You find the default system requirements in the overview document: “http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007909[Index of system requirements for Notes, Domino, Domino Administrator, Domino Designer & Notes Traveler]“

I’ve some interesting points. IBM Domino for Windows is available as 32 and 64 bit software, but it is only supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, so no 32 Bit Windows is supported!

So a lot of us will have to upgrade the OS first.

• System Requirements Notes 9.0

• System Requirements Domino Administrator & Domino Designer 9.0

• System Requirements Domino 9.0

• System Requirements Notes Traveler 9.0

Today Luis Benitez annouced the new Connections 4 Plugins for Lotus Notes .

The zip-file contains all three operating system installer. Windows, Linux and Mac, but i had no success to install through xpd.mac-addon.pgk, because the preinstall script stop the installation.

You can open this file in finder:

Now you can copy the updatesite folder to an other place and use File – Application – Install in Lotus Notes. Point the Install to the updatesite folder and install the whole package. I have to restart twice, but after this i can use the new Status Update, Files and Activities Plugins.

FP3 and IF1 for FP2 bring Mountain Lion Support (Mac OS X 10.8) to Lotus Notes.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21599884&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSKTWP&mync=R

Today i created a new mail rule in IBM Lotus Notes. I hate mails sent with high importance and i have some people which are sending all there mail with high importance!

The new traveler app adds “Dringend” to each mail marked with high importance. I read my mails all 10 to 20 minutes and i normally answer them in under two hours, but i do not answer faster, when i see a red “!”

Get rid of this:

I created a mail rule to remove the high importance tag. Thanks Notes!

I think there is a wrong message in meeting delegation with comments function.

When you delegate a meeting to someone else and add a comment, then the Comment window shows following info text:

“The delegation notice will go out to the delegee and chair will receive the information about this delegation.”

So people who add a comment think the text will be sent to the person which get delegated. What do you think? Who will receive the comment?

Yes right, the chair will get it, not the delegee.

I think this is very confusing for the users and perhaps they add comments which shouldn’t be read of the chair!

Some more points to my working configuration of Single Sign-On in Lotus Notes.

Automating configuration with plugin_customization.ini

I do a lot of software tests with my productive Notes Client (on Mac OS), so i often delete the Expeditor-folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Lotus Notes Data/. So i place configuration details in /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/MacOS/rcp/plugin_customization.ini, then the settings get automatically applied.

# Connections Config
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/server=http\://connections.example.com/profiles
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authtype=DOMINO-SSO
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.dominoresolveservername=false
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/authserver=$hierarchical Domino-Server-Name$
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.useclustermates=true
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/dominosso.preferred.username.field=ShortName
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/policy-mode=OVERWRITE
 com.ibm.lconn.client.base/enableConnectionsIntegration=true
 # Sametime Config
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/name=$Name for Community$
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/host=$Hostname of Sametime Server$
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/defaultAuthType=ST-DOMINO-SSO
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/authServerUrl=$hierarchical Domino Server Name$
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/loginByToken=true
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/tokenLoginOnly=true
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.community/loginAtStartup=true
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login/autologin=true
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.login/alwaysLoggedIn=true
 com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.imhub/disableExit=false
 # Status Updater Fix to show profile pictures
 com.ibm.lconn.statusupdates/download.image.enabled=true

Sametime will only apply the settings of plugin_customization.ini, when following file is not present!

Thanks to Marcel de Hoog, i got a solution for the missing pictures in Status Updater Plugin in Lotus Notes.

Add com.ibm.lconn.statusupdates/download.image.enabled=true to your plugin_customization.ini. This works on Windows and Mac OS! Haven’t tested it on Linux.

via: http://marceldehoog.blogspot.com/2011/12/status-updates-and-pictures.html 

Mitch found out that FP2 for Notes 8.5.2 breaks Connections Files and Status Updater Plugins.

http://www.curiousmitch.com/2011/05/notes-8-5-2-fp2-and-lotus-connections-plugins-might-not-play-nicely-together/

Today i had problems to recreate my Activities Sidebar connection after a Notes Client reinstall.

Each time when i want to connect, i got the following error message:

Cannot connect to the Activities Server.

Either the URL is incorrect, the server is down, or a firewall may be preventing you from reaching the server. Check the URL, your firewall settings and the server status and try again.”

When i use the credentials in my browser or the integrated Notes browser, i could login, so server is responding and credentials were ok.

There is a new interim Fix for Lotus Domino 8.5.2 FP2 to get Firefox 4 working with iNotes.

Firefox 4 support availability for Lotus iNotes – By Ulrich Krause – eknori.de .

With last update vor Lotus Traveler 8.5.2.2 there came a new feature for Android devices. You can read and send encrypted mails and you can sign mails with your notes id.

You can click on details in new mails, there you find the new checkboxes for encrypt or sign.

Long needed feature and it works better than Lotus Companion App on iPhone, because the id password is cached for a short time.

Update

After some testing i wrote down some points on this new feature.

• First of all i asked me, why i didn’t read anything about it. I found no document on IBM, which announces encryption on Android before 8.5.3. On my search i found a post in the Domino 8.5 Forum , which describes the new feature too. So why did nobody blog or announce it?

New feature in 8.5.2 is synchronizing of sent as an imap folder. Article describes the way to deploy and give some hints.

Notes.ini setting to enable: EnableImapFolderSynch=1

http://www.dominopower.com/newsitems/00052856.html