Here's an interesting scenario.
As I've blogged about recently, I have to create a large number of email accounts as a result of a recent acquisition my company has made. Per my normal standards for user creation, I've create policies for these new locations and am using registration documents in them as well. Because of the number of new accounts that I have to create, instead of creating the mail file right then and there during registration, I elected to select the option to create the mail files in the background and allow Adminp to do all of the heavy lifting and create the mail files when it can. So in my testing today, I decided to go ahead and create a few accounts to make sure that the text file import for registration information works as well as the process in general. The registration went fast and everything appeared to work okay, until AdminP created the mail file. The registration document is set so that the mail file is to be created with a 400 MB quota with a 300 MB warning. When AdminP created the mail file the result was a 400 GB quota was set with a 300 GB warning. That's right kids, gigabyte. So as I continued my testing after seeing this, I decided to disable the option to create the mail file in the background and decided to wait for the registration process to create the mail file right then and there. When I did that, the correct 400 and 300 MB levels were set. This was all done using Domino 8.0.2 on the backside and Notes 8.0.2 on the front.
So I pose a question to you all. Have you ever seen something like that? I know I can create the accounts without a quota and circle back later to set one, but you would think that it should work either way, right? I've placed a call into support for the issue as well, but wanted to get feedback from the bubble.
Ideas anyone?
UPDATE - 1:15 PM 10/30/08
Lotus Support called back to report that it is a reproducible bug in 8.0.1 and 8.0.2. They tried it on several systems and were all able to reproduce the issue. An SPR is being created to fix this problem.
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
The woes of registering users with a text file
Had another one of those moments today that I wished Notes could do something the way I want it to be done, rather then the way it does it. Here's the scenario.
Recently, our company has entered into an agreement to purchase another company. If you know where I work and you follow the business news, you know what I'm talking about. As part of our normal migration of users from a new company, we set up the users in Domino as if they were already on our mail system, but, we add in their current companies internet email address in the "Forwarding address" field in the Person Document so that any mail that is addressed to them at our domain get sent to there's. Not a big deal. It's nice to have that in place so that when I migrate them from Exchange to Domino, the mail file and everything else is in place and all we need to do is remove the forward and migrate their stuff. But, it became a big deal when I was told the amount of users that are involved in this migration. Well over 1000. So I started looking into using the "Import text file" option available in the user registration screen. Really nice feature if you have uber amounts of people to add into Domino and you get a text file export from HR of usernames. But, it's not so nice if you have to do what I was describing above. There is a limitation to what the import can do. As I had found out through searching the web and talking with support, even though you enter in a forwarding address in the text document, when you register them in Domino it will not populate that field in their Person Document. The only way that field will get populated is if you select "Other Internet" or "Other" for Mail system. Only then will you see on the address tab the users other internet email address, but then you do not have any Lotus Notes information for the user available. So, this means that I will have to do one of two things.
1. Register everyone normally, then go in and cut and paste in the other internet email address to the Forwarding address field.
2. Register the user twice. Once with the Mail system set to Lotus Notes, and then a second time with Other Internet selected. Then when I register them for a second time, tell the registration process to update the person record for each user. Once that's done, go into each person document and switch the mail system back to Lotus Notes so that it shows all of the information.
Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it? I'm sure that there is some code that could be written to help with this process, but then that involves adding more people to the mix and making the process harder than I think it should be. It would be nice if that in the Domino Admistrator when you import that text file, it will register the user as a Lotus Notes user with the Forwarding address information added.
I've placed this issue up on IdeaJam as well in hopes to get as much feedback as possible
If anyone has some suggestions, please share them!
Recently, our company has entered into an agreement to purchase another company. If you know where I work and you follow the business news, you know what I'm talking about. As part of our normal migration of users from a new company, we set up the users in Domino as if they were already on our mail system, but, we add in their current companies internet email address in the "Forwarding address" field in the Person Document so that any mail that is addressed to them at our domain get sent to there's. Not a big deal. It's nice to have that in place so that when I migrate them from Exchange to Domino, the mail file and everything else is in place and all we need to do is remove the forward and migrate their stuff. But, it became a big deal when I was told the amount of users that are involved in this migration. Well over 1000. So I started looking into using the "Import text file" option available in the user registration screen. Really nice feature if you have uber amounts of people to add into Domino and you get a text file export from HR of usernames. But, it's not so nice if you have to do what I was describing above. There is a limitation to what the import can do. As I had found out through searching the web and talking with support, even though you enter in a forwarding address in the text document, when you register them in Domino it will not populate that field in their Person Document. The only way that field will get populated is if you select "Other Internet" or "Other" for Mail system. Only then will you see on the address tab the users other internet email address, but then you do not have any Lotus Notes information for the user available. So, this means that I will have to do one of two things.
1. Register everyone normally, then go in and cut and paste in the other internet email address to the Forwarding address field.
2. Register the user twice. Once with the Mail system set to Lotus Notes, and then a second time with Other Internet selected. Then when I register them for a second time, tell the registration process to update the person record for each user. Once that's done, go into each person document and switch the mail system back to Lotus Notes so that it shows all of the information.
Sounds like a lot of work, doesn't it? I'm sure that there is some code that could be written to help with this process, but then that involves adding more people to the mix and making the process harder than I think it should be. It would be nice if that in the Domino Admistrator when you import that text file, it will register the user as a Lotus Notes user with the Forwarding address information added.
I've placed this issue up on IdeaJam as well in hopes to get as much feedback as possible
If anyone has some suggestions, please share them!
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