Fixpack 4 for Quickr 8.5.1 (Domino) and Hotfix 6 for the Quickr Connectors have just been released on FixCentral. Especiallay if you have upgraded (or want to upgrade) your Quickr 8.2 server to 8.5.1 I would recommend to upgrade both the server and the connector as several migration issues have been solved.
Several times I had only wired Internet access in my hotel room and I was unable to connect my iPhone and iPad to the Internet. From now on this should no longer be a problem.
My new Trendnet TEW-654TR just arrived. It is a very small (60x80x18,5 mm) Wifi router / access point. You connect it to an Ethernet port (Router/DSL modem…) and you can then connect your WiFi devices and use the wired Internet connection.
It was very easy to set up and it works very well at least here at home. So I am curious how it will work the next time in a hotel room.
… then there could be a solution if your PC has a motherboard from Asus or Gigabyte. As the iPad does need more power than the 500 mA which a standard USB port provides, the iPad does only charge while in suspend mode if it is connected to a standard USB port and then only very slowly..
I found a software for my Asus motherboard and also for motherboards from Gigabyte which provides a solution for that. I just tried it with my PC and it really works. No experience yet if it does charge as fast as with the Apple charger but at least it charges while beeing used.
If a user deletes the Welcome page in a Quickr 8.2 place the “What’s new” section is also lost. Although there is no possibility for a user to re-create it, an administrator can do so. Here are the steps:
- Create a new page and call it “Welcome” (or whatever you like).
- Open the MAIN.NSF of the place with a Notes client.
- Switch to the QDK view, search the new document and open it for editing.
- Set the value of the field “h_SystemName” to “h_Welcome” (case sensitive!)
- Save the document and close MAIN.NSF
Now your newly created document should contain the “What’s new” section again.
As almost everytime after upgrading Virtualbox to a major version I had trouble to get it up and running on my Ubuntu host. This time I upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0.4 and had the following issues:
Vboxtool no longer working:
I am using Vboxtool to manage my virtual machines from the command line. This tool stopped working because a major redesign of the VBoxManage command. I found a hacked version here. This version works for me.
No access to the virtual machines via RDP:
I was able to start my virtual machines but I could no longer connect to them via the RDP protocol. There were two issues here:
First I neeeded to start the VirtualBox Manager and go to “File -> Preferences -> General”. Choose “Reset” in the field “RDP Authentication Library”. Afterwards it should read “VBoxAuth” instead of “VRDPAuth” which was here before.
In addition you need to install the Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack as this seems to provide the RDP functionality. You can download it from here. You need to be root to install it (or run Virtualbox Manager with sudo).
After completeing the steps above Virtualbox now seems to run again …
BTW: A step by step instruction to install Virtualbox 4.0.4 on an Ubuntu host can be found here.
Although Lotus Quickr 8.5 does support multiple languages by selecting the desired language in the browser, the online help is only available in English by default. If you need to replace the online help with a different language, please follow the instructions in this Wiki article.
This will replace the english help with the one you choose.
If you want to have the online help available in more than one language, you can save more than one MAIN.NSF in the help directory with different names. You then can place an additional link to that database in your custom theme.
Just learned about two small tools for Lotus Quickr (Domino):
Essential Place Catalog
Essential Place Catalog is a Notes database that reads the “Place Catalog” on your Quickr server and puts the information into an easy-to-understand, and easy-on-the-eyes format.
A breeze to install and use, Essential Place Catalog provides you with the information you need for:
- Information about every Place on your server, such as size, owners, last accessed, etc.
- Ability to see all the Places a particular person Manages
- Ability to see all the Places a user is a member of
- Ability to see all members of a particular Place
- Ability to see the inactive Places
- Ability to see the biggest places
and
Essential File Extractor
One of the many uses for a Quickr server is to organize files into Places. But what if you need to get all the files off your Quickr server for some reason? Essential File Extractor is the answer.
With Essential File Extractor, you can extract the files from selected places on a Quickr server onto the file system. The output goes into the folder specified in the configuration document, and based on the place name.
If you need to get files out of Quickr, there is no quicker way to do it.
Both tools are currently free of charge until end of Lotusphere 2011 and can be downloaded from RPR Wyatt’s website.
I wish all readers of my blog a Merry Christmas!
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A new book and eBook about “IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration” will be released in January:
Overview of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration
- Gain a thorough understanding of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 Team Collaboration, Repository, and Connectors
- Recommended best practices to upgrade to the latest version of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5
- Customize logos, colors, templates, and more to your designs without much effort
- A combination of technical insights, step-by-step instructions, and guidelines to successfully enable team collaboration within your enterprise
