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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Important Note about referencing the latest information This PDF Document represents a snapshot of the web based wiki content. It has been created on 12/08/2009. For the latest information contained within this Lotus Redbooks Wiki, please refer to http://www10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/xpViewCategories.xsp?lookupName=Redbooks%20Wiki:%20Lot us%20Notes%20and%20Domino%20version%208.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Table of Contents Lotus Notes and Domino version 8.5 Deployment Guide ............................................................... 1 Important Note about referencing the latest information ............................................................. 2 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3 Preface ...............................
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Deployment Considerations ......................................................................................... 37 Planning the Domino Deployment ............................................................................................. 37 Deploying Domino...................................................................................................................... 37 Domino Server Deployment Best Practices.........
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide New Server Checklist ............................................................................................................. 59 Upgrade an existing server to Lotus Domino 8.5 ................................................................... 59 Lotus Domino Server Software Installation ............................................................................ 61 Post upgrade checklist ...........................................
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Multi User Installation............................................................................................................... 101 Notes Client Configuration for all platforms ............................................................................. 102 Automating Deployment........................................................................................................... 104 Silent Install ..........................
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Day At A Glance page ............................................................................................................. 140 Personal contact page ............................................................................................................. 141 Additional reference information .............................................................................................. 142 iNotes Sametime Integration .........
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Also, in the People & Groups panel you will find an ID Vaults section in the Tools side bar which will give you access to Reset Password, Set ID Download Count, Extract ID From Vault, and Password Reset Authority.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Benefits of ID VAULT.............................................................................................................. 169 Steps to deploy ID Vault .......................................................................................................... 170 Testing ID vault ........................................................................................................................
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Shows the current status of DAOS on this server. Tell DAOSMgr Status database_name .............................................................................. 182 Application Development............................................................................................................. 189 Programming Language Support and Information................................................................... 189 Formula Language ...
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Preface This wiki was the result of a collaboration of many individuals lending their experience and expertise on the deployment of Lotus Notes and Domino. The information provided is targeted at Version 8.5 of Notes and Domino and is supplementary to information already available regarding the deployment of Version 8. Please refer to the IBM Redbook IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Deployment Guide for additional guidance.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Bruce Lill is a partner at Kalechi Designs. He started working with Lotus Notes V2.1 for a large telecommunication company. He was given a project to allow users from across the company to collaborate on new products and found Notes was the perfect fit. He has been dedicated to Notes since then. He was certified as a developer, administrator and Instructor for R4, R5 and R6.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Vladislav Tatarincev is the Technical Director and co-owner of CYONE. www.cyone.eu. He has a Master of Computer Science from Latvian University. He has been working with Domino from release 4.5, for more than 10 years. He is also an IBM Certified Security Professional. Vladislav is the author of many freeware tools for Domino. You can follow ihis blog at Lotus Blogger: www.vlaad.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Introduction This wiki provides information, guidance and pointers to additional information related to the planning and deployment for IBM Lotus Notes Version 8.5 and Domino Server Version 8.5. As this content was being developed, Version 8.5.1 was being released. We have included some information about the enhancements and functions found in Version 8.5.1.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide a message is sent and when it is delivered, to contribute to reduced I/O, and to address scalability issues caused by a large message backlog. Mailbox event notification is also a router optimization. In Domino, when the router is running in a steady state and a new message is deposited in MAIL.BOX, a copy of the message is made and placed on a mailbox event queue which is then used by a new MailEvent thread in the router.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide desktop policy settings document. Administration policies for Lotus iNotes Domino administrators can use administrative policies to set or to enforce mail, desktop and security settings for Lotus iNotes users. When applied to a user, these mail settings lock down the associated user preferences in Lotus iNotes. (Note that any existing policies previously assigned to Lotus iNotes users will be enforced.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide The other security feature contributing to lower the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the Notes ID Vault. The Notes ID Vault is a server-based application used for storing and managing protected copies of ID files. Changes made in one copy of the ID file will resynchronize immediately with the ID file in the vault. Notes clients check periodically to see if the ID in the vault is different from their existing local ID.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • The name of the gzip file is the same as the original file but has an extension of .gz. ( original= stlinks.html, gzip=stlinks.gz) Both the original file and the gzip must be in the same folder on the server. The original file is not newer than the gzip file. The browser must provide gzip support, this is the default for most browsers.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Field NOTES.INI Compressed files - Enabled / Disabled HTTPDisablePreCompressedGzipFiles=1 / 0 (1 to enable) Choose Enable if you want the Domino HTTP server to check for and serve gzip (GNU zip) compressed versions of static files and to activate other compression settings on this tab. Include MIME Types HTTPIncludeMimeTypes=text/*;application/* Specify the types of MIME files that can be considered for compression.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Field Action Compressed output DominoGzipEnabled=1 Allows you to enable compression for Domino Web engine output. The default is disabled. Include MIME Types DominoIncludeMimeTypes=text/*;application/* Specify the MIME types to consider for compression. To enter multiple MIME types, separate each type with a semicolon (;).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Enhancements in Version 8.5.1 This page provides an overview of various features and enhancements that have been made available with Lotus Notes Client and Domino Server Version 8.5.1. As the writing of this document, Notes and Domino 8.5.1 has not been released yet, so the list below is subject to change. Please check the Release Notes for the complete list.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Drag documents or shortcuts from your operating system Desktop or file folder to the Open list or a Bookmark folder. For example, drag a Symphony™ document to a Bookmark folder, or drag a Notepad shortcut to the Open list.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide the message in a collapsible section. This includes Notes mail sent through an SMTP server. Calendar Main calendar and Day-At-AGlance automatically refresh At midnight, the main Calendar and Day-At-A-Glance panel automatically refresh to the next day. Save and re-use information for multiple online meetings When you add an online meeting to a meeting invitation, you can save and re-use the information for future meetings.