If I was managing Apache web servers day after day I would have probably known the answer to that issue straight away. Instead I had to utilise Google quite a bit in order to find out how to add Office 2007 documents as mime type for the Domino web service: Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not open/save correctly when accessed over the web

Without changing the httpd.cnf file Word 2007 documents for example are recognised as “Compressed (zipped) Folder”, which makes it impossible to associate the file with Microsoft Office.

It’s not like Office 2007 isn’t around since about 2 years. How could this have slipped through the Lotus Domino 8.5.1 release by IBM?

While hunting for something completely unrelated, Google presented me with this analysis on CNNMoney dated back to 2004 1994 (Thanks Carl!). It’s an interesting read and some of the stuff could actually be highlighted again as part of the LotusKnows campaign.

And now that I got your attention I might actually share the search phrase I was typing in: “lotus policy change is clearing replication history -click”

I am having an issue here where a change in dynamic desktop settings is clearing out the replication history of local databases on laptop computers, enforcing them to run the ‘one time only – replication setup’ again. This is a bit of a problem as most of the Laptops are still connected via pretty old dial-up.
The desktop settings document got a new database link added to the list of databases to be created as new replicas on the user’s machine.

Has anyone had this behaviour before? Is there any workaround for that? Server and Client version are both 8.0.2.

I checked once and I checked twice, but still couldn’t believe that there was Microsoft advertisement on Planetlotus.org

Microsoft @ Planetlotus.org

Great news! The Traveler administration database now provides administrators with the option to set default device preferences and security settings. This is awesome news as it does reduce the need for policies in many cases. This is especially important in cases where the Traveler server is located in a different Domino domain than the mail servers.

I must say that I am a bit disappointed with that particular item. Looks like there is a lack of commitment from Nokia towards the Traveler solution.

Reading through the Traveler administration guide, it is clearly stated that “This feature requires installation of a Nokia security enablement library on each device. This library can be obtained from Nokia’s IBM Lotus Notes Traveler site.”

Unfortunately the link provided to the Nokia side didn’t bring me anywhere closer to the required library. The only knowledge I have gained based of the information from Nokia’s IBM Lotus Traveler data-sheet is that the enhanced security support does require TARM compatible devices.

Does anyone have an easy answer/solution for this? I don’t really fancy the implementation of Tivoly Configuration Manager  for the sole purpose of TARM enabling our mobile devices. Instead it’s probably cheaper to look for alternative devices in the Microsoft Mobile range. As far as I can tell there a now issues with device security.

Edit 23/10/09: The Lotus Traveler Security enablement library SIS-file is now live on the Nokia home page. Thanks to Niall for pointing that out in the comments.