Well, no, that isn’t the Notes.ini variable but, Almar Diehl did find something in the Notes Forum that is supposed to speed startup for the Notes 8 Standard client.

Yes, it something like a movie review. This whitepaper describes the eight services: Home Page, Profiles, Activities, Blogs, Bookmarks, Communities, Files, and Wikis and how to extend Connections into your existing applications.

Eric Mack has seen some bad inboxes, holding thousands of messages. He even says his is pretty bad. So, he’s running an informal poll to see who has seen the worst inbox.

If you use the ID Vault on your Domino servers IBM has issued a fix you need to apply. The problem affects Domino on all platforms.

Chris Whisonant has posted a quick explanation for people new to the Fix List pages. Chris explains multiple ways of getting at the information and includes links.

Bjorn Thomassen has four Domino servers. He’d like to set up a reverse proxy for them, without exposing them to the internet, but isn’t quite sure how to do it. If you’ve done this before, he’d like to hear from you.

Mitch Cohen uses Lotus Connections with DB2. The Technote said he needed DB2 9.5 FP3. So he started downloading files. Then he realized he had the full version, not just an update. He provides links to the files you really need.

Ed Brill reports the "unofficial" news. For customers upgrading to Domino 8.5.1, Tivoli Directory Integrator v7 has been successfully tested with 8.5.1 and the entitlement will be updated.

Kim Greene says if you’ve implemented DAOS on the IBM i (iSeries, AS/400) platform there’s a Technote you need to read and a couple of hotfixes you may want to install.

Darren Duke says Domino 8.5.1 adds DAOS to the replicator task. He explains how it works and what it means to your servers.