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Domino V11 – the story continues in 2020

Domino V11 managed to slide in just under the wire at the end of December 2019. After HCL’s acquisition of the Domino range of collaborative software from IBM – they managed to deliver V10 which fixed a number of outstanding issues and set the stage for the transition to a version of Notes branded and […]


Moving Swiftly On ….

After a very busy period of Infrastructure and refresh projects for clients I have emerged back into the light of day and spent some time in the company of SwiftUI. This is  Apple’s latest approach to designing apps. By allowing us to be declarative (saying what we want the UI to do) rather than the […]


Exchange 2010 Cumulative updates not installing ?

This was a piece of work during a migration where a client had an Exchange 2010 server that was missing the latest Cumulative Update Rollups. The client reported that attempting to install the update failed – with a message that it had ended prematurely because of an error. The initial response was to try an […]


When is 10% not 1/10th ?

Most system administrators have needed at some time or other to upgrade the version of server operating system or application version to access new features. So we have gotten used to the various hoops that Microsoft wants us to jump through. I recently came across one that require a little bit more patience than usual. […]