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- Domino 14.5 Mandated Port Encryption Hands-On — CheckPortEncryption Agent, portenc Commands, and Recovery Paths
Following yesterday's concept piece, this article walks through the official 10-step enablement procedure: upgrade the server address book design, sign the CheckPortEncryption scheduled agent, key Directory Profile fields, server ini values (DEBUG_MANDATED_ENCRYPTION, MANDATEDENC_ACTIVE_REFRESH_TIME), Desktop policy entries (DISABLE_MANDATED_ENCRYPTION), the portenc refresh / show console commands, and how to back out if enforcement breaks something. Pre-14.5 servers get their own behavior section.
2026.05.12 - What That `?` Icon Means in Domino 14.5 — Mandated NRPC Port Encryption Concepts and Modes
After upgrading to Domino 14.5, admins see a new `?` icon in the rightmost column of the server view in the Domino Directory. It's not a bug — it's the compliance indicator for the new Mandated NRPC Port Encryption feature, sitting in its default disabled state. This piece walks the history of NRPC port encryption, what 14.5 actually adds (mandate + monitor), how to read the icons, and the three enablement modes. Hands-on enablement steps are in the follow-up article.
2026.05.11 - Domino 14.5 Changes Where NotesHTTPRequest Loads Trusted CAs From — Read Before You Upgrade
Starting with Domino 14.5, server-side LotusScript NotesHTTPRequest loads trusted root CAs from the Domino Directory by default, no longer from cacerts.pem in the data directory. The Notes client is unaffected, and a notes.ini fallback (NotesHTTPRequest_Use_CACerts=1) reverts to the old behavior — but long term, you should migrate self-signed CAs into the Domino Directory. This piece walks the change, scope, pre-upgrade checklist, and ties back to the 5/7 deep-dive on the NotesHTTPRequest toolchain.
2026.05.10 - NotesView.GetAllDocumentsByKey: The Lookup Workhorse, and Five Things That Trip People Up
GetAllDocumentsByKey is the LotusScript lookup method everyone uses — pass a key, get back the matching documents. But the small print — keys match the view's sorted column (not document fields), exactMatch defaults to False (so it's prefix-match unless you opt in), backslash-categorised columns silently break it, and the returned collection has no defined order — gets missed even by experienced devs. This piece walks the signature, the by-key family, five real pitfalls, and complete examples.
2026.05.09 - OpenNTF's LotusScript Class Map: 97 Classes on One Interactive Page, Open-Source Data Behind It
OpenNTF released a LotusScript Class Map for HCL Domino 14.5.1 in 2026 — 97 classes, 1,001 properties, 997 methods, 72 events laid out on one interactive visual map, every node clickable through to the HCL docs. This piece covers what the tool does, the open-source license and JSON data behind it, and why it's useful for picking topics, planning learning paths, and exploring the API surface.
2026.05.08 - LotusScript's Outbound HTTP / JSON Toolchain: NotesHTTPRequest + NotesJSONNavigator
Domino V12 added NotesHTTPRequest and NotesJSONNavigator to LotusScript, so calling an external REST API and parsing the JSON response is finally a self-contained LS workflow — no more ActiveX shims or shelling out to curl. This guide covers both classes' methods and properties, the PreferJSONNavigator property that wires them together as an official path, a complete example, and where Java / SSJS land in comparison.
2026.05.07 - NotesXMLProcessor: The Common Base for LotusScript XML Handling
NotesXMLProcessor is the abstract base class behind every LotusScript XML handler — DOMParser, SAXParser, DXLExporter, DXLImporter, and XSLTransformer all inherit from it. This guide covers the role it plays, the five derived classes and when to pick which, the inherited properties, the SetInput / SetOutput / Process trio, and the Release 6 / no-COM caveats that don't make it into most quick refs.
2026.05.06 - Domino IQ RAG: A Built-In Pipeline That Wires Your NSFs Straight Into a Local LLM
Domino 14.5.1 adds RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) support to Domino IQ, running the LLM, embedding model, and vector database all on the Domino server itself — local execution, with NSF ACL and Readers fields enforced natively. This guide walks through prerequisites, the two-phase dominoiq.nsf configuration, updall vectorization, calling LLMReq from LotusScript, and why this is a different species from the OpenAI + Pinecone pipeline.
2026.05.05 - Domino IQ: What It Means to Run an LLM Inside the Domino Server
Domino 14.5 introduces Domino IQ — an AI inference engine baked into the Domino server backend, callable from LotusScript via NotesLLMRequest / NotesLLMResponse without ever leaving the box. This guide covers the architecture, hardware requirements, install flow, the two-phase dominoiq.nsf configuration, the Command and System Prompt document model, and why this trade-off works for existing Domino shops where bolting on OpenAI doesn't.
2026.05.05