Prepare for the future, prepare for IBM Mail Next, get rid of the Notes client

26. Juli 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

That’s in my opinion a short wrap up of the IBM messaging strategy.

  • Work with your browser, mobile and Notes browser plugin (if necessary)
  • Get rid of the Notes clients
  • Move to the cloud

As a business partner, I’m a little bit concerned about the massive cloud push started already and continues growing with IBM Mail Next. Most of the customers will not very likely follow the cloud strategy for the still very important and highly confidential mail service (at least at the moment and maybe Germany is in this point a little bit more “special” than other countries…). Nevertheless, the hybrid solutions are offering a good possibility to move slowly and carefully to the cloud. And as long as IBM’s strategy is “Cloud first” and not “Cloud only”, I’m still happy.

I’m very curious to get first impressions of IBM Mail Next and I’m very happy to see that this new mail experience is fully hosted on the lovely, good old Domino server. The combination of iNotes and Notes Browser Plug-in is great and if some more functionality will be built into the plug-in (like local mail and archiving, auto update, etc.) it will become a great replacement of the Notes client.

I’m already encouraging my customers to use this browser focused workplace starting with Notes/Domino 9 and to get used to this experience and leverage all the benefits. And during most of the client rollout projects we are working on, we additionally roll-out the browser plug-in to start the transformation and to get ready for the future. Until now, no customer replaced the Notes clients completely with iNotes and the browser plug-in, but we will see how long it will take to bring this strategy to the “real world”.

I think it is the right direction to get rid of the Notes clients and I’m looking forward to start working with IBM Mail Next.


Filed under: IBM Mail Next, IBM Notes/Domino

A new version of TeamCal for Notes is available on the App Store

3. Juli 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Check out the new version of my free team calendar for iOS and Notes: http://wp.me/p4ro60-30


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino, iOS

Problem during SPNEGO/Kerberos configuration for Domino

18. Juni 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

I love this feature and encourage all of my customers to implement SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication for iNotes and other Domino HTTP Services.

At one customer, I got the following error message on the Domino console (after enabling some debug parameters):

Accepting the security context (AcceptSecurityContext) requires continuation

I didn’t find anything Domino related, only some API documentations.

The problem was related to the fact, that Kerberos authentication doesn’t really work with DNS alias names (at least in this environment).

In our environment, we used the Domino URL to configure the SPN as described in the documentation.

setspn -a HTTP/domino1.acme.com SERVICEACCOUNT

But the Domino servername was only a DNS alias, not the real machine name. So we just had to register another spn with the “real” windows machine name and now it worked.

setspn -a HTTP/real-windows-name.acme.com SERVICEACCOUNT

You can still use the Domino URL to access the server, no need to use the machine name!

Now it is working and all users can just open a browser url to access their nice iNotes 9 webmail interface. This sounds like a “nice to have” feature, but if users are not longer forced to enter a login (they maybe do not know because http password is not synchronized or for other reasons), it is a tremendous increase of user satisfaction.


Filed under: General, IBM Notes/Domino

The best way to use Connections (and convince people to use it) is embedded experience

6. Mai 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

In our own environment, we sadly don’t have the embedded experience, but luckily we can anyway encourage some of our customers to use it and now I can leverage the advantages at least when I’m on site at my customers. Getting all the stuff done to activate embedded experience is still not as easy as it should be, but the cookbook delivered by IBM is quite ok and helps to get it done.

The Notes client is my primary working desk and interacting directly from there with the Connections environment is quite easy and feels like using one integrated collaboration platform. Otherwise I have my Notes client and Connections is only one of the other systems that I have to use for other tasks in my company…

Just one click away is my activity stream and I can see what’s going on in my community:

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Even when I’m not yet an encouraged Connections enthusiast, but getting some notifications, I can start using the platform within my mail client. Just reply to a blog post inside the notification mail, interact, share and download attachments, etc.:

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It’s straight forward for the users and they just get their work done without having to think about which system they are now using behind the scenes…

I like this kind of integration, because it is easy, modern and it’s still Notes :-)


Filed under: IBM Connections, IBM Notes/Domino

IBM Mail Next – Was steckt unter der Haube?

