Notesboy

We are running Lotus Notes 8.5.1 on Windows and using the smart upgrade option to push on the fix packs

It works fine on all versions of windows except for Windows 7. When we try to run the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 FP1 or FP2 on the Windows7 box (with administrator rights) below are the errors we see

 

 

 

 

Any ideas what could be causing this and how we could solve this problem.

     

Posted by Notesboy on May 27, 2010

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This quicker server has been running perfectly for the past few years and out of the blue it starts throwing up a error as show below

HTTP Server: Error - Unable to Bind quickrhost.mydomain.com, port 80, port in use or Bind To Host configuration specifies a duplicate IP address/host

Since the error was pointing to a port 80/http stack bind error , I initially thought it was some windows admin that had installed IIS on the box. That was not true. So then I suspected a DNS problem even that was not to be so

Then I realized that there was Trend Micro office scan running on the machine and I looked at the services running on that serverI found that Trend Micro has 4 default services running on the server.

 

I turned off the "Office Scan NT Proxy Service" and it all started working again. In short what I did realize that this was blocking all known/common incoming connections to this server except for port 1352. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP etc were all blocked. Once I turned this off all these tasks on domino started up again and we were back in business

 

  

 

     

Posted by Notesboy on March 15, 2010

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Normal way of updating the notes.ini:

1. Open the configuration document , add the parameter to the note.ini settings tab , save and close it
2. Go to the server console and do a set config followed by the parameter and the value.

Now how about a command were we can do it all at one go?

So try this

set config REPLICATORS=4 update


Append the word "update" after the set config command and the server will automatically update this variable into the notes.ini settings tab of its own configuration document.

     

Posted by Notesboy on October 27, 2009

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Just upgraded to 8.5.1.

Had a very smooth upgrade as far as the server side went. For some unknown reason the client upgrade crashed on me once. I had to re-run it again and it worked. Now to play with Traveler 8.5.1

     

Posted by Rajiv Thomas on October 12, 2009

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I have 2 similar scenarios , only difference being the platforms and the user base.

Scenario 1:

We have a domino server running on as 400 with 30 users. Now 5 of them want to use Lotus Traveler.

Scenario 2:

I have a client that is running domino on the iSeries and has over 6000 users but 35 of those 6000 users want to use Traveler as they have windows mobile phones.


In both these scenarios, I would need to setup a domino server to just run Lotus Traveler .  This is being done since traveler only runs on Wintel and will NOT run on either AS400 or the i Series.

Question:
Do I need a new domino server license for this domino server that just hosts the Lotus Traveler functionality?


 If I do then this is going to be one really expensive solution.

     

Posted by Notesboy on July 20, 2009

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Here is a very baffling situation for which I am not getting a straight solution.

Scenario:
 
The environment is one huge Lotus Domino domino containing Lotus Domino 6.5.x, 7.x and 8.5 servers.We currently have 4 bes servers running version 4.1.x and working great. Now we need to set up  a new bes server for another division whose users will be housed on these 8.5 domino server. We have the  license to install BES 5.0.  and want to install BES 5 but using a different SQL database from the other servers.

Problem/Question:

1. I was informed that if I install BES 5.0 in this environment described above, then I would not be able to access any of the bes 4.1.x servers from the bes 5.0 administration client. Is this true?
2. The other issue that was mentioned was that if I used the blackberry admin client 5.0 to access my bes 4.1.x servers it will automatically initiate a upgrade of the besmgmt database that the 4.1.x servers use. Now I do not even see how this can happen as the client does not have the capacity to make db design upgrades, it only reads/modifies the tables/data. any advice?
3. Any other gotchas/advice/experience that anyone has to share with me. (I did read this post on TurtleWeb )

     

Posted by Notesboy on July 16, 2009

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Here is a problem I have heard from 3 clients of mine. One of them uses the new iPhone , the other uses a Motorola Q and the last uses a Blackberry Bold. All these phone are 3G phones.

Their voice calls drop anywhere between 12-25 minutes into the call.  Initially we thought it was a problem with the phones, then we suspected the firmware (at least in the case of the Blackberry Bold and the Motorola Q as we have means to upgrade them) and then we suspected the SIM card. None of these made sense as we were able to reproduce the problem consistently.

I took the Motorola Q which uses a AT&T sim card and disabled the 3G on it and moved it to just GSM/EDGE (GSM for Voice and EDGE for Data). We did a 1 hour telephone call and during that call sent the user multiple emails and the call never dropped. Remember we used to drop calls every 12-25 minutes while 3G was turned on.

Then the user comes back to me with an even more shocking/revealing observation. He goes "my web browsing on my Q is so much faster now that when it was before we made this change" This means the web browsing using Edge is a lot faster than on 3G. Does not make sense but it is what it is.

Then I called up my iphone user who was also complaining about the dropped calls. He has since turned off her 3G and says his calls are no longer dropping.


So that brought me to the last suspect, the Blackberry Bold.  Now based on my previous tests and results, I decided to try and turn off 3G on the Bold.

I got 2 Blackberry Bolds. One on AT&T and the other on TMobile (which was an unlocked phone). The Bold on AT&T consistently dropped the voice calls and the one that was unlocked but using the TMobile SIM/Network did not drop calls at all.

Now on the AT&T phone I tried to turn off 3G but found the option was no found (it was hidden/blocked out...whatever you want to call it!).

So I put that AT&T SIM card into the unlocked bold, turned off 3G and continued the test and calls have not dropped so far. Now you got to remember this was the same unlocked Bold that was running 3G on a TMobile network with no dropped calls.

So that gave me 1 conclusion and the obvious solution. Any phone with 3G turned on the AT&T network tends to drop voice calls regularly.
The obvious solution was to turn off 3G and things settle down. Now the added advantage we are seeing is that the browsing is quicker on AT&T EDGE network rather than the AT&T 3G network.
So that brought up yet another question , is the AT&T network not truly compatible or what is wrong with it? That is something I will not be able to answer.

I will do a post with detailed instructions how to turn of 3G on all phones discussed above in the next few days with screen captures.

     

Posted by Notesboy on March 2, 2009

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Here is yet another good example of savings using DAOS

     

Posted by Notesboy on February 24, 2009

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Am running the Lotus Domino 8.5 server. I have enabled id vault and its working fine in all aspects except when it comes to deleting a user.

When we delete a user from the NAB , it gives us the usual pop-up asking where all/what all we want to delete. So lets say we select delete ID from the id vault.






When you click OK in the box above, here is the error msg I get . if the picture is not clear the error message reads "delete from ID vault cannot be done for user CN=Bill Clinton/O=TSI. Reason: Server error:FIle Does not exist. Administration Process will handle the completion of this request






When I go to the Adminp database , here is what I see that






Any ideas????

     

Posted by Notesboy on February 18, 2009

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In reference my previous 3 posts on the issue with folder contents on archives getting deleted that can be found at   problems with folders and email archiving in domino 802 and 85 , update problems with folders and email archiving in domino 802 and 85 and  Update 2 problems with folders and email archiving in domino 802 and 85

,  I have tested the patch on a Lotus Notes client 8.0.2 and here are the final test results

It works like a charm. Once the patch is applied here is what the revision number looks like



So in short the patch works on both Lotus Notes client 8.0.2 and 8.5. Now to test the server patch for 8.0.2

Thank you IBM!!

     

Posted by Notesboy on February 5, 2009

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