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FP1 for Domino and Lotus Notes V14 just released!
I continue to be surprised at how prolific HCL is in code generation. It’s been only 4 months and they already released FP1 for Notes/Domino V14.0. 4/15/2024. You can find it easily at the new download website:
https://my.hcltechsw.com/downloads/domino
And if you want to know what’s in FP1, look here:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/domino/14.0.0/admin/wn_140FP1.html
And the complete release notes are here:
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0112431
And a reminder that you can find these and all the most important links in my page of
All Essential Lotus Links.
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 V14 Early Access Program release 3 is available today
EA3 of HCL Notes/Domino V14.0, probably last EA release before the final version is released later this year, was released today! Try out their new website for software downloads while you’re at it. Visit https://my.hcltechsw.com/downloads
I will say this new website is a joy to work with. From here, it is easy to download the components you want to try out. Then be sure to give feedback on the product before it is released. Post your feedback here: https://registration.hclpartnerconnect.com/domino14forum.nsf/allDocuments.xsp
#LotusNotes #IBMNotes
Hot Press: HCL Announces Dates for End of Support for older versions of Notes/Domino. v12.0.2 coming soon.
HCL just announced the dates that v9.0.x and v10.0.x of HCL Notes and Domino (Lotus Notes) will no longer be available for download and the date when HCL will no longer offer technical support for them.
Dec 1, 2022 – End of Marketing (EOM) – HCL will remove the software downloads from Flexnet. If you want a copy of this software, you have just 5 months to download it.
Jun 1, 2024 – End of Support – HCL will not provide customer support after this date and there will be no option for extended support on it. But seriously, why are you running a 12-year-old version of software for mission critical apps anyway?
While we’re talking about software versions, HCL continues the hot pace of prolific software development. You can see the progress of version 12.0.2 right here. It also shows progress on the maintenance release 11.0.1 FP6.
This is great news as it will push the laggards along on the Innovation Adoption curve. When organizations cling to an older version of software (imagine if you were still using Windows 8?), their employees develop an inaccurate, bad opinion of the software. That inaccurate publicity hurts the success of the software which feeds upon itself, causing the company leadership to think the problem is the software rather than their failed maintenance of it. So Kudos to HCL for driving customers to do the right thing and upgrade.
You can read more about their announcement at HCL’s blog.
You can read more about how versions are named, numbered, and supported here.
“It doesn’t matter, it’s in the past!”
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.
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.
IBM-Panagenda Partnership yields powerful FREE IBM Notes upgrade tool
Panagenda also has a free version of The software can be downloaded here:
Domino Mobile Apps for the iPad is Here!
A Notes client (sort of) for the iPad has just been released! This is the announcement. I’m looking forward to the next steps when they port this to the iPhone and Android phone. All the security, replication, workflow and offline functionality of Notes with the portability of a mobile device and no redundant develop to web-enable any apps. Nice job IBM and HCL.
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Why Use Domino & Notes for collaborating among teams: A Customer Testimonial
My recap of CollabSphere is coming soon. Meanwhile, my friend Bernd Gewehr is featured on IBM’s website right now, and he does a great job of explaining the benefit of using Notes for app development for his company.
Small companies do big things with Notes apps.
Learn more about what is coming in Domino V10 in just a few months: https://www.ibm.com/collaboration/ibm-domino
Some tips are worth revisiting each year: Holidays in Dom Dir and Inbox Cleanup
Some topics are worth revisiting every year. Here are two of my favorites:
How to create holidays in the Domino Directory for importing into calendars
You asked. IBM responds: Interim Fix for Domino to support SHA-2 and TLS fix for POODLE attack.
All the information you need is in these two technotes:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418982
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687167
Watch for the fix to be posted on Fix Central soon. Then this can be marked Completed in Greenhouse and IdeaJam.net
Note that one of these will only be supported on Domino 9.0.1. The 8.5 code can’t support SHA-2 encryption.
What does this mean? This addresses the issue that web browsers will soon no longer support connecting to websites that use the older encryption due to its weaker algorithms that can be broken with today’s faster computers. So Domino servers using https will need this update to allow web browsers to be able to connect after they drop support for the old security.
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