..and here's my dog.

For all foreign readers of my blog, you probably don't know this. "Snill hund" means "Good dog".
This blog was intended to have some posts about my dog. But as you've might have guessed, it does not.
Until now.

Well, the familys dog is a Labrador Retriver. He's brown and almost a year old. And he really is a good dog. His name is Jaro.

Almost backed into beeing a dog owner, this has been quite an experience. Having a dog is something that the adults in the family must want. The responsibilty will be on mom and dad, no matter how many promises you might get from your children. That beeing said, it grows on you. Now I would not miss it for the world. It's a lot of fun, and a bit of hard work (agility training!).


In the picture you can see Jaro on top of "Lyderhorn" on of the mountains surounding Bergen.
A good two hour walk.

mSuite is Enterprise Ready!!

Just installed muite 5.x and this is really promising. The Admin user interface much more intuitive. The mSuite client is elegant. I'm happy as a fiddle. I get my mail instantly without draining my battery.

This version is a huge leap from the last version.

mSuite gives you up to 4 (or is it 5?) mailboxes and addressbooks. You could have your private mail and helpdesk or other department mail.
Note that you should pay attention to how you organize your addressbooks or you will end up with duplicate entires.

You install you mSuite Server on one of your Domino Servers and add the
mSuite Proxy in your DMZ. Note that you will need Windows 2003 as server OS. These to applications is on the same media, just select what you want to install.

Now that Intellisync kick's the bucket be sure to give mSuite a try. You will not be dissapointed.

Lotus 8.0.2 Installation with sucess.

The awaited new Lotus Client has arrived. Promisses about faster startup time and lower memory footprint has to be checked out. Checking the bloogs in the comunity I got over this article about a new setup parameter for mulituser install. Thanks to Chris Miller for posting links to several technotes for Domino/Lotus Notes 8.0.2.

The parameter is: setup /v"SETMULTIUSER=1/qb"

The parameter for multiuser setup worked fine. But I managed to mess it up when I under the Client setup created a new location document, figuring that I didn't want to use the default 'Online'.

The Client soon warned me about this beeing a muliuser install and that , if I wanted to change notes user, I should log of Windows and log on with a different windows user.

Do not ignore this!! I did and it gave me some trouble. Sure the client works fine the first time after log on. This beeing a muliuser setup I switched windows user and started Lotus Notes.

Again a setup procedure to follow. Stating username, pointing to server and ID file and off I go.
Works perfectly. This is really promissing. There nothing else to do and to log off windows again with my first user.

I start the client and it shows me the blue expeditor frame. And nothing more. Frozen!

Well ofcourse, it must be the ~notes.lck file that causing this. It wasn't. I could not find anywhere.

After some trial and error, I figured it must be someting with my location document.
Removing the location document I created and setting the default 'Online' location document fixed the problem. Now I'm happy.

Multiuser setup works like charm, just mind Your location document setup.

BTW: This setup was done on a windows xp system with no previous Lotus Notes installation wtih the All Clients setup files. Multiuser setup with All Clients... sweet!!

To keen on "Don't allow URL Open"!!

Well back for ILUG where I attended to Admin Blast session with Paul Mooney, I was packed with tips and good things to with my servers. I could'nt wait.

The "Don't allow URL open" setting on the database seemed like a good place to start.
This property locks down your database for web access. Domino URL's will not work.
You would use this on any database you want to secure.

I ofcourse ran of and put this on our Domino Directory. We don't want anybody to hack their way in to that ofcoure. Turning this seems like a good thing. But there are some gotcha's waiting.

First of all this setting replicates. Beware of that.

You may want to turn "Dont' allow...." on on your web server, but keep it off elsewhere in your production environment. Typically you may have a dedicated web server for inhouse web services and for your Domino Web Access server. You will need the Address Picker in these environment. Turning on "Don't allow URL open" will brake the Address Picker.

You need to be aware of that this setting stops everty url request that has an '?' in it like
myDatabase/myDocument?Openform .. and so on.

Second, the Domino Web Access dailog does use the type of URL that is beeing blocked. My mistake!! I tought it was a servlet. In that case it wouldn't be blocked.

So there you have it. The setting replicates thru you domain and it breaks the Domino Web Access Address Picker. I've asked Paul Mooney about the impact of this setting on BleedYellow, he didn't answer. I guess he left to finnish Fluffy off. My bad for asking silly questions instead of doing my own resarch.

So this setting should probably not be turn on on your administration server. Secure it using ACL. You could however turn this on on other servers that do not replicate back to the admin server ,which in my opinion, Domino Directory databases should not do.

ILUG 08 Day 3

The last day of ILUG 08 is over. Some good session today to.

I've got to hear about Lotus Quickr from Rob Novak. His presentation about Quickr was good and informative. There where goods tips about notes.ini tasks added by Quickr that You don't really need. And Quickr adds a line "ServerTaskAt4" that run some qptools. Just remove this and run the tools yourself when You need too. These qptools tasks takes up huge resources.

Next I was at the Sponsor session where we where introduced to the GSX Monitoring Tools.
Seems very ok. I will check it out.

I really enjoyed Chris Millers' presentation on Sametime Gateway. Very clear and concise presentation about do's and dont's when it comes to setting up and installing the Sametime Gateway. He had his say about the 'networking guys' also.

Closing session was 'Thank You, Tank You", sponsor gifts and "Feck off".

Overall a good three day gig, and the sponsor got more of my attention here compared to Lotusphere. Some other arrangements made me miss out on the speedgeeking but maybe next time.