Notes / Domino by Rainer Brandl 

DOMI integration with IPS enabled   

By Rainer Brandl | 11/7/23 2:07 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

This week I had the issue that a customer has enabled IPS for any outgoing http/https traffic which caused a non-working DOMI integration because the token could not be approved.With a very helpful link from the HCL Support the issue could easily be solved by whitelisting the request to "integration-auth-token.hcltechsw.com" on port 443.

Attachment is missing from meeting invitation  

By Rainer Brandl | 5/11/23 1:53 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Today I received an information from a friend at HCL (a.k.a. "Wickerl" ) that attachments get lost when sending a meeting invitation to another Domino Domain. In the HCL Software Forum a user complained that this issue also occurs when sending a meeting invitation to external users.This issue is described in SPR # SJOICG3K9F.

HCL Verse on Premises and HTTP error 404   

By Rainer Brandl | 3/23/23 3:00 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Today I implemented VoP on a Domino Server running on an iSeries like the "implementation" always is done. But afterwards I received an HTTP error 404 when trying to open the URL https://mailserver.company.com/verse.After some rechecks ( did I put the JAR files to the correct location and did I modify the owner ) I recreated the redirect database, rechecked the server configuration but could not get rid of this issue.

HCL Nomad Web – User moved to another Domino Server  

By Rainer Brandl | 2/23/23 3:44 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Today I had the issue that a user could not successfully complete the initial setup of HCL Nomad Web. The user always received the following error message: Afterwards I checked the result of the LDAP request for the home server which looked fine and the Domino Server also was available. So what could cause this error message ? CAUSE: the user was moved to another mail server some days ago !! width=device-width, initial-scale=1 http://gmpg.org/xfn/11 HCL Nomad Web – User moved to another Domino Server – Tips and News for Collaboration solutions max-image-preview:large //s1.wp.com //s0.wp.com //s2.wp.com //blogbyrainer.wordpress.com //wordpress.com //fonts-api.wp.com https://fonts.gstatic.com Tips and News for Collaboration solutions » Feed https://brandlrainer.info/feed/ Tips and News for Collaboration solutions » Comments Feed https://brandlrainer.info/comments/feed/ Tips and News for Collaboration solutions » HCL Nomad Web – User moved to another Domino Server Comments Feed https://brandlrainer.info/2023/02/22/hcl-nomad-web-user-moved-to-another-domino-server/fe

Calendar entry not displaying notes in HCL Verse 3.x   

By Rainer Brandl | 2/3/23 4:20 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Today I had the issue that a customer complained that notices on the calendar form keep on loading and loading and you're not able to create a calendar entry or even display the content of the notes an existing calendar entry.After some conversation with HCL Support ( which again was working extremely fast in person of Suraj Joshi ) I received the information that the upgrade to HCL Domino 12.0.2 could cause this issue. As mentioned in the official Defect Article this only occurs when the display language of the browser is set to another language than English.

Domino Backup to Windows Shares  

By Rainer Brandl | 10/18/22 10:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In a customer environment I had the request to put the backups of Domino ( with the new feature Domino Backup which is really working fine ) to another Windows Share.

Domino V12 – Password Sync / Lesson´s learned  

By Rainer Brandl | 8/3/22 3:57 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

After some issues to get the new feature of the Password Sync up and running I’ll summarize the pitfalls I went through. The process is documented well on the official HCL Product Documentation but with this summary I’ll document some issues.

HCL Verse 3.0 is available  

By Rainer Brandl | 7/22/22 5:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

HCL released the new version of HCL Verse with some great enhancements: Create and search for contacts in Verse Until now the contacts app always switched over to iNotes. This feature currently is in Beta version and is off by default.

