
A reader has been working with Domino 8.5.1 on an old System i installation, when he encountered a weird error message.
Read this DominoPower article.

Google won the $7.5 million contract to provide e-mail services for the City of Los Angeles, Ca. The deal, approved 12-0, will move 30,000 workers into Google’s cloud.

The latest version of CommonTime mSuite is now compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 & 6.5, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, plus devices running Exchange ActiveSync including iPhone, Palm Pre, Android and Symbian S60 5th Edition devices.

Dan Lynch is looking for some help. He’s attempting to implement this configuration in his test domain right now but it isn’t working very well. Has anyone out there gotten it to work?

Eric Mack is not a great fan of Notes archiving. But. He provides a number of items you can set to make Notes archiving more efficient, less troublesome, and less apt to upset your users.

Andy Pedisich discovered, perhaps the hard way, that "Instant Spell checking" is not turned on by default in Notes 8.5.1. But… if you have a correctly spelled, but incorrect word… hmmm.

David Brown provides a link to an old Technote that still has good information. You may want to bookmark this for the next time you need to change parameters on your server.

Marc Champoux got a lot of complaints from his users when Notes 8.x went out with new messages showing in bold, black text. He was so happy when Notes 8.5.1 offered an option to go back to red. Then he started getting complaints again.

Jake Howlett has gotten complaints when the F5 key fails to refresh data in a window. He gives the reason and a couple of ways to address the problem in a Flex application.

The Learning Continuum Company (TLCC) has introduced three new self-paced LotusScript courses, for Notes and Domino 8.5 developers, which can be purchased individually or with TLCC’s Notes and Domino 8.5 LotusScript Package. The package is on sale for $1,399 until October 30th, saving you $900.