Notes / Domino
I will speak at CollabSphere 2020 
By Roberto Boccadoro | 10/20/20 11:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
CollabSphere 2020 is another community event that had to turn from in-person to online due to Covid-19. The bad side of this you already know, the good side is that being online now you can attend all these events without the need to travel, is always nice to save money, and also attendance is free.
HCL Domino SSO with AzureAD
By Kris de Bisschop | 10/20/20 5:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Proving that Domino can integrate with several other technologies is something we do on a regular basis, just to show the customers that Domino is an open platform.
For authentication, we did already several SSO configurations between Domino Directory and MS Active Directory by using ADFS and SAML authentication.
Troubleshooting HCL Notes - Debugging Agents Using the NotesLog Class
By John Oldenburger | 10/20/20 3:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In this blog post a sequel to debugging Agents. A commonly used method for debugging LotusScript and Java background Agents is the use of the NotesLog class. An important point to consider when using the NotesLog class is to ensure that the Agent Log limit is not exceeded. Below is a brief description and example of how to use the NotesLog class in Agents.
HCL Notes Connections Plug-In – Login via SPNEGO not possible
By Milan Matejic | 10/20/20 3:29 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
If you are trying to use SPNEGO as the means for authenticating HCL Notes Connections Plug-In and you run into an issue, check if "Use the alias host name for the application server" option is used on Websphere Application Server and if that is the case try turning it off.
Domino V12 ACME for company CAs using smallstep
By Daniel Nashed | 10/19/20 3:05 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
The Let's Encrypt CA only works for web servers exposed to the internet (or at least public Domains in combination with your providers DNS).
But the smallstep CA does now support the ACME protocol (RFC 8555) -- which is the underlying standard used by Let's Encrypt.
I was looking for a way to deploy internal web server test certificates for my lab and ran into this.
The whole setup took me like 10 minutes and it just works!
Troubleshooting HCL Notes - Debugging Agents - Using Debug_AMgr
By John Oldenburger | 10/16/20 8:35 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In this blog post we will initially look at the NOTES.INI parameter Debug_AMgr = flag. In every Notes Domino environment frequent use is made of Agents which can cause the necessary problems for Administrators. Agents should therefore not be missing in this new blog series.
Troubleshooting HCL Notes - Common Error and Event Logging
By John Oldenburger | 10/15/20 4:45 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In my previous blog posts regarding the new blog series Troubleshooting HCL Notes, the error messages Unable to Read Rollover Values from View, Invalid Collection Data was Detected, DAOS Prune - Deleted 0 objects and completed with error: (685) Document attachment, The address book does not contain a cross certificate capable of validating the public key is invalid, Server Task Agent Manager on Server is No Longer Responding and HCL Nomad - Server is not reachablewere explained in more detail.
HCL Domino V12 Early Access Program - New October release is available now
By Thomas Hampel | 10/14/20 1:04 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Last month we have introduced the HCL Domino V12 Early Access Program, in which we are providing customers the chance to test new product features early in the development cycle.
Our engaged development team has provided a new code drop (named "October 2020") which is available now for download at Flexnet to all current customers.
This code drop provides a number of very interesting features that our dev team wants to have YOUR feedback on:
HCL Domino 12.0 on Docker Early Access October 2020
By Daniel Nashed | 10/13/20 4:29 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi
The new code drop is available with more preview features.
One of the highlight features is TOTP. You can now use two factor authentication for HTTPS connections.
Can I use a pre-existing SSL certificate with Domino?
By Cormac McCarthy | 10/13/20 11:14 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Here’s a common problem that comes up and the documentation on it is pretty non-existent (or more accurately the information is out there but not Domino specific so you really have to know what you’re doing to get it done).
An organisation has purchased a SSL certificate, often a wildcard cert. Something like *.mycompany.com. They use it on other non-Domino web services. Can you use the same cert in Domino (without creating a csr and re-keying the cert)?
