Lotus Quickr (Domino): Create a new SEARCH.NSF

It is not really new but just to make sure anybody is aware of it:

In earlier versions of Quickr, creating a new SEARCH.NSF for a  Quickr place was a manual process. With Quickr 8.5.1 and a current fixpack level (not sure which fixpack exactly introduced it…) you do have a QPTOOL command available to do the job.

Just run delete the existing SEARCH.NSF of a Quickr place and create it by running the following command on the Domino console:

load qptool createsearch -p <placename>

I recommend to do that every time you e.g. move a place from one server to another. In case you do have a Domino cluster, be also aware of the fact that the SEARCH.NSF is not a replica and needs to be created on all cluster members seperately (The QPTOOL REPLICAMAKER command will take care of that automatically).

Lotus Quickr (Domino): Do NOT use “/QP” as certifier

I think it is somewhere documented but just to make sure everybody is aware of it:

Do never use a certifier for organizational unit or organization for Quickr (Domino) users (also valid if using LDAP!) which is named “/QP”. “/QP” is used internally by Quickr and you will get into trouble in this case. E.g. if you will register a place with the command “qptool register -install” all directory users with such a certifier will no longer be able to access their places as they will be converted to local place users.

You will need to manually correct all these users by using “qptool changehierarchy” after each register command.

I am quite sure there might be other problems as well so the best would be not to use such a certifier at all.

Lotus Quickr (Domino): Maximum Size of Lists

There was a question regarding the maximum size of lists in Quickr (Domino) and the related parameters in QPCONFIG.XML. Here are the answers from support:

  • There is no enforced limit on the number of rows, if the “lists/sizeOfList” element is commented out in qpconfig.xml.  If that line is not commented out, then the maximum number of rows is the value of the “lists/sizeOflList” element in qpconfig.xml.
  • The maximum number of columns allowed in a list is 64.
  • The qpconfig parameter “lists/sizeOfSpreadsheet” means: maximum number of rows that can be in a spreadsheet that is used to import data into a list and the parameter “lists/sizeOfList” means the maximum number of items (aka rows) that a list may have.

Lotus Sametime: People Search not working

At a customer we did have the problem that the people search within the Lotus Sametime client was no longer working.

The users did get the message “Required directory or configuration information is missing” and in SAMETIME.LOG you could see the error “Open directory has failed – internal error (0x3)”.

The customer was using Lotus Domino as LDAP server. The problem could be solved by setting the LDAP timeout value back to 0 seconds (which is also the default). They set the value to “15” before.

You can change this in the Domino default configuration document under “LDAP -> Timout”.

After restarting the LDAP task the people search did work as expected again.

Lotus Domino: Change NIC Sequence Windows 2008 Server to be able to run server controller

If you do have multiple network interfaces (e.g. one for user, one for cluster, one for backup etc.) in a server with Windows 2008 you need to make sure that your main network interface is the first one in the sequence. Otherwise you might not be to connect to the Domino server controller. You will get the message “Either the Server Controller is not running on host <server name> or is not listening on port 2050” although the server and controller are running

To change the sequence of the network cards do the following:

  • Click on “Network and Internet” -> “View Network Status and Tasks (Network sharing Center)” -> Change Adapter Settings
  • Press “Alt-N”
  • Click on “Advanced” -> “Advanced Settings” -> “Connections: Change NIC Sequence”
  • Now put your the main network interface card on top of the list and save the configuration.

iPhone Shortcuts

If you do not want to jailbreak your iPhone you may be missing an easy way to access some of your iPhone settings. You may use the following tool (it is in fact an iPhone profile you need to install). It installs shortcuts for some important settings on your dashboard:

iPhone Shortcuts

You can also do that manually with a tool called QuickButton. With that you can also shortcuts which are currently not part of 2iPhone Shortcuts”:

SBSettings-Ersatz auch ohne Jailbreak

Sorry, all links are only available in German.

I like it 😉

Domino 8.5.3: PIRC

Domino 8.5.3 has a new functionality called PIRC (Purge Interval Replication Control):

Purge Interval Replication Control (PIRC) is a new replication setting which is designed to prevent old documents which may have been deleted from replicating back into a database after their deletion stubs have been purged.

As this is not yet included in the admin help, here is a technote describing this new feature:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21501675

Quickr: “QPWS: Error. Could not open temp file …”

Customer reported the following Quickr 8.5.1 (Domino) problems:

  • Error message on the Domino console “QPWS: Error. Could not open temp file <..> to read.”
  • Users can upload documents via WebUI and Quickr connector but the documents appear to be empty and no attachment is inside.
  • Users get the message “Unknown Error: 500” in te connector while trying to open existing documents.

The root cause for that issue seemed to be a large number of files in the Windows temp directory (“C:\WINDOWS\TEMP”). There were more than 64k files inside the temp directory. After deleting all files and restarting Domino everything worked fine again.

Although there is no limit of 64k files in one folder with NTFS as far as I know, there is a limitation of the “GetTempFileName” function which can only create a maximum of 65,535 unique file names. However this is only a guess by myself…