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 […]
This problem appeared on 3 machines within a day of each other and despite quite a bit of googling didn’t appear to have much info about it or why it had suddenly appeared. Creating a new profile which used cached mode provided a workaround but it wasn’t a good solution especially if you use Outlook […]
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The obscurity of the error message in this case – in fact Google spat this one out – was the starting point for an usual set of circumstances trying to resolve a crashed Domino server. What does FATAL (44): unable to open file ‘Files’ even point towards ? So some background first then. An IBM […]
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 […]
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. […]
This was an issue that a client raised with me when they needed Unreal Engine and Studio installed along with the Datasmith Exporter in order to take work from Sketchup Pro into Unreal. The ability to load from Sketchup was actually a new feature to me as I had recently done a little bit of […]
Last year saw the “relaunch” of Domino and Notes with the news that HCL would acquire amongst other things Domino and with IBM would launch V10 of the platform. This month I attended the Domino V11 Jam in London – a forum to assess the requirements for the next release of Domino in 2019. The […]