HCL Domino TOTP authentication with Directory Assistance enabled  

By Rainer Brandl | 6/21/22 8:40 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today I had the issue that TOTP was not working fine at a customer site. The main issue was that a user could bypass the TOTP authentication, was routed to the MFA setup site, clicked “Finished” and was routed to the homepage.nsf. After opening a case I received 2 informations very quick informations ( thanks to Neha Bansal !! )

Error “Cannot convert Notes Rich Text message to MIME message” when answering meeting invitations   

By Rainer Brandl | 5/9/22 6:11 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I had the issue that after a migration of a Domino environment all users received error messages after answering meeting invitations. The customer prepared 2 Ubuntu LTS 20.04 server with Kernel version 5.x for the new Domino environment and we moved the data partitions to the new servers, installed 12.0.1FP1 and afterwards the troubles started.

Domino 12.0.1 TOTP activation / Lesson learned   

By Rainer Brandl | 4/6/22 11:40 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Since last week I struggled with activating TOTP on a Domino 12.0.1 server. After the configuration ( which is very well explained here ) I could not get the MFA setup page working.

Domino crashes when scheduling repeating Meeting Event with Ressource reservation – Tips and News for Collaboration solutions  

By Rainer Brandl | 3/8/22 4:31 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

In a customer environment I had the issue that the Domino Server crashed when a repeating Meeting Event was scheduled for a very long time ( in my case it was a weekly meeting for about 20 years ) and where a ressource was booked.

Set a “Welcome Page” on HCL Nomad Mobile   

By Rainer Brandl | 2/15/22 2:44 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

I had the customer request to set a specific database on the HCL Nomad Mobile clients when opening HCL Nomad. If you also have this request you can use the free ( for HCL Nomad ! ) panagenda Marvel Client to get this issue solved. Here are the single steps

Room and Resource reservation with HCL Verse on Premises 2.x  

By Rainer Brandl | 7/14/21 10:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today I had the issue that a customer complained that there´s no option to book rooms or resources within VoP 2.x. After some investigation the reason was found and corrected. If you are using the React form form appointments with the NOTES.INI entry VOP_GK_FEATURE_168=0 you’ll not be able to book rooms or resources within a calendar entry.

HCL Domino SNMP Agent and HCL Domino 11.0.1FP3  

By Rainer Brandl | 6/22/21 3:25 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

I had the issue that after upgrading a Domino Server to 11.0.1FP3 the followingerror message was displayed in the server console:"HCL Domino SNMP agent is not available"Due to some dependencies the service of the Domino Server was running with aspecial AD account while the HCL Domino SNMP Service was running with theLocalSystem account.

Creating Backups with Domino V12 Beta3  

By Rainer Brandl | 4/1/21 12:42 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

With the newly released Beta3 of HCL Domino V12 ( the GA has been announced for June 7th 2021 ) it´squite easy to create backups without additional software.First of all you have to upgrade your Domino Server to Beta3.- I upgraded my Beta2 without any troubles to Beta3. So there´s no need to uninstall and reinstall !

Installing Domino 11.0.1 FP2 on iSeries  

By Rainer Brandl | 2/23/21 5:26 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

In the weekend I had to migrate a Domino environment from 9.0.1.x to the latest release. What I could see during the migration:Backup the NOTES.INI before you run the "UPDDOMSVR" command (!)Maybe it was in this environment but after running the UPDDOMSVR the NOTES.INI only contained 3 lines and all the other informations have been gone. Therefore we had to restore the NOTES.INI from the backup we took before

Domino V11.0.1 Cookbook  

By Rainer Brandl | 2/2/21 5:18 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

HCL is offering a cookbook about Domino V11.01 where you can findSystem requirementsStep-by-Step instructions for fresh installation, upgrades and removalDownload links.It´s very helpful !!

Advanced Configuration of Meeting Invitations  

By Rainer Brandl | 11/20/20 3:46 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Yesterday I had an issue at customer site. The customer is using Microsoft Teams with their official domain “example.com“. This domain is also used as primary domain in the Global Domain document on their Domino Server. The customer has an optional internet domain “example.at“.

