Configure the Notes 9 Masthead (ShortcutButtonBar) with a desktop policy

One of the new features of Notes 9 is the Masthead which is a shortcut bar to access often used functions in Notes. The user can configure which icons will be shown in the view menu of the Notes client. But what if you want to preconfigure this feature for your users on roll out? Although in the Desktop policy are no settings for the Masthead, you can configure this with managed settings.

The settings which icon are available is stored in the "com.ibm.rcp.ui.prefs" file in the "workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.core.runtime\.settings" folder in your data directory. To add an action add a line to this file with the id of the action set to true. To remove an action add the id with false.

Vorschau auf die Google I/O 2014

Andreas Proschofsky vom Standard hat eine umfangreiche Vorschau auf die Themen der diesjährigen Google I/O 2014 zusammengestellt. Diese enthält nicht nur Informationen für Android Freunde sondern hält auch viel interessantes für IOS Nutzer bereit. Google plant nämlich, seinen Anwendungsentwicklern mit Quantum Paper eine platformübergreifende App Entwicklung zu ermöglichen. Diese Apps sollen aber nicht einfach nur den selben Look auf allen Platformen haben, sondern sie sollen ähnlich wie es schon bei Smartphone und Tablet der Fall ist, sich dynamisch an die jeweilige Platform anpassen.

Andere Themen in seiner Vorschau sind:

• Android 4.5 vs. 5.
• ART vs. Dalvik
• Wearables
• 64-bit
• Zukunft der Nexus Serie
• und und.

Alles Neu bei Google: Die große I/O Vorschau

Ich bin schon gespannt, welche seiner Annahmen eintreffen. Es bleibt auf jeden Fall spanned.

xPages in Notes client fails with XPCOM error 0xcf1f30001 after upgrade to Notes 9.0.1

I have upgraded my Notes Client from 8.5.3 FP2 to 9.0.1 FP1 and after this upgrade no xPage based application works in the notes client. In the trace of the client i found an "CLPDN0031E: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error 0xc1f30001"  error with the stack trace:

org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error 0xc1f30001 at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.error(Mozilla.java:2663) at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.create(Mozilla.java:732) at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:99)......

Actually no XULRunner (Mozilla rendering engine which is used by XPiNC) based functionality of the client is working. I have analyzed the problem and found that the rcpinstall.properties file in the workspace does not point to the XULRunner plugin which has been updated for Notes 9.0.1.

To solve this problem close every instance of your Notes client and open the rcpinstall.properties file in the "workspace\.config" path in your data directory with your favorite editor (notepad.exe will work) and change the line

Notes Browser Plugin Tips & Tricks

After his great FAQ about Notes Browser Plugin, Kevin McDonald has added another valuable info page to IBM Notes Domino Wiki. The Notes Browser Plugin Tips & Tricks contains helpful informations regarding the following topics:

• Infos about the migration from standard client to the browser plugin.
• Special Notes.ini settings for the browser plugin.
• Tips how to log problems in the plugin.
• Tips about the bookmark handling

Libreoffice 4.2.5 has been announced!

Today the document foundation announces Libreoffice 4.2.5. According to their release plan this version is ready for enterprise deployment. So if you have an older version of Libreoffice deployed, now is the right time to upgrade to the latest and greatest version of this fantastic free open office suite.

The most important new features in this version are:

• A complete overhaul of the calc formula engine which improves the performance significantly.
• Many new and much better import filters of various file formats.
• Improved enterprise integration featues to control deployments with Windows group policies.
• A new prettier icon set (Sifr). If you are upgrading from an older version you have to change the icon set in the preferences to get the new one.
• A new start screen.
• Many many bug fixes and performance improvements

 

You can find a complete list of new features in the release notes of Libreoffice 4.2.x.

The download can be found on https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ 

Temporarily disabling and re-enabling Notes roaming user status

The roaming feature of the notes client works really well and i always recommend to use roaming on production systems, but there is one caveat, if you change the notes id of the client when roaming is enabled, you will get all sort of weird problems. So NEVER change the notes id while roaming is enabled on your client. Normally changing the id in the client is not necessary, but when i test readers field functionality i want a quick way to change the id without logout and relogin of my windows session. 

Fortunately with Notes 8.5.2 IBM introduced a Notes.ini setting with which one can disable roaming temporarily. So if you have the same usecase as i, add "DisableRoaming=1" to your notes.ini before you change the notes id to the id of another user. After you finish your testing, you can re enable roaming with "DisableRoaming=0" in the notes.ini.

You can find all details how this great feature works in the technote Disabling and re-enabling Notes roaming user status on the fly.

Improve backup performance of IFS objects (DAOS) on the IBM i with BRMS

One of the disadvantages of DAOS is, that your backup job has to backup many relative small files, which can be a little bit slow on the IBM i. Fortunately IBM has provided some PTF's to improve this situation in the last years.

The biggest improvement can be achieved with the  "ASYNCBRING" parameter on the "SAV" command which gets you up to 60 % faster backups of IFS objects. You can find the PTF's needed for V6R1 and V7R1 in the ASYNCBRING Enablement - IFS SAV Performance at V6R1Mx and V7R1M0 technote. In V7R2 the support is available in the base operating system.

To use the ASYNCBRING Support in BRMS (Backup Recovery and Media Service) you need to follow the steps described in the Overriding the ASYNCBRING parameter on IFS saves to improve performance technote.

Ich bin doch nicht blöd!

Nun haben wir es amtlich, die 2 Großen Media Markt und Saturn geben nur vor für den Kunden das beste zu wollen, aber in Wirklichkeit mauscheln sie gemeinsam mit den Lieferanten aus, wie Sie uns am besten übers Ohr hauen können. Die Kartellstrafe, die das österreichische Kartellamt verhängt hat ist zwar ein Anfang aber meiner Meinung nach noch weit zu niedrig.

Eigentlich ist zwar der Mediamarkt für mich historisch eher positiv besetzt, bot doch der Media Markt als einer der ersten in Österreich eine Riesenauswahl zu damals (vor ca. 25 Jahren) attraktiven Preisen. Da haben die Elektriker bei denen man bis dahin Unterhaltungselektronik kaufen konnte ziemlich alt ausgesehen. Mittlerweile ist es aber so, dass man Massenartikel im Internet bestellt und beratungsintensive Artikel wie Fernseher oder Heimkinosystem lieber beim Fachhändler kauft.

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