Monthly Archives: January 2011


Not So Instant – Instantbox

I’ve previously mentioned Jumpboxes – pre configured virtual machines for rapid deployment or evaluation. The company basically build an image that you can deploy then customise to your own needs with absolutely no heavy lifting. I use it for prototyping solutions and demonstrating to clients whats possible before they commit to buying a full subscription […]


Adventures with updall and compact on Domino 8.x databases (This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on Domino 8.x continued)

During research on problems with views or view indexes – relating to the ” This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on  Domino 8.x error” I was refreshing my recollection of the switches available for the updall and compact server commands for Domino 8 The following two items were […]


This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on Domino 8.x

This problem arose during migration of an application – that probably started life in version 5 of Notes and which has moved through to the latest 8.5.2 release with various stops on the way. My first thought was that it was some esoteric formula that I had used but on consideration I was fairly sure […]