Hi all,
I have been watching, waiting and wondering when Administration is going to get easier with Lotus Notes. Currently I have over 2000 users, with 600+ groups, and oodles of databases.
This is my suggestion: change the Person Documents in the address book, so that there is a tab for database links. These links would ideally show up in the persons Bookmarks folder.
This would also be handy for the Group documents as well. I have a lot of groups that are aCL groups, and it would be great to just add a DB link there and have it show up on the users Bookmarks/Workspace.
This would save a lot of time when people move to a new PC, or have their system crash. Please, Lotus, come to our rescue!
Missy
Subject: Desktop Settings
Have you considered using a Desktop Settings document for this?
Subject: RE: Desktop Settings
Hi Lawrence,
Desktop settings documents work for the couple of databases that are specific to each division, based on the policies I currently have. However, I have so many departments and sub-departments in my company that share databases, that this would not be a good idea. I would have so many policy documents to manage then…
Missy
Subject: RE: Desktop Settings
So set up hierarchical policies, and then delegate administrative rights for those policies to people inside the department. Let them maintain them.
Subject: Suggestion for Lotus- DB Links in the Person Doc
One word – policies. Everything you want is in there, and a whole lot more.
Prior to ND6, you could use Setup Profiles to populate a user’s workspace with pre-defined databases. I believe policies were also available, but not working very well.
With ND6, policies are working very well. You can do so much with them. In addition to adding databases to the user’s workspace, you can control their settings on their local client, push down local replicas of databases, archiving, etc. Way too much to go into here.
The policies are setup, and then applied to users, based on their membership in a particular group, or based on the OU.
Go to the Domino Administrator Help, and search on ‘Policy’. This should get you started.
Just take the time to plan them out.
Subject: RE: Suggestion for Lotus- DB Links in the Person Doc
Yep, I’m already using policies. I currently have approx 700 groups in my global address book- I don’t want to have that many policies- get what I am saying here?
Subject: Suggestion for Lotus- DB Links in the Person Doc
One caveat on policies: be on at least 6.02 before you try to use them, and they work best on 6.5 or higher. I’m sure there will be some people who disagree, but it has been my experience that policies in 6.0 and 6.01 did not work well.