23. April 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Nachdem auf der IBM Connect im Januar schon einige Informationen bekannt gegeben wurden, gab es heute einen weiteren Webcast mit mehr Detail Infos, was genau sich hinter der Bezeichnung “IBM Mail Next” verbirgt.

Ich habe leider nicht den kompletten Webcast mitbekommen, wenn ich also irgendwo komplett daneben liege, korrigiert mich  :-)

Die Aufzeichnung soll in ein bis zwei Tagen zur Verfügung stehen, dann reiche ich den entsprechenden Link noch nach.

Für mich sind folgende Fakten interessant:

  • IBM Mail Next ist komplett Browser basiert
  • Basis ist der Domino Server (auch als HTTP Server, nicht nur Mails, dann aber vermutlich der IBM HTTP Server vorgeschaltet)
  • andere Systeme wie Connections und Sametime werden angebunden, sind aber vermutlich keine zwingende Voraussetzung
  • Verfügbarkeit ist für Ende 2014 in der Cloud und 2015 dann für die restlichen Kunden geplant

Das Bedienkonzept

Der zentrale Punkt ist zwar die Inbox, die Arbeitsweise und das UI konzentrieren sich aber sehr stark auf das Suchen, Finden und Darstellen von Informationen und Tasks. Egal ob sie sich nun auf meine Mails, Kalender, Connections Inhalte oder Chats beziehen. Bleibt abzuwarten wie sinnvoll und intuitiv das Ganze zu bedienen sein wird…ich bin gespannt.

Die Infrastruktur

Ein Schaubild zeigte die Cloud Infrastruktur, wo IBM Mail Next als erstes verfügbar sein wird. Dort war klar zu sehen, dass der Domino/IBM HTTP als Host für die Browser Clients dient, nicht wie eigentlich zu vermuten war der Connections Server. Connections und Sametime werden über Konnektoren verbunden und Apache Solr dient als Suchmaschine um die Systeme untereinander durchsuchbar zu machen. Wie das Ganze dann in der eigenen Infrastruktur aussehen wird, ist natürlich noch unklar, aber vermutlich relativ ähnlich.

Fazit

Für mich bedeutet das im Grunde, dass IBM Mail Next eher der Nachfolger von iNotes wird, als von Connections Mail. Als Basis benötigt man keine Connections Umgebung, wenn man den vollen Funktionsumfang nutzen möchte natürlich schon.

Für alle Kunden heißt das jetzt sich frühzeitig mit iNotes und Browser Plugin zu beschäftigen und auf 9.0.1 zu migrieren, dann wird der Umstieg nächstes Jahr wohl sehr einfach und schnell über die Bühne gehen. Der Notes Client wird aber weiterhin ganz normal verwendet werden können, aber in die Weiterentwicklung wird vermutlich nichtmehr viel Aufwand und Geld investiert.

IBM möchte natürlich die Tatsache dass Mail Next als erstes in der Cloud zur Verfügung steht nutzen um den Kunden einen Wechsel in die eigene SmartCloud Umgebung schmackhaft zu machen, aber meiner Meinung nach ist hierzu die Bereitschaft noch nicht wirklich sehr groß.


Filed under: IBM Mail Next, IBM Notes/Domino

TeamCal for Notes is available on the App Store!

2. April 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

My first iOS app has been released today. It is a team calendar for Notes/Domino users.

At the moment, you need a backend Notes database which collects all calendar entries, but in future releases I plan to connect directly to the mail servers using the REST api.

The App is for free and the backend database also.

Read more…


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino, iOS

Working on my hobby project, my first iOS app “Team Calendar for Notes”

26. Februar 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

In the past years (almost 15 years…oh, my goodness), I’ve always developed in parallel to my infrastructure projects some system or migration tools based on LotusScript. But no real application development and not object oriented at all.
End of last year I felt a little bit tired with my job and all the “boring” Notes/Domino stuff, so I came to the conclusion to start something completely different (at least in my free time, not a new job). When I’m looking around at home, well it looks like an Apple Store, so why shouldn’t I try out also iOS development…?
After walking through the great Stanford course Developing iOS Apps and playing a little bit around with some examples in the course, my interest was awoken. I spent many weekends and night hours in my Xcode projects and had a lot of fun in doing this… Sad but true, but it is many years ago since I felt such an enthusiasm.

