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HCL Domino /(Lotus Notes) V14.0 is now available!
Ahead of schedule, HCL has released V14.0 of HCL Domino and HCL Notes (Lotus Notes as most of us still like to call it). Numerous major new features, like the new auto-update for the software. Find a detailed list of what’s new here: https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/wn_140.html
You can also watch the official release event (which covers a lot more) here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3240097374153477467
If you dislike flexnet as much as most people, you can download the software at the very user-friendly site: https://my.hcltechsw.com/downloads/domino/domino
As you plan to upgrade your Notes clients to V14, keep in mind that there is no 32 bit version of V14, so unless you are already running 64 bit V12.x, you will need to uninstall the software before installing V14. If you’re using Panagenda’s MarvelClient for handling your upgrades, that will also take care of it.
All Essential Links for Everything Notes/Domino in One Place
Here is a collection of links to everything you could possibly want for Domino and HCL Notes (#LotusNotes)
I have many more links to add, so consider this a starting point and bookmark this one page for reference and return to it often.
Use this shortened URL that is easy to remember:
If you know of a link that I should add to this list, please post it in the comments and I will get it added.
If you find a link is broken, also let me know what the new link is or if it should be removed.
HCL websites
NEW!!! HCL Software Downloads Homepage: https://my.hcltechsw.com/
HCL Ambassador Program: https://www.hcltechsw.com/about/hcl-ambassadors
SoFy HCL and 3rd party software store and test drive sandbox https://hclsofy.com/
HCL Business Partner Registration: https://registration.hclpartnerconnect.com/general.nsf/welcome?open&login=1
HCL Business Partner Portal: https://www.hcltechsw.com/resources/partner-connect
HCL Idea Portal: https://domino-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas
HCL Customer Service- knowledgebase, documentation, forums, support tickets: https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=csm_index
Your HCL Portal for personalized links: https://id.hcltechsw.com/app/UserHome
HCL Software downloads: https://hclsoftware.flexnetoperations.com/flexnet/operationsportal/startPage.do
HCL Domino Beta Program: https://registration.hclpartnerconnect.com/D11Beta
HCL Domino Volt Beta Program: https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino_volt/beta/welcome.html
HCL Domino Leap Complete Resources: https://hclwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HDV/overview
HCLSoftware U: (the new academy) https://hclsoftwareu.hcltechsw.com/
HCL Software Blog: https://blog.hcltechsw.com/
HCL Sandboxes for Leap, Sametime, and Nomad Web: https://start.myhclsandbox.com/
HCL Notes/Domino Release Fixlist per release: https://ds-infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf
HCL Notes/Domno Release Schedule: https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/fixlist.nsf/Progress?OpenView
HCL Open Source Repositories: https://opensource.hcltechsw.com/domino
HCL public Sametime Community: PENDING
HCL public Connections Community: PENDING
HCL Notes.net Domino Server for Notes client connections to resources: PENDING
Other resources
Planet Lotus Blog aggregator: https://planetlotus.org/
OpenNTF: https://www.openntf.org
Collaboration Today: https://collaborationtoday.info/
3rd Party Software (Please tell them David Hablewitz sent you):
Crossware: https://crossware365.com/hcl-domino-email-signatures/
RPR Wyatt Vital Signs: https://rprwyatt.com/vitalsigns/
Panagenda: https://www.panagenda.com/
Ytria: https://www.ytria.com/ezsuite/
Maysoft SpamSentinel: http://maysoft.com/spamsentinel-for-hcl-domino.html
Libraesva https://www.libraesva.com/
Prominic: https://www.prominic.net
Belesoft: https://belsoft-collaboration.ch/en/
User groups:
CollabSphere: https://collabsphere.org
Engage: https://engage.ug/
C3UG: http://www.c3ug.ca/
DNUG: https://dnug.de/en/
Let’s Connect Nordics: https://nordics.letsconnect.world/
sutol: https://sutol.cz/
Spanish Domino User Group: https://www.slug.es/
Social Media
Facebook Groups:
HCL Notes Domino App Store https://www.facebook.com/groups/domino.app.store
HCL Software – Digital Solutions Business Partners – Worldwide https://www.facebook.com/groups/135983955430
