Author: <span>kenio.carvalho</span>

Thetechnote  1447614 outlines the steps to install Multi-user 8.5.1 or later releases, on Citrix XenApp with a customized data directory for new and existing Notes Installs.  These instructions do not include steps to store the data directory on a remote file share, because this configuration is not supported.

I search for information about upgrading ODS to a new version to support a Domino migration  and justify the upgrade of the ODS.

The summary is bellow.

On-Disk Structure (ODS)

Every major release of Notes/Domino (e.g., versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7 ,8 and 8.5 ) has included significant architectural changes to the database structure, also known as the On-Disk Structure (ODS). These architectural changes enables the Notes and Domino development team to improve performance and scalability in each release. Upgrading the databases provides a lot of benefits, with very low risk, so this has always been an important early step in any Notes and Domino upgrade plan.

The ODS version for each major release of Notes and Domino is as follows:

• v2 — ODS 16/16.3
• v3 — ODS 17/17.3
• v4 — ODS 20
• v5 — ODS 41
• v6/v7 — ODS 43
• v8 — ODS 48
• v8.5 — ODS 51

The impersonation feature lets you access another user’s system as though you are that user. This is a new feature of WebSphere Portal 7.
The impersonation feature lets you view new pages, portlets, and other portal components. Users such as support specialists can use the impersonation feature to find issues and errors.

But pay attention on this two things:

Client side aggregation does not support user impersonation. For this reason, ensure you do not activate client side aggregation on any portal pages where the impersonation portlet is deployed.

User impersonation and people awareness: When a user who is enabled for impersonation impersonates other users, the people awareness feature is disabled for the entire session for which that user is authenticated.

From TN 1507380

Domino server 8.5.2.3 (Fix Pack 3) changed one of the API calls that the Lotus Traveler server uses.  Running Domino 8.5.2.3 and Lotus Traveler 8.5.2.3 (or lower Fix Pack level) can cause a server crash scenario.

Traveler 8.5.2.4 (includes APAR LO62635) is available from Traveler Recommended Maintenancepage.

The InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes configuration file (LotusNotes853.itw) was inadvertently excluded from the 8.5.3 Notes Standard client, All Client (Notes, Admin, Designer) webkits and ISO images. The absence of this file will affect Administrators using the InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes to generate a transform file for customized installations on Windows.

The missing file can be downloaded directly from  Fix Central (Fix ID = Notes_853_ITWFile).

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Compressing and decompressing files on linux

The table above is from this link

Workaround for restricting the Users to Forward Mail Using SendCopy To from the Mail Rule. Its from TN1516384

To avoid certain user from creating a rule to automatically forward messages to their external email address is by removing the ‘send copy to|B’ field from the action field in the mail template.

This can be done by editing the mail template in the designer client.

1. Make a copy of the mail template (mail85.ntf) and change the name as mail85_test.ntf
2. Open the mail template(mail85_test.ntf) in designer Client                          
3. Form folder >> Open the ‘RulesDlg’ form                            
4. Double click on action field                                      
5. Click on second tab ‘Control’                                      
6. Under the choices, delete the option ‘send copy to|B’              
7. After deleting the option, an empty space still shows. Press delete button again to remove blank space.                                  
8. Press Esc on Keyboard and click on Save button to save the changes.

Open the user mail file in notes client and replace the design with Mail Template (mail85_test.ntf). Once the design replace is completed, user will not be able to see “send copy to” action field.

Therefore , we can prevent users from forwarding mails using a send copy to by making changes in mail template.

When you work with WebSphere Portal you must understand the basics of an LDAP Server, go and download this Redbook

You need a tool called Browser.

 For several years i used Softerra Ldap Browser and JXPlorer but now  i use Apache Directory Studio it’s Eclipse Based and good tool.