Directory Assistance and "other" users

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Hello All,

For the last year or so I have added users to our primary domino directory that are used to access certain databases via the web. The solution so far has worked well, but it does create a few contacts within our “Company” address book that are obviously not our employees. This is generally well accepted because I keep well defined groups and all information in person documents is well maintained. So nobody has a problem with this practice yet.

However, as more customers from various companies will be accessing other databases in the future I’m thinking more about creating an additional database with customer contacts. I’ve been reading through domino help regarding directory assistance and it seems like a simple process.

I was wondering however, is this sort of action well justified/logical for my purpose? In my mind keeping customer and employee in separate directories makes alot of sense, however I wanted to get some feedback from experienced admins.

Thanks for any response.

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Subject: Directory Assistance and “other” users.

Definitley the way to go, but I will insert a caveat. If you have a seperate server that runs your web apps, any password changes that use the admin process will automatically get tagged for the admin server of the primary directory, regardless of which server you setup as the admin server for your secondary directory. so just keep in mind that password changes will most likely happen on a different server and get replicated back to the web server.