I got hacked! (no, not this blog)
It’s not fun when you find out that one of your servers got hacked, but you can learn from the experience. This is what happened and what I learned
Continue readingValidating fields on the Connections profile
Connections is all about freedom for the users on how they want to promote themselves to the organisation. However, for profile fields it can be wise to force users to use certain formats for, for example, telephone fields. This article shows a way to do that.
Continue readingImage upload limit for a Blog
The Blogs application by default has a rather low limit of 4 MB for the total size of uploaded images in a Blog. Every image in a blog item in this blog counts to this limit. This article explains how to extend this limit
Continue readingMigrating Notes users from IBM cloud to on premises
With the demise of the IBM Smartcloud per july 2020, there are suddenly a lot of requests to migrate Notes users from the IBM Smartcloud back to an on premises Domino server or a partner hosted Domino server. I recently migrated a customer with about 200 mailfiles back to on prem. These are my lessons learned.
Continue readingEnabling SNMP for Domino
I found that proper documentation on the net for enabling snmp on a Domino server on Linux is a bit scarce and the documentation that is there is outdated, so I created a document on how we enable it on our servers.
Continue readingCustomising your TDI assemblyline – Part I
Last September I presented at Social Connections/LetsConnect in München about Tivoli Directory Integrator. I promised to write a blog article with more technical details of my customisations and how to customise your assemblyline. Here’s part 1
Continue readingCore Group Coordinator Revisited
In a previous article I mentioned the importance of having enough resources for your Core Group Coordinator to allow a properly functioning High Availability Manager. I was pointed out that there’s another relevant setting to the Core Group Coordinator
Continue readingNicknames in HCL Connections
Connections has the option to automatically add nicknames for certain names. These nicknames appear in the search result when you search for them. This article provides the details
Continue readingHCL started publishing technical information on Connections
So far we always had to go to the IBM site for any technical information on Connections. The first thing
Continue readingUsing one program document for multiple servers
For a while now you can use group names and wildcards in the Server to run on field of a program document in Domino. I found out this week that this is not common knowledge.
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