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide panel view state. Catalog browse button -- This opens the widgets catalog. Show button -- This toggles My Widgets sidebar panel palette items between Thumbnail view or Details view. In the Details view, you can sort by Title or Type. The selected view state is remembered when you restart Notes. Type to find field-- This filters widgets based on what you type.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Server Ease of use for platform statistic event generators When you create a statistics event generator, you now have the option to monitor a template statistic. This option allows you to monitor a platform statistic for all instances of all tasks on a server, so that you do not have to create a separate statistics event generator for each task instance.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide New Features Mail disclaimer policy settings Mail disclaimer policy settings are now supported by Lotus iNotes. Web-style search A new notes.ini setting, INOTES_WA_DISABLE_WEBSTYLE_SEARCH=1, allows Lotus iNotes users to perform Web-style searches. Disable URL links in edit mode By default, users can identify or open hotspot links (URLs) while editing or responding to a message.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide of HTML square brackets is disabled by default. To allow this passthru HTML style, use the setting iNotes_WA_AllowPassThruHtml =1. The default value is 0. Administration Pushing managed settings with desktop policy setting Support for pushing managed settings is now available using the Custom Settings tab on the Domino desktop policy settings.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide in the "Deploying client plug-ins with widgets and the widget catalog" section of Domino Administrator help. The wizard guides you through the widget definition process, prompting for the updatesite in which that target plug-in resides.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide push the cross-certificates to the Contacts application on Lotus Notes clients. The cross-certificates are used to establish client trust of a certifier when accessing servers, reading encrypted S/MIME mail, or installing signed Lotus Notes client plugins. When you push cross certificates, users are not required to create the cross-certificates or retrieve them from the Domino Directory.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide provides. Ability to push trusted certificates to clients You can create cross-certificates in the Domino Directory for Internet certifiers and Lotus Notes certifiers and then push the cross-certificates to the Contacts application on Lotus Notes clients. The cross-certificates are used to establish client trust of a certifier when accessing servers, reading encrypted S/MIME mail, or installing signed Lotus Notes client plugins.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide LotusScript Editor. You can now define templates containing code used frequently that can be inserted into your code. Comment Template allow you to define documentation for each type of code module that is then automatically inserted each time you create a new module (class, sub, property get etc.). For more information, consult the Domino Designer wiki (http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Upgrade Considerations This page summarizes some of the important and known changes for Lotus Notes/Domino Server from 6.5.x/7.0.x/8.0.x to 8.5, We primarily focus on 6.5.x to 8.5.x because the upgrading from higher versions have less considerations.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Technote: What new features in Notes 8 require a Domino 8 server or mail template? (#1282123) Technote: Various desktop policy settings pushed to Notes clients after Domino Directory template (pubnames.ntf) is upgraded to 8.0 or 8.0.1 (#1299046) Lotus 32 bit Domino server to Lotus 64 bit Domino server upgrading The Lotus Notes/Domino view and full index facility is platform dependent and Domino architecture specific.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Attachment and Object Service 1. It requires at least Lotus Domino 8.5 server; 2. It requires transaction logging and ODS51; 3. You must validate backup solutions with DAOS repository and transaction logs; 4. You must review backup/ restore strategy and options prior to implementation; 5. Pre Lotus Notes 8.5 clients will not recognize DAOS. The result is that pre Lotus Notes 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide 1. It is highly recommended you ensure Domino server is stable after upgrading Domino server before upgrading new ODS feature for the databases. 2. A Lotus Notes/Domino database created with an On Disk Structure (ODS) specific extension (for example .NS6 or .NS7) is not upgraded by the Compact task even though the extension has been renamed to .
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide 32 bit Domino server can run on existing 32-bit hardware and 64 bit Domino server requires 64 bit hardware. Generally, the latest Lotus Domino server release is improved on performance for existing features and new features are added. This is true for Domino 8.5 release as comparing with pre-release. For existing features, it will be more efficient and will be able to accommodate more users and applications.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Server This section provides recommendations and best practices for planning, installing, and testing Domino 8.5 into your new or existing Domino server infrastructure. While your upgrade or rollout plan must be tailored to your own environment, this chapter provides a high-level outline of a typical enterprise deployment that can be used as a base reference.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino 64 Bit Click here Upgrade vs New Installation The process of deploying new Domino servers is similar to upgrading existing Domino servers. Given this fact, this chapter assumes a Domino upgrade, but will call out anything that is required or unique to a new Domino deployment.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino New Features For those administrators who want to get a brief overview on what is new in Domino 8.5 and 8.5.1, this page provides a list of new functions and features of the Domino server. Console Log Mirroring Console log mirroring causes a new server thread to be created which monitors all messages written to the Console Log file and duplicates these messages into another file.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Enhancements to Show Server and Show Directory These commands now report whether the Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) is enabled, and provide a list of which databases are included in DAOS with details for each. Administration Process The Administration Process records statistics to help you monitor the request processing activity of the administration process tasks.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Enter the command at the server console: > set config Create_R85_Databases=1 • Add the command through the Notes.ini section on the server configuration document. Now every new database you create and every database you compact will be using the new ODS51.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide event when viewing DDM events: Search for auto-populated group members failed for group Server1MBUsers.: NAMELookups are limited on this server to a size smaller than what would be returned. See your Domino Administrator for more information. To prevent this from happening, use the following server NOTES.INI setting to increase the limit from 1MB to a value greater than one.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide in the Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM), The normal cause of failure is due to failed LDAP search, because of an LDAP configuration issue. The following statistics are generated under Update / APGroups: Statistic Description Update.APGroups.Processed Number of distinct auto-populated groups processed this iteration Update.APGroups.Updated Number of distinct auto-populated groups updated this iteration Update.APGroups.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Deployment Considerations Considerations for a new Domino Deployment When evaluating your existing environment in order to plan a new deployment of Domino, the process is essentially the same as for an existing Domino infrastructure upgrade which is described in the next chapter.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide organically and incrementally, as the needs of the organization have changed. Growth in the size and maturity of an organization, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures all have an effect on deployments, with changes typically being tactical and incremental, rather than strategic. When reviewing your Domino environment, you may find a need for some new hardware or added capacity.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide From a similar perspective, you should consider your application servers carefully. In some ways, your application servers are more difficult to assess than your mail servers because of different usage patterns and differences in application design. However, many of the same things should be assessed in your review.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide the upgrade. It is strongly recommended to plan your upgrade in small steps: • • • Give a higher priority to the applications that must be fixed before the upgrade and assess the resources and efforts necessary for this task.