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David StephensTechnical Sales Evangelist

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8 ½ Things to Consider when Upgrading to ND 8.5

David StephensTechnical Sales Evangelist

WorkFlow Studios

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Agenda

• Policies• Transaction Logging• Widgets and Live Text• Lotus Traveler• Domino Configuration

Tuner• XPages• ID Vault• DAOS• …and a half

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Policies

• Allow Administrators to control many user settings at once

• Explicit policy > dynamic group policy > organizational policy

• Tools: – Policy Viewers (by Settings and by Hierarchy);– Policy Synopsis

• New: Dynamic Group Policies– If a person is removed from a group, they will

no longer have that policy assigned to them

• Read more about precedence

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Policy Types

• Activities• Archive• Desktop• Mail• Lotus Traveler

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• Lotus Symphony

• Registration• Roaming• Security• Setup

Transaction Logging

• Available since Domino 5• Captures all the changes made to a db and writes

them to a transaction log• Each server can have a transaction log• Transaction Log should be on a separate disk

– Use a dedicated, mirrored device, such as RAID level 1 with a dedicated controller for optimal performance and data integrity.

• Plan to archive the transaction logs daily using incremental backups. Schedule weekly full database backups.

• Select a backup utility that is compatible with IBM® Lotus® Domino®

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Why Use Transaction Logging?

• Backups based on transaction logs are faster

• Recovery from media failure is faster– Restore from tape– Use logs to add the data not written to disk

• System Crash Recovery is faster– During restart server applies writes from logs– Logged dbs don’t require consistency check

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Widgets and Live Text

• A widget is a tool that can consist of one or more components and actions

• Live Text enables Notes to recognize pre-defined text patterns

• Easy to distribute: email, drag/drop, widget catalog, wiring

• Can display in sidebar or pop-up

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Widgets Catalog

• Use a widget catalog to store and manage widgets

• The widget catalog was introduced in Domino 8.0.1

• Expanded in 8.5 to cover widgets and plug-ins

• Use the widget catalog template• Public widget catalog: http://download.

turtleweb.com/

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Lotus Traveler

• FREE – Provided with Domino• Provides two-way, over-the-air

synchronization to some devices• Synchronizes e-mail, calendar, to-

do, address book and journal data in real time

• Runs as a server task

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What’s New in Lotus Traveler

• In 8.5– Mobile device security policies– Remote wipe– Improved web server configuration support– Device management

• In 8.5.1– ActiveSync support for Apple iPod and iPhone– ID Vault support for encrypted mail– Improved Home Page– Add external calendars to your Notes calendar

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Domino Configuration Tuner

• Evaluates server settings according to a growing catalog of best practices

• Identifies key configuration issues across a domain• Provides base-line assessment • Reports contain a detailed explanation and

supporting documentation for all captured issues • FREE – ships with ND 8.5

– Provided as a template– Evaluates Dom 7 and above – Requires Notes 8 client

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XPages

• XPages provide the ability to easily create Web 2.0 user experiences

• In ND 8.5.1, XPages were extended to run in a web browser and Notes client

• XPages use Java Server Faces (JSF) and the Dojo toolkit on the server

• See XPages projects at OpenNTF.org

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XPages Resources

• The XPages Blog: http://xpagesblog.com/

• Andrew Pollack’s Domino Designer's New XPages The Most Important New Feature You Never Knew You Needed

• http://www.thenorth.com/northern.nsf/html/XpagesArticle• Taking Notes podcast: XPages and Yellow Water• http://www.notesability.com/takingnotes

/TakingNotesEpisode83.mp3 • Tutorial: Harness the power of XPages in Lotus Domino

Designer• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/ls-dw-ls-ddxpages.html

• Learning XPages by Declan Lynchhttp://www.qtzar.com/blogs/qtzar.nsf/htdocs/LearningXPages.htm

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ID Vault

• Holds protected copies of Notes users IDs• Assigned through policies• Allows for authorized people to reset

passwords w/o direct access to the file• Supports custom apps to reset password• Easy recovery of lost or damaged ID• Synchronization of multiple IDs• No user involvement during ID renames

and key rollover

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DAOS

• Saves significant space at the file level• Shares data identified as identical between dbs on

the same server• Server saves a reference of each attached file• Fewer bytes written to disk• Fewer I/O disk operations• Attachments can use lower-cost storage• Improvements of backup, storage and

administration• Requires Transaction Logging• Download the DAOS Estimator Tool

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…and a half - Licensing

• Domino Designer is now FREE– Designer is free to use and develop with, but

once you use it for production, there is a charge

• Two CALs for Domino– Messaging CAL – can use Notes, iNotes,

Traveler plus entitlements for Symphony, Quickr Entry and Sametime Entry

– Enterprise CAL – adds Designer and Mobile Connect entitlement

• Existing Notes and iNotes licenses will be converted to the new CAL model in 02/10

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A few other things

• Lotus Protector• Integration with other Lotus

Products in the sidebar• Learning Plug-In for Lotus Notes

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Contact Me

David Stephens

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