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Engage 2024 draft conference slides
David and I are very privileged to be presenting on our product modernisation journey at the HCL 2024 Engage User Group conference in Antwerp next week. The whole team have been involved since 2019 and customers are now beginning to see the results in production. I am...
Problems with Domino 11.01 FP8 and CKEditor
When you upgrade Domino 11.0.1 to FP8 CKEditor gets upgraded too. This is a good thing although it would be very helpful if the release notes said this. HCL have a habit of not mentioning these things. The video below shows a very simple test database that shows the...
Recovering Domino DAOS Files from Azure Blob Storage using a semi-scripted process
HCL Domino DAOS is a fantastic deduplication technology that makes a big difference to running and backing up Domino servers. Only one copy of each attachment is stored on the server no matter how many documents contain that attachment. These attachments are stored as...
Categorised view problem in Domino Nomad Web 1.07
We upgraded some servers to nomad Web 1.07 over the weekend but had to revert to 1.06 after a bug appeared. On first inspection it looked like a reader / author field issue but it was not. This HCL Knowledge article describes a very similar problem in 12.02 , albeit...
Installing HCL Domino HEI – don’t forget the SAP DLLs
HCL Enterprise Integrator ( HEI ) Domino Enterprise Integrator is a very powerful add-in to HCL Domino that lets you integrate with other applications such as SQL, SAP etc. We are now using it to connect to SAP as part of a HCL Nomad deployment ( another impressive...
Azure Policy based Site-Site (S2S) VPNs on Azure – You may not want to choose a Policy Based VPN at all.
Just some frustrating learning from the last few days. VPNs fall into two broad classes : Route Based Policy Based When you create a new VPN Gateway in Azure you get to choose which one you want – but be careful ! If you choose Policy Based VPN at this point you will...
Domino Oddness on Azure – 38 second delay in sending mail from web UI
We have had an odd issue on Domino that we have not been able to resolve despite lots of input from HCL. I just wanted to post it in case any other person comes across it. The symptom is a Domlog entry for 38 seconds when you trigger an email via XPages. This happened...
Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code!
Our presentation from Engage 2022, Bruges, Belgium, on 24th May 2022. Testing Matters – Don’t Let Users Test Your Code! An introduction to automated testing, focusing on End-to-End Testing of browser-based applications Testing Matters v1.0.0a 240522
Engage HCL Technology User Group Conference Observations
Observations from the 2022 Engage User Group HCL Technologies conference
Excellent support from HCL ( including XPages )
Excellent support from HCL A recent customer security audit raised two concerns with our Domino SaaS applications. A significant part of the reason that we use HCL Domino is that it is robust and secure. As a matter of principle we do not code security ourselves but...