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide these applications to fully understand their usage in your environment. Template customization When evaluating your environment, you should also consider any customizations that you have made to templates. It is possible that customizations have been made to mail templates, directory templates, and application templates that ship with Notes and Domino, such as teamroom and discussion.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Deployment Planning When planning to upgrade your existing Domino infrastructure, it is important to understand what is needed to get your environment ready to accept Domino 8.5. Understanding prerequisites Preparing for an upgrade includes understanding and meeting all prerequisites for the upgrade, all the things that need to be in place before you begin the upgrade.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 2 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition Memory 512 MB minimum 512 MB minimum 512 MB or more recommended per CPU 512 MB or more recommended per CPU Disk space 1.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Operating system Solaris 10 Memory 512 MB minimum 512 MB minimum 512 MB or more recommended 512 MB or more recommended per CPU per CPU Disk space 1.5 GB minimum per partition, more recommended 1.5 GB minimum per partition, more recommended Processor UltraSPARC III or better UltraSPARC III and higher Solaris 10 Linux System Requirements For any updates, please refer to www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27013072.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Features When upgrading or deploying Domino 8.5 it should be part of of the rollout plan to define the new features you’re going to activate. Sizing For a checklist to use when sizing a new Domino server, see Techpaper 7008851, "Notes/Domino Best Practices: Sizing", available at this URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide applications. In some cases, you may need to upgrade to a later version of a third-party application to support Domino 8. Understanding the version and patch requirements for your third-party applications is critical to your successful deployment. Deployment Sequence When planning the upgrade to Domino 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Deployment This section describes the deployment process of Lotus Domino in general terms. In this section we primarily describe deployment on Windows. Pre Upgrade Checklist Before starting to deploy Lotus Domino 8.5, please make sure the following checkpoints have been verified: • • • • • • • • Is the latest version of the Domino server installation package available? Is the public Domino Directory template (pubnames.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • Have all applications successfully been tested for compatibility with Domino 8.5? Does the server hardware and software correspond to the minimum R8.5 requirements? Before starting the upgrade of a clustered server you have to make sure that you copy the template files to all cluster members. Make sure that all older templates with the same template design name are removed from all cluster members before starting the migration.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • For any system database, the following elements should be verified Replication must be enabled on each spoke server of the domain Replication of design elements must be possible from the administration server to all spoke servers.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Check if you can open the Domino directory and if the new design has been successfully replicated on the other servers of the domain (make at least some spot tests) Administration Request Design Upgrade To upgrade the Administration Requests database (Admin4.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • If you have a system management tool installed (like Tivoli Intelliwatch) make sure that you do not have an automatism in place which restarts add-in tasks automatically which should not be started on the server if it is upgraded to R8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • • • • • names.nsf admin4.nsf events4.nsf ddm.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Stop SMTP mail routing by issuing the following console command >tell SMTP quit • Verify that all server mail box files (mail.box, mail1.box .. mailn.box) are empty and any existing mail as been routed properly by issuing the following console command: > tell router show queue If there are still messages in one of the mailboxes, you may route them manually.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide For a Domino full setup installation, perform the following steps: • After invoking the setup.exe file to launch the Domino 8 installation program, the Java™-based InstallShield Wizard dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 3-3. • After accepting the license agreement, you will be prompted to select a folder for the Domino executable and data files, as shown below.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide By default, the installation program installs the new files to the same location where your current Domino server is installed. You will also be asked whether you want to install a partitioned server, which means that the same binaries folder and directory are used by several Domino servers on the same physical machine or on the same logical OS partition, known as an LPAR on UNIX-based machines.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • After verifying the installation settings, shown below, click Next to launch the Domino 8.5 server installation. • After the installation completes, click Finish, as shown below.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Post upgrade checklist Once Lotus Domino has been installed, the following steps should be performed prior to starting the Domino 8.5 servers for the first time: • • • • • • Verify your template management, as discussed in Domino Server Deployment Best Practices. Replace the out-of-the-box templates and remove unused templates, as necessary. Edit the server Notes.ini file, per the recommendations above.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • Test your Domino server: a. Access the Domino server from a remote Notes client. b. Access a database on the Domino server from a Web browser if http is enabled. c. Ensure that the major Domino server functions like replication, mail routing, and any third-party applications are running successfully. After upgrading the administration server, make sure that you upgrade the design of your administration requests database (admin4.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide With that said, if you decide that you would like to upgrade to ODS51 immediately or shortly after you upgrade to Domino 8.5, you can add the Create_R85_Databases=1 notes.ini parameter to a Lotus Domino 8.0 (or 7.0) server in preparation for the Domino 8.5 upgrade. The following two steps are required to enabled the new On Disk Structure: • • Add the Create_R8_Databases=1 parameter to the server notes.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Upgrade the application that are based on standard templates, notify the users and assess if training would be necessary for them It is strongly recommended NOT to upgrade applications and application servers if they are already having issues. Fix the existing issues before you attempt an upgrade. When you do application testing, the key is to do it intelligently.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Deployment Best Practices The focus of this chapter is to outline lessons learned from existing deployments. Efficiently managing your templates An essential planning step for deploying Domino 8.5, as was the case for prior versions of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, is to review your template deployment and maintenance strategy.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide dir X:DominoData*.nsf /s /b >X:DominoDatafiles.ind • Based on the example above, a new file ( files.ind )has been created in the directory X:\Domino\Data\ Now use an editor to parse this file into pieces. We recommend to create one IND file less than the number of CPUs in your server. (for example. three if you have a server with four CPUs). For example: files1.ind: X:DominoDatanames.nsf X:DominoDatacatalog.nsf files2.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Compacting and White Space When COMPACT -b runs on a mail file, or indeed any DB; rather than decrease the size of the DB, this Lotus recommended "purge" increases white space and decreases the percentage of the file used. Simply put, compact -b reorders data in a database so that the data is consecutive. The utilization percentage goes up while space is compacted within the NSF structure. The file size remains the same.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide No, actually you probably won't. If you think about it, the space just before the compact -C or -B is probably approaching steady state, and soon would be!! Unless you let users grow their mail files to silly sizes, then they will, as a group probably have steady state on mail received, sent, deleted and stored.