr Domino server crash when running ‘qptool report -policyexecute’ using a customer specific place. | Darren Duke January 23 2012 10:37:35 AMI'll start backwards..... With the explosion of Social Media and knowing "where to be", Kimono's was really only fun the last night and the first night. In between it was just too packed. Time to find another hang out for mid week me thinks. And with everyone and their dog having a 5MP camera on their phone, it is no longer "what happens as LS, stays at LS". Party accordingly. The Blogger Open : my team won. So someone has really bad math skills! A valiant effort my Mike McGarel on "the scoring app". I feel for any family that comes to Fantasia Golf that day. The CGS was a complete and utter train wreak. Whoever thought *not* to put a warning on screen and verbally before Zimmern did his stuff needs firing. Atrocious. And I'd have to say that most of the audience (especially non-US based folks) had no idea who he was. Then came out the blow torch......it was down hill the moment he hit the stage. When the pretzel cookie is the best part of the CGS you have missed your mark by many, many miles. Bring back the likes of the conductor. Now he was impressive. Wifi : I think the same coffee nazis who kept stealing the coffee ran the wifi. IBM can measure how many purchases are made on mobile devices over Christmas, but not guesstimate that each attendee will have 3-4 wifi devices? A complete WTF all conference long. Social my arse. I wonder how many bloggers, tweeters and analysts gave up posting content about LS12 because of the LS12 wifi? Blogger of the Year : rightly won by Stuart McIntyre. Parties : invited to a few. Attended more that I wasn't invited to. The Ephox invite to Australia Day was there, but only if you gave them a closing Portal deal. And I thought I was egotistical! Needless to say I didn't go. But they can have all my portal deals for Q1 and Q2 if they like......or as it's more correctly called: none. Sessions. I didn't attend that many. Most lost me at the length of the session title and if you were not there for Cloud, XPages or Connections you were shit out of luck. And having the keynotes early didn't help either ;) I pity any Domino Admin that turned up this year, and I think that, and the crappy scheduling will affect the numbers next year. There was no balance if you were there for XPages as you either had days of nothing or 5-6 sessions all at the same time you wanted to attend (ironic that I'm complaining about lack of content and at the same time, cluttered content. If you were there I think you get my meaning). This ain't IBM's first rodeo here so I'm not sure how they don't get this right. There were also a lot of IBMers presenting. I'm guessing IBM want *their* people out front as SME's when businesses realize social and cloud are just prefix words for "services". And where was Lotusphere Idol? I owe a hat tip to Scott Souder for his jibe at the Ask the PM's session. A classy comeback from a classy dude. Rebranding/Renaming : As IBM bolts headlong away from the Lotus name IBM Docs got on the of the biggest cheers in Ask the PM's as the PM pointed out she had the shortest names product. I guess Lotus Knows not to name any product "Lotus". And Notes, Domino and Quickr are not being rebranded. Party accordingly. Coffee : tumble weeds, like the coffee Quickr : Again tumble weeds. In the customer evangelist panel (yes, the panels were actually good!!!) 4 of the 6 "customers" on stage mentioned that they used Quickr. IBM is missing a big opportunity here and will continue to miss it until it sees the need for something that IS NOT FileNet nor Sharepoint. And Connections Files ain't it. In my opinion Connections Files is about as useful as Quickr Entry was. And Quickr Entry was crap. These are your customer evangelists (your = IBM). Do you listen to them? Capacity : I don't know the official number, but my gut was 4,500-ish. Vendors on the showcase floor did say that foot traffic was much the same as last year. My observation is that there were way more IBMers than before. The Blogger Open was packed, so registrations for that were up 40-50% :) OGS : yes, I was watching it from my hotel room on the Dolphin, sans clothes. OGS product mentions usually go from flagship down to toilet paper in that order. Let's just say Domino and Notes was 1:40 in before it was even mentioned. Of a 2:00 show. But it was better than last year. And no animals were harmed in the making of the OGS (that should really be implied don't you think?). Social : Before LS12 it was an overdone word if ever there was one. It's the new decades "e-commerce". Irksome and buzzy in all the wrong way. Like cloud. Overall : I had fun. I always do when 100's of my favorite people are in the same place, but somehow (and I can't quite put my finger on it) LS12 seemed like it was done on the cheap this year. Maybe the recession is starting to bite even the titan-esque IBM or maybe I am wrong. Either way I had fun and look forward to a more balanced and less cluttered schedule next year. Darren Duke January 18 2012 10:19:59 AMThat's right you have until 5pm EST today to vote. There are lots of good candidates (I'm not one of them, although surely I'd win Tweeter of the year right now).... Go over to http://planetlotus.org/my/awards/ to vote. You'll need a free "MyPL" login to access the page, so if you don't have once go get one! Darren Duke January 3 2012 08:43:00 AMSo here is a comparison of Windows 7 with 3GB vs 8GB RAM. The machine is a Lenovo Thinkpad T500. First up 3GB running Windows 7, 32 bit:  This machine runs the usual. Notes 8.5.3 + Admin + DDE, Quickr, Skype, TweetDeck Office, vSphere Client, etc. It never drops below 70% used with my normal day to day operation. This same machine with 8GB and Windows 7, 64 bit (you need 64 bit to see more than 4GB RAM)....the penalty? You need to reinstall everything....but with Windows you're rebuilding your machine every 18 months or so anyway right? ;) So with 8GB RAM it very, very rarely gets over 45% under "normal" loads, and I've yet to see it over 60% at all:  With RAM being cheap it's a simple upgrade. For the ThinkPad I got Kingston ValueRAM 8GB PC3 SODIMM kit from Amazon for $36.99 (a kit of 2 x 4GB), obviously check what RAM your computer needs, and how much it can take first. Darren Duke January 3 2012 08:04:00 AMOne of the most successful sessions of LS11 maybe back (it should be, although I'll admit I haven't checked the schedule), and if it is here are some of the things I'd like to see addressed (in no specific order): - Now that I have a Macbook Air.....Quickr Connectors for Mac. Come on, this was on last years too.
- Lotus Protector for Mail Security - Your gonna make that applet (a) not an applet, and (b) faster right?
- Lotus Protector for Mail Security - ICAP for Domino servers
- Lotus Protector for Mail Security - SSO with Notes, like Sametime has.
- Lotus Mobile Connect - any reason the fixes on Fix Central are "protected" via entitlement checks?
- Wiki's/InfoCenters - the screen shots and versions in the docs are not always up to date (or even correct)
- Traveler - Spell check on Android
- Traveler - ActiveSync on Android (several reasons, not least the set up headaches, and the issue above)
To any PM of any product I am always full of ideas (and other stuff occasionally), but really, we don't just sit around making this stuff up. This is what my (and your) customers are asking me week in week out (OK, so the Quickr Connector one is me - I get this about once a month right now), but I'm always available to bounce ideas off when you are looking at the list of things you'd like to accomplish. I also like Rob Novak's idea (comment 25 on the above like) about round tables...... For comparison go take a peek at the LS11 addition of this post. And I hope my posting these questions ahead of time, then possibly asking them doesn't constitute "peacocking" as that is neither the intent nor the goal of this post. Any PM is free to comment here prior to the session and I would think that would be satisfactory as well. Darren Duke December 17 2011 06:47:53 AMIt actually took me a while to find the fix list in the readme document because it was so short! Available from Fix Central ( direct download link) and containing the following fixes: 1 Fixed issue in Quickr Domino with creating and navigating very deep directory structures in Windows Explorer 2 Added Support for Notes 8.5.3 |
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