There’s still time to register for Admin2009 and Lotus Developer2009. From April 15-17, join your peers in Boston to learn more about Lotus Notes and Domino.

Denny Russell posted some tips on Search Domino about reclaiming space on your Domino servers when databases get too large. Using Domino Directory Links, the databases can be accessed even if you move them to a non-Domino server.

Dynamic policies are new under Domino 8.5. Paul Mooney offers some tips on how they work and how they might make life easier for you.

Keith Brooks says he didn’t make this up. But. First the certifier ID was lost or corrupted. Then, when those expired, the organization name was changed and not everyone got moved over. And. Things didn’t improve from there.

LotusUserGroup.org has posted the March edition of SysAdmin Tips. In this edition: "Error with DAOS and Writing to a File", "My Domino Service Disappeared When Upgrading", and more.

If you live in the Tri-state area, mark Tuesday, April 21 on your calendar. The Tri-State Lotus User Group will be meeting in Manhattan.

Mary Beth Raven knows you were disappointed that Notes 8 only had 5 fonts to choose from. So, as of Notes 8.5.1, the list will be greatly expanded.

Back in February, Stuart McIntyre ran into an IMAP error in Domino 8.5 that caused his server to panic. IBM has now released Domino 8.5 Interim Fix 2 to fix the IMAP problem and a regression error with user renames and deletes.

Auto-configuration is great, when it works as it should. Graham Dodge found the Lotus Foundations auto-config to be rather stubborn, not to mention confused, after a new firewall was put in.

IBM has released the new eXtension Toolkit. This version is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Windows XP Professional.