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Last updated: September 27, 2006
Please also see my unofficial list of Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Products and my Notes/Domino 6 and Notes/Domino 7 resource pages.
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Redbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 6 (click here for content specific to Notes/Domino 7)
In this IBM Redbook, we show how to upgrade existing Lotus Notes and Domino installations to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino version 6. First, we introduce the new features of Lotus Notes and Domino 6, and discuss overall upgrading considerations, coexistence issues, and interoperability. Next, we examine upgrading considerations specifically related to clients and servers. Then we guide readers through the actual steps needed to upgrade the Domino Directory, the Domino Server, and Lotus Notes Clients. New functionality of the Domino 6 environment is presented, along with topics related to administering the new environment, including server monitoring, messaging, security, administering clients, policy-based administration, and more. Information on troubleshooting is also provided. * Plus Upgrading to Notes & Domino 6 diagram
RedPaper: Upgrading to Domino 6: Performance Benefits - This paper discusses the key performance benefits of Domino 6 and supports them with documented performance test results. It deals with a number of aspects of performance, from response time and CPU utilization, to number of users per server and network traffic volume, to increased productivity for help desk staff, systems administrators, and end users.
RedPaper: Domino 7 Performance Tuning Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Your Domino Infrastructure - This IBM Redpaper discusses a best practices approach to Performance Tuning in Domino 7. It addresses both how to approach the science of performance tuning in a structured, logical manner, while also providing an in-depth discussion of specific configuration parameters to tune in specific situations.
Technote: Domino Tuning Parameters in notes.ini - There are a number of parameters in Lotus Domino's notes.ini configuration file that affect performance. This technote discusses some of them.
Article: Network compression in Domino 6 : This article explores the new network compression feature in Notes/Domino 6 and addresses questions that include, How much network bandwidth do you save with compression? and How does network compression affect server performance?
Article: Replication performance with network compression : A follow-up to Network compression in Domino 6, this article compares R5 replication to Domino 6 replication with network compression enabled over varying line speeds. Conclusion: Domino 6 replication provides a significant improvement.
Article: Domino 6 Performance Features - Learn about transaction logging, Streaming replication, Centralized directory, Platform statistics, Network compression, and Attachment compression.
Article: Lotus Notes/Domino replication: A primer for administrators (SearchDomino)
This article will serve as a primer about replication, although at the end of it are some technical details for advanced users. Replication is the process of synchronizing more than one copy of a Notes database....
Article: Securing a Lotus Domino Web Server - In this article, we discuss how you can use Domino security features to enforce security in your Web environment. We begin with a quick overview of the Domino security model. Then we look at securing a Web server through Web authentication, server security, and data security. This article assumes that you are an experienced Domino system administrator.
RedPaper: Distributing Notes Clients Automatically - A collection of information about some of the different technologies that can be used for deploying Notes clients automatically. Begins by explaining how to use InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes to create customized Notes installation packages. Then describes how to use Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADT), which is an automated, managed system for deploying, upgrading, or migrating an existing messaging system to Notes R5 and Notes 6. The final chapter describes how to use Active Directory for deploying Notes clients.
Tutorial: Domino 6 password and ID management - Lotus Domino 6 includes many password management and recovery features that make it a secure environment for collaboration. This tutorial explores and reviews the various password management and recovery features found in Lotus Domino 6. It walks you through the basics of passwords and ID files, and covers specific tasks that, when completed, provide a secure, yet flexible environment for collaboration. Using Domino Administrator 6, you'll learn how to manipulate the password management tools and how to configure the password recovery feature for your Domino infrastructure.
Tutorial: Using policies in Lotus Domino 6 - Policies are one of many new features in Domino 6 that can make the lives of administrators and users easier. Policies allow administrators to define rules or policies that can be implemented and enforced automatically across a Domino/Notes environment to manage the configuration, security, and installation of users and Notes clients. This tutorial provides a brief introduction and then walks you through a real-world scenario that shows how to set up policies on multiple servers.
Acticle: Policy-based system administration with Domino 6 - Domino 6 helps you solve the problem of applying and managing standard corporate policies by providing a new technology called policy-based system administration. This feature gives you a way to centrally define, organize, and manage user settings throughout your organization. All information required for policy-based system administration is stored in your Domino Directory, giving you a single place to control administration activity, from user setup to mail archiving.
Tutorial: Domino 6 monitoring and statistics - To keep your systems healthy and ready for use, you need to know when problems first appear and how to gather information about capacity, workload, and system/user activities. This statistical information is invaluable for resource planning and for finding and fixing bottlenecks. This tutorial shows how to set up and use monitoring features in Domino 6.
