by Michael Urspringer
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:
Customer reported the following Quickr 8.5.1 (Domino) problems:
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…
Dropbox does not allow you to set the name of the root folder for Dropbox on your Windows PC. It is always called “Dropbox”. If you want to change that name you need to change it manually by editing the configuration file.
As the configuration file is a SQLite database you will need to use a database editor like the SQLite Database Browser.Then perform the following steps:
Just in case I do not remember it the next time:
The NOTES.INI variable
ADMIN_CLIENT_SKIP_DOMINO=1
prevents loading of the files in the data\domino directory of the server. This speeds up the loading time of the “Files” tab in the Lotus Domino Administration client.
You need to set that variable in the NOTES.INI of the Domino server.
If you are working with files in the Quickr connector you might sometimes not be able to open a file in a Quickr place. This could be because the maximum allowed path length of the locally stored copy of the file has ben exceeded.quickr
The Quickr connector is using a cache area on the local file system to store temporary copies of the file being worked on. By default, this directory is found in Window XP at
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Libraries\quickr85\<placename>\
or with a German Windows XP
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\<username>\Libraries\quickr85\<placename>\
Below of that directory Quick creates different subdirectories for Folder and Rooms. In the worst case (document is located in a room and in a sub folder in that room; it does not matter how deep the level of nested rooms and folders is) the path length will be:
47 Characters (German: 52)
+ Windows Username
+ Place Title (without special characters)
+ Place-ID (like: @P<placeURL>)
+ 33 character Room ID (like: @RPageLibraryC125788F002A2846.nsf)
+ 14 character Folder ID of a subfolder (like: @Fm0NLJXiPKlSR)
+ 34 character Document ID (like: @D32FB5E1F4D38DA9AC125788F002A5A78)
That means the path length is at least 130 (47+2+33+14+34) (German: 135) characters plus number of characters of user name and 2x the number of characters of the place URL.
Example:
Username: Administrator (13 characters)
Place Title: acmeteamplacetest (17 Zeichen)
For the cache directory 177 (130 + 13 + 17 + 17) (German: 182) characters are needed.
Windows has a maximum allowed path length of 260 characters (one character is an end marker so effective only 259 characters)..
For the file name of a file, which should be opened by the Quickr connector, only 259 – 177 = 82 (German: 77) characters remain.
If you want to work with files in MS Office the maximum allowed path length is shorter than Windows allows. It is for
MS Word: 242 characters (including one end marker; effective: 241))
MS Excel: 218 Zeichen (including one end marker; effective: 217))
In the example above the maximum allowed length of the file name would be in
MS Word: 241 – 177 = 64 (German: 59) characters
MS Excel: 217 – 177 = 40 (German: 35) characters
As you can see, the maximum length of a filename which can be opened by the Quickr connector is depending on several things factors and you cannot exactly say where the upper limit will be.
In general you should try to keep the file name as short as possible. Using a shorter place title will also increase the maximum allowed file name length.
I just learned about a product called “Quickr Webdav” by Lialis which looks very promising to me as I had some requests in the past which could be solved with that product.
I had no time by now to examine it in more detail but I wanted to make you aware of it in the meantime.
In the package of the Lotus Quickr Connector HF7 you will find several files which were not existing in earlie versions. These files are not needed for the connectos but have been included unintentionally.
To update the connectors on the Quickr server you just neeed to copy the file QKRCONN.EXE to the path “<Domino data>\domino\html” and replace the existing one. You can delete the “buildinfo.txt” in the same directory as it is no longer needed.
To install the connectors only the QKRCONN.EXE is needed from te ZIP file. You can safely ignore the other files (except the readme file 😉
I do not have an Airprint-ready printer at home. But with the help of a little free tool I managed to configure my Canon MG8150 as a device which will be recognized by both iPhone and iPad.
Just download the AirPrint activator for Windows and run it one time. You need to make sure to use “Run as administrator” as a service needs to be installed.
If you have activated the local Windows firewall you need to add a rule to allow incoming traffic for “c:\airprint\airprint.exe”. Although it was not described in the help I needed also to add a rule to allow incoming UDP traffic on port 5353.
Now you can just select “Print” in iOS and your shared Windows printer will available for selection. Just enter your Windows user / password one time and you are able to print from your iOS devices.
[Update 02.03.2012]
As the above software is no longer working for me and I did not find out the reason, I have changed to “Fingerprint” now. It does cost a little bit but it is working like a charm even with iOS 5.1.
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.