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For many of you, this may just be a repost of a series of blog entries beginning on January 1, 2008 on Paul Mooney's blog. I haven't seen this earlier and - just as Paul foresaw: Admins will love this - I find this so awesome I wanted to share this again.

How to customize any Lotus Notes Error Message
The secret of customizing any error message is as simple as adding a notes.ini entry for the particular error message you wish to change.

The notes.ini entry
customizes the error message otherwise stating "Remote system no longer responding.".
Note: the example above is wrapped text, in notes.ini this should be one single line.

Best of all, Paul Mooney, Bill Buchan, and Julian Robichaux, have come up with an awesome database that not only allows you to extract a list of all error messages you can customize from your own Notes environment, but even deploy error message customization through Policies with simple point and click.

Here are all the links you need:

• Read the introduction to error message customization via notes.ini
• Read the entire Article on the cool database
• Direct download of the Error Message extraction and easy customization database (as of today, Version 1.52)

Actually, Paul Mooney has several other cool resources, too.

Just beware to adjust the default Error message customizations Paul, Bill and Julian have already prepared for you in their database:

For example, one of them replaces the standard Error message "Cannot write or create file (file or disk is read-only)" with "Loser alert! You don't even have access to write to your own hard drive." *yikes, watch out in production environments*.
You may just want to customize one of the messages with either Bill's, Paul's or Julian's cellphone number and tell users to call Helpdesk - maybe even for ALL error messages?
And no, I won't tell you their cellphone numbers ^^.