Article: Rules-of-thumb for monitoring Windows NT/2000 and Domino statistics - This article, the first of a series, focuses on performance of the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. It summarizes OS statistics and resource usage bottleneck thresholds known to Domino performance engineers and suggests some tuning tips.
Article: Domino 6 Server Health Monitoring - The Domino Server Health Monitor is a tool that watches, analyzes, and lets you know when a facet of your server needs closer attention.
Article: Domino 6 server availability - Interview with Jim Rouleau about Domino 6 server availability and automatic fault recovery features.
Technote: Using NSD for Domino Servers and Notes Clients: NSD is a tool used to diagnose problems.
Tutorial: Managing inbound spam in Lotus Domino 6
Covers many techniques available to Domino administrators to battle spam mail, including:
Article: Domino 6 server mail rules
In Domino 6, you can incorporate mail rules to run on the server's MAIL.BOX affecting all messages on the server.
Article: Best practices for large Lotus Notes mail files
Learn how you can manage the ever-growing mail files of your Lotus Notes users, conserving your system resources while ensuring your Notes users continue to enjoy high performance and reliability.
Article: Comparing server-based mail and local replica mail
This article offers some fresh insights about a long-standing question: In which situations is it better to use a server-based Lotus Notes mail file, and when should you use a local replica copy?
Article: Lotus Notes Out of Office Agent, revisited: Part 1
The Lotus Notes Out of Office agent is one of the most widely-used and useful agents in Notes. In this first of a two-part article series, we take a detailed look at how the agent works and how you can customize it.
Article: Notes Out of Office Agent: Part 2
We conclude our two-part series on the Lotus Notes Out of Office agent with a look at Out of Office agent administration, using Out of Office features with Domino Web Access, and troubleshooting Out of Office issues.
Article: Explore the IBM Mail Management and Compliance Solution: Dive deep to discover the features, benefits, and value of DB2 CommonStore: In this article: Introduction to mail archiving, Defining the problem, Executive solution overview, IBM Mail Management Solution benefits, IBM Mail Compliance Solution benefits, Conclusion, Resources
Tutorial: Lotus Domino/Notes 6 Smart Upgrade
designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of configuring and using the IBM Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade feature in Lotus Domino/Notes 6. This course details how to create the required databases and documents needed to deploy Smart Upgrade functionality within your Domino environment.
Article: A technical overview of the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino busytime system
Ever wonder how Notes and Domino keep track of your calendar? This article explains how the Notes Calendar and Scheduling (C&S) busytime system works internally, with a look at features introduced in Notes/Domino 6.
Article: Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling explained!
Calendar and Scheduling (C&S) is one of the most popular and widely used features in Lotus Notes. This two-part article series takes a close look at C&S and how its major components work together. In Part 1, we discuss the internal workflow of C&S, and how the preferences you select affect its functionality.
Article: Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling explained! - Part 2
In this conclusion to our two-part tour of Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling features, we take a close look at Schedule Manager, autoprocessing, and To Do workflow and offer some suggestions for keeping your Calendar and Scheduling users productive and happy.
FAQ: Lotus Notes/Domino 6 Directory FAQ
A collection of excellent information assembled by the Lotus Notes/Domino Directory Team.
RedPaper: Active Directory Synchronization with Lotus ADSync
The Active Directory Synchronization tool, or ADSync, allows Active Directory administrators to manage (register, delete, and rename) users and groups in both Active Directory and the Domino Directory as a unified operation from the Active Directory Users and Computers Console.
Tutorial: Lotus Domino Server Controller and Domino Console
Beginning in Notes/Domino 6, two Java-based applications became available for running and administering a Domino Server: the Domino Server Controller and Domino Console. These applications can be used as an alternative to the "traditional" Domino server and Domino console.
Article: Domino Console - The Domino Console is a Java-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) used to manage the Domino server console from anywhere, providing the same functionality on all platforms with a user-selectable look-and-feel. The purpose of the Domino Console is to give administrators the ability to view or monitor the server console from anywhere, and from any platform. Administrators can also simultaneously monitor different servers that are in the same domain or in different domains. Another purpose is to give administrators the ability to connect or disconnect from server consoles as and when needed.
Article: Lessons in secure messaging using Domino
Explains how the major pieces of Notes/Domino 6 messaging security fit together
Tutorial: Creating and using the certificate authority in Lotus Domino 6
This tutorial explains how to implement the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology built into Domino 6. It explains how to generate and manage X.509 certificates for both Notes and Internet clients.
