1. Domino 8.5.2 Server & Administration update
Fred Jansssen
Imtech ICT Integrated Solutions
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2. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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3. The past year - a load of updates
■ Notes/Domino
– 8.5.1 FP1
– 8.5.1 FP1 IF1
– 8.5.1 FP2
– 8.5.1 FP2 IF1
– 8.5.1 FP3
– 8.5.1 FP4
– 8.5.1 FP5 (September 2010)
■ iNotes:
– DWAHF_v8.51_304CHF4
■ 4 Security fixes
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4. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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5. Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 - What’s new
■ Primarily a LotusLive update
8.5.2 has solutions for issues we‟ve been banging our heads at for
years
– Silent Failover
– Managed Mail Replica
– Upgrade of local NSFs to latest ODS version
Desktop Policy or NSF_UpdateODS=1
– Detect databases corruption
– Deny reservation requests for busy Rooms & Resources
■ Most/All documentation updates are in the Lotus KB
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6. Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 - What’s back
■ Space Used column in Files tab of Administrator client
■ Signature
Users again have the ability to see all Signature types (File, Plain Text,
Rich Text) on the Signature tab in Preferences.
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7. Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.2 - What’s gone
■ NSFDB2
Available on request only
You‟ll need to request a key from IBM
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8. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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9. Issues
■ SMTP process spike 100%
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nflsblog.nsf/dx/domino-8.5.2-smtp-users-stop-receiving-mail-
and-smtp-task-on-server-shows-50-100-cpu-utilization
8.5.2 IF1 delivered on September 8th
■ iNotes issues with SSL VPN
http://www.bleedyellow.com/blogs/lotusnut/entry/inotes852noncechecking
■ Can not use Copy/Paste (or Cut/Paste) in Domino Directory
Disable “Inherit design from master template"
Delete the agent called “RenamePastedAccounts“
http://blog.farris.co.uk/blog/_archives/2010/9/8/4624777.html
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10. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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11. Notes client 1 - Lotus Notes preloader
■ Windows:
Enable "Launch parts of Notes when
the operating system starts to enable
faster Notes startup" at
install/upgrade
■ Linux:
add /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/ntspreld.sh
to the Startup Programs list.
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12. Notes client 2 - Managed mail replicas
■ The Notes client can create, populate, and synchronize managed
replicas in the background without user intervention.
Also:
– Automatically run fixup
– Delete and recreate without user intervention
– user is redirected seamlessly to the server replica during
maintenance
■ In addition, managed replicas control space usage:
– truncation of large documents until the user retrieves them
– limiting the number of days of mail replicated to them
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13. Notes client 3 – other new features
■ New Preference
Ability to save e-mail messages to a file
■ Improved New Spell Checking
mainly bugfixes
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14. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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15. Mail / Calendar - 1
■ Archive
When you are working in an archive, the title will say
"Archive" and then the name of the archive.
■ Winmail.dat
Outlook/Exchange user sending a message to a Notes/Domino user in
MS Rich Text format & the attachment portion of the MIME containing
Unicode, the winmail.dat will appear even with
TNEFEnableConversion=1 set on the server.
■ Email interoperability and HTML font size
Increasing HTML text font size in Lotus Notes mail messages has been
resolved. As part of this solution, the "HTML Size" value set in the
Configuration settings policy document is now ignored; the value is
fixed at 12.
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16. Mail / Calendar - 2
■ Not all new is an improvement: Return Receipts for every message
■ Autoclose e-mail on Reply/Forward
■ Mail switcher : Contacts added
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17. Mail / Calendar - 3
■ Sort your Inbox by sender's last name
■ Private iCalendar feeds can now be added to your calendar
■ Users will now be prevented from sending a Meeting Invitation
requesting a room that is restricted or not available
(8.5.2 versions of mail85.ntf and resrc8.ntf mandatory)
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18. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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19. Contacts
■ More control on Mail address type-ahead
■ "Delete“ added to the context menu in the Mail address type-ahead
■ Make Contacts or Groups private
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20. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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21. Domino server - 1
■ Monitoring slow or unresponsive databases with the Domino
Diagnostic Probe
The probe is started from a command prompt and runs as a standalone
process, not as a Domino server process. It uses the identity of the
Domino server and attempts to open a session and a database
■ Automatic Corrupt Database Collection
When the Domino server detects that a database has corruption, it will
automatically store the corrupted database as a separate file in a
separate directory. The detection and collection of corrupted database
is done at database open.
■ DAOS enhancement for archive databases
When the -daos on and -a options are used together
and when an archive database is newly created during the archive, the
new archive database will be DAOS-enabled.
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22. Domino server - 2
■ The cloud-based services model requires extremely rapid on-demand
response cycles for Domino servers
■ Fixed problem where attachment data was sometimes lost when
MIMECompressAttachments=1 was set on the server due to temporary
files being left open
■ Directory Assistance template changes
Changes to LDAP configuration options for „Windows single sign-on for
Web clients‟
■ Additional controls for creating and managing Administrative Accounts
for use in centrally deploying Eclipse-based features and plug-ins, most
specifically Lotus Connections and Lotus Sametime but also any
Eclipse-based plug-in, to users with predefined settings.
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23. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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24. Traveler
■ Choose the right language groups when you upgrading
17-09-2010 Group1 (including Dutch)
08-11-2010 Group 2
■ Before you upgrade the server
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Before_you_upgrade_the_server_LNT852
■ Reverse Proxy Support
External URL for mobile devices connecting to the Lotus Notes
Traveler server through an external reverse proxy
■ iPad Support
■ All network traffic is now over HTTP or HTTPS. As a result,
HTTP threads may be insufficient for your needs.
■ It is no longer necessary to modify the Apple.xml for proper
configuration of Apple devices.
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25. Agenda
■ The past year - a load of updates
■ Lotus Notes / Domino 8.5.2
– What‟s new
– What‟s back
– What‟s gone
■ Issues ?!
■ Notes client
■ Mail / Calendar
■ Contacts
■ Domino server
■ Traveler
■ The future
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26. The future
■ “9”
– Archive rollover
– Improved Search - Total Recall
– Group Calendar row by row view / team calendar
– Intelligent subscription of feeds within Inbox
– Works with others more seamlessly - Contact & Mail Federation
– Track work more efficiently - Unified Task Management
■ Which fell off the bandwagon?
– Eclipse Administrator client
– New Workspace
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27. Questions ?
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28. Additional information
■ Security fixes
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/security
■ IBM Lotus Notes 8 Recent Contacts and Type-ahead features: FAQs
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-notes-8-recent-contacts-and-type-
ahead-features-faqs
■ Directory Assistance template changes
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21430859
■ Monitoring slow or unresponsive databases with the Domino Diagnostic Probe
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21429892
■ Automatic Corrupt Database Collection
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21429891
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