Fw: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions about IBM Lotus Notes & Domino February 2006

This note contains links (URLs) to technical support documents regarding 
IBM Lotus Notes & Domino, as well as links to key information helping you 
derive the most value from your software licenses, and helping you be the 
best possible system administrator. This month's mailing has three main 
sections:
(1) URL links to Responses to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs),
(2) Information about the recent maintenance release 7.0.1, and about 
which release to use, and
(3) Information about the worldwide Lotusphere Comes to You program.
In addition, the closing section provides links to general self-help 
resources on our web site.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Title: How to analyze questionable deletions in a Notes database
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21086649

Title: Attachments to messages received from the Internet are named as 
WINMAIL.DAT
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21093342

Title: Domino 6.x Server Availability Index (SAI) - Understanding how SAI 
is calculated
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21164405

Title: Are Domino Web Access and DOLS supported under Windows XP Service 
Pack 2?
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21181157

Title: How to manually recertify an expired ID
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21087566

Title: Notes Client hangs on splash screen or errors occur when launching 
on Windows XP
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21095960

Title: How to change the default Calendar Free Time Preferences in Notes 
Client
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21095160

Title: Can clustering function properly across a WAN?
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21085536

Title: Can a Server That is Connected via a VPN Be Clustered?
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21170215

Title: How to prevent/manage SPAM
Link: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/spam-smtp1/

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The FAQ Responses above will be added to the Knowledge Collection linked 
below. We encourage you to bookmark the collection because we update it 
periodically. The collection provides links to FAQ Responses distributed 
in prior mails.

Title: Knowledge Collection: Frequently Asked Questions about Lotus Notes 
and Lotus Domino
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg27006575

You may also want to review the Featured Documents lists provided on our 
Web pages for Notes/Domino.

Title: Featured Documents for Lotus Notes client
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21195443

Title: Featured Documents for Lotus Domino server
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21195444

Title: Featured Documents for Lotus EasySync Pro
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21195513


Notes/Domino release 7.0.1 is Available
The English version of the first maintenance release (7.0.1) for 
Notes/Domino 7 was made available for download from your Passport 
Advantage site in February. The physical media (CDs) are planned to be 
available for the English version by March 16th 2006, click here for the 
US details, the EMEA details, and the Asia-Pacific details. 
National Language Versions for major languages, i.e. German, French, 
Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified 
and Traditional Chinese, are planned to be available for download on March 
10th 2006, and on physical media by April 14th.
Other language versions, including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Nynorsk, 
Dutch, Finnish, English International, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, 
Arabic, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Czech, and Polish are planned to be 
available for download by March 31st 2006, and on physical media by May 
5th 2006.

Planning information for upgrading to release 7.0.1 is available from the 
Upgrade Central page:
Title: Upgrade Central: Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 7.0.1
Link: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21229858

Information about the ~689 fixes contained in the 7.0.1 maintenance 
release can be found in the Notes/Domino fix list: 
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/Public?OpenView
Incremental installers for migrating from release 7.0 to release 7.0.1 are 
available on the developer Works site:
Domino: 
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?q=Domino+Server+7.0&k=&dt=SOFTWARE+UPDATE&sb=r&rs=ESD-DMNTSRVR

Notes: 
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?q=Notes+Client+7.0&k=&dt=SOFTWARE+UPDATE&sb=r&rs=ESD-DMNTSRVR



