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September 16th, 2011
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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September 16th, 2011
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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August 5th, 2011
Adding the IBM Connections full text search functionality to your Internet Explorer (tested with IE 8) is quite straightforward, just follow these steps:
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August 4th, 2011
It seems that RIM’s Blackberry Playbook has problems using WPA2 encryption for WiFi in conjunction with some WLAN routers. In some cases the Playbook “only” disconnects from WiFi after a few minutes, but in other cases it makes the WLAN router stop working at all, so that a restart of the router is required.
I can reproduce it with my FRITZ!Box 7270 – it always crashes the router after a few minutes – and also found some notes on the web that it affects the Speedport W920v and Lancom 1821n.
I did not found any official documentation about it yet, but the only known solution so far is to use WPA, instead of WPA2 – crap!
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August 4th, 2011
Something strange happened to the blog posts regarding the release of native IBM Connections apps for Blackberry, Android and iOS.
Does anybody know, why most of the (IBM) bloggers removed their blog entries without any notice or replacement?
Some examples:
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August 1st, 2011
IBM released native applications for IBM Connections for the three major mobile OS and has pushed the apps to the respective App Stores last friday. After going through the different “app store approval processes” the apps will be available there for free. Great!
Source: IBM Releases BlackBerry, Android and iOS Native Apps for IBM Connections
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July 28th, 2011
Since Lotus Quickr 8.5 the round-trip editing feature is no longer available if you do not have the Lotus Quickr Connector installed, but IBM provides a documentation how to enable the “old-style” round-trip editing.
-> Lotus Quickr Wiki: Enabling round-trip editing in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino without using Quickr Connectors
This works well, except for one stumbling stock – the maximum allowed file size for uploads is restricted to 50 MB. This restriction is hardcoded in two javascript files:
“<datadir>\domino\html\qphtml\skins\qext\page\field\attachments_activex.js” and
“<datadir>\domino\html\qphtml\skins\qext\page\field\singleAttachment_activex.js”
To change the 50 MB limitation search for
“<param name=”General_MaxFileSize” value=”500000″/>”
in both files and adjust the value for your needs.
Restart the http task and be happy.
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July 27th, 2011
Due to some “unexpected non-technical issues” regarding the new Sametime Yahoo! plugin the Yahoo! Messenger service through Sametime Gateway has been extended through at least August 31st, 2011.
Originally the service was announced to be discontinued at the end of June, 2011.
Source: IBM developerWorks
Related post: Yahoo! and Sametime integration
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July 26th, 2011
Interesting technote: Guidelines and restrictions for creating group names in Domino Directory
I was not aware that the “#” (pound sign) is not an allowed character for group names, but the “&” (ampersand) – and this after more than 11 years of Domino experience – what a shame! ;-)
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July 16th, 2011
Two weeks ago I already assumed that the outage of ICQ awareness through the Sametime Gateway connection has to do with the disposal of ICQ to DST one year ago.
Unfortunately, I was right – since June 10, 2011 ICQ does no longer belong to the AOL network and therefore it is no longer reachable through AOL clearinghouse. Originally the disconnection of both networks was supposed to be scheduled for December 4, 2010, but then delayed for 6 month.
To summarize: No more ICQ through IBM Sametime Gateway.
I don’t remember any announcement like IBM did with Yahoo, where they announced that Yahoo discontinues the gateway service at the end of June 2011 (btw, it still works).
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