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide To get the most savings, administrators need to ensure that ALL databases on the server use the same DB settings. Example: Assuming two applications or mail files on the same server store the same attachment. If one DB is configured to use LZ1 compression and the other is not, DAOS would save the attachment TWICE on disk – one attachment from the DB using LZ1 compression, and another version from the attachment without LZ1 compression.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Select File -> Database -> Replace Design (from the Notes, Administrator, or Designer client). To upgrade mail files to a different template using the load convert utility, use the following syntax: Consider the following examples: • The following command converts all users in the mail subdirectory from their current template to the Mail 8.5 template: load convert mail/*.nsf * mail85.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Backup Strategy Enabling DAOS servers will have benefits related to disk space savings and reduced I/O demands. However, it will also introduce another level of complexity to your backup / restore planning. Key elements are already described in the DAOS pages. Beside the technical changes in how to do back up and how to restore, Domino administrators will have to raise the question if the pre8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • Domino Installation Package as it was downloaded from passport advantage without extracting it. (C1SP7EN.exe, is Lotus Domino 8.5 Engl. Windows 32 Bit). Response file Any additional fix pack that you want to apply (For example, CZ344EN.exe, is Lotus Domino 8.5 Fixpack1).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide -P ProgramFilesFeature.active=true -P bean2090.active=true -P bean1072.active=true -P bean2225.active=true -P bean2247.active=true -P bean2236.active=true -P bean2236.active=true -P DataFilesFeature.active=true -P bean773.active=true -P bean3252.active=true -P bean3301.active=true -P bean3230.active=true -P bean3241.active=true -P bean3271.active=true -P bean3290.active=true -P bean3312.active=true -P DAMOFeature.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin85.doc/ H_USING_CONSOLE_LOG_MONITORING_STEPS.html Domino 64 Bit Starting with version 8.0, Domino is also available as a 64 Bit application for more than System i. If you already run on a 64 bit operating system environment, you will probably consider switching to the 64 bit version of Domino.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Lotus Notes Clients The information on this (and linked pages) provide information about Notes Clients and their deployment. Specifically, this page provides an overview of the various Notes Clients.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino Designer Client The Domino Designer 8.5 client is the rapid application development tool. It contains multiple new development features which are explained in more details in Chapter 5 later in this book. Just like the Domino Administration client, it runs on a C++/C# framework as prior releases and runs only on Microsoft Windows. This client is bundled with the Domino Administration client and the Notes client.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Notes Client Enhancements This page summarizes several enhancements made to the Lotus Notes Client in Version 8.5. Additional enhancements made in Version 8.5.1 are covered in Enhancements in 8.5.1. Performance Performance improved for Notes client startup The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of performance enhancement in this release.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Citrix platform now supported Notes 8.5 supports installation and use on Citrix®. See release notes or tech notes for system requirements and operating system version support. This capability was initially made available in release 8.0.1. Linux platform now available in RPM format Notes 8.5 installation on Linux is available as an RPM or DEB install kit. The ISMP install kit is no longer available.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Notes Client Requirements This page provides information about the general requirements for each of the Lotus Notes client types. Operating System Requirements The operating system requirements for the supported platforms listed the sections below.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Activities Side-shelf Integration Not available on Ubuntu Not available. In plan for a future release Quickr Side-shelf Integration Not available Not available Desktop Search Not available Supported on Mac, however we use Mac's native desktop search engine, Spotlight, rather than Google Desktop Search. You can find Notes content through Spotlight search.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Hardware Requirements Although there are multiple hardware requirements for the different platforms mentioned in the release notes and the InfoCenter, the important thing to keep in mind is that these are additional requirements to those required by the operating system. The typical recommended configuration that a Notes Standard Client requires is the following: • • • • Pentium 4, 1.2 GHz or higher 1 GB RAM minimum (1.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Notes Client Deployment Lotus Notes 8.5 provides the following choices for deploying the client: • • • • Manual installation: This is usually done from the CD or from files placed in the network. Smart Upgrade: This is a feature that uses policy and settings documents to help push out upgrade to users who would then get a notification to upgrade their Lotus Notes client.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide transforms to create a silent, automated installation, a shared installation, and so on Manual Installation The most simple way to install the Notes Client is manually by using either a CD or a package downloaded from the Passport Advantage website. The steps for the manual installation and configuration are the same as the Notes 8.0 Client are shown below.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide You click Next and at the next screen, you enter the User Name, Organization, and the type of installation for your client (Single User or Multi-User): After your selections, you click Next and at the next screen, you choose the locations for the program and data folders.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Click Next and at the next screen, you select the different options you wish to install with your Notes Client.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Once everything is complete and no errors have been encountered, you end up with the following screen: Your Notes Client is now ready to be configured (first installation) or upgraded (existing installation).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Client Installation on Linux As of today, there are two types of Notes 8.5 Client packages available for Linux: • • Debian (.deb): The Debian package is used on the operating system called Debian GNU/Linux or Debian for short. IBM created this Notes Client package specifically for the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition. RPM Package Manager (.rpm): The RPM Package Manager is the one mostly used by all Linux distributions.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • Open a terminal window Go to the temporary directory where the Debian files are present Change to the user 'root' with the following command su Enter the password of the 'root' user • To launch the installation, type the following command dpkg -i .deb To respect the dependencies of the different Debian files, you must start by installing the Notes 8.5 package: dpkg -i ibm_lotus_notes-8.5.i586.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Client installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with RPM Package This section covers the client installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 Desktop and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 XGL (RPM package). When you download the Notes 8.5 Client RPM Package from Passeport Advantage, it comes as a TAR file, which is the equivalent of a ZIP file in Windows. First, you must decompress the TAR file 1. Open a terminal window 2.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide su Enter the password of the 'root' user • To launch the installation, type the following command rpm -ivh *.rpm (First installation) rpm -Uvh *.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Multi User Installation The multi-user installation allows multiple users to use the same Notes Client on a single workstation without sharing the same data directory. While sharing the same executables, each user has their own data directory and personal files within their own user home directory.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Note that you are note prompted to pick and choose the data directory location because this is created automatically under the user's home directory when a user logs in and launches the Notes Client from the desktop icon.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Then you get to the following configuration information screen. You click Next. At the User Information screen, you enter the user's first and last name, and the name of the Domino server in hierarchical format. Note: In order for the server name to resolve automatically, your DNS must be able to resolve the first part of the server name (for example, ITSO_Server).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide You will get prompted with a user password corresponding to the name entered above. Then, the client connects to the server and authenticates to it. If the credentials provided are valid, the next screen appears. You can either specify which optional services you wish to configure or click Finish. Your client is now configured and should automatically launch, and bring you to the Getting Started page.