I was at the site of one of our new customers yesterday and they were having problems with a “strange message”. The message told the users whether they wanted to access the server even though the certificate of the server had expired. This was strange since the customer was a relative new Domino customer.
After recertifying the server and getting people back to work I remembered this technote I read some time back. Since it appeared to be the cause of the problem I thought I would share it.
Technote (#1163626) was posted to the Lotus Domino Support RSS feed in March and informed about a bug where servers registered as “First server” on Domino 6.x/6.5.x is only certified for 2 years instead of the normal 100 years.
This really came back to bite this customer so if you did a new setup on Domino 6.x/6.5.x check the id-file of your servers…