HCL Notes Domino Administrators https://www.facebook.com/groups/LotusDominoAdmins
HCL Notes Domino etc Enthusiasts https://www.facebook.com/groups/hclenthusiasts
HCL Notes Domino Developers https://www.facebook.com/groups/dominodev
Twitter
https://twitter.com/HCLAmbassadors (2K followers)
https://twitter.com/HCLSoftware (40K followers)
https://twitter.com/HCL_CollabSup (1K followers)
https://twitter.com/HCLDigital (47K followers)
LinkedIn pages
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hclsoftware/ (400K followers)
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hcltech/ (5.5M followers)
LinkedIn groups
Messaging & Collaboration Professionals – Lotus https://www.linkedin.com/groups/37836/ (26K members)
HCL Domino, Notes & XPages https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25044/ (10K members)
Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/c/HCLSoftware/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@HCLDigitalSolutions/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@OpenNTF
HCL Notes & Domino V12.0.1 Beta 1: How to Download, How to Join the Forum, What’s New
The Beta 1 version of Notes and Domino V12.0.1 is now available on Flexnet. If you are licensed for Notes & Domino, this video shows how to download the beta. It also shows how to get to the HCL blog post with lots of details including what is new and how to participate in the beta forum with the developers.
Updated Zoom Plugin for HCL Notes V11
[blog post update: The new software and documentation from Zoom can be found here.]
HCL Notes users: If you are using Zoom instead of HCL Sametime for your video meetings, you may have discovered that the Notes integration plugin provided by Zoom that made it easy to schedule Zoom meetings in your Notes calendar broke with Notes V11. Well I have good news. Zoom is finally releasing an update that works with Notes V11. See their response in the Zoom support forum. You can find the earlier release of the Zoom plugin for Notes V10 here. The update is scheduled for release on Monday. If that is at a different URL, I will add it here when it is available.
If you want to eliminate this problem altogether, your company should be using HCL Sametime for video conferencing. It is more secure; you have total control of the software; it allows you to keep all of your data inside your company with no harvesting of user data or chats; it is — and always will be — tightly integrated with your HCL Notes and Domino environment; and it’s less expensive.
Notes client doesn’t launch after upgrade: SOLVED
I like to share when I find a solution that hasn’t been previously documented in a technote. The short story is this: If you encounter the following error when trying to launch Notes: CWPA4003W: Failed to load application from url: nrpc:/….nsfname=…
CWPA4003W: Failed to load application from url: nrpc:/….nsfname=…
Then start by doing traditional maintenance on the local databases, especially names.nsf
The details:
You may encounter this error after a variety of events. In this particular case Notes gave this error and would not launch after running the installer to upgrade from 9.0.1 FP10 to 9.0.1 FP10 SHF315. The error persisted even after uninstalling and re-installing Notes — the first indication it might not be a problem with the software. Also, Notes would launch in basic mode or if you right click and select Run As Administrator. That misguided my troubleshooting into thinking it was an issue with Eclipse or Java. There is a similar issue reported in this technote:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1LO67058
Detailed steps to fix:
1. Edit the notes.ini and make sure it has the following line based on the version of Notes installed:
CREATE_R9_DATABASES=1
CREATE_R10_DATABASES=1
(If you have an earlier version, you have bigger problems and should be upgrading to the latest version, currently that is 10.0.1 FP3)
2. Launch a cmd prompt and change the path to the Notes program directory
3. enter these commands one at a time in this order:
nfixup names.nsf
nupdall names.nsf -R
ncompact names.nsf
(Note: it will prompt for the Notes password. When you type it in, nothing will appear to happen until you press enter.)
I highly recommend executing these commands on ALL of the local databases. To do so, just leave “names.nsf” out of the commands you enter.
The Notes Guy in Seattle 