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Finally discovered how I have to use the delete_employees.sh script.
Did some debugging of the profiles_tdi.xml file in the TDISOL
directory with TDI.

Found out that the file delete_employees.in had to contain the
following syntax.

FILE delete_employees.in
$dn:CN=Marco Ensing,OU=EOF,O=EOG.
uid:Marco Ensing
!FILE

( To delete multiple persons use a dot after every entry

$dn:CN=Marco Ensing,OU=EOF,O=EOG.
uid:Marco Ensing
.
$dn:CN=Pietje Puk,OU=EOF,O=EOG.
uid:Pietje Puk
)

FILE profiles_tdi.properties
delete_employees_simple_file=delete_employees.in
!FILE

Also found out how to use the sync_all_dns.sh command. Before I couldn’t
get this script to work properly. I got stuck when I wanted to delete people
from the profiles database, the sync command didn’t work for me and I didn’t
had a clue how to use the delete_employees.sh script.

If I wanted to add users to Profiles I had to use the collect_dns.sh and
populatie_from_dn_file.sh scripts.

To use the sync_all_dns.sh properly configure the parameters in the
file profiles_tdi.properties as follow.

FILE profiles_tdi.properties
sync_updates_show_summary_only=false
sync_updates_double_check=true
!FILE

Now the sync_all_dns.sh script will take care of deleting people in Profiles
which no longer exist in the LDAP directory. And it will add people, new
in the LDAP directory, to the Profiles database.

( We are using Domino 8.5 as our LDAP directory )

After the Lotus Connections upgrade to level 2.0.1 the Global Search function
of the Homepage finally works ok.

Here are some handy scheduling lines to use in Global Search for doing a
index on every part of Connections.

They are configured to do an index every 15 min. between 7 AM and 8 PM.

<WAS_HOME>\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\<name>Node01Cell\LotusConnections-config\

FILE homepage-config.xml
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexActivities” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”activities”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexBlogs” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”blogs”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexCommunities” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”communities”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexDogear” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”dogear”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexProfiles” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”profiles”/>
</task>

FILE

I just edited this file by hand, works fine for me. The InfoCenter is giving you some lines how to achieve this with the wsadmin script. But at the end the result is the same.

In both cases don’t forget to restart the Homepage was server.

When I got my new Thinkpad W500 I decided to change my OS from
SLED 10 SP1 to Ubuntu 8.0.4. The packet management on Ubuntu is
many times better than the one from Suse.

One of the things that I was missing on my desktop with Ubuntu was
the mini-commander applet. Searching on Google I found out that it
was discarded and was replaced by Deskbar.

But Deskbar wasn’t the thing I was looking for, to many options.
No history-based auto completion .

After some Googling I found this post on a forum.

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http://www.nunx.org/stage/ubuntu/mini-commander_2.13.90-0nunx0_i386.deb

As the official gnome-applets/gnome-applets-data packages still contain some parts of mini-commander you’ll have to use the –force-overwrite option to dpkg to install this package. Like this:

you@your_box$ wget http://www.nunx.org/stage/ubuntu/mini-commander_2.13.90-0nunx0_i386.deb
you@your_box$ sudo dpkg –force-overwrite -i mini-commander_2.13.90-0nunx0_i386.deb
(Reading database … 152203 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mini-commander (from mini-commander_2.13.90-0nunx0_i386.deb) …
dpkg – warning, overriding problem because –force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/bonobo/servers/GNOME_MiniCommanderApplet.server’, which is also in package gnome-applets-data
Setting up mini-commander (2.13.90-0nunx0) …

Oh, and the package is not signed by anyone you know and trust. If you are wary of installing unsigned binary packages from $deity-knows-where on the internet you are a) right and b) sadly out of luck.  Should you not trust my package you can make one yourself from the mentioned versions of the official package files (look for them in your /var/cache/apt/archives directory)

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So now I got my mini-commander applet back.

A couple of days ago IBM released Lotus Connections 2.0.1.

The package is released as a full install and a update in one.

So you can use this package to upgrade your current LC 2.0 install our to do a fresh install from scratch.

Most important for the people already aware with Connections and waiting
to press that update button for this 2.0.1 upgrade is the question what has changed!

Luis Benitez has summed op some issues that have been fixed and new things that have been added

http://www.lbenitez.com/2008/11/lotus-connections-v201-is-here.html

Mitch Cohen also did some posting about the new 2.0.1 release, he is mentioning
one of the new features, QuickR integration.

For now this feature will only work with the quickR J2EE version, integration with the Domino QuickR version will come at a later point in time.

http://www.curiousmitch.com/CuriousMitch/mitch2.nsf/d6plinks/MCON-7KWRGK

IBM already updated their info center with all the facts about installing and upgrading LC 2.0.1.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/index.jsp

Here is the download document for 2.0.1.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24020963

Below the URL with the system requirements for Lotus Connections 2.0.1, one of the reqs that has changed ( and for what I have read the only thing ) is that your DB2 setup should be up to fixpack level 5.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27013762

Below are the steps that I took to upgrade our current DB2 9 fp 4 setup to level 5.

install-db2-9-fp5-linux