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Force Windows update to a certain version

Friday, April 19, 2024 at 9:28 AM UTC
I am not a Windows guy but I have to use it. I am using it for example on my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro which demands for the Windows 11 ARM version (the one that Parallels Desktop provides). Unfortunately I never got the 23H2 update which delivered such nice things as tabs in Explorer and - more important for me - the old taskbar behaviour regarding tab grouping and labelling. I stumbled upo [...] 

Running MkDocs in a container

Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM UTC
I recently used mkdocs again, the lovely documentation framework which comes with several useful plugins, nice styling and built-in PDF and static website generation. Sometimes it is a bit tricky to get everything installed on your machine to make in running, such as Python 3 and several add-ons, so you may want to run it inside a container. Although there are several tutorials about setting up [...] 

Notes client is spamming the Domino console

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM UTC
This is something we experienced for quite a while with several versions of the Notes client on different systems: the Notes client randomly tries to access known servers in the environment (aka servers with a connection document in the names.nsf). I never understood the strategy behind the client trying to access a "server A" when this isn't even the mail server of the used locat [...] 

Attention, REST service user!

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 7:04 AM UTC
I lately came across a problem with Domino 14, but it turned out that this issue applies to 12.0.2 FP3 as well. When you use the REST service control from the Extension Library to provide a custom REST service, you will get an exception which has nothing to do with anything in your XPage or your Java code. The root cause is yet to be examined, but the defect article is already up: https://su [...] 

Domino 14 on Windows & HCL Ambassador

Friday, December 22, 2023 at 3:55 PM UTC
I could not believe my eyes but I just received the congratulations from the HCL Ambassador program - yes, somehow I made it again for 2024. Thank you for having me again in this group of remarkable people! One of those amazing people is my friend Roberto Boccadoro who helped to fix my issues when trying to install Domino 14 on a Windows server. Usually I don’t touch this OS if I am n [...] 

OpenNTF SmartNSF and HCL Domino Leap won’t go together

Friday, December 22, 2023 at 12:16 AM UTC
I experienced this problem for the last 2 or 3 versions of Domino Leap but today I found out the reason. The symptom I always use Domino container images built using the HCL community script and I always add Nomad Web and Leap. The latter suddenly stopped working I think 2 or 3 versions ago. Until now I was not able to track it down since no useful logs were written. With version 1.1.3.11 I [...] 

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