A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
I encountered a very interesting case the other day. A customer called with the complaint that his Domino server, which mails directly to the Internet, would send mails fine to all domains, except for @outlook.com. This article describes what we found.
Continue readingA quick tip that might come handy one day. There’s a notes.ini parameter that makes your server unavailable for users, but keeps it available for you as administrator.
Continue readingA quick tip on how to solve the poblem that your Domino Console of your Windows Domino server, gives an error when you try to connect to the local server
Continue readingUsing DNS Configuration, Domino can request wildcard certificates. These certificates can be used on every webserver in your organisation, but how do you export these certificates and how can you automate this? That the subject of this article.
Continue readingDNS Configuration need a bit of programming, which could be a blocking factor to start using this awesome feature. But it doesn’t have to be. This post show how you can do the same without any programming by using CNAME delegation.
Continue readingWith the introduction of CertMgr in Domino 12, it became very easy to request a LetsEncrypt certificate for your Domino servers. But the standard HTTP-01 challenge, comes with limitations. DNS-01 challenges are far more powerful, but require extra work. In a series of blog articles, of which this the 1st, I’ll explain how to use DNS Configurations.
Continue readingI regularly receive question about the Certificate Store and CertMgr, which made me realise that there’s a lot of confusion around the Submit Request and the Save & Close buttons in the store and when to use what. Time for an article to hopefully solve some of that confusion.
Continue readingA small tip that can make troubleshooting in Domino a lot easier. Domino thread IDs contain the PID of the Domino process!
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I’m happy to announce that I will be a speaker at the Engage conference in Amsterdam this spring with a very exciting session
Continue readingYour Domino server could be victim to brute force attacks to guess user’s passwords and subsequently use your Domino server a spam gateway. Fail2ban is a elegant way to stop these brute force attacks. If you use Domino containers, you might have to do some extra configuration
Continue readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
