Lockout ID has no effect when using security policies

If you are using Domino security policies – e.g. to define password quality or password change interval - and the “Lockout ID” functionality to prevent users from accessing the Lotus Notes environment, you should pay attention to the following technote:

-> Global policy setting ignores ‘Lockout ID’ setting in Person document

From what I have tested so far it doesn’t matter whether it’s a global / organizational or explicit policy. As soon as you assign a policy including a security setting document to a user, setting the “Check password” field to “Lockout ID” has no effect and the user can still access the Domino server.

I bet there are many Domino administrators out there who wrongly trust the “Lockout ID” feature :-)

IBM Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1: iOS app and push notifications

While testing Sametime 8.5.2 IFR1 Proxy Server + native Sametime App on iPad + Apple push notification, I ran into a small problem which seems to be a minor bug of the app itself.

It seems that the Sametime app always stops working, after you receive a push notification about a new message, click on it and have not configured the app to remember your login password. So if you run into this problem, just enable “remember password”.

 

Interoperability of Sametime – a never-ending story?

More than a year ago, IBM started to bother Sametime administrators and users with audio and video interoperability between Sametime 8.5.x clients and earlier versions. This topic has never been solved satisfactorily and it was on the administrators to find a solution how bring all Sametime clients (and embedded Sametime clients as well) at least to version 8.5 within a short time to minimize outage of audio and video functionality.

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IBM Connections: Thumbnails in Media Gallery

When uploading pictures to a media gallery in Lotus IBM Connections 3.0.1, an event is triggered to generate a thumbnail for the uploaded image. This process may not run, if it is triggered to run on behalf of a user which does not exist in IBM Connections – i.e. the user does not have a profile in the profileDB.

In most installations this user is the initial Connections administrator user and does not have a profile, so you may need to use the following workaround (which is also described in the IBM Connections Forum) to make thumbnails working instead of seeing “Preview currently not available” :

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