Troubleshooting HCL Notes - Domino Configuration Tuner
By John Oldenburger | 10/13/20 11:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
In this blog post a quick look at a very helpful tool for troubleshooting HCL Notes (and Domino), the Domino Configuration Tuner. The Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) evaluates server settings according to a growing catalog of best practices. All servers in a single domain can be evaluated together. The Domino Configuration Tuner generates reports that explain the issues DCT uncovers, suggests mitigations and provides references to supporting publications.
Easy kyr file creation with Early Access V12 in production
By Daniel Nashed | 10/12/20 2:22 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
The kyr format is a really old propritary IBM format.
Since Domino 9 the only way to create kyr files is to use the command-line kyrtool.
It can only import existing key pairs + certificates.
So the current flow is often to use OpenSSL to create a key pair and a CSR or to import existing key pairs with the matching certificates.
That flow is going to change with Domino V12 completely.
The CertMgr servertask and the cerstore.nsf will completely simplify the operation and remove the need for kyr files.
Let’s Encrypt Domino Early Access V12 in production
By Daniel Nashed | 10/10/20 5:13 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
We got the first two code drops for the early access program.
The October code drop show be available soon. With new features ..
This is a great opportunity for an early look and to provide feedback.
HCL Domino SSO with Microsoft Teams
By Martin Pradny | 10/9/20 10:43 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse
Microsoft Teams is probably one of the most used tools this year, it was already quite popular before the pandemic started to spread across the world this spring, but now most of the businesses I work with use it. After using it just like a chat/conferencing tool, many start to explore further capabilities of the platform. When working with Domino data in apps that are web-enabled, it can be quite easy - just add a web tab anywhere you want. The problem is, that you need to deal with user authentication.
Creating an LTPA Token – Without WAS Network Deployment Server
By Milan Matejic | 10/9/20 5:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Recently I was installing an HCL Sametime 11 environment from scratch. I always tend to implement a single LTPA Token across the Domino, Sametime and/or Connections environment. It is also a very good idea to use only the LTPA Token version 2, as it is more secure, but this also means that the LTPA Token has to be created by a WebSphere server.
Why we need SSL, and how Domino 12 helps us get it
By Oval | 10/7/20 12:56 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Over the past few years, the world and their dog has been drumming into web server administrators that they need to use SSL, and now web browsers are not-so-passively-aggressively throwing up warning messages if a site isn’t being accessed over HTTPS.
In the past, SSL has only really been enforced for login screens, or payment screens – but this is no longer considered sufficient, and there are very good reasons for this:
XPages and more: Troubleshooting HCL Notes - ID Vault - Unable to Read Rollover Values from View
By John Oldenburger | 10/5/20 5:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi
As indicated in my previous blog post, Troubleshooting HCL Notes - Notes Error Invalid Collection Data was Detected, I have been asked repeatedly to start a blog series about the most common Notes Domino errors and the corresponding solutions. As an HCL Ambassador I am happy to comply with this request and start a new blog series, Troubleshooting HCL Notes.
Domino HTTP show kyr file used
By Daniel Nashed | 9/28/20 2:23 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
Just ran into "tell http show security"
I did not notice it before.
Can be useful to show the currently configured kyr file per website.
Install Docker 19.03 on CentOS 8+
By Daniel Nashed | 9/25/20 5:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
RedHat is still shipping an older containerd version with CentOS 8 than what they shipped with CentOS 7.
This blocks Docker 19+ installations. The only way to get Docker installed, is to use the -nobest option which will install Docker 18.x.
But you really want to install Docker 19.03
HCL Safelinx – Untrusted Certificate Issue
By Milan Matejic | 9/22/20 7:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
A few days ago I came across a rather weird issue with HCL Safelinx and HCL Domino. After setting up HCL Safelinx, it was not possible to access the Websites hosted by an HCL Domino Server. The user would just get an HTTP Error, "503 - Service Unavailable".
NOTES.INI parameter for Verse on Premises
By Rainer Brandl | 9/22/20 3:19 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro
HCL delivered a great summary of all NOTES.INI parameters for Verse on Premises: