Eclipse 4.4 Luna - Release Teaser

Eclipse 4.4 Luna will be released soon. Watch this little teasers to get an idea how this fantastic new release will look like and what new features will be available.

IBM Ask the Experts Q&A about Managing Domino

IBM hosted an Ask the Experts Q&A session on May 20, 2014. The topic was "Managing Domino - Managing Users, Databases, and Calendar." Russell Norberg gave a short demo and he was joined by John Paganetti and several other members of the Domino Support and Development teams for Q&A. 

You can find the recording of the session and the transcript of the Q&A part at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041951

Beheben der Sicherheitswarnung von Windows bei Dateien aus dem Internet

Windows besitzt eine Sicherheitsfunktion die bewirkt, dass Dateien die aus dem Internet heruntergeladen mit einem speziellen Flag versehen werden. Durch dieses Flag kommt beim Aufrufen der Datei eine Sicherheitswarnung die einen darauf aufmerksam macht, dass das Ausführen dieser Datei potentiell gefährlich ist.

Bei komprimierten Dateien wird dieses Flag sogar auf alle in dem Archiv befindlichen Dateien vererbt. Diese Vererbung führt dazu, dass in dem Archiv befindliche Hilfedateien nach dem Entpacken nicht richtig funktionieren. Egal welches Hilfethema man anklickt, wird immer eine leere Seite angezeigt.

Deshalb empfiehlt es sich bei allen heruntergeladenen Dateien insbesondere bei Archiven von denen man weiß, dass Sie aus einer zuverlässigen Quelle sind, dieses Flag vor der Verwendung zu entfernen.

Dafür muss man einfach die heruntergeladene Datei mit der rechten Maustaste anklicken und den Punkt "Eigenschaften aus dem Kontextmenü auswählen. In dem Eigenschaftendialog kann man jetzt beim Punkt Sicherheit über die Schaltfläche "Zulassen" das Sicherheits Flag entfernen. Dann bekommt man keine lästigen Dialoge mehr und auch die Hilfefunktion funktioniert einwandfrei.

IBM Notes Traveler FAQ

Traveler ist one of the best features added to the Domino servers in the last years. Although is not only feature rich, but also very reliable and easy to configure, there are some important questions to answer to implement traveler correctly. Many of this questions were answered by Corey Quinn |(Notes Traveler L3 Support Lead) in an OpenMic call in the end of April. You can find a recording and a transcipt of this Q/A session at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041522.

The topics in the Q/A session were:

• Feature Requests, Roadmaps, Known Limitation
• Setup & Upgrade
• Server Pools, High Availability, Load Balancing
• DMZ
• General Administration & Troubleshooting

Interesting introduction of Windows 2012 R2

Windows 2012 R2 is a big step forward for Microsoft Server technology. I especially like the much improved Hyper V in Windows 2012 R2. For details watch the following presentation from Teched:

URL changed to www.EverythingaboutIT.eu

When i started my blog two years ago my main focus was on IBM Notes and Java and this is still a very important part of my work and i am sure that i will blog about this topic in the future. But in the last year i blogged about many other topics like IBM i, DB/2, Windows Server and network technology topics. So  i have changed the name of my blog to "Everything about IT" to make it clear that this blog is no longer only a blog about Notes and Java, but every topic in the live of an IT expert.

Please change  your bookmarks to my new Domain "www.EverythingaboutIT.eu"

Print Screen Key freezes Windows

Today i had a strange problem on my windows machine that every time i press the "Print Screen" key to capture a screenshot windows will freeze immediately. I thought that this is only a temporary problem,  but after a hard reset i got the same problem again after retrying to create a screenshot.

It took me some time to figure out that the problem is not bug, but a feature. Last week i have used the Windows Kernel Debugger on my machine and one of the feature of the Debugger is that when you press the "Print Screen" key the kernel stops and try to connect to a WinDbg session. When there is no Debugger attached it will wait infinitely. So if you have the problem that your windows freezes on print screen check if the kernel debugger is enabled.

To check/deactivate the debugger start "msconfig.exe" with admin privileges and disable the debugger in the extended options on the start tab.

IBM thinks that MCH3601 and the creation of dumps is normal behavior during a restore operation

The readers of my blog know, that i am a big fan of the "IBM i" operating system, because it is the most stable and reliable system ever built. We have been using "IBM i" and its predecessor "OS/400" since 1993 and we had only one crash (V3R0M5) of the operating system since then. One other big advantage of the system is that backup and restore is an integrated part of the base operating system so that backup and restore is rock solid too.