HCL Digital Week – Recap Day 1  

By Rainer Brandl | 11/9/20 12:11 PM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today, Monday 9th 2020, the HCL Digital Week started with a very impressive opening by Richard Jefts and Dion Hinchliffe where they talked about the Digital Transformation and how HCL is going to support YOU on this very interesting journey. During this Opening Session some very interesting facts have been shown by Dion Hinchliffe.

Domino Server: Copy Database Commands  

By Rainer Brandl | 10/29/20 10:12 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Matteo Bisi

Of course there are multiple ways to create copies or replicas of databases either to other folders on the same server or to other servers ( especially when the servers are running in a cluster ). I always use the following way and it´s working very fine: First, you have to set an entry in the NOTES.INI of the server where you want to put the commands directly in the console: Cluster_Admin_On=1

NOTES.INI parameter for Verse on Premises  

By Rainer Brandl | 9/22/20 3:19 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

HCL delivered a great summary of all NOTES.INI parameters for Verse on Premises:

Using HCL Nice tool silent  

By Rainer Brandl | 7/6/20 2:17 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

With HCL NICE you´re able to uninstall your Notes Client. But you also can use HCL NICE scripted with some options. Here´s a list of all possible options/iDnCGCbGiYXPEF02diIxxzF4I

Enforcing password change at the next time for Internet password could be a problem  

By Rainer Brandl | 6/24/20 2:30 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Yesterday I had an issue at customer where a case at HCL ( CSCS0131265 ) has been opened. Up to the beginning: with Domino V11.0.1 the great feature for authenticating users accessing via Web protocol like HTTP(s), LDAP,… against the ID Vault is working like a charm. Therefore I registered a lot of people without setting an HTTP password in the person document. Afterwards I enforced the users to change the password after the first login what also worked fine.

Fixed Mail Templates for 11.0.1 – Multiple Forwarding buttons and wrong translations in Mail template 11.0.1  

By Rainer Brandl | 5/21/20 1:06 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

In the German, Italian, Chinese and Spanish mail template there has been some issues with multiple forwarding buttons, ... HCL delivered fixed mail templates for German Italian

Error “Operation failed” when creating reservation in resource database ( German template )  

By Rainer Brandl | 5/12/20 8:48 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Starting with 10.0.1 you receive an error message “Operation failed” when trying to create reservations directly in the resource database with the German template. This is caused by a forgotten bracket in the code.

How to import a wildcard SSL certificate into a Domino Key Ring  

By Rainer Brandl | 4/10/20 1:34 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

Some customers are using wildcard SSL certificates in their environments and want to use them for accessing the Domino environments via Traveler and WebMail. What you'll need: Current Notes Domino Admin client ( 9.0.1 FP3 + ) OpenSSL ( https://www.openssl.org/source/ ) Domino KyrTool ( is included in the current Domino releases ) NotePad ++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/)

Prevent upgrading the NAMES.NSF after Domino migration  

By Rainer Brandl | 3/16/20 2:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Roberto Boccadoro

First of all it´s not recommended to run a Domino Server with an older design on the Domino Directory but for some reasons it´s necessary. To prevent the question to upgrade your Domino Directory after installing a new release you simply can put the following entry in the NOTES.INI of the server: SERVER_UPGRADE_NO_DIRECTORY_REDESIGN=1

RoboCopy – Move data with directory exclusion   

By Rainer Brandl | 2/27/20 3:16 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

Today I had the issue to move a complete Domino Directory from one server to another one. Unfortunately I could not work with VM tool to move VMDK files but had to use RoboCopy. The customer had the request to move the DAOS directory outside the current Domino\Data directory so I had to exclude this.

Installing Domino V11 on CentOS 8.1  

By Rainer Brandl | 2/19/20 2:24 AM | Infrastructure - Notes / Domino | Added by Oliver Busse

If you plan to install Domino V11 on CentOS 8.1 you have to do some steps before because there are some requirements: Install CentOS 8.1.x ( without any graphical interface – you won´t need it )