But my roots are Notes/Domino based, so I didn’t went too far away from that and decided trying to create an iOS app for our internal team calendar. This Notes database collects all non private calendar entries from our team and provides a single point of information when looking for available times or just to see where my colleagues are around and what they are currently doing. Yes I know, that may be a “privacy concern” in many companies, but most of my colleagues find it very useful and so I do.

The app is not yet finished (maybe it will never be), it has not a really nice and fancy UI and I’m still undecided whether to release it to the App-Store or not. But I want to share some early thoughts and screenshots, maybe someone would like to give me some feedback.

All you need is a small Notes database which collects and updates automatically all configured calendars.

  • The app synchronizes automatically in background with this database or manually
  • You can define the range of synchronized data in the app, but also in the Notes database
  • Login credentials will be stored encrypted in the app

Some points on my implementation list, but not yet done:

  • Include Apple Maps to show the location of your colleagues if possible
  • Direct connection to the REST API to allow same functionality without a separate Notes database
  • Select the Users you want to synchronize on your device
  • Include more information about the users to allow mailto or call functionality
  • Localization for different languages and time zones
  • iPad version

Any feedback and recommendations are very welcome! More details on http://teamcal.info

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Filed under: iOS

IBM Connect 2014: Mail Next and Social Collaboration Demo

17. Februar 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Update: Unfortunately, IBM has removed this video. At the moment, I can find only a connections demo without the cool Mail Next stuff on youtube…


Filed under: IBM Connections, IBM Notes/Domino

Rebranding insights from Kramer Reeves

4. Februar 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Some clarifications about the new product names: https://www.socialbizug.org/blogs/Kramer/entry/branding_insights

I like short product names like “IBM Notes” or “IBM Docs”, but IBM obviously not…

  • IBM Connections (including files, profiles, activities, wikis, forums, etc)
  • IBM Connections Docs
  • IBM Connections Chat
  • IBM Connections Meetings
  • IBM Connections Mail (including mail, calendar, contacts, etc)
  • IBM Connections Content Manager

IBM Notes / Domino will not be rebranded (at the moment), but with Mail Next we will definitely get new names… IBM Connections Notes? IBM Connections Domino? Hopefully not!

Another interesting fact is that the IBM Mail Next component will be offered as a stand alone “Client” for Domino without IBM Connections.
But I’m quite sure this is just a licensing model and a full connections installation (and more) will be necessary.


Filed under: IBM Connections, IBM Notes/Domino

Die Zukunft von Notes/Domino…ist IBM Mail…oder doch nicht?

28. Januar 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Ok, die ersten beiden Tage IBM Connect 2014 liegen hinter mir und es gab wirklich anders als erwartet eine Menge Neuigkeiten.

Ganze zu Beginn, ich komme aus der Lotus Notes Welt und finde die Richtung die IBM einschlägt konsequent und sinnvoll, auch wenn viele den Produktnamen nachweinen oder Angst haben sich jetzt mit neuen Technologien beschäftigen zu müssen. Ich sehe das alles als eine Chance für die Zukunft und auch im Hinblick auf die Konkurrenzprodukte als ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal.

Was ich auch als Randnotiz sehr wohlwollend bemerkt habe, ist die Tatsache dass endlich aufgehört wird zu propagieren, dass Mails “old school” sind und sowieso bald verschwinden werden. Ganz im Gegenteil, wir alle kämpfen mit der täglichen Mail Flut und IBM stellt diese Arbeitsweise wieder in den Mittelpunkt und liefert Optimierungsmöglichkeiten um diesen zentralen Punkt unseres Arbeitstages zu verbessern und mit den neuen Social Business Systemen zu verbinden.

Aber nun mal zu den Fakten.

Fakt 1: Notes/Domino, aber auch Sametime werden alle in die Brand “IBM Connections” integriert

Das ist nur logisch, denn die Produkte wachsen immer weiter zusammen und den vollen Mehrwert des viel beworbenen “Social Business” hat man einfach nicht wenn man sich nur einen Connections Server hin stellt, sondern nur wenn alle Produkte tief ineinander greifen. Wie die einzelnen Produkte dann später ganz genau genannt werden ist ja im Grunde auch egal. Es wird aber wie in der Vergangenheit auch, weiterhin möglich sein die Produkte einzeln zu installieren und zu verwenden. Also keine Angst, dass jetzt alle Domino Kunden irgendwie nach Connections migrieren müssen!

