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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.
The additional concerns include:
• Designing your Domino architecture
•
Planning your hierarchy
• Determining your organizational structure
• Setting your naming standards
• Defining your topologies
• Mail routing
• Replication
• Planning your administration strategy
• Centralized or regional
• User management
• Server management
• Application management
Considerations for upgrading an existing Domino infrastructure
In addition to the general areas of concern listed in this section, when you are evaluating an existing Domino
infrastructure, there are some additional areas to be reviewed and evaluated. You should evaluate your
current Domino environment thoroughly when planning your upgrade.
• Some things you should consider include:
•
Domain and directory configuration
• The number of domains you have
• The types of domains you have
• The types of directories in use
• Mail routing topology
• Replication topology
• Application topology
• User and server registration process used in your organization
• Naming standards for users and servers
• Domino certificates for organization and organizational units
• Domino software upgrade procedures currently used in your organization
• Hardware age and capacity
• Usage patterns on each server
• Template customization
• Third-party software
• Virus scanning
• Spam scanning
• Backup
• Monitoring
• Mobile device support
The goal of the review of your existing Domino environment is to understand whether it is meeting your
needs and how close to capacity your environment is. Typically, older enterprise deployments have grown