Which release to use?
In early January, you were notified of the availability of maintenance 
release 6.5.5. Last week, you were notified of the availability of fix 
pack 3 (FP3) for Lotus Domino 6.5.4. And in this mail you're notified of 
the availability of maintenance release 7.0.1. So which should you adopt? 
We always encourage migration to the latest release, so 7.0.1 is what you 
should plan for. However, we also recognize that such a migration takes 
more planning and time to accomplish than simply applying a fix pack. For 
that reason, if you are already using release 6.5.4, we highly recommend 
you apply fix pack 3 as soon as possible, and consider a migration to 
7.0.1 when your schedule and priorities permit. If you are already using 
release 6.5.5, we recommend planning a migration to 7.0.1 or higher when 
your schedule and priorities permit. If you are using an older release 
(6.5.3 or earlier), we recommend migrating to 7.0.1 as well, but if your 
current schedule and priorities don't allow that, you can also reap 
benefit from simply upgrading to 6.5.4 FP3 or 6.5.5 with all the fixes 
they contain. Choosing between the two is a matter of timing. Release 
6.5.5 currently has the most fixes of the two, but 6.5.4 FP3 has a few 
fixes that are newer than 6.5.5. If you are already using 6.5.4 FP3, we 
recommend waiting for 6.5.5 FP1 before moving to 6.5.5. You can follow 
maintenance releases and fix packs in preparation on this web page:

Title: Notes/Domino Fix List - Upcoming Releases
Link: http://www.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/Progress/$First?OpenDocument


Lotusphere 2006

The Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida, in late January was a 
thundering success. If you were not able to attend, there is no need to 
despair. Now Lotusphere Comes to You! No less than 193 no-charge one-day 
events have been scheduled in over 180 cities (in 47 countries around the 
world) between the Orlando conference and mid-May. The events will feature 
two tracks - a business track for IT managers and a technical track for 
developers and administrators. Attendees will learn more about Lotus Notes 
and Domino, including the next generation Notes client "Hannover", Lotus 
Sametime 7.5, and IBM Workplace. Customers and partners can learn more 
about Lotusphere 2006, including specific event dates and locations, and 
register at http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/lcty.

Read the interview with Surjit Chana, Vice President of Marketing & 
Partners, on Lotusphere Comes to You:
Title: Couldn't get to Orlando? Lotuphere Comes to You brings the 
excitement to a city near you
Link: 
http://www.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/nhan6lfk7t?OpenDocument&Site=lotus


Read what the press had to say about Lotusphere 2006:
Title: The press sees the "Future in Sight" at Lotusphere 2006
Link: 
http://www.ibm.com/software/swnews/swnews.nsf/n/nhan6lfk7t?OpenDocument&Site=lotus



General Self-Help Resources

Here are some other ways that you can access IBM Lotus Notes & Domino 
self-help support information on the Web:

1. Register for My Support, which allows you to build a custom portal of 
support information and to subscribe to email notifications:
(This is a great service! Tens of thousands of subscribers have already 
signed up).
(Please consider subscribing to alerts for new content about the product 
you work with). 
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/einfo.html to learn more.

2. Visit the IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino product support pages at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/notes/support.html [Lotus Notes]
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/domino/support.html [Lotus 
Domino]

3. Participate in the user-to-user IBM Lotus Notes & Domino forum at:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf

4. Access IBM Lotus Notes & Domino Product Documentation, Release Notes, 
White Papers, Redbooks, etc at
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/notesua.nsf/0b345eb9d127270b8525665d006bc355/e5e5f0ea9f656d548525698100567174?OpenDocument
 
[Lotus Notes]
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/notesua.nsf/0b345eb9d127270b8525665d006bc355/8313e8d10f025dee8525698100541f6d?OpenDocument
 
[Lotus Domino]

5. Access the IBM Lotus Notes & Domino DeveloperWorks page for downloads, 
learning resources and more:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/notesdomino/

6. Determine what problems are fixed in each release by viewing the IBM 
Lotus Notes & Domino Fix List database:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf

7. Subscribe to the Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino support RSS feeds:
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/rss/lotus/475.xml?rss=s475&ca=rsslotus 
[Lotus Notes]
http://www.ibm.com/software/support/rss/lotus/463.xml?rss=s463&ca=rsslotus 
[Lotus Domino]
For help with RSS and for links to all the Lotus software RSS feeds, 
visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/support/rss/lotus/ [All Lotus products]

Kind regards,

The IBM Lotus Notes & Domino team