Domino Monitoring May 16, 2009

Please refer below link for more detail
http://santrai.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/domino-monitoring1.doc

Lotus Domino Monitoring May 15, 2009

New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Ultra-light mode and the Lotus iNotes redirector May 14, 2009

For more details please refer below we link.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/inotes-ultra/

Lotus Notes and Lotus iNotes Special Offer for 25% discount off of the suggested retail price. May 13, 2009

IBM Lotus Notes discount promotion (expires August 5, 2009)

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/ndpromotion.html

Are you:

• Looking for a Microsoft Exchange alternative that can help you reduce operating costs and boost productivity?
• A small to medium sized business that needs an easy to use, cost effective and powerful email and collaboration solution?
• Using Lotus Notes and Domino software today and would like to add more clients seats, or have lapsed on your Software Subscription and Support?

Then IBM has an exciting offer for you! Qualifying purchases of the following software made before August 5, 2009 are eligible to receive a 25% discount off of the suggested retail price. This promotional discount applies to both purchases of new licenses as well as reinstatements of lapsed Software Subscription and Support:

• Lotus Notes for Messaging
• Lotus Notes for Collaboration
• Lotus iNotes for Messaging
• Lotus iNotes for Collaboration
• Lotus Domino Messaging Express
• Lotus Domino Collaboration Express

There’s never been a better time to buy Lotus Notes and Domino software. But act quickly – this offer ends August 5th, 2009!

Lotus iNotes 8.5 – new features April 24, 2009

• New ultralite client mode – The newest mode of Lotus iNotes is the ultralite mode. It is designed for use on a mobile device and is initially supported on the Apple iPhone or iPod touch. It provides basic mail and contacts capabilities, along with a day-at-a-glance calendar.
• Lotus iNotes widgets — Administrators can define a set of widgets that can be integrated into the Lotus iNotes mail client and can specify the toolbox catalog and category names from which users can select and install their own widgets.
• Lotus Quickr integration — Administrators can enable the use of Lotus Quickr links and attachments in messages, and the ability to set Lotus Quickr preferences in their Lotus iNotes users preferences.
• External Calendar overlays — Administrator can allow users to add an external calendar to their Lotus iNotes calendar, overlaying the information so that all calendar display in the Lotus iNotes calendar.
• HTTP-proxy servlets — For Lotus iNotes features that send requests to external servers or Web services, such as with Lotus Quickr integration or Widgets, administrators can use an HTTP-proxy servlet to intercept calls and retrieve information from a remote site.
• Mail Policy settings — Lotus iNotes supports some of Mail Policy settings that can be applied either to IBM Lotus Notes^® users or to Lotus iNotes users. In addition, the Mail Policy Settings document includes a Lotus iNotes tab that has settings that apply only to Lotus iNotes users.
• Desktop Policy settings — Lotus iNotes supports some of the Desktop Policy settings.
• New Web server tell command — There is a new server console command that allows administrators to replace or update the Domino Web Access forms.nsf file without having to restart the Domino server

Lotus Domino 8.5 supported auto-populated groups! April 24, 2009

The auto-populated groups feature uses predefined criteria to automatically determine and update group membership. Use the auto-populated groups feature to apply policies to users and groups based on their home servers. Use the Group document to create a home server group whose group members use the specified server as their home mail server. Assign a policy to that group. That policy applies to everyone in the home server group. Any updates to the home server’s group membership automatically impacts which users the policy is applied to. Use this feature to greatly reduce the work required to keep groups updated.

Note For IBM Lotus Domino 8.5, Home Servers is the only auto-populate method available.

When you are creating a group and specifying group members in the Members field, if large numbers of names are retrieved from the Domino Directory, you may reach a limit as to how many names can be retrieved. If you reach the name lookup limit, you will see the following Domino Domain Monitor (DDM) event when viewing DDM events:

Search for auto-populated group members failed for group Server1MBUsers.: NAMELookups are limited on this server to a size smaller than what would be returned. See your Domino Administrator for more information..