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide even thousands of users. In this instance, being able to automate the deployment saves you both time and resources. Below are a few resources to help with automating your deployment: • • • • IBM Redpaper, Distributing Notes Clients Automatically , REDP-3693 Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help topic, Automating client installation using a silent install Lotus Domino Administrator 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Domino.Server=1 AdditionalServices=0 AdditionalServices.NetworkDial=0 Replication.Threshold=1 Replication.Schedule=1 Important Information for Roaming User Setup The scriptable setup option uses a setting in the NOTES.INI file to provide information to the client setup wizard. During installation, the wizard displays only the panels that users need to set up the Notes client.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide How to set up Smart Upgrade You should specify the Desktop Settings of your policy to the version of Lotus Notes you wish to upgrade. For example, we want all users to upgrade to “Release 8.5 FP1” Desktop Settings – Smart Upgrade tab: • • Deploy version: make sure to use the format “Release 8.5 FP1“ The Upgrade deadline: you should determine a date by which users need to modify their clients.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • Operating system - Windows, Linux or Macintosh. In the Operating System field. Starting from release the 85 Lotus Smart upgrade supports the Linux clients’ upgrade. Localization - select you a localised source client, for example if you want to upgrade the Finnish clients to the Finnish 85 client, select Finnish. Or if you use an English client, select English. Release 6.5.4/6.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Notes Smart Upgrade for Notes Clients running on Linux Starting with Notes 8.5, you can now upgrade Notes Clients running on Linux desktops using RPM (SuSe, RedHat) or DEB (Ubuntu) packages. When configuring for Lotus Notes 8.5 and greater on Linux client users using Smart Upgrade, you must configure Smart Upgrade using a specific procedure.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Steps to create and attach an update kit to the Smart Upgrade database 1. 2. 3. 4. Create a Smart Upgrade database. Create a Smart Upgrade kit (tar file). Open the Smart Upgrade database, click New Kit, complete the form fields, and attach the update kit to the kit document, or designate a shared network drive in the kit document. Click Save & Close.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • IBM Technote 1312864 - How to configure the Smart Upgrade Tracking Database Microsoft Windows installer tool command line options Upgrade by mail Upgrade by Mail is still available in Domino 8.5, it was introduced in early versions of Lotus Notes, before Seamless upgrade was introduced. Tip: Use Upgrade by Mail if you are upgrading from pre 6.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide If you want to receive notification after mail file upgrade, select “Notify me when users complete mail conversion” to “Yes”, else select to “No”. In a “Client Versions” you should select to which version this will apply. The number you enter is Version Number of Lotus Notes Release. Lotus Notes 85 is 359 build number, Lotus Notes 802 is 323.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide New mail template file name: type filename of new template, for example “mail85.ntf” Ignore 200 category limit. Select “Yes”, some old releases had a limitation of opening databases with more than 200 folders, Lotus Notes 85 has much higher limits. Mail file to be used by IMAP mail client, check this field if you want to enable this mailfile for IMAP access.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. a user you want to upgrade is not a member of. Make sure that the users you want to upgrade are members of the organization or organizational unit that your policy targets. The upgraded version of the user's Notes Client does not match the version specified in the Desktop settings document. The version of the mail template that you want the users to upgrade to is not available on the users' mail servers.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Notes Installation Package Customization Lotus Notes of the Windows Installer technology, which allows an administrator to standardize custom installations by distributing pre-configured installation packages. The administrator manipulates the configuration by means of a transform file that the Windows Installer service uses when it is installing an application.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Setting Things Up Start by creating the following folder structure: Path Explanation c:\makeinstall\ (e.g.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Note: When specifying the file name, it is essential that the name not include any spaces, otherwise, it will cause problems at the time of the launch of the customized client install package. Click on the "Create" button at the bottom of the screen. Understanding InstallShield Tuner Options This is where we do the actual customization of the installation package.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide To define a fixed path, right-click on the Destination Computer entry in the Destination computer's folder pane and select Add, then enter the directory name of your choice (e.g."Lotus".) subfolders can be created in the same way. Before adding any files via drag and drop, make sure the newly created folder is selected.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Important : Under the new version of the InstallShield Tuner, for the Lotus Notes 8 client, the default folder structure under ProgramFilesFolder is as follows: ProgramFilesFolder \ IBM \ Lotus \ Notes NT Services The NT Services sub-section, this provides the possibility to change parameters for NT services included in the base install package.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Server Locations If, at a certain point, the custom installation package needs to be configured to be installed from a file server location (as opposed to a local installation, be it on the local hard disk or on a CD/DVD) and that there are additional server location paths specified, it is possible that the Lotus Notes client might need to access sometimes these locations after the initial install of the server.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide When a dialogue is deactivated, InstallShield Tuner automatically modifies the installation logic so as to ensure that the dialogs are displayed in the proper sequence. Likewise, if a dialog is reactivated, InstallShield Tuner will place the sequence back in the proper order. Note: A dialog box can only be disabled if the options that it is supposed to configure are predefined in a variable.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide cancel the installation in progress. For a list of alternative command-line parameters that can be provided, the help file should be consulted. • The SMS item, allows to specify a number of pieces of information that relate to the Microsoft Management Server (SMS) environment and prepare the custom installation package for deployment using SMS. It is possible to create an SMS file for version 2.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Lotus Symphony plugins\com.ibm.productivity.tools.* features\com.ibm.productivity.tools.* Sametime features\com.ibm.notes.sametime.installed.feature_* plugins\com.ibm.notes.sametime.installed_* Composite Application Editor features\com.ibm.rcp.aaf.feature_* plugins\com.ibm.rcp.aaf.* plugins\com.ibm.rcp.aaf_* features\com.ibm.notes.toolbox.ca.adapter.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Integrate Dictionary Files This chapter describes how to add spell checking dictionary files to your installation package. Prerequisites: • Spell Checking Dictionaries - File name : Dictionaries.exe This file can be found on the Lotus Notes product CD/DVD in the folder Apps\Dictionaries\XTAF\ or can be downloaded from IBM Passport Advantage by searching for Part Number C1435EN, which contains the required file in zipped form. 1.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Applying a custom Package The installation can be done via • • • The Setup.exe file included in the customer installation package Note: Make sure to read the important note when using setup.exe A command line present in a batch file executed from the command-line prompt SMS calling the msiexec command with the /i parameter to denote it is an installation, whereas /x would denote an uninstallation. Important note when using Setup.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Lotus iNotes This section provides recommendations and best practices regarding Lotus iNotes, the browser based client for performing Notes client functions.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Lotus iNotes Full mode Full mode offers a full set of features including mail, calendar, notebook, contacts, and to do list and is adapted from a new tabbed, frameset-based page architecture and user interface framework for more parity with Lotus Notes client and greater efficiency, This new framework is introduced in Domino 8.0.1, for more background information refer to the developerWorks article, “Introducing IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide sending." for automatically runing a spell check prior to sending a message. · Lotus iNotes proxy servlet: Lotus iNotes introduces a proxy servlet on the Lotus Domino server to work around browsers imposed cross-site scripting security when getting data from external servers and mashing the data up within the Lotus iNotes page.