Keith Brooks provides Technote excerpts and links to help you accept the bad news, "that’s the way it was designed to work".

Cristian D’Aloisio’s Friday afternoon was interrupted when a third party Domino task suddenly stopped working. After running a few tests the decision was made to un-install and re-install the non-working app. While it fixed the problem, further checking discovered an easier fix.

Bob Balaban knows the old saying "Keep It Simple Silly" works well when programming but, it seems different languages have different outlooks on the issue. LotusScript requires a little more attention or it bites back, producing odd results.

In this latest installment of our venerable series, The DominoPower Interview, I had the opportunity to interview one of the Lotus community’s favorite sons and two-time DominoPower author, Bruce Elgort.

Read this DominoPower article.

Scott Hooks reminds us there has been a change in the way Notes 8.x does searches of a mailbox. You might need to warn your users as the change could catch them by surprise.

Fabio Pignatti says DominoPoint Day 2009, set for October 30 in Milan, Italy, has opened a call for papers and sponsors. This event is sponsored by the Italian Lotus community.

Marie L Scott has been day-dreaming about ways to improve Lotusphere. She’s posted a few of her ideas, not all of which may be serious, and asks what you might like to change or add.

Implementing DAOS (Domino Attachment and Object Service) on your Domino servers can save lots of disk space but leave you backing up the wrong thing. This Technote explains the changes made to the NSFs and what you need to do to get useful backups for later restores.

Kathy Brown had a request to merge Lotus data into Word. And she needed to add a header to the merged document. She provides her code and a link to John Head’s article.

Dennis Ruddigkeit says it can become a real problem if the folder options in Lotus Quickr disappear and you need to remove the folder. He provides the steps to remove a corrupt folder.