Fakt 2: IBM Mail Next ist die Zukunft

Mail Next ist die Weiterentwicklung von IBM Connections Mail. Tief in die Systeme integriert, mit Analytics Funktionen um der alltäglichen Mailflut Herr zu werden. Aber auch sehr viel mehr als nur eine Inbox oder ein Kalender, Mail Next wird ein komplettes Dashboard, um auf alle Daten der verschiedenen Systeme zugreifen zu können. Als Backend sind natürlich die entsprechenden Connections, Sametime, aber auch Domino Server nötig.

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Fakt 3: Es wird auch weiterhin einen Notes Client geben

Das Thema, das sich auch schon zuletzt mit iNotes und Browser Plugin angekündigt hat, wird konsequent weiterentwickelt, nämlich die Flexibilität. Die Mail- und Applikationsplattform ist und bleibt Domino. Für die Wahl des Clients, wie ich auf Domino zugreife, habe ich eine große Auswahl an Möglichkeiten. Zukünftig z.B. auch direkt über den Outlook Client wenn ich das denn unbedingt möchte.

Fazit

Jetzt mal ganz aus meiner ursprünglichen Lotus Notes Sicht gesehen geht IBM einen großen Schritt nach vorne. Wenn ich mir IBM Notes/Domino (formerly known as Lotus Notes/Domino) anschaue, ist genau das Feedback der meisten Kunden umgesetzt worden. Der Domino Server bleibt bestehen und wird tiefer mit den anderen Produkten verbunden. Der Notes Client (über den sich die meisten Kunden und Enduser beschweren) hat zwar weiterhin auch seine Vorteile, wenn diese mich aber nicht überzeugen habe ich noch andere Alternativen meine tägliche Arbeit schnell und effektiv zu erledigen.

Es gibt natürlich noch sehr viel mehr im Detail zu berichten, dazu folgt in den nächsten Tagen sicherlich noch der ein oder anderer Blog post…


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino

IBM Connect 2014, meine ersten Eindrücke

27. Januar 2014 Posted by Stephan Kopp

In der Opening Session gab es einen ersten Ausblick auf die nächsten Versionen.

IBM Mail Next

Nein, nicht “Notes Next” aber auch nicht “Connections Mail Next”, das gefällt mir persönlich sehr gut…
Domino wird weiterhin die strategische Plattform bleiben für Mail und auch für Applikationen.
Darauf wurde explizit hingewiesen, also keine Befürchtungen, dass Domino verschwinden wird.

Von einem Notes Client war aber keine Rede, was meiner Meinung nach auch höchste Zeit ist.
Es wird ENDLICH einen reinen Mail Client geben, die Preview sah schonmal wirklich sehr gut aus.
Der Mail Client ist rein Browser basiert.
Update:
Es wird weiterhin auch einen Notes Client geben, aber nur als eine unter vielen Client Optionen (unter anderem wird z.B. auch der direkte Zugriff mit Outlook möglich sein).

Natürlich ist das komplette IBM Collaboration Portfolio integriert, also Connections, Sametime, etc.
Auch Analytics Komponenten sollen bei der täglichen Arbeit helfen und die Mail Flut organisieren und priorisieren.
Eine offline Funktionalität für Mail und Archive wird es auch geben.
Sieht alles sehr gut aus, was davon dann später im fertigen Produkt landet bleibt abzuwarten.
In der Cloud soll die neue Version wohl schon in Q2 verfügbar sein.

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IBM Connections Next

Neben vielen Verbesserungen wird es eine Möglichkeit geben, sehr einfach auch mit externen Usern in einer Connections Umgebung zusammen zu arbeiten. Das wird höchste Zeit und ein sehr wichtiges Feature, ich kann externe User einfach per eMail einladen.