To prevent this from happening, use the following server NOTES.INI setting to increase the limit from 1MB to a value greater than one.

Namelookup_max_mb=1

Start by increasing the value to 2MB and continue increasing the value until you do not reach a limit as to the number of names that can be retrieved.

Auto-populated groups can have subgroups. When an auto-populated group becomes large, subgroups are automatically created for the auto-populated group to hold all of the members of the group. The subgroup names have the following format:

<auto-populated group name>-AP<XXXXX>

where XXXXX = a number preceded by zeros

For example, if the auto-populated group name is Home Mail Server, the first automatically created subgroup for that group has the following name:

Home Mail Server-AP00001

An auto-populated group can be used anywhere that a static group can be used, including as a subgroup in another group.

Note You cannot manually create an auto-populated subgroup and you cannot modify or edit the Members field.

The Domino update task runs on the Domino administration server and processes group documents by locating changes to those documents or to users and groups in the Domino Directory. The group document is searched for predefined criteria according to the auto-populated method you specify in the field “Auto-Populate Method” on the Group document. The entries in the fields “Additional Members” and “Excluded Members” are also used to determine the final group membership. If the final group membership list differs with the membership specified in the group document, the group document is updated. You specify how often the update task runs by specifying an update interval in the field “Auto-populated group Members update interval” in the Domino Directory Profile document.

Note Auto-populated groups that contain subgroups should not be copied and pasted in the Domino Directory because they contain references to their subgroups; therefore, a copied and pasted auto-populated group refers to the same subgroups as the original group.

Auto-populated groups are available from the Domino Administrator, not from the Domino Web Administrator.

Setting up auto-populated home server groups

Complete these steps to set up an auto-populated home server group.

1. Set up a Home Server auto-populated group in a Group document.
2. Specify the update interval for auto-populated groups in the Domino Directory Profile document. This interval is read by the update process when it starts up. If you change the update interval setting, you need to restart the update process to make the change take effect.

Lotus Try-It Center is Live ! A One Stop for Lotus Software Trials & Demos April 24, 2009

The Lotus Try It Center provides an overview of some of the most relevant products, offerings from Lotus.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/in/lotus/try-it-center/index.html

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New Policies in Lotus Domino 8.5 April 19, 2009

* New Dynamic Policies — Dynamic policy assignment is a new option for assigning explicit policies that allows you to assign policy settings to individual users and groups just by specifying the appropriate user or group name in a policy document. You are able to “set it and forget it” as far as the policy goes. As the organization changes, you only need to update the Group document. If a user changes jobs or organizations, you do not need to determine which policies need updating. The updated group information is applied the next time the effective policy is calculated for any users in that group.
* A new Roaming policy settings document has been added in support of the file server roaming and IBM® Lotus® Domino® server roaming functionality introduced in this release for the IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8.5 and greater standard configuration user. A Domino 8.5 server is required to see and use the new policy page and the new roaming functionality. Notes standard configuration user roaming, and this policy page, are introduced in this release.
* A new setting has been added to the “Enable provider IDs for widget addition” and “Restrict provider IDs for installation/execution” Widgets policy page settings to allow for widgets that deploy client plug-ins. The setting, “com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning” is also available for the equivalent Eclipse preference settings in the plugin_customization.ini file.

How to upgrade ODS version from Lotus Domino 8 to 8.5 April 19, 2009

To upgrade from an earlier ODS to a current-level ODS format database in Domino, set the following file parameter in the NOTES.INI file on the Domino server or the IBM Lotus Notes client:  Create_R85_Databases=1

When you set the NOTES.INI parameter for ODS, new databases are created using the current level. Use copy-style compacting to upgrade existing ODS databases to the current level of ODS. Use this command to run copy-style compacting: compact -c <database name>

Note In-place compacting has been changed. When a database with an earlier level of ODS is detected, Domino does not automatically convert to copy-style compact to upgrade your databases

compact -r <database name>