A comprehensive introduction to Domino Administration
This book is not intended to replace the HCL Notes/Domino software manual, which HCL itself provides in full.
Instead, it explains how to get started with Domino administration and is well suited as a detailed handout for seminars or self-study.
To ensure a high level of practical relevance, we will install and configure a completely new Notes/Domino environment. Once the Domino servers and Domino Administrator are up and running, we will discuss replication, mail routing, important aspects of Domino security, and the most common user and group administration tasks in everyday operations.
I know from many beginners that they have already been shown the existing Domino infrastructure by colleagues in their own company, but do not know at all how to get such a Domino server up and running and how to configure it. In this book you will learn all that.
I strongly encourage you to follow all the steps presented in your own learning environment. »Learning by doing« is still one of the best ways to familiarize yourself with new topics.
1. Introduction
- 1.1. Learning environment setup
- 1.2. Legal notice
2. Terminology
- 2.1. What is Notes/Domino?
- 2.2. Domino Domain vs. Domino Organization
- 2.2.1. Domain
- 2.2.2. Organization
- 2.2.2.1. Security
- 2.2.2.2. Notes names
- 2.2.2.3. Components of the Notes names
- 2.2.3. Domain and organization with the same name?
3. First Domino Server
- 3.1. Planned Domino Environment
- 3.2. Installation of the 1st Domino Server
- 3.3. Optional: Language Pack
- 3.4. Optional: Installation Fixpack
- 3.5. Configuration of the 1st Domino server
- 3.5.1. Why are there 2 icons on the desktop for the server?
- 3.5.2. Executing the configuration
- 3.6. Startup of the 1st Domino Server
- 3.6.1. Resolving the names in the network
- 3.6.1.1. Using DNS
- 3.6.1.2. Using the hosts file
- 3.6.2. Configure Windows Firewall
- 3.6.3. Starting the Domino server as an application
- 3.6.4. Starting the Domino server as a Windows service
- 3.6.5. The Domino Console
4. Domino Administrator Client
- 4.1. Why are there 3 Notes clients?
- 4.1.1. Basic Notes Client
- 4.1.2. Standard Notes Client
- 4.1.3. Notes Client with Domino Administrator and Designer
- 4.2. Installation of the Domino Administrator Clients
- 4.3. Optional: Installation Client Fixpack
- 4.4. Startup of the Domino Administrator Client
- 4.5. Overview Domino Administrator Client
- 4.5.1. Basic settings of the Notes client
- 4.5.1.1. Activate Workspace
- 4.5.1.2. Show file name in application icons
- 4.5.2. Starting the Domino Administrator Client
- 4.5.3. Bookmark bar
- 4.5.4. Tab: People & Groups
- 4.5.5. Tab: Files
- 4.5.6. Tab: Server
- 4.5.7. Tab: Messaging
- 4.5.8. Tab: Replication
- 4.5.9. Tab: Configuration
- 4.6. Help for self-help
5. Additional Domino Servers
- 5.1. Reasonable defaults in the Domino Administrator Client
- 5.2. Registration of additional Domino servers
- 5.3. Startup of additional Domino servers
- 5.4. Replication topologies
- 5.4.1. Hub and Spoke
- 5.4.2. Ring
- 5.5. Set up scheduled replication
- 5.6. Final settings for trouble-free administration
- 5.6.1. No sufficient access to system applications
- 5.6.2. Server document settings
6. Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- 6.1. Basics
- 6.2. Full Access Administration
- 6.3. Tab: Basics
- 6.3.1. ACL entries
- 6.3.2. -Default- and Anonymous
- 6.3.3. Wildcard entries
- 6.3.4. ACL levels
- 6.3.5. ACL attributes
- 6.3.6. User type
- 6.3.7. Roles
- 6.3.8. Effective rights for multiple entries
- 6.3.9. Recommendation for secure ACLs
- 6.4. Tab: Roles
- 6.5. Tab: Log
- 6.6. Tab: Advanced
7. Replication
- 7.1. Application copies vs. Application replicas
- 7.2. Connection documents
- 7.2.1. Tab: Replication/Routing
- 7.2.2. Tab: Comments
- 7.2.3. Tab: Administration
- 7.3. Creation and distribution of the test application
- 7.4. Minimum required ACL rights for replication
- 7.5. Replication History
- 7.6. Replication Options
- 7.7. Replication and Save Conflicts
- 7.8. Troubleshooting problems
8. Notes Mail Routing (NRPC)
- 8.1. How does Notes Mail Routing (NRPC) work?
- 8.1.1. Activities of the Notes Client
- 8.1.2. Activities of Domino Servers
- 8.2. Named Networks (DNN)
- 8.3. Mail routing in multiple Named Networks
- 8.3.1. Assigning a Domino Server to a DNN
- 8.3.2. Connection documents for mail routing
9. Domino Security
- 9.1. Domino Security model
- 9.2. User login to the Notes Client
- 9.3. Authentication by using Certificates
- 9.4. Access Control Lists
- 9.5. Access control within an Application
10. People and Group management
- 10.1. Organization (O) and Organizational Units (OUs)
- 10.2. The Administration Process
- 10.3. Groups
- 10.3.1. Create Groups
- 10.3.2. Resolving nested groups
- 10.4. Defaults in the Domino Administrator Client
- 10.5. Register new users
- 10.5.1. Tab: Basics
- 10.5.2. Tab: Mail
- 10.5.3. Tab: Address
- 10.5.4. Tab: ID Info
- 10.5.5. Tab: Groups
- 10.5.6. Tab: Roaming
- 10.5.7. Tab: Other
- 10.5.8. Additional buttons
- 10.5.9. Carrying out the registration
- 10.6. Moving a user to another Domino Server
- 10.7. Renew a user ID
- 10.8. Change first and last name (CN - Common Name)
- 10.9. Change of Organizational Unit (OU)
- 10.10. Delete Users
- 10.10.1. Deny Access Groups
- 10.10.2. Carrying out the deletion
- 10.11. Policies
- 10.11.1. Settings documents
- 10.11.2. Policy documents
- 10.11.2.1. Organizational Policies
- 10.11.2.2. Explicit policies
- 10.11.2.3. The Notes client and effective Policies
11. Extras
- 11.1. Activate Server services
- 11.1.1. notes.ini
- 11.1.1.1. Modification via editor
- 11.1.1.2. Modification by console commands
- 11.1.2. Programs
- 11.2. Configuration Documents (multiple Mailboxes)
- 11.3. Time settings for the administration process
12. Good to know
- 12.1. Abbreviation of commands at the Domino Console
- 12.2. Use of tools vs. actions
- 12.3. Help for individual fields
- 12.4. Does it matter on which server I administrate?
- 12.5. Why are documents missing in Domino Administrator?
- 12.6. Why are configuration changes not applied immediately?
- 12.7. Official HCL product documentation