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide · Preferences configurations: Available directly from lite mode, and will be opened within a managed tab. · Quota indicator: Is also available in lite mode. · Menu widget: Has been improved to reduce flickering and support retaining the "dropped-down state." If you click the drop-down arrow on one top-level menu item, just hovering over the drop-down area of other top-level menus displays those menus.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • • Home page: Provides real-time access to Lotus Domino mail, calendar, and contacts through a simple look user interface and ease of use associated with a typical iPhone application. Unread count: is showed at the top of inbox and home page to let users immediately know how much mail still needs to be read. This count is updated on a page refresh or when an action is performed.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • the view without having to open the entry. From the contact view, users can create new contacts or drill down to open an existing contact entry. Accessibility and desktop browser support: Provides an accessible solution for Lotus iNotes that complies with the standards set forth in Section 508 of the United States Rehabilitation Act (found at 29 U.S.C. 794d).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • Clients using Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, on Windows 2003 server (32- and 64-bit), using Citrix ICA (Independent Computing Architecture). Note: Does not support Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS). Must use the 32-bit browser on a 64-bit version. Browser support notes • • Attempting to access Lotus iNotes through unsupported browsers results in the display of an unsupported browser notice. Netscape 4.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • Domino Server configuration document. Server configuration settings specific to Lotus iNotes can be found in the Lotus iNotes tab (Lotus Domino Web Access tab in earlier releases). The server configuration document settings apply to all Lotus iNotes users on a particular server. They cannot be used to configure a subset of users in a particular way. NOTES.INI settings on Lotus Domino server. Many NOTES.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide < tell adminp process mail policy When Adminp runs, it determines the assigned user effective policy and applies it to that user relevant configuration profile documents. After the process is completed successfully, the desired policy settings for the users are in effect. This application is true for Lotus iNotes only; the Lotus Notes client itself needs to run a separate process to finish the policy update.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide A summary listing of Lotus iNotes supported settings can be found in : New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide applying the policy, rather than by a user action (for example, by changing the preference and clicking OK). $FieldsSetByPolicy filed will be created only after applying policy and it will not exist in user mail profile document if no policy apply. The easy to view the setting is thorough Notes Peek utility (http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24005686).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Figure 2 View $FieldsSetByPolicy filed in an policy applied user mail file Ultralight for iPhone Apple iPhone introduced many innovative new capabilities within a handheld device that easily fits in one's pocket and include a powerful browser: mobile Safari. This browser is nearly identical to its desktop cousin. Suddenly, the rich content on the Internet is readily reachable without having to carry around a bulky laptop.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide View icons It provides useful information at a quick glance. There are indicators to identify unread mail, high-priority items, and various types of calendar events. On the right, icons indicate items marked for follow-up action, items handled by forward or reply operation, and where attachments or additional information are present. Attention indicators are displayed when this feature is configured in the Lotus iNotes preferences.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Message page The read and new message page is designed in simple but maximum to utilize small iPhone screen in new and visually appealing user interface. User can read encrypted mail. When sending an email, user can do name validation with local personal contacts.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Day At A Glance page The Day At A Glance page provides a convenient Day-At-A-Glance calendar view that initially displays the current day’s schedule for the user. Action icons are available to navigate to the next and previous days, return to the current day, refresh the view to see any new entries, and return to the home page.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Personal contact page The personal contacts page displays the user's personal contact list from Lotus iNotes and provides an alphabetic listing with controls to jump to a specific letter page in the contact list. Icons display in the contact list when a cell phone number, a business phone number, or an email address is available for someone.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Additional reference information For more information, see: New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Ultra-light mode and the Lotus iNotes redirector iNotes Sametime Integration In Lotus iNotes 8.5, the integrated Sametime instant messaging is only available in full mode. You can now work in your mail file to know other user's availability status and chat with them.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide client will pull the Sametime contact list from Sametime server and make any changes on the Sametime server to make a seamless Sametime contact list available for you regardless of your client. Sametime 7.5 server or above will no longer ship with Sametime connect for browsers (also known as the Java Connect Client). Version 7.0 Connect for browsers can be deployed on a Sametime 7.5 server or above as a workaround.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide iNotes High Availability Configuration Lotus iNotes is an enterprise application, and as an enterprise application requires scalability, high availability and predictability. It can be integrated with a load balancer solution for distributing incoming client requests across a group of servers to achieve this goals with transparency to users and Lotus iNotes applications.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide The load balancer is generally configured in one of the following ways to select a server for each incoming connection for load distribution and failover: 1. Load balancer can select one of the servers to evenly distribute the load with randomly or most available server by periodically probing. When a client connects to a specific server, the balancer can be configured for "sticky" connections for the client sessions to be retained. 2.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide notification, is to hold the Control (Ctrl) key and cliick "IBM Lotus iNotes" link. When you open the Lotus iNotes console log, there are the following opotions: • • • • • • • Error: Display only error messages. Warning: Display Warning and Error messages. Info: Display Information, Warning and Error messages. Detail: Display Detail, Information, Warning and Error messages.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide View “Device Settings” is new in 8.5.1 and provides defaults for connecting devices. View “Devices” shows every user devices and indicates the synchronization protocol; TCP or SMS. From this view you may see also model, last sync time, OS type, and Lotus Traveler version. If you open a Selected document, you see more details, such as the Username, Device Name, IMEI, Last sync time, AutoSync Type = TCP/SMS, OS, Traveler client version.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Device security is the only view which has action items. It allows you to wipe the device in case it was stolen. Or you may want to erase only the Traveler client. You can select multiple options holding the CTRL key.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide If your Mail server is accessible from the Internet, you may install Lotus Traveler on your Mail server. If you have the hardware resources, it is advised to install Traveler on a separate server. In case you want to install Traveler on as separate server (Lotus Traveler on top of Lotus Domino) you don't need an additional licence, unless there are no applications or mail users on this server.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Traveler Security Features The following sections summarize some of the security features available with Traveler. Encrypted Mails Lotus Traveler supports reading of encrypted mails. Starting in Version 8.5 Traveler supports encrypted mails. For this to work, you need to embed your user.id file in MailFile, the same way as you do if you want to read encrypted mails in Lotus iNotes (formerly WebAccess).
