Exactly one year after Lotus has terminated support on Release 6.5 they will now end support on R7.x on April 30th 2011. A complete list of Lotus software lifecycle dates can be found here.

If your company is still on 7.x why wait any longer? Upgrade now and take advantage of all the great new features that we have in 8.5!!

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Do you impose quotas on your users and have transactional logging enabled on your Domino server? Then this might be a nice little tip for you.

By default, quotas in Domino are based on the filesize of a (mail)file. This means that quotas only decrease when you compact a database. This can be major annoyance for users when they are over their quota, because when they delete mails, the quota doesn’t decrease until the compacter task has run on the server (in most cases, this only happens at night so your users have to endure a whole day of “over quota” messages).

When you use transactional logging, you can set the router to check the quotas by their “space used”, instead of their actual filesize. In that case, when a user deletes a mail from his mailfile, the quota is immediatly adjusted. So the user sees his mailfile getting smaller “on the fly”. The actual size of mailfile on the server stays the same ofcourse. Because of this, it is still a good idea to let the compacter task run once in a while, to decrease the actual filesize.

To set this up, just go the the server document. Go to the “Transactional logging” tab and change the value of “Quota enforcement”. Default, this will be set to “Check file size when extending the file”. Change it to “Check space used in file when adding a note”.

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In a previous version of Quickr there was an option to copy a quickr attachment as a link within a file, a .qkr file to be more precise.

We are now using Quickr 8.5 and I can’t find this option. The only way to generate a .qkr file is to go to “Preferences…”  in your Places Monitor and select the option to replace links when sending mail in Lotus Notes ánd select “use .qkr file” when replacing attachments. This is not what I need.

I find it very handy to have a .qkr-file on my desktop. For example, for projects where we have an excel file with todo’s which needs to be up-datable quickly and easily.

So I created an agent in my mail file that will generate this .qkr file for me. This is how it works:

1. I go to to the excel file in my Quickr sidebar, right click and select ‘copy as link’:

2. In my mailfile, I run the agent…:

…and paste the link in the dialogbox

3. I specify where I want the .qkr file:

4. Et voila:

Feel free to use this agent if you think it helps you: gwGenerateQkrFile

Remarks:

1. This is quick and dirty code, don’t expect it to work on any file. It does the trick for my most important files, the rest is up to you.
2. It does not work on folders. Any tips on this will be very much appreciated!

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I saw this error passing by on the Domino console a while ago. At the same time, some Traveler users reported that they weren’t able to sync their mobile device. I’m not entirely sure where to put the blame for this error: slow data connection on the device or a high server load, but the solution is fairly simple to implement.

There are two things you can do:
1) Add the following lines to the notes.ini file of the Traveler server .
NTS_IPC_TCP_Port=50125,<name/ip>
NTS_IPC_TCP_Port2=50126,<name/ip>

This isn’t really the solution, but it does work in some cases. It forces the Traveler task to bind on a certain IP or hostname in stead of binding on all interfaces. In some rare cases, this can bring down the response time of the Traveler server.

2) This is the big one: add the following to servlet.properties.
ntstimeoutsyncas=230000

This will up the time allowed for the server/device to respond (in ms). The parameter won’t be in the servlet.properties file by default, so just add it if it isn’t there. The value can be anything so there is some room for adjustment. The value described above worked for me.
The servlet.properties file can be found in the Domino data directory and can be edited with any text editor like Notepad.

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Recently I found a nice post on http://blog.turtleweb.com/turtleblog.nsf/dx/13022011113638GDAMFX.htm which might be some help for the admin guys out there

Tx to Gabriella Davis

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