Cloud, Cloud und nochmal Cloud

Im Vergleich zum letzten Jahr wurde nocheinmal eine große Schippe auf das Cloud Marketing drauf gelegt…
Die volle Integration aller Produkte wie Notes, Sametime, Connections, usw. ist zwar möglich, macht Sinn und sieht gut aus, ist in der eigenen Umgebung aber meist mit viel Arbeit verbunden. Deswegen wird eine Cloud Lösung für viele Kunden sehr viel interessanter werden um die Integrationsmöglichkeiten voll ausschöpfen zu können ohne einen riesen Aufwand zu betreiben.

Weitere Infos folgen im Laufe der Woche…


Filed under: General

New version of ACL & Cluster Tool published on OpenNTF

11. November 2013 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Today, I published a new version of my ACL & Cluster tool.

Changes:
- New feature to apply the mail-/homeserver of each mailfile owner as adminserver

ACLClusterTool

- from the setup document, you can now send console commands to execute the agents immediatelly (useful for testing)

FuM_Client

For more details and download, go to the project page on OpenNTF

Feature requests and bug reports are very welcome!


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino, Tools

New features of IBM Notes/Domino 9.0.1 and Traveler 9.0.1

29. Oktober 2013 Posted by Stephan Kopp

The new release is now available for download.

The detailed release notes are not yet completely available, but hopefully soon.

Some of the new features from the “What’s new documents”…

Notes 9.0.1

Search Directory For results are now displayed in alphabetical order

Add, remove, or modify online meeting information in an existing calendar entry

XULRunner upgraded to version 10.0.6

Notes Browser Plugin 9.0.1

Some new notes.ini parameters are available.

Details can be found here.

Domino 9.0.1

New ODS Version 52

Bug fixes for large encrypted databases, no new features known so far.
CREATE_R9_DATABASES=1 to allow compact -c to upgrade the ODS

Server configuration settings for Social Edition are expanded

You can now enable or disable the use of locked domains and of SSL for OAuth redirect URLs.
For more information, see the related topic on the configuration settings document for servers that run Shindig.

Security – new features

Federated login password improvement

You can now use a security policy to prevent use of client passwords in the ID vault when federated login is configured.
For more information, see the related topic on the security settings policy federated login configuration.

Web SSO configuration now has custom cookie fields

The new fields LtpaToken2 Custom cookie name and LtpaToken Custom cookie name in the Web SSO Configuration document allow you to specify cookie names useful to your organization, for example, a name compatible with WebSphere®.
For more information, see the related topic on creating a Web SSO configuration document.

Ability to prevent loading of Java code on client

For more information, see the technote Ability to leverage ECL mechanism to control what Java code gets loaded in the context of Notes documents in the related topics.

Widgets and Embedded Experiences – new features

The OpenSocial component can now run on clustered Domino servers

In general, you can configure the OpenSocial component to run in a cluster by specifying the host name of the load balancer or reverse-proxy (ip sprayer) network device rather than the host name of a single Domino server running Shindig.

For more information, see the procedures under the related topic on setting up the Domino server to run the OpenSocial component and Shindig.

OpenSocial widgets now have approval history and expanded status information

The Widget document in the catalog has a new Approval History section showing when each status change occurs, who makes it, and the action that causes it. The Approval History section is visible to users listed in the ACL of the Widget Catalog application with the [Admins] role

The following actions cause a status change:

An administrator approves a widget.

An administrator removes approval for a widget.

Either an administrator or a widget author updates an approved widget, thus removing approval from the widget.

For more information, see the related topics on widget approval.

The widget catalog has a new column showing the approved state of each widget. The Approved State column appears in the All Widgets, By Author, By Category and By Type views. There are several states for a widget:

Needs Review : the widget has not been reviewed by an administrator.

No Approval Needed : the widget has been reviewed and does not require further approval.

Needs Approval : the widget has been reviewed and requires further approval.

Approved : the widget has been approved by an administrator.

In the XPages user interface of the widget catalog, a green checkmark icon shows widgets that are approved, and widgets that have been reviewed and do not need further approval. No icon displays for widgets that are not approved or have not been reviewed.

In addition, widget users now can see approval state in the client sidebar. For more information, see the topic What are the My Widgets sidebar panel toolbar options? in IBM Notes® 9.0.1 Social Edition Help.

Link to classic user interface for administering widgets

In the Notes client, if you are in the XPages user interface and need to administer widget approval, you can use a new Administration link at the end of the widget view list to open the classic user interface.

