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Using your Operating System Login for IBM Notes can Poison your IDs and how to fix it For years, weve had it easy with Notes. Weve had our ID files stored safely on a secure drive and whenever a user moved to a new desktop, we could simply copy their original ID over to their new machine and do most of the setup without them. All that changed somewhere between Windows 7, Notes 9 and getting Notes to use the Operating System login. Its a good change, dont get me wrong and it certainly protects the users privacy and makes things more secure. Unfortunately it also renders all of our IDs "Poisonous" and now we cant reuse them. Instead when opening an ID file on a new client installation, just after agreeing to "copy the file to the Notes data directory", we get messages telling us that Notes cannot open the ID File.   Eventually I tried other ID files only to find the same problem. Fixing the Problem As it turns out, theres a surprisingly easy fix for this. Simply gener...

Using a Google Gadget to get a Productivity Boost from Notes 8 Improving Productivity Its all great news that Lotus Notes 8.0.1 and above support Google Gadgets. A brilliant move IBM. The problem is that most of the demonstrations show you how to add really useful things, like personal fish-tanks to the Notes client. (Thanks Alan Lepofsky - a brilliant demo btw) rather than business productivity applications. It was hard to see the immediate business value of gadgets and even harder to sell it to the business. Thankfully now, Ive got a good and simple example. Im not sure if my behaviour is unique but somehow I expect that its not. I often find that when I am working in Lotus Notes and other applications that I am constantly copying data to notepad and making notes around it. On other occasions, I am following a particular list of requirements (again, usually part of a document pasted into notepad). Not too long ago I got myself a 22 inch wide-screen monitor. This has proved to be fant...