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Introduction
Managing a large network can be a daunting task. Domino 6 has many new features that can make the lives of administrators and users easier, including policies -- the subject of this tutorial. 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. We'll begin the tutorial with an overview of some of the more important elements of policies, such as the Policy and policy Settings documents, and the new Roaming User feature. Then we'll walk you through a real-world scenario that shows how to set up policies on multiple servers.
Policies are a powerful and sophisticated new feature with many capabilities. This tutorial focuses on some of the more useful capabilities of policies and shows you how to get started quickly. It's impossible to cover every detail of such a complex feature in the scope of a tutorial, so additional documentation on policies is provided in the Tutorial resources section. The topics covered in this tutorial include:
- Creating Policy and policy Settings documents
- Assigning explicit policies using the Person document and the Assign Policy tool
- Using the Roaming User feature
- Using registration policies for registering users
- Using desktop policies to control and update the user's desktop environment
- Using security policies to manage security and define password-management options
This tutorial is for Domino/Notes administrators who want to ease the tasks of administering users and Notes clients, simplify and standardize Notes client installations, and make it easier for end users to use Notes clients.
It is recommended that readers be familiar with the following:
- Domino systems administration
- Notes client installation and configuration
In order to complete the steps in this tutorial, you'll need to have the following applications installed and running properly:
- Lotus Domino 6.0.1 Server
- Lotus Domino Administrator 6.0.1 client
- Lotus Notes 6.0.1 client
Free trial versions of Lotus Domino 6.0.1 and all clients are available for download.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Overview of policies
- Working with Policy documents
- Assigning an explicit policy
- Policy hierarchy and inheritance
- Roaming User feature
- Real-world scenario
- Setting up a security policy for the organization
- Setting up a desktop policy for the organization
- Mail archiving policy
- Tutorial summary
- Resources
- About the author
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