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide issuing a console command. The next time device connects to the server, the selected actions will be carried out. Additional Information For information on gathering data to troubleshoot Lotus Traveler, see http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21297416 Lotus traveler Requirements Lotus Domino 8.x design of Domino Directory Lotus Domino 8.5 server (Lotus Domino 8 minimum) Mail server – at least 7.0.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Administration This section of the wiki covers various topics related to the administration of an environment consisting of Lotus Domino Server and Lotus Notes V8.5.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Admin Client Enhancements The Domino Administrator 8.5 client has received a few enhancements, mostly to support new Domino server features such as DAOS and ID Vault. Usability Enhancements A new usability enhancement to the Domino Administrator client is the ability to copy and paste the data from many of the server panels.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide ID Vault To support ID Vault implementations, some new features have been added to the Administrator client. In the Configuration panel you will now find an ID Vaults entry in the Tools side bar. This new section gives you the ability to Create, Manage, and Delete ID Vaults, as well as invoke the Password Reset Authority configuration.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Also, in the People & Groups panel you will find an ID Vaults section in the Tools side bar which will give you access to Reset Password, Set ID Download Count, Extract ID From Vault, and Password Reset Authority.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Admin Policies Starting from release 6, IBM provides administrators Policy and Setting functionality to change settings on user's workstations without visiting them, as well to automate some other things like archiving, user registration, and new workstation setup. Every version has improvements and new settings. You may allow users to change some settings, and you may enforce some if they are required by company policy.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • • • • • Setup - Settings included in this Setup settings are executed only once, when Lotus Notes workstation is installed, it is a good idea to set default settings in this type of settings Archiving - This type of settings will help to set defaults for mail file archiving, where to store mailfile archive, on which server, where the archiving is performed.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Internet resources Self-Training: Registration policy settings documents http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010354 Self-Training: Domino Desktop policy settings documents http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27010351 Self-Training: Troubleshooting Domino policies and settings documents http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide DAOS Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) is a large object store for Domino where its content is outside of the Notes database. The common content is stored only once, meaning that it consolidates the storage of multiple attachments for all the users hosted on a particular Domino server. On the shared content, DAOS manages reference counts.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide This tool is compatible with Domino 6.x and higher, meaning that you can run this tool and get a detailed listing of the above information for every Domino 6.x and higher server in your environment. To download the DAOS Estimator tool, please follow the instructions in IBM Technote 4021920 “Download the Domino Attachment and Object Service Estimator Tool version 1.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Note: Although the default value for “minimum size…” of 64kByte is good for new deployments, we recommend to start using an higher value (for example, 1024000) first, and decrease it at a later stage. When applying changes to this value, actions in “Enable DAOS for Databases” (below) must be performed again. • • • Save the Server document and Shutdown the server.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • • Run compact on mail.box Still working with mail.box, click File > Application Properties and select Use Domino Attachment and Object Service. LZ1 is selected by default. Exit the Administrator client. Shut down the server and delete your mail.box at the OS level. Start the Domino server. A new mail.box will be created based on the altered mailbox.ntf. Start the Administrator client. Verify that the newly created mail.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide DAOS Maintenance and Troubleshooting This section provides some concepts and tips on how to maintain and troubleshoot DAOS on a server. One important component of DAOS is its catalog. By default, it's called "daoscat.nsf". This catalog is an index that keeps track of all the references between NSF files and NLO files.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide These actions will put all the attachments back into the database. Then, you'll be able to create a new replica or move the database to another DAOS-enabled server. Note: You do not need to do these actions if you create a replica or move a DAOS-enabled database to a Domino server 6.x, 7.x or 8.0.x, or a Domino 8.5 server without DAOS configured.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide because, at one time or another, you always have to restore a database from 6 months ago or more, which will require a restore of the DAOS store. Further Reading For more details about DAOS, we recommend to refer to the following sources: • • • • How to enable Domino Attachment and Object Sevice (DAOS) on a Domino server, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21399085 DAOS on Notes and Domino 8.5 course https://info2.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Mailbox Event Notification In previous versions of Domino the mail router task would search the mail.box for new messages to be transferred or delivered when a document was added to the mail.box database. As of Domino 8.5 any addition, modification, or deletion of a document in the mail.box database will generate an event.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide When information is written to console log, it is written also in the console mirror files. When console.log reaches a limit, information is written in the beginning of the file. At this stage Domino closes the old mirror file, and creates a new one. The maximum number of console mirror files is 999. The names of the files are console1.log, console2.log, ... console999.log.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide To Upgrade your users to use ID VAULT you need the ALL of the following: • • • Domino Directory upgraded to Domino 8.5 design Domino servers upgraded to Domino 8.5 (At least one server) Users are upgraded to Lotus Notes 8.5 clients To support ID Vault implementations, some new features have been added to the Administrator client. In the Configuration panel you will now find an ID Vaults entry in the Tools side bar.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Benefits of ID VAULT ID Vault is a safe and easy way how you manage ID files. If user has forgotten a password, you can remotely reset a password, without a Password Recovery procedure, which can be rather long if several people are involved in recovery process. Now recovering a forgotten password can be done in just a moment.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Admin Shared Login In order to understand the best practices of implementing Notes Shared Login, you need to know how it works. Notes Shared Login relies in the Windows credentials used to authenticate on the workstation. These credentials are used to unlock the Notes ID file, so when the user signs on in Windows, then launches the Notes client, there is no password prompt and no need to synchronize passwords.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Disable Notes server based password checking For further details, please see IBM Technote 1367070 Carefully review limitations that might be applicable to your environment Before you deploy Notes Shared Login, it is very important to to review the conditions under which it will work but also the ones under which it will not work.