Faxen mit der Fritz!Box 7170

Seit einiger Zeit kann man über die Fritz!Box auch FAxe versenden, ohne dass man zusätzlich eine ISDN-Karte eingebaut haben muss.

Genaueres hierzu findet sich auf dieser Webseite.

Bei mir gab es aber nach der Installation der Software das Problem, daß die Faxsoftware nach dem Starten erst einmal eine Kunstpause eingelegt hat, während der sie die Fritz!Box im LAN gesucht hat. Nach einigen Minuten wurde die Box dann auch problemlos gefunden und die Software startete auch korrekt. Beim nächsten Aufruf war aber wieder Warten angesagt.

Um diese Wartezeit zu verhindern, habe ich folgenden Registry-Key eingetragen (und damit die IP-Adresse meiner Box der Software bekannt gemacht, damit sie nicht mehr suchen musste):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AVM\AVMIGDCTRL]
“FoundFritzBoxes”=”192.168.1.1”

Danach läuft nun alles ganz ohne Wartezeit ab und funktioniert auch einwandfrei.

Frohe Weihnachten

Allen Lesern meiner Seiten wünsche ich ein frohes und geruhsames Weihnachtsfest.

Dieses Jahr wird’s bei uns ganz sicher etwas ruhiger, da mich rechtzeitig zu den freien Tagen eine starke Erkältung erwischt hat und ich seit 3 Tagen schon im Bett stecke. Heute musste ich dann doch den ärztlichen Notdienst bemühen und mir eine Dosis Antibiotika abholen, da es eher schlimmer als besser wird.

Melde mich dann wieder, wenn ich einigermaßen auf dem Damm bin.

Lotus Quickr (Domino) Hotfix 6Hotfix 7

This time I just modify my last post from yesterday evening …. instead of Hotfix 6 it now reads simply Hotfix 7 🙂

This time I am a little bit late…. Hotfix 6 Hotfix 7 for Lotus Quickr (Domino Services) is out since yesterday. BTW: There was no public Hotfix 5 as far as I know …

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In the hotfix documentation you now will also find some instructions what to do after applying the fix.

I am not sure if the comamnds are in the correct order as they write:
• Upgrade all the places and Placetypes:
load qptool upgrade -f –a
• Upgrade all the databases on the server:
load qptool upgrade -f –server
I am quite sure that you should do it the other way round (as it was decsribed in the past) but I am still trying to verify this.

They now have corrected the order in the readme of Hotfix 7.

In addition to the commands you have to run in the past you now should also unregister and register all places again afterwards:

load qptool unregister -a -placecatalog
load qptool register -a -placecatalog

Using SSL with Lotus Quickr (Domino)

If you want to use SSL for Lotus Quickr (Domino Services) you have to do three four different things:

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1. Configure the Domino HTTP task correctly for HTTPS

2. Activate SSL for the Domain catalog server and set the correct port numberi n QPCONFIG.XML:

 <search_places …..”> 
   <domain_catalog_server ssl=”true”> 
      <port>443</port> 
      <domino_server_name>………<domino_server_name> 
      <hostname>………..</hostname> 
   </domain_catalog_server> 
</search_places> 

3. Activate SSL for cluster

 <cluster> 
   <master ….. ssl=”true”> 
      <port>443</port> 
      <hostname>……….</hostname> 
      <path_prefix></path_prefix> 
   </master> 
</cluster> 

Important: It is not quite obvious that you have to do step 3 also in a non-clustered environment. But if you do not add this configuration option you end up with connector links which do no longer work. Instead of links like “https://servername.domain/……” you get links like “https://servername.domain:80/……” which will not work because of the wrong port number.

Update:

There is another thing to do:

4. Unregister and register the server again:

On the Domino server console run the following commands:

load qptool unregister -server
load qptool register -server

Otherwise the links in MyPlaces will still point to “http://” instead of “https://”.

Some issues while upgrading Lotus Quickr (Domino)

While upgrading Lotus Quickr 8.0 to 8.0.0.2 (HF4) at a customer site we experienced two problems:

The first thing was that the command “l qptool upgrade -f -a”, which you have to do in order to get all places upgraded to the new version, promotes all place managers to super users. So you should check your places afterwards and correct them if necessary. A PMR is opened and currently under investigation. You can see a corresponding message also in the Domino server logs (“Upgrade: Upgrading Place ‘Main.nsf’, promoting ‘CN=xxx yyy’ to SuperUser.”) if you set a higher log level for the upgrade process (set the variable “QuickPlaceUpgradeLogging=4” in the NOES.INI before running the upgrade command; attention: you will get many messages if you do have many places to upgrade, so be careful by using this parameter).

The other issue was that after upgrading all places the users did not see any documents in the Quickr connectors. The reasons seems to be that “l qptool upgrade -f -a” did not upgrade the places correctly. What worked for us was to issue the command “l qptool upgrade -f -a” again. after the second run all places worked correctly with the connector again. Another PMR was opened for that as well.

Lotus Quickr: New QPCONFIG.XML parameters

With version 8.0.0.2 of Lotus Quickr (Domino Services) there are several new parameters which can be configured in the QPCONFIG.XML. It is worth a look into the QPCONFIG_SAMPLE.XML after upgrading the server.

Some of the new parameters control …

… if clicking on a place link opens a new browser window or not
… if public places should be listed in “MyPlaces” for anonymous users

Lotus Quickr: Special characters in user name cause problems

If you have special characters (e.g. German umlaut) as part of the Lotus Notes user name and are using Lotus Quickr (Domino Services) you might experience problems with the Quickr connectors.

As soon as you add a user who has a special character in his name as a Superuser of to place, all users who have access to this place will no longer see any places in their connector list.

The problem is already reported to developement.

The only currently available workaround is to give a maximum of Manager access to such users.

This again shows that it is a good recommendation not to use special characters for user names ….