The OpenSocial component no longer requires client NOTES.INI setting ENABLE_EE

If you upgrade all Notes clients in your organization to 9.0.1, the NOTES.INI setting ENABLE_EE=1 used in 9.0 is not required. If, however, you still have some clients running 9.0, continue to use a desktop settings policy to set ENABLE_EE=1 for all affected clients. Also, if you need to disable Embedded Experiences, you can set ENABLE_EE=0 in the policy. For more information, see the related topic on creating policies for the OpenSocial component.

Traveler 9.0.1

Adaptive Initial Sync

Adaptive Initial Sync (AIS) is a new feature in IBM Notes Traveler 9.0.1 that helps ensure server availability in certain situations, such as bringing a server online or recovery scenarios.

MobileIron support for Android devices

Organizations using MobileIron to manage their mobile applications will now be able to take advantage of MobileIron application management capabilities with the IBM Notes Traveler client for Android, including the ability to provision application configuration settings, manage access through MobileIron Sentry, and enforce MobileIron application specific security polices. For more information, refer to this articleexternal link.

MobileIron support for Companion and ToDo applications on Apple iOS devices

Organizations using MobileIron to manage their mobile applications will now be able to take advantage of MobileIron application management capabilities with the IBM Notes Traveler Companion and ToDo apps for Apple iOS devices. For more information, refer to this articleexternal link.

Return receipts for Android devices

On IBM Notes Traveler for Android device, you can now elect to receive return receipts when your mail has been opened


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino, Lotus Traveler

Using iNotes as your default mail client

16. Oktober 2013 Posted by Stephan Kopp

Did you know that you can configure iNotes as your default mail client?

I didn’t know that and answered this question wrong many times, sorry for that to all persons concerned…

The new iNotes 9 is great and in many disussions we came to this question:
“iNotes is great, but can we use it with the send to function of windows?” – YES, you can!

I never noticed that it is possible, because I use Internet Explorer only as a download tool for a better browser…
You see this option in your iNotes Preferences NOT in Firefox or Chrome!

Just open your iNotes Preferences Basics tab:

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And hit the button “make default”:

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Now you can use all Operating System mail integrations even with iNotes.

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(sorry, it is a german screenshot, but I think you know what I want to explain…)

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And if you implement SPNEGO, your users even don’t have to login to use iNotes…

That’s quite a good user experience for a webmail interface in my opinion!

 


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino

iNotes still shows old design after upgrading mailfiles with german mailtemplate to version 9.0

30. September 2013 Posted by Stephan Kopp

This bug is well known since the release of Domino 9 language packs, but I still can’t find a new download with a fixed mailtemplate version…

Currently many customers in Germany are upgrading to version 9 and may now getting into trouble because of this issue. So I post again this solution found in the IBM Forum, but with a little bit different coding.

The problem:
After upgrading a Domino server to version 9.0, your users might also want to use a german mailtemplate with version 9 features. That’s not a big deal, just put the german mailtemplate to your server and upgrade the maildatabase design. But this DOES NOT work for iNotes, users will still see the old version 8.5 iNotes!

The reason:
There is a hidden field in the database icon called “$FormsTemplateFile”, which provides the filename of the Forms.nsf to be used within iNotes. This Field should contain “iNotes/Forms9.nsf” to use the new version of iNotes, but sadly it contains “iNotes/Forms85.nsf”.

The solution:
The fastes solution is to delete the Forms85.nsf from your server and immediatelly all  users will see the new and very nice iNotes.

But in many cases, you don’t want to upgrade the userinterface of iNotes for all users without providing them also the new client and new mailtemplate. That’s why you should fix the bug in the german mailtemplate. Then you can provide your users a broad upgrade of all userinterfaces in one step (Notes Client, Mailtemplate + iNotes).

1. Step: Download my tool and open it

2. Step: Open the tool, press the button and apply the fix to your template

3. Step: Put the template to your server (sign it if necessary)

4. Step: Test the new template and then use it during your upgrade

DISCLAIMER: Techniques and code provided here are not guaranteed or warranted in any way and are free for you to use at your own risk


Filed under: IBM Notes/Domino