Specifications

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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.
There are two type of Policies:
• Organizational that works by default for all users, and
•
Explicit policy that can be assigned to specific users.
Starting from Release 8.5 you may assign policies to groups. Dynamic policies can be used. When you put
user in a group, he will be automatically assigned to this Dynamic policy. Dynamic policies are easier to
manage, then Explicit policies assigned to every user document.
If an organization is rather big, such as several offices, in different countries, or the number of employees is
high, so one organization policy will not fit all users, you may implement nested (parent,child) policies, that
will have some specific settings for a local group of users, but also inherit the majority of setting from a
parent policy. So you can build Parent -> Child policies.
There are following type of settings, that can be included in Policy:
•
Registration - Affects registration of the users, defaults for domains, quotas, default groups to
include user. This type of setting is executed only once, when user is registered.