Tutorial: Lotus Domino Certification Authority
The Certification Authority (CA) process is a Lotus Domino server task that is used to manage and process certificate requests. The CA process runs as an automated process on Lotus Domino servers that are used to issue certificates. When you set up a Lotus Notes or Internet certifier, you link it to the CA process on the server in order to take advantage of CA process activities.
Tutorial: Configuring a Lotus single sign-on environment
Configuring single sign-on across a number of existing systems can be a challenging task. This tutorial discusses the configuration of SSO in a Lotus collaborative environment containing servers running several IBM software products. The tutorial is divided into two parts. Part one demonstrates the configuration of SSO in a Domino-only environment. Part two demonstrates the configuration of SSO in a collaborative environment containing WebSphere Portal and several Lotus software products. Both parts demonstrate the configuration of SSO using LTPA tokens.
Redbook E-mail Archiving and Records Management Using IBM DB2 CommonStore and DB2 Records Manager
As more companies need to manage their e-mail to support regulatory compliance, litigation, and corporate policy and to improve system performance and productivity, the e-mail archiving and records management solution presented in this IBM Redbook is here to rescue. In this book, we provide a general solution guide to address e-mail archiving and records management. We describe the products’ roles in the solution and introduce the basic concepts behind e-mail archiving and e-mail records enabling. We cover features and functions of CommonStore, Records Manager, and Records Enabler, and address key areas to understand and consider when planning and designing each piece of the solution and the overall integrated solution. In addition, we discuss different system configurations, implementation paths, security, the end-to-end solution installation and configuration, and some advanced topics such as records disposition and discovery.
Redbook Best Practices for Domino on System z: z9 and zSeries
Lotus Domino provides much more than just e-mail. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are designed to help organizations increase productivity and responsiveness through business-critical collaboration capabilities and a rapid application development and deployment environment. To most effectively use your system capacity and get the best performance from Domino, we recommend the best practices described in this redbook.
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Last updated: September 27, 2006
Please also see my unofficial list of Lotus Notes/Domino Administration Products and my Notes/Domino 6 and Notes/Domino 7 resource pages.
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Redbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 6 (click here for content specific to Notes/Domino 7)
In this IBM Redbook, we show how to upgrade existing Lotus Notes and Domino installations to IBM Lotus Notes and Domino version 6. First, we introduce the new features of Lotus Notes and Domino 6, and discuss overall upgrading considerations, coexistence issues, and interoperability. Next, we examine upgrading considerations specifically related to clients and servers. Then we guide readers through the actual steps needed to upgrade the Domino Directory, the Domino Server, and Lotus Notes Clients. New functionality of the Domino 6 environment is presented, along with topics related to administering the new environment, including server monitoring, messaging, security, administering clients, policy-based administration, and more. Information on troubleshooting is also provided. * Plus Upgrading to Notes & Domino 6 diagram
RedPaper: Upgrading to Domino 6: Performance Benefits - This paper discusses the key performance benefits of Domino 6 and supports them with documented performance test results. It deals with a number of aspects of performance, from response time and CPU utilization, to number of users per server and network traffic volume, to increased productivity for help desk staff, systems administrators, and end users.
RedPaper: Domino 7 Performance Tuning Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Your Domino Infrastructure - This IBM Redpaper discusses a best practices approach to Performance Tuning in Domino 7. It addresses both how to approach the science of performance tuning in a structured, logical manner, while also providing an in-depth discussion of specific configuration parameters to tune in specific situations.
Technote: Domino Tuning Parameters in notes.ini - There are a number of parameters in Lotus Domino's notes.ini configuration file that affect performance. This technote discusses some of them.
Article: Network compression in Domino 6 : This article explores the new network compression feature in Notes/Domino 6 and addresses questions that include, How much network bandwidth do you save with compression? and How does network compression affect server performance?
Article: Replication performance with network compression : A follow-up to Network compression in Domino 6, this article compares R5 replication to Domino 6 replication with network compression enabled over varying line speeds. Conclusion: Domino 6 replication provides a significant improvement.
Article: Domino 6 Performance Features - Learn about transaction logging, Streaming replication, Centralized directory, Platform statistics, Network compression, and Attachment compression.
Article: Lotus Notes/Domino replication: A primer for administrators (SearchDomino)
This article will serve as a primer about replication, although at the end of it are some technical details for advanced users. Replication is the process of synchronizing more than one copy of a Notes database....
