Dave Hay describes 2 new portlets, one for Lotus Web Content Management Rendering the other for WebSphere Portal Extension for WebDAV, and provides links to further information and download sites.

Robert Ibsen Voith had a database where the view data no longer updated properly, despite upgrades, downgrades, compacts, and ODS changes. Here he details the problem and how he finally fixed it.

Mary Beth Raven is again asking for your input. If you run Notes on a Mac, just how Mac-like do you want the client to be? Is Notes 8.5 "Mac enough" for you?

Domino 8 offered an Internet Password Lockout for HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for SMTP. Christian Brandlehner offers some code to help secure SMTP against hacks.

You’ve had a server crash and now you have an NSD file. If only you could read it. This utility can help parse those files into something a mere human can read.

In Notes 8.5 Beta there was a problem with duplicate calendar entries. Mitch Cohen wrote about it then, so he’s now published a link to the Technote explaining the fix.

Chad Scott provides some information and a link to the fix pack from this page.

Christian Brandlehner upgraded his mail server to 8.5 and suddenly had a lot of calls from his help desk about people unable to connect to their mail. He details his efforts to fix the problem. He’s not certain it’s fixed now, but users can again get into their mail.

Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard is back from Lotusphere 2009 and, as he’s done each year for yo, these many years, he’s got an incredibly comprehensive analysis. We kick it off right away with a discussion of Notes 8.5 and 8.5.1.

Read this DominoPower article.

Jim Casale has discovered the fix in the 8.0.2 template doesn’t really fix the delegation issue from 8.0.1, it just hides the error message.