Recent by Gabriella Davis
#Newin12 Domino ID Vault 
By Gabriella Davis | 6/1/21, 2:24 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
As I posted last week, Domino 12 and Sametime 11.6 and Traveler 12 and Nomad Web 1.0 are all out and there’s lots of good news for admins, users and developers alike but since I’m an admin that’s what I’m going to talk about. Instead of a large dull blog listing all the things I think are most interesting useful, I’m going to do a series of short slightly-less-dull blogs focusing in on each one individually.
#NewIn12 It’s Grouptastic
By Gabriella Davis | 6/1/21, 3:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Starting with the simplest – the ability to see what groups a person is in by selecting “Find Groups” from their person document. Yes we have had some of this before in the form of the “Manage Groups” dialog in the People and Groups view but this is more detailed, and most importantly printed on screen.
#NewIn12 – What Configuration Is My Server Using?
By Gabriella Davis | 6/1/21, 3:03 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Such a simple thing that will again save me a lot of time. Open your server document and you now have an option to find and view any configuration document that server is assigned to. Click “Find Server Config”
Sametime Proxy “Loading” Problem
By Gabriella Davis | 7/3/20, 1:33 AM | Infrastructure - Sametime | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Having recently installed a new Sametime 11 environment on Linux with Sametime Proxy I ran into a problem with the proxy client where it would continually show “loading” when starting a conversation. Awareness of users on other servers worked, type ahead worked, it would open a chat window but just show a looping circle that never ended. Even if I tried talking to myself (usually a good test).
Some Stumbles Installing Sametime 11 FP1
By Gabriella Davis | 6/18/20, 4:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
This week I was installing Sametime v11 on Linux as a test for a customer where I needed to confirm code written specifically for Windows would compile and work for Sametime on Linux. I hit several (now resolved) problems during the install that I wanted to share here.
Engage Redux
By Gabriella Davis | 3/6/20, 9:29 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by Oliver Busse
This week we were at Engage in the Netherlands presenting, learning and meeting up with customers and friends. Another big thank you to Theo, Hilde and Femke for all the work they put into this event, by my count of hands during the keynote around 20% of attendees were there for the first time which is fantastic.
Take a look at Template Experience – The Turtle Partnership Blog
By Gabriella Davis | 2/27/20, 1:48 PM | Development - Notes / Domino | Added by Heiko Voigt
Next week the TE team will be presenting at Engage with the version we hope to soon put into beta. There has been a lot of work completed in the past few months and the developers have really come up with clever solutions for seemingly impossible problems, all using standard Domino Designer techniques and code.
All About That Volt (v11 launch)
By Gabriella Davis | 12/4/19, 3:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
We are still a few hours out from the v11 launch event for Domino and Sametime live from Tokyo but there is already much talk about “Volt” a low code (maybe no code) development tool. I found this great short demo video which shows what it is better than I can explain having not touched it myself.
HCLs New Licensing Model
By Gabriella Davis | 9/17/19, 12:13 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Today at Let’s Connect (previously Socal Connections) in Munich, Uffe Sorensen from HCL presented the outline of the new licensing model HCL plan to adopt from v11 of Domino onwards. HCL are looking for feedback on this as they plan to bring all other products into line as things progress.
News for Ex Customers of Domino, Notes, Connections….
By Gabriella Davis | 8/23/19, 6:44 AM | Business - News | Added by John Oldenburger
Here’s something I found out from HCL recently that I don’t think is widely known and is really good news for anyone who has let their licenses lapse. Previously if you chose not to renew IBM would require a penalty payment (usually equal to 2.5x what would have been your annual subscription) to re-establish your licenses.
Onboarding With HCL
By Gabriella Davis | 8/14/19, 2:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
It’s now been several weeks since HCL took full ownership of what were the ICS (IBM Collaboration Solutions) products that include Domino, Sametime, Notes, Verse, Traveler, Portal and Connections. In those few weeks there’s been a lot of activity.
Problems With MongoDB During Sametime Install
By Gabriella Davis | 7/24/19, 12:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
In my previous blogs I discussed installing Sametime 10. My installs all ran perfectly except for one point – when I tried to install MongoDB as a service it installed but then wouldn’t start with the service error “1053”, reported as “service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion”.
Installing Sametime 10 – The Proxy Server
By Gabriella Davis | 7/24/19, 12:44 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
The Sametime Proxy Server is needed if you have a Community server you want people to login to using either a web or mobile client, this includes having Sametime awareness for other products such as Verse or Connections. The Sametime Proxy server uses a DB2 database for iOS push notifications.
Installing Sametime 10 Limited Use
By Gabriella Davis | 7/8/19, 12:05 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by John Oldenburger
A slight delay on this blog, which I promised to write last week, but I have a good excuse. My original plan was to do an in-place upgrade as Sametime 10 is still 32bit-only enabling it to be upgraded on top of your existing Community Server so long as the underlying Domino install is at least 9.0.1 FP10 32bit.
Redesigning Templates – A HCL Design Project
By Gabriella Davis | 6/26/19, 2:27 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I’m very pleased to announce the launch of a new project I am working on with HCL to reinvigorate the Notes and Domino templates as they roll out on new client platforms such as iPhone, tablet and a lightweight web client. See here for more information on the project.
Domino Server Health – Monitoring and Managing @ Engage
By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:49 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
This is my session on Domino Server Health given at Engage in Brussels last week.
If you’re a Domino administrator how do you decide what to monitor on your servers and how to manage them ? What are the key things to monitor? How do good practice management tools such as statistics reporting, DDM, cluster symmetry, database repair and policy settings make your work lighter and faster. Finally we’ll talk about some of the “must dos” in the day, week and month of a Domino admin.
Face/Off Domino vs Exchange On Premises @ Engage
By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:48 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Here is my presentation discussing how Exchange and Outlook on premises differs from Domino and Notes given at Engage in Brussels last week.
I hope you find it useful, this was my first presentation pulling together my ideas from the past few years of working with Exchange on premises integration projects.
60 Admin Tips In 60 Minutes @ Engage
By Gabriella Davis | 5/22/19, 1:48 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
Here is my presentation from Engage in Brussels last week on 60 Admin Tips across Domino, Sametime and Traveler.
A Few Days In Brussels #EngageUG
By Gabriella Davis | 5/16/19, 1:25 PM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
I have just returned from Engage UG – Theo Heselmans’ European conference, this year held at Autoworld in Brussels. A beautiful location, even for someone who cares little for cars (but enjoys belgian beer, frites and chocolate).
Notes pre 10.0.1 crashing on Mojave
By Gabriella Davis | 4/5/19, 9:55 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi
A customer reported this week that their Macs were suddenly all crashing when trying to send mail , reply or forward. Which is odd.. until I found this technote with the following statement updated on April 1st As of April 1, 2019, IBM does not recommend upgrading to 10.14.4 for customers running pre-Notes 10.0.1 releases…
Language Packs, Verse and A New App Dev Pack, Someone Has Had A Busy Week.
By Gabriella Davis | 4/5/19, 1:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
This week the G1 language packs for Notes 10.0.1 that include French, German, Japanese, Italian, Brazilian, Chinese and Korean were made available. If you are now having a bit of deja vu that’s because these language packs were already released once and very quickly withdrawn when it was discovered there were considerable problems in the way the translations had been done. To their credit HCL withdrew the products almost immediately when they were told of the issues and have been working to redo and re-release them all.
A New Base – A New Hope – A New Beginning. Factory Tours Episode 2
By Gabriella Davis | 2/28/19, 12:10 PM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
This week I spent time in Milan at HCL’s 2nd factory tour at their offices. It was an intense couple of days, with presentations from the development teams working on Domino, Notes, Nomad, Sametime, DQL, etc, as well as HCL executives working on building the support program, the partner program, and HCL’s client advocacy program.
Think-Ing From Far Away Pt5 – The Big Wrap Up
By Gabriella Davis | 2/16/19, 8:26 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Our final podcast of Think-ing from far away is a wrap up of the week, announcements and thoughts in general. We were joined by Maria Nordin from ISW, Kris de Bisschop from Groupwave and Christoph Adler from Panagenda. All dosed up with coffee at 8am on the last day in San Francisco. Content from Think is already beginning to be posted.
Think-Ing From Far Away Pt4 – It’s All Connections
By Gabriella Davis | 2/14/19, 5:13 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away is all about Connections. We have heard so much news coming out of Think already regarding Connections so we were joined by Sandra Buehler from Belsoft and Wannes Rams from Ramsit – both kindly sat on the floor in a quiet corner of the Moscone Center!.
Think-Ing From Far Away Pt3 – Community Day & Chairman’s Address
By Gabriella Davis | 2/14/19, 5:12 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away is entirely “far away” as we welcome Andreas Ponte from Belsoft in Switzerland and Mike Smith from The Turtle Partnership to discuss the news from Community Day and the Chairman’s Address from Ginni Rometty that we all watched via live stream.
Think-Ing From Far Away Pt2 -News So Far & What’s Coming Up (Tuesday)
By Gabriella Davis | 2/13/19, 4:43 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away features is an accidental Lifetime Champion full house with guests Paul Withers from Intec and Daniel Nashed from Nashcom alongside Julian, Theo and myself. We discuss the news so far including work Daniel has been working on providing Docker scripts that is being presented by Thomas Hampel this week and the relaunch of code snippets by OpenNTF.
Think-Ing From Far Away Pt1 – Community
By Gabriella Davis | 2/12/19, 1:38 AM | Business - Events / People | Added by John Oldenburger
Today’s podcast of Think-ing from far away features guests Libby Ingrasia from IBM, Rob Novak from Snapps, John Paganetti from HCL and Femke Goedhart from panagenda alongside Julian Robichaux, Theo Heselmans and myself. We discuss the ICS Community, what community events are happening at Think and how to play along from home.
A No-Brainer For Domino Admins
By Gabriella Davis | 2/7/19, 3:50 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Do you want to be able to get a free audit report of your Notes clients, including what hardware they are using, what versions of Notes, what memory and disk each machine has, and what databases are on their workspaces?
Think-ing From Far Away
By Gabriella Davis | 2/7/19, 1:53 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
As many of you know, next week is IBM Think in San Francisco. Unfortunately I won’t be able to be there and neither will my fellow Lifetime Champions Julian Robichaux and Theo Heselmans so we wanted to do our own version of “Think” for those of us who are missing out. Starting next week we plan to record a daily 30 minute audio podcast discussing the news coming out of Think and some of the presentations and sponsors that are there.
Whooomf – All Change. HCL Buys The Shop…
By Gabriella Davis | 12/7/18, 1:30 AM | - | Added by Oliver Busse
According to this Press Release as of mid June 2019, HCL take ownership of a bunch of IBM products including Notes, Domino and Connections on premises. Right now and since late 2017 there has been a partnership with IBM on some of the products such as Notes, Domino, Traveler and Sametime* so this will take IBM out of the picture entirely. Here are my first “oh hey it’s 4am” thoughts on why that’s not entirely surprising or unwelcome news ..