Article: Securing a Lotus Domino Web Server - In this article, we discuss how you can use Domino security features to enforce security in your Web environment. We begin with a quick overview of the Domino security model. Then we look at securing a Web server through Web authentication, server security, and data security. This article assumes that you are an experienced Domino system administrator.
RedPaper: Distributing Notes Clients Automatically - A collection of information about some of the different technologies that can be used for deploying Notes clients automatically. Begins by explaining how to use InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes to create customized Notes installation packages. Then describes how to use Automated Deployment Toolkit (ADT), which is an automated, managed system for deploying, upgrading, or migrating an existing messaging system to Notes R5 and Notes 6. The final chapter describes how to use Active Directory for deploying Notes clients.
Tutorial: Domino 6 password and ID management - Lotus Domino 6 includes many password management and recovery features that make it a secure environment for collaboration. This tutorial explores and reviews the various password management and recovery features found in Lotus Domino 6. It walks you through the basics of passwords and ID files, and covers specific tasks that, when completed, provide a secure, yet flexible environment for collaboration. Using Domino Administrator 6, you'll learn how to manipulate the password management tools and how to configure the password recovery feature for your Domino infrastructure.
Tutorial: Using policies in Lotus Domino 6 - Policies are one of many new features in Domino 6 that can make the lives of administrators and users easier. Policies allow administrators to define rules or policies that can be implemented and enforced automatically across a Domino/Notes environment to manage the configuration, security, and installation of users and Notes clients. This tutorial provides a brief introduction and then walks you through a real-world scenario that shows how to set up policies on multiple servers.
Acticle: Policy-based system administration with Domino 6 - Domino 6 helps you solve the problem of applying and managing standard corporate policies by providing a new technology called policy-based system administration. This feature gives you a way to centrally define, organize, and manage user settings throughout your organization. All information required for policy-based system administration is stored in your Domino Directory, giving you a single place to control administration activity, from user setup to mail archiving.
Tutorial: Domino 6 monitoring and statistics - To keep your systems healthy and ready for use, you need to know when problems first appear and how to gather information about capacity, workload, and system/user activities. This statistical information is invaluable for resource planning and for finding and fixing bottlenecks. This tutorial shows how to set up and use monitoring features in Domino 6.
Article: Rules-of-thumb for monitoring Windows NT/2000 and Domino statistics - This article, the first of a series, focuses on performance of the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. It summarizes OS statistics and resource usage bottleneck thresholds known to Domino performance engineers and suggests some tuning tips.
Article: Domino 6 Server Health Monitoring - The Domino Server Health Monitor is a tool that watches, analyzes, and lets you know when a facet of your server needs closer attention.
Article: Domino 6 server availability - Interview with Jim Rouleau about Domino 6 server availability and automatic fault recovery features.
Technote: Using NSD for Domino Servers and Notes Clients: NSD is a tool used to diagnose problems.
Tutorial: Managing inbound spam in Lotus Domino 6
Covers many techniques available to Domino administrators to battle spam mail, including:
- Making sure your mail server isn't used by spammers to relay spam mail
- Using third party maintained DNS blacklists that can filter out spam
- Using several techniques to verify various aspects of mail in an attempt to identify and filter out spam
- Using mail rules and other types of restrictions to combat spam
Article: Domino 6 server mail rules
In Domino 6, you can incorporate mail rules to run on the server's MAIL.BOX affecting all messages on the server.
Article: Best practices for large Lotus Notes mail files
Learn how you can manage the ever-growing mail files of your Lotus Notes users, conserving your system resources while ensuring your Notes users continue to enjoy high performance and reliability.
Article: Comparing server-based mail and local replica mail
This article offers some fresh insights about a long-standing question: In which situations is it better to use a server-based Lotus Notes mail file, and when should you use a local replica copy?
Article: Lotus Notes Out of Office Agent, revisited: Part 1
The Lotus Notes Out of Office agent is one of the most widely-used and useful agents in Notes. In this first of a two-part article series, we take a detailed look at how the agent works and how you can customize it.
Article: Notes Out of Office Agent: Part 2
We conclude our two-part series on the Lotus Notes Out of Office agent with a look at Out of Office agent administration, using Out of Office features with Domino Web Access, and troubleshooting Out of Office issues.
