Domino Authentication via SAML – All Flavours   

By Milan Matejic | 10/13/23 1:55 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

For the Engage 2022 event, I prepared a "Domino Authentication via SAML - All Flavours" session, to present it with my colleague Herwig W. Schauer. Alas, the session never got accepted and I never had time to convert it to a whitepaper. As I invested quite a bit of time for preparing the slides, I thought that I should upload it here before it inevitably travels into oblivion. Maybe it will come handy for some of you.

HCL Notes – Swiftfile Not Working as Expected   

By Milan Matejic | 3/29/23 3:53 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

When using the "preview pane" in HCL Notes, and clicking on a folder, suggested by SwiftFile, the "move to folder" dialogue would sometimes come up. This was happening to my client, in about 1 of 20 cases

HCL Traveler – Cleaning up the “lotustraveler.nsf” database  

By Milan Matejic | 9/17/21 1:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If you are seeing some old and invalid objects in the "lotustraveler.nsf", on the HCL Traveler server, try running "tell traveler cleanup show" command. It will show you which entries are obsolete and could be deleted. Provided that you are OK with the result, run the "cleanup" command without the "show" option, this command will delete the entries previously shown.

HCL Domino – Directory Assistance – Access to Active Directory via LDAPs – Thoughts about HCL Connections, Domino and Sametime  

By Milan Matejic | 3/4/21 1:37 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

In order to re-configure the existing HCL Domino Directory Assistance document for accessing the user data over encrypted LDAP connection or LDAPs you have to do the following: Create a Domino keyring file for the source Domino server.

HCL Domino & ADFS – SSO Suddenly stops working  

By Milan Matejic | 1/26/21 2:28 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If you are using ADFS with Domino as a Single Sign-On solution, and you get a call from a friendly user telling you that Single Sign-On stopped working, check if you are seeing the following error on the HCL Domino server console: SECCheckAndParseSAMLResponse> VerifyAssertionSignature : Document has been modified or corrupted since signed! (signature)

HCL SafeLinx 1.1.1 & HTTP Strict-Transport-Security   

By Milan Matejic | 12/11/20 4:37 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

After a SafeLinx Deployment I wanted to set the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header, but there was nothing in the documentation about it, and I also could not find any option regarding this in the SafeLinx Administrator client settings. So I opened a Support case. According to the support you can use the command line on the HCL SafeLinx server to set the HTTP Strict-Transport-Security header as well as any other token header.

Domino, Designer and Notes v12 Roadmap – Thoughts about HCL Connections, Domino and Sametime  

By Milan Matejic | 11/11/20 3:42 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

During the first day of the virtual HCL Factory Tour we were able to see the roadmap for Domino, Designer and Notes v12. HCL continues to innovate and sets the bar high in regard to product quality. The new release of Domino, version 12, is coming in Q2 of 2021.

HCL Sametime Premium announced – It’s a stunner!  

By Milan Matejic | 11/10/20 12:18 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

As a part of HCL Digital Week, Luis and Gini presented the HCL Sametime Premium. It is intuitive, easy to use and frankly everything what we want from a modern video conferencing solution and more. The emphasis is put on cost savings, according to HCL you can save, for ten thousand users, over a million us dollars annually! In the following I will write a brief summary of the session, along with a few thoughts of my own.

HCL Domino v12 Preview – HCL Digital Week  

By Milan Matejic | 11/9/20 4:29 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today, as a part of the HCL Digital Week, we had an opportunity to take a glimpse into the future and the v12 version of HCL Domino. In the following I will write a brief summary of the session, along with a few thoughts of my own.

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.

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.

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".

Domino AppDev Pack – Obstacles in using IAM Server for Authentication with WordPress, Drupal & Co.  

By Milan Matejic | 11/27/19 2:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

One of our customers would like to use Domino as a User repository to Authenticate his users against services like WordPress and Drupal. The first thing that crossed my mind was Domino AppDev Pack and OAuth 2 Protocol. We decided to Deploy the AppDev Pack 1.0.1 (later on I upgraded the package to the 1.0.2 version) in a test environment and test this out.

Live from Tokyo – In Vienna  

By Milan Matejic | 11/21/19 1:39 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

My employer, Axians ICT Austria GmbH, is sponsoring “HCL Tokyo Live Viewing Party” and hereby you are invited. In Addition to the Live Stream from Tokyo, the Agenda is stacked with sessions about HCL Digital Solutions software, which will be held by Axians and other event sponsors. We also have a special guest, Cornelius Granig, the author of “The Darknet”.

HCL Domino AppDev Pack 1.0.2 – Documentation Released  

By Milan Matejic | 8/29/19 2:50 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

The documentation for the new version of Domino AppDev Pack 1.0.2 is available. So if you are evaluating to deploy the Domino AppDev Pack, make sure to take a look at the release notes of the 1.0.2 version. What's New in Release 1.0.2 Release 1.0.2 includes the following new features: (Preview) A domino-db application may now…

APNs Certificate used for Traveler 9.0.1.21 Expires soon!  

By Milan Matejic | 3/14/19 10:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

The APNs certificate implemented in IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1.21,will expire on 30th March and therefore the Push Notifications for Apple iOS devices will not be possible with the "default" certificate. The easiest way to make sure that the Push Notifications functions properly is to update your Traveler Server to 10.0.0.0 or newer release.

Upgrading Notes 9.0.1 client to Notes 10.0.1 on Mac  

By Milan Matejic | 2/22/19 5:41 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

Yesterday, an Article was published by IBM Support about Upgrading Notes 9.0.1 to Notes 10.0.1 when a User has Sametime embedded add-on installed. Make sure to read it, in order to avoid problems.

Make sure that the “Names.nsf” cannot be accessed via Internet!   

By Milan Matejic | 2/11/19 2:10 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

If your Domino Server is exposed to the Internet, make sure that the Domino Directory or the "Names.nsf" database cannot be accessed via Web Browser, or at least certain fields which can be used to get the hash values of the Internet Passwords.

Domino SAML & NFL – Changing the ADFS Certificate   

By Milan Matejic | 1/29/19 9:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Recently we got contacted by a growing number of customers regarding the change of the SSL Certificate on the ADFS Server used for Domino SAML and Notes NFL. Although the process is not overly complicated, there are some "gotchas" you need to keep in mind in order for this process to go smoothly, which I will try to describe before going through the actual process of changing the certificate.

Domino v10 Premiere – A short recap from Frankfurt  

By Milan Matejic | 10/10/18 4:29 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

The optimism, high hopes and anticipation for the Domino v10 was clearly not missing at the Bleed Yellow Party, the night before the official Domino v10 Launch event. The party was fully booked, and I really liked the event. Having everybody, people from IBM, HCL and Domino Enthusiasts, under the one roof before a big event like this felt great. A big thumbs up to DNUG for organizing this.

IBM Sametime Update and STCore.jar File  

By Milan Matejic | 5/29/18 4:10 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Recently I have updated IBM Sametime Community Server from 9.0 HF1 to 9.0.1 FP1. Before starting the update Process I would usually backup, and replace after upgrade, the following files.

IBM Domino Fix Pack Installation – Some Issues and how to fix them  

By Milan Matejic | 8/15/17 3:13 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I recently encountered some issues as I was applying Fix Pack 8 to a Domino Server. These are some common issues which can occur at every Fix Pack update, not specific to Fix Pack 8.