Setting the Admin server automatically

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When setting up a new user’s Lotus Notes workstation, we’d like to have the ACLs of databases created at setup to be customized (i.e. our Administrator’s name added, our Administration group name added, our server as Administration Server, etc.).

We can accomplish most of this in a pretty straightforward manner by simply substituting our ACL customized templates for those that come from IBM with a clean Lotus Notes installation.

Because we’re eventually going to push copies of the user’s Personal Address Book and Notes Log to the Domino Server (for backup purposes), we substitute our ACL customized templates (log.ntf AND pernames.ntf) before launching the Notes client for the first time and configuring it.

But we’ve never been able to automatically set the Administration Server.

Any ideas on how to do this?

I can add the server name in [brackets] to any template and give it Manager access (so that DBs created with that template will list the server), but what we’re really trying to figure out is how to Auto-Set the Administration Server field when creating the new database locally.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Subject: Setting the Admin server automatically

I am not quite sure what you are asking here. Which dbs do you want to have the admin in the ACL?

Most system db already have the admin server in the ACL.

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Subject: RE: Setting the Admin server automatically

When you set up a new Lotus Notes workstation, the Personal Address Book and end user’s Notes Log do not have an Admin server set (as they are created locally).

Same thing as when you create a new Journal locally.

in our environment, we push replica copies of the user’s Personal Address Book, Journal and Notes Log to the Domino server (for backup purposes).

So (like I said) I can easily modify the ACL templates from which the PNAB, Journal and Notes Log are originally created so as to add the name of our Admin group and set Anonymous to No Access.

But I can’t figure out how to have the Administration Server set automatically at database creation. I have to do that manually (which isn’t a big deal until you are merging and need to set up 200 new users! :slight_smile: