Symetrik Domino Consulting

We have Backup Exec remote agent installed on most of our Domino servers. They are backed up with a Backup Exec Media Server on another machine in most sites.

For no apparent reason, some of the Domino servers are backed up without problems, while other identical cluster mate machines cannot be connected to by the Media server.

We found that applying this registry entry from Symantec Document ID: 302505 solved most of the problems.

Today, I thought I would go out to http://www.bleedyellow.com, the Lotus connection site so see what was happening. I hadn’t been out there for quite some time.

In fact, I’ve been trying to figure out the benefits of using it. I created a community for the Lotus Professionals in Asia and a few members joined. I was able to directly connect to those members, so that’s one benefit of the site.

Other than that, I couldn’t figure out what else to do. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I built a new server on a machine with Virtual PC. I’m testing an R6.5.6 to R7 upgrade plan.

This was the first time that I have used Virtual PC. It seemed to work pretty well, except that the mouse scrolling was horribly slow compared to it’s host machine. Perhaps, I should be access the virtual PC with RDP instead of it’s correlating host.

I got the server installed, setup, and put the finishing touches on the servers document. I tried to access the server with a client, no problem, then the admin client. Suddenly, my admin client locks up. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a little simple tip, but one that could save admins time when trying to get all their users up to the same mail template in a mixed mail template environment.

Since you cannot refresh or replace design through the admin client, here are a couple of formulas you can add as smart icons to your toolbar.

@Command([DesignRefresh]) or @Command([DesignReplace])

Using a smart icon reduces the number of clicks necessary to about 3 instead of 7.

Like most of you, I glean my information from various sources: Blogs, IBM Notes/Domino FAQ Newsletter, Notes Discussion forums at IBM, IBM technote searches, custom Notes/Domino google searches, Stumbleupon, delicious.com, and various other newsletters such as the searchdomino.techtarget.com or LotusUserGroup, etc.

I just recently signed up for LinkedIn and joined a few Notes/Domino groups. I haven’t done much with it yet, but here’s my public profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkillingsworth.

Today, I received a LinkedIn post with an answer which pointed to Technote 1196837 – Using a Desktop Policy to set notes.ini and Location parameters.

I really wish I had seen this technote a very long time ago.