Inbox empty

Today I received a call from a customer where the inbox did not display any content at some users - but only in the Notes client, not in iNotes !!

After some investigations I remembered, that I had this issue some months ago and found the following IBM technote:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21965120

So if you create a folder with and the first character of the folder is a space, this folder is displayed instead of the inbox and it seems, that the inbox is empty.

Collaboration Solutions with IBM and Cisco: IBM Connections Cloud enterprise social network, cloud-based email, and calendaring solutions combine with communication capabilities of Cisco to redefine everyday work

Today IBM announced the combination of the IBM Collaboration Solutions from the IBM Cloud with Cisco.

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/877/ENUSZP17-0013/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

Collaboration solutions from IBM® and Cisco bring together the key applications that workers need to be productive and effective: video, voice, unified communications, enterprise social networks, team collaboration, email, and calendar offerings. With the integration of IBM Connections Cloud and Cisco communication capabilities, modern workers can now communicate and collaborate easily across their teams, with their partners, and with their customers. This powerful combination makes information and trained specialists easier to find and creates more personal and effective collaboration.

Collaboration solutions from IBM and Cisco include integrations between:

• IBM Verse™ email and calendar
• IBM Connections™ enterprise social network
• Cisco Spark Business Messaging and Basic Meetings
• Cisco Spark Business Messaging, Basic Meetings, and Cloud Advanced Meetings
• Cisco WebEx Conferencing Audio Toll
• Cisco WebEx Conferencing Audio Toll Plus
• Cisco WebEx Conferencing Audio Toll Plus International

"VARIANT DOES NOT CONTAIN A CONTAINER" APPEARS

Today I received an email from a customer, where a user was not able to move a calendar appointment by opening the appointment and entering a different date/time. He was able to move the appointment by "Drag and Drop".

The user was using IBM Notes 9.0.1 FP6 on Windows 10.

You can easily get rid of this error by simply deactivating the option "Strict Date/Time input" like mentioned in the following TN:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1LO91474

After removing this setting the user was able to change the date and time inside the calendar entry.

Enforcing quotas on new mail or Calendar entry creation in local or server based mail files

Last week I had the request to obtain the quota on the mail file when creating local replicas. After some search, I found this NOTES.INI entry:

Check_Quota_on_Mail_Create=

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21247798

This setting is not only used when creating local replicas, but also to check the quota when creating new mails !!

IBM Domino 9.0.1 FP8 Interim Fix 1

IBM released the first Interim Fix for IBM Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 including the following fixes:

This fix is listed here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657963

and can be downloaded from this link:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657963#DominoDownloads

Open Mic Webcast: IBM Domino Application Development Update

This presentation will focus on IBM's plans for the future of Domino as an application development platform. We will discuss IBM's plans for adding key functionality to Domino as well as ways to allow customers to modernize their applications for use via web and mobile devices. This presentation is key for anybody who uses Domino as an application development platform and is interested in modernizing their applications.

After a presentation, attendees will be given an opportunity to ask our panel of experts questions. Throughout the event, attendees will also be encouraged to comment or ask questions in the WebEx Meeting chat. Follow us on Twitter @IBM_ICSsupport.
Content

** IMPORTANT NOTE** Please note the start time is 10 AM EDT (1 hour earlier than the usual 11 AM EDT start time for Open Mics)

Topic: IBM Domino Application Development Update
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Time: 10:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC/GMT, UTC-4 hours) for 60 minutes

Web conference
Join the WebEx meeting to view a slide presentation and participate in group web chat:

https://ibm2.webex.com/ibm2/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee5d0eb485ca508ec936234297b53f62b
passcode: webcast

Additional informations ( Global call-in number, .. ) can be found here: 
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049514

IBM Sametime V9.0.1 extends support for services, tools, and selected entitlements

Today IBM announced the extension of support for IBM Sametime V9.0.1 until September 2021.

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/3/877/ENUSZP17-0173/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

IBM® Sametime® extends support for V9.0.1 to September 2021. Support for the following associated entitlements is also extended to September 2021:

IBM Sametime Complete
IBM Sametime Conference
IBM Sametime Communicate


IBM Sametime is a robust communications offering designed to accelerate your social business by driving faster decisions, with more complete information powered by the business experts in your organization. The suite of tools in Sametime helps unlock the value in your underutilized communications systems by integrating them into a more intuitive system. Sametime tools and services can be accessed from within the applications and business processes that you use every day.

Support for Sametime V9.0.1 is extended to September 2021.