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Security Enabling shared logon alters the ID file so that Shared Login will only work on the computer with which the feature is activated. You cannot do an OS copy or move of the ID file between machines. The feature relies on a windows security infrastructure specific to that machine. If you wanted to roam to different machines, you would need to use an unaltered ID file.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Administration Server Commands A new release of Domino brings with it new server commands. Some of these new commands are enhancements to previously existing commands while others have been added to support new Domino server features such as Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) and ID Vault. Show Commands Show commands are generally used to displayed details about specific server tasks.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide DAOS: Read Only Show Directory The Show Directory command now includes additional information and switches to include information regarding DAOS. Issuing a Show Directory command without any switches now includes an additional column labeled DAOS. DbName Version Log DAOS ---Modified Time C:\Lotus\Domino\data\names.nsf V8:51 Yes No 08/24/2009 11:32:18 AM C:\Lotus\Domino\data\log.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Mail.MessageCache.Memory.Peak The highest value seen for MAIL.MessageCache.Memory.Current MAIL.MessageCache.Messages.Aged The number of notes cached in the mail queue entry that were closed out due to age. For example, this can occur when a message is pending in a transfer queue in retry, or waitiing for low priority mail. MAIL.MessageCache.Messages.Current Current count of notes cached in all mail queue entries. MAIL.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide delete) processed Mail.Queue.Event.ProcessTime.Average = 60 Average process time (from dequeue to delete) Mail.Queue.Event.ProcessTime.MostRecent = 60 Most recent process time Mail.Queue.Event.ProcessTime.Peak = 60 Peak process time Mail.Queue.Event.ProcessTime.Peak.Time = Time of the peek process time Mail.Queue.Event.Total = 1 Total events created (only displayed if Debug_Router_Extra_Queue_Statistics notes.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Mail.Queue.Dispatch.WaitTime.Current The time that the most-recently processed dispatch request spent in the queue waiting to be processed Mail.Queue.Dispatch.WaitTime.Peak The longest time a dispatch request waited in the queue And finally, there has been one statistic added to show how many messages have been reenumerated since the router task began. Mail.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Object.Attach_DAOSOptimizedCreateRemote statistics. DAOS. Object.OptimizedCreateLocalSavingsMB The total savings in MB for objects that did not need to be copied between databases on this server (intra-server savings from optimization of object copying). DAOS. Object.
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Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr Status Shows the current status of DAOS on this server.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr Status database_name Shows the current status of DAOS with respect to the provided database.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr Status Catalog Shows the current status of the DAOS catalog. Tell DAOSMgr Dbsummary This command will display the current status of all DAOS-enabled databases.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr Databases Displays detailed information for all DAOS-enabled databases.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr ListNLO Attachments stored in the DAOS repository are stored on the filesystem as .NLO files. This command will list all of the NLO files that are known to be in the DAOS respository. This command is utilizing the data in the DAOS catalog, therefore the output can be used to verify that the actual NLO files exist on the filesystem. You may utilize the –o filename switch to write the list to a file.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Usging the ALL keyword will list all NLO files that are known to exist. Depending on the size of your DAOS repository, this list may be rather large. To scale back the size of the list, you can specify that the list only display the NLO files that are missing from the filesystem by using the MISSING keyword.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Tell DAOSMgr Resync When you need to resynchronize a DAOS-enabled database with the DAOS catalog, for instance after a database has been restored from backup, running this command will cause DAOS to resynchronize. Tell DAOSMgr Resync Force This command will resynchronize the catalog even if it is reported as being synchronized.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Application Development This section of the wiki provides a short descrption of some of the application development considerations related to Lotus Domino and Notes V8.5. The following tropics are addressed: • • Domino Designer User Interface XPages Programming Language Support and Information Several additions have been made to Formula, LotusScript, and Java in Notes and Domino 8.5. Formula Language Lotus Domino Designer 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • DocumentCollection.merge Adds to a document collection any documents not already in the collection that are contained in a second collection. DocumentCollection.stampAllMulti Replaces the values of specified items in all documents in a document collection. DocumentCollection.subtract Removes from a document collection any documents contained in a second collection. RichTextDocLink.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide “This version of the Web Service design is not supported on this server” To maintain backward compatibility please refer to the following IBM developerWorks article http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/domino8-WS-I/ Agent with Java 6 syntax does not compile in Domino 85 As documented in Technote 1320401, if you create an agent using Java 6 syntax in the Domino 8.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide By default, Domino Designer displays several views: 1. Applications 2. Outline 3. Editor 4. Properties, Events, and Problems 5. Controls and Data Besides these, there are dozens more views available including those for Java and JavaScript development. This collection of views and editors is known as the Domino Designer perspective. In Eclipse, perspectives are collections of views and editors that are appropriate for a given task.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide section we will only be concentrating on the Domino Designer perspective. For more information on Eclipse you are encouraged to visit http://www.eclipse.org. Though perspectives have a default layout, you can drag-and-drop the views as you see fit or close them altogether. If you close a view and later realize that you need it back you will find it under the Window -> Show Eclipse Views menu option.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide You can setup your Working Sets anyway you see fit. For example, you may create Working Sets for each project or for each customer that you work with. Once you have created your Working Sets and assigned databases to them, you can select which Working Sets are visible and this is where the power of Working Sets is apparent over the Bookmarks scheme.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide Controls and Data Views The Controls view displays your user-interface controls and custom controls used for designing the layout of XPages. The controls are categorized by Core Controls (button, list box, checkbox, and so on) and Container Controls (panel, table, views, and so on). There is also an Other control which will give you access to controls such as AJAX Typeahead, Event Handler, and other such controls.
Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide XPages XPages are the newest design element of IBM Lotus Notes databases that lets you create Web 2.0 enabled pages based on the JavaServer Faces technology and the Dojo toolkit on the server. XPages remove the barrier of Web programming in Domino by providing advanced page design capabilities and complete control of the generated markup. They also allow access to any kind of data and provide an easy method for localizing applications.