Article: Explore the IBM Mail Management and Compliance Solution: Dive deep to discover the features, benefits, and value of DB2 CommonStore: In this article: Introduction to mail archiving, Defining the problem, Executive solution overview, IBM Mail Management Solution benefits, IBM Mail Compliance Solution benefits, Conclusion, Resources
Tutorial: Lotus Domino/Notes 6 Smart Upgrade
designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of configuring and using the IBM Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade feature in Lotus Domino/Notes 6. This course details how to create the required databases and documents needed to deploy Smart Upgrade functionality within your Domino environment.
Article: A technical overview of the IBM Lotus Notes/Domino busytime system
Ever wonder how Notes and Domino keep track of your calendar? This article explains how the Notes Calendar and Scheduling (C&S) busytime system works internally, with a look at features introduced in Notes/Domino 6.
Article: Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling explained!
Calendar and Scheduling (C&S) is one of the most popular and widely used features in Lotus Notes. This two-part article series takes a close look at C&S and how its major components work together. In Part 1, we discuss the internal workflow of C&S, and how the preferences you select affect its functionality.
Article: Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling explained! - Part 2
In this conclusion to our two-part tour of Lotus Notes Calendar and Scheduling features, we take a close look at Schedule Manager, autoprocessing, and To Do workflow and offer some suggestions for keeping your Calendar and Scheduling users productive and happy.
FAQ: Lotus Notes/Domino 6 Directory FAQ
A collection of excellent information assembled by the Lotus Notes/Domino Directory Team.
RedPaper: Active Directory Synchronization with Lotus ADSync
The Active Directory Synchronization tool, or ADSync, allows Active Directory administrators to manage (register, delete, and rename) users and groups in both Active Directory and the Domino Directory as a unified operation from the Active Directory Users and Computers Console.
Tutorial: Lotus Domino Server Controller and Domino Console
Beginning in Notes/Domino 6, two Java-based applications became available for running and administering a Domino Server: the Domino Server Controller and Domino Console. These applications can be used as an alternative to the "traditional" Domino server and Domino console.
Article: Domino Console - The Domino Console is a Java-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) used to manage the Domino server console from anywhere, providing the same functionality on all platforms with a user-selectable look-and-feel. The purpose of the Domino Console is to give administrators the ability to view or monitor the server console from anywhere, and from any platform. Administrators can also simultaneously monitor different servers that are in the same domain or in different domains. Another purpose is to give administrators the ability to connect or disconnect from server consoles as and when needed.
Article: Lessons in secure messaging using Domino
Explains how the major pieces of Notes/Domino 6 messaging security fit together
Tutorial: Creating and using the certificate authority in Lotus Domino 6
This tutorial explains how to implement the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) security technology built into Domino 6. It explains how to generate and manage X.509 certificates for both Notes and Internet clients.
Tutorial: Lotus Domino Certification Authority
The Certification Authority (CA) process is a Lotus Domino server task that is used to manage and process certificate requests. The CA process runs as an automated process on Lotus Domino servers that are used to issue certificates. When you set up a Lotus Notes or Internet certifier, you link it to the CA process on the server in order to take advantage of CA process activities.
Tutorial: Configuring a Lotus single sign-on environment
Configuring single sign-on across a number of existing systems can be a challenging task. This tutorial discusses the configuration of SSO in a Lotus collaborative environment containing servers running several IBM software products. The tutorial is divided into two parts. Part one demonstrates the configuration of SSO in a Domino-only environment. Part two demonstrates the configuration of SSO in a collaborative environment containing WebSphere Portal and several Lotus software products. Both parts demonstrate the configuration of SSO using LTPA tokens.
Redbook E-mail Archiving and Records Management Using IBM DB2 CommonStore and DB2 Records Manager
As more companies need to manage their e-mail to support regulatory compliance, litigation, and corporate policy and to improve system performance and productivity, the e-mail archiving and records management solution presented in this IBM Redbook is here to rescue. In this book, we provide a general solution guide to address e-mail archiving and records management. We describe the products’ roles in the solution and introduce the basic concepts behind e-mail archiving and e-mail records enabling. We cover features and functions of CommonStore, Records Manager, and Records Enabler, and address key areas to understand and consider when planning and designing each piece of the solution and the overall integrated solution. In addition, we discuss different system configurations, implementation paths, security, the end-to-end solution installation and configuration, and some advanced topics such as records disposition and discovery.
Redbook Best Practices for Domino on System z: z9 and zSeries
Lotus Domino provides much more than just e-mail. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino are designed to help organizations increase productivity and responsiveness through business-critical collaboration capabilities and a rapid application development and deployment environment. To most effectively use your system capacity and get the best performance from Domino, we recommend the best practices described in this redbook.
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