IBM Sametime V9.0.1 features content curated from IBM Connections™ Chat Cloud and IBM Connections Meetings Cloud, as well as new powerful capabilities designed specifically for on-premises deployments. The following features are included in Sametime V9.0.1:

• A direct-registration softphone that gives users the capability to use the Sametime desktop client to place and receive phone calls as an extension of your existing telephony system
• Optimized support for Citrix XenApp on Microsoft™ Windows™ Server 2012 and Windows desktops
• 64-bit Microsoft Office support
• A more intuitive, easier-to-use Meetings experience
• Single Sign-On (SSO) for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) support for authentication on IBM Connections Cloud
• Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and the US Government's Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)
• A native Sametime Web Player browser plug-in (no Java™ dependency) for audio and video and screen sharing in Meetings on Microsoft Windows workstations
• Enhanced annotations on the web and mobile Meetings clients (not available on the desktop meetings client)
• Security improvement for safer HTML usage in Meetings
• Desktop and browser client support on Apple Mac OS X 10.11 and Microsoft

IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 Feature Pack 8 available

Today IBM release the announced Feature Pack 8 with a lot of great new features:

first of all there´s a separate download for the template of the Domino NAB and the Mail template on IBM Fix Central: Template Download


Move views out of databases
 
You can move views out of databases into separate view index files (.NDX files). This feature is useful for large databases and provides the following benefits:
> A smaller database file size, to avoid reaching the 64GB limitation.
> Faster database backup and restore.
> Better performance by allowing concurrent access to database and views.


For more information, see the following link: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSKTMJ_9.0.1/admin/admn_moving_views_out_of_databases.html?view=kc


Increase the document summary data limit to 16 MB
 
You can increase the document summary data limit on Notes® 9 databases. Summary data is data in non-rich-text fields, number fields, and date-time fields.

Previously the combined size of all summary data fields in a document was limited to 64 K. This limit is now 16 MB. The size limit for a single field is still 64 K. The size limit for views is still 64K for the combined key and data.
To increase the summary data limit on a database, use the following server command:

    load compact -LargeSummary on database.nsf
   
   
Java JRE version 1.8 provided with Domino
 
The Java run time environment provided with Notes and Domino has been upgraded to Java JRE version 1.8 to provide you with access to the latest features. Domino Designer continues to compile with Java 1.6.


Enable the Group By Date feature in all mail files
 
Administrators can push the notes.ini setting EnableGroupByDate=1 to Notes clients to enable the Show > Group By Date option in mail files. When enabled, messages in the Inbox, All Documents view, and personal folders on the IBM Notes client are grouped by relative date: Today, Yesterday, Last Week, and so forth.

Users can select Show > Group By Date to turn off the setting.
For more information, see the topic Enabling the Group By Date feature in all mail files.


Enable the Show Beginning of Message feature in all mail files
 
Administrators can push the notes.ini setting EnableBeginningOfMessage=1 to Notes clients to enable the Show > Beginning of Message option in mail files.

When enabled, Notes client users see the first 100 characters of a message in their Inbox or personal folders along with the subject. Users can select Show > Beginning of Message to turn off the setting.

For more information, see the topic Enabling the Show Beginning of Message feature in all mail files.


Retain MIME formatting when forwarding or replying to internet messages
 
Administrators can push the notes.ini setting KeepReplyForwardMime=1 to Notes standard clients. This setting retains MIME message formatting when users reply to or forward messages received from the internet. Without this setting, MIME messages are converted to Notes Rich Text which can cause some MIME formatting to be lost.

When this setting is enabled and users respond to or forward messages from the internet, the Notes embedded browser is used to display the original messages with MIME fidelity. Users can't edit the original messages, but they can copy information from them and paste it into their responses.
For more information, see the topic Retaining MIME formatting when forwarding or replying to internet messages.


Notes browser plug-in is no longer part of Notes package
 
The Notes browser plug-in is no longer provided with the Notes client package. IBM Client Application Access (ICAA), a new lightweight client that provides access to Notes applications, can be used instead. ICAA is available to Notes customers free of charge and can be downloaded from Passport Advantage®. For more information, see the IBM Client Application Access documentation.


ADFS 3.0 now supported as a SAML federated identity provider
 
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 3.0 can be used as a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) federated identity provider (IdP). For more information, see the section Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to configure federated-identity authentication.


IMPORTANT:
If you decide to install IBM Domino 9,0.1 FP8, don't forget to upgrade IBM Lotus Traveler to 9.0.1.16, otherwise Traveler will not work due to the update of the JVM to version 1.8

Open Mic Webcast: Configuring an IBM Domino Web Server to use Web federated Login (SAML)

IBM is offering an Open Mic Webcast about configuring SAML authentication on a IBM Domino Web Server.

Abstract

This procedure ensures that an IBM Domino Web server can participate in SAML-based single sign-on (SSO). The Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard allows a Domino server to trust an authentication assertion from a specified identity provider (IdP).

