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In last month's tip, Your views on Notes ID storage, I responded to the results of SearchDomino.com's poll about storage of Notes ID files. Several readers had interesting feedback about that tip, including a particularly... Sep 2, 2003
I previously wrote about the Domino/Notes Check password option. I made the point that this feature is widely overlooked but is useful for creating a secure computer system. The other feature that I consider similar is the Check...
Dec 3, 2003
In my work as a Notes/Domino consultant, I constantly see new wrinkles on the issue of where to store Notes ID files. Some storage locations work well and are secure, while other locations lead to huge security holes. Also, some...
Jul 2, 2003
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Aug 6, 2003
Editor's Note: To understand how the changes in HIPPA affect Domino and Notes administrators, view Chuck's tip on "Conducting a HIPAA audit". You may have seen newspaper stories recently about changes to privacy regulations for... May 12, 2003
SearchDomino.com's Security and administration expert Chuck Connell offers a monthly tips on Domino administration and security. If you have a Domino administration topic or concern that you would like Chuck to research and...
Jan 6, 2004
View member feedback to this tip. In last month's tip, I talked about Domino server clusters and described how they can greatly increase overall system reliability with little effort. Domino clusters do have one... Feb 4, 2004
View member feedback to this tip. Chuck Connell Lotus Domino can act as an HTTP Web server. As with all Web servers, Domino produces log files of user traffic. And like all Web log files, the results contained in the logs are nearly... Mar 3, 2004
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Chuck Connell One of the simplest and most low-tech but most effective security features in Domino is the deny list. Deny lists are easy to create and maintain, and, in my experience, they work... Mar 31, 2004
Password expiration is one of the most effective security policies around, for any kind of computer system. Yet I rarely find it in use at companies that hire me to consult. Why is it often neglected? Simple: users don't like it and it... May 11, 2004
To allow employees to read e-mail received at generic addresses, like resumes@company.com or helpdesk@company.com, you would typically provide IDs and passwords for these 'dummy' accounts. The users could then switch IDs (or re-logon... Jun 16, 2004
One of my pet peeves is poor error checking in LotusScript code. Even though we often use it for quick-and-dirty tasks within Domino/Notes, LotusScript is a real programming language and deserves to be treated as such. The best way to... Jul 16, 2004
In last month's tip I complained about poor error checking in LotusScript code. I also promised to provide some details about how to write proper error handling routines. So I'll start this tip with an overview of the theory and then... Aug 1, 2004
If you are a Domino administrator, you may be facing an R6 upgrade soon. Many admins were hesitant to install this version until several point releases had appeared, as is now the case. Also, the release of R6.5, with its built-in instant... Sep 21, 2004
Cluster performance tuning allows you to set the point at which a server considers itself "too busy" and sends users to another server. While this is a simple theory, putting it into practice is quite complicated and has driven many... Oct 13, 2004
Even though Domino and Notes can be configured for high security, the concentration of power in the certifier ID file has been a problem. If you have the top-level certifier, you can do a lot of damage. You can create new users and sub... Nov 8, 2004
To My Readers: Over the years that I have been writing technical tips for SearchDomino.com, I have operated under an unstated assumption. My premise was that readers have been with SearchDomino.com throughout the life of my column... Dec 7, 2004
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One of my frustrations about Notes/Domino is the licensing model. Every time I think I understand it, Lotus seems to change things... Dec 15, 2004
I recently received an advertisement for the book Notes/Domino Security, An Administrators Guide, published by the technical journal The View. The book lists at $195. My first thought on seeing the ad was: Why pay for information... Mar 30, 2005
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I have written before about proper error handling within LotusScript code (part 1: "Check those LotusScript errors!" and part 2: "LotusScript... Mar 2, 2005
View member feedback to this tip. "Mail journaling" is a feature new to Domino R6. It performs an operation that was very difficult previously. If you wanted to save a copy of all email messages that flow through your Domino mail... Feb 9, 2005
Being able to create corporate welcome pages is an attractive feature of Lotus Notes. The idea is that you can create a "homepage" for Notes users, which everyone sees when they log on each morning. If you want to introduce a new... Feb 16, 2005
One of the topics often kicked around on Notes discussion boards is about creating "dynamic subforms." This gives a main form the ability to determine, on the fly, which of its subforms will display for a particular document at a... Mar 16, 2005
Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM) is a new feature of Notes Domino 7 that gives administrators another tool for keeping tabs on the Domino server. The primary feature of DDM is consolidation of information from more than one Domino... Jan 4, 2007
The best way to replace a Lotus Domino server with a new machine is to bring up the new server alongside the old one. You give the new server a new name within your Lotus Domino domain and replicate the existing databases to the new... Mar 29, 2007
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