After a presentation, attendees will be given an opportunity to ask our panel of experts questions. Throughout the event, attendees will also be encouraged to comment or ask questions in the IBM Connections Meetings Web chat. Follow us on Twitter @IBM_ICSsupport.
 
Content

Topic: Configuring an IBM Domino Web Server to use Web federated Login (SAML)
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Time: 11:00 AM EST (16:00 UTC/GMT, UTC-5 hours) for 60 minutes

Web conference
Join the IBM Connections Meetings to view a slide presentation and participate in group web chat:

https://apps.na.collabserv.com/meetings/join?id=2897-4178
eMeeting password: webcast


Phone conference
Participant passcode: 1813795

USA Toll-Free: 866-803-2145
USA Toll: 1-210-795-1099

All further informations ( international dial-in numbers, presentation, ... ) can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049210

Moving Android devices from unsecure to secure communication with IBM Notes Traveler

IBM released a very smart way to switch Android devices to HTTPS communication with IBM Notes Traveler servers:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21993951&myns=swglotus&mynp=OCSSYRPW&mync=E&cm_sp=swglotus-_-OCSSYRPW-_-E

Problem

Your IBM Verse for Android applications connect to your on-premises IBM Traveler server using an unencrypted HTTP connection instead of an encrypted HTTPS connection. Since the IBM Traveler server can use unencrypted HTTP connections immediately without any additional setup, some installations may have skipped the HTTPS setup procedures prior to deploying Verse for Android to users. To ensure that all your communications are encrypted, first enable HTTPS either on your IBM Traveler server or on an edge proxy. Then ensure the IBM Verse for Android app begins using the encrypted connection without requiring any manual intervention from your users.


Resolving the problem
This feature requires the following components at the specified minimum version levels:
· IBM Traveler server, version 9.0.1.15 (or later)
· IBM Verse for Android app, version 9.5.0.0 (or later)

If all the IBM Verse for Android apps have not yet upgraded to the required minimum level prior to the completion of these steps, then it is recommended you keep HTTP port 80 enabled until you can ensure all apps have been upgraded. It is not required that all users upgrade at the same time.

1. Enable your IBM Traveler server to use HTTPS. Typically, this will be the Domino server that hosts your Traveler server, but it could also be an edge proxy. If this is a Domino server, Domino 9.0.1 fp5 or later is recommended. See the following for more information on this task:

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKTMJ_9.0.1/admin/conf_settingupsslonadominoserver_t.html

Also reference the article Securing connections for IBM Traveler mobile applications for the latest updates on security requirements for IBM Traveler servers and mobile apps.

2. Update the "External Server URL" field on the Traveler server to change the current server URL to start with “https://” instead of "http://". This can be done either through the current configuration document, by updating notes.ini, or by using the domino console. For more information, see:

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYRPW_9.0.1/settingtheexternalserverurlforappledevices.htm

3. Before forcing all IBM Verse for Android apps to use the new URL, test the HTTPS connection to ensure that it works properly. The first test is to ensure that the HTTPS port is working properly and routing to the IBM Traveler server. You can use a web browser to easily validate this. Open a browser page, connect to your Traveler Server External URL, and login using an ID. For example, if your Traveler server External URL is https://traveler.example.com/traveler, use a web browser to connect to that page and validate that you do not see any errors.

4. Test the setup with a few devices that are connected to your IBM Traveler server using the HTTP connection. To do this, issue these commands at the domino console:

    tell traveler policy setdevice tsExternalURLEnforced=1 <deviceId> <user>
    tell traveler push flagsadd serviceability configGet <deviceId> <user>


Where <deviceId> and <user> are the device ID and user you are testing.You can obtain the <deviceId> of a user that has previously connected to the Traveler server using the command:

tell traveler show <userid>

5. Sync the test devices to ensure that the sync is working properly. From within the Verse for Android app, open Settings > Server and validate that the field called Use Secure Protocol is checked.

NOTE: Ensure that everything syncs normally and shows as secure. If you push an incorrect server URL to the mobile app, the only way to recover is to remove and reinstall the Verse app on the device.

6. After you have verified that the External Server URL is correct and your migrated device can sync, set the IBM Traveler server to enforce this property for all devices by entering the following command into the Domino server console:

    set config NTS_EXTERNAL_URL_ENFORCED=true


This command migrates the rest of your IBM Verse for Android apps (that meet the minimum level) to use your secure server URL.

7. Restart the IBM Traveler server to have the settings take effect.

8. Once all your IBM Verse for Android apps have been updated, you can disable the HTTP port on your Domino server, assuming it is not required for other applications that are using the same server.