Lotus Notes Administration

Introduction

Collaboration software that can help people effectively share and manage information, make business decisions quickly, and streamline the way they work. IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8/8.5 software makes it easier to integrate line of business solutions and data with composite applications.

Audience

People who want to grow as a Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator

Prerequisites

People with basic understanding of computers, networks and internet

Course Outline

Domino/Notes architecture

• What is Domino/Notes?
• What is a Domino database?
• What is a directory?
• What is Notes Client?
• What is the Domino Administrator?
• What is Designer Client ?
• Types of Domino Server

Lotus Notes Client

Using Mail

Preparing outgoing messages

• customizing outgoing messages with letterheads and signatures
• using your address book
• using the Out of Office Agent
• performing basic Mail tasks to create, send, reply, and forward messages
• working with attachments
• creating sections of information within a document
• formatting message content
• adding header and footer content to prepare a document for printing
• using keyboard shortcuts

Managing your Inbox

• setting mail preferences
• using color coding to organize incoming messages
• arranging the display of your mail Inbox
• organizing messages with personal folders
• removing and deleting messages
• creating, moving, deleting, renaming, and finding folders
• finding and printing messages
• archiving mail

Using the Calendar and managing the To Do list

Personalizing your calendar

• setting calendar preferences
• assigning colors to calendar entries
• printing the calendar

Scheduling your dates

• navigating the calendar
• adding and modifying calendar entries
• sending and accepting meeting invitations

Prioritizing tasks

• creating To Do tasks
• tracking incomplete To Do tasks

Working with databases

• opening and navigating a library database
• Sending Database links or document links to other users

Managing and customizing the user Notes environment

• managing the Notes desktop
• managing bookmarks
• creating a new default desktop
• customizing a user’s desktop environment
• identifying the Notes initialization file
• accommodating multiple users on a single workstation
• breaking down a Notes client
• browsing the Web from Notes

Install the Domino server software

• set up the first Domino server
• create a additional certifiers for servers and users per an established naming scheme
• create server IDs per an established naming scheme
• set up servers in the Domino domain
• create administrators groups
• create internal Domino user IDs per an established naming scheme

Install the Notes workstation software:

• add workstations to a Domino Domain
• specify administration preferences

Security

• What is a domain?
• What is a Domino Named Network (DNN)?
• What is a certifier ID?
• What is a Notes ID?
• What is a server ID?
• what are certificates (Notes and X.509)
• hierarchical naming components
• What is an organization?
• What is an organizational unit?
• designing a hierarchical naming scheme
• authentication/anonymous access
• What is a group?
• database access control lists (ACL)
• workstation Execution Control Lists (ECL)
• Domino Server Security
• Domino Application Security
• Troubleshooting Access issues

Managing Domino databases

• applying database security
• defining access control lists (ACL)
• choosing a database template update option
• managing the size of a database
• archiving database documents
• troubleshooting Domino databases

Mail

• How does mail route?
• What are the components for mail routing?
• What routing protocols does Domino support?
• How does mail route within a DNN?
• How does mail route between DNNs?
• What is a mail routing topology?
• What other mail protocols does Domino support?
• configure basic and advanced settings for SMTP routing
• Monitoring and Maintaining Mail Routing
• identifying mail delivery problems
• Troubleshooting Mail routing issues

Replication

• What is replication?
• replication terms
• replication logic – source/target servers and source/target documents
• methods to initiate replication
• factors that affect replication
• replica databases

Setting up and troubleshooting replication

• creating a replica copy
• working with ACLs and replication
• setting encryption for a replica
• using replication settings
• setting replication options
• scheduling replication
• tracking replication history
• resolving replication conflicts

Managing users and groups

• moving a user’s mail file
• changing a user’s name
• Assigning Quota
• changing a user’s location in the hierarchy
• extending a Notes ID
• deleting users
• changing a user’s group membership
• managing groups
• renaming groups
• deleting groups

Managing servers

• using the server console window
• What is Transaction logging and how to enable it?
• automating server tasks
• decommissioning a server
• recertifying a server ID
• changing administrator access
• Notes.ini Settings

Setting up server monitoring

• identifying mechanisms for collecting server information
• starting the statistic collector task
• creating event generators
• creating event handlers
• enabling agent logging

Monitoring server performance

• viewing real time statistics
• viewing statistics with server monitor
• using the Domino console
• domino commands
• CPU Performance and Server Disk Space Management

Using troubleshooting resources

• gathering end-user information
• using the Notes log
• using Notes online Help

Resolving server problems

• solving authentication and authorization issues
• using event triggers to troubleshoot problems
• Troubleshooting replication problems
• Troubleshooting connection problems
• solving agent manager issues
• recovering from a server crash
• Analyzing NSD
• Using knowledge base to find solutions

Resolving user problems

• troubleshooting workstation problems
• troubleshooting database issues
• troubleshooting connection problems
• tracking user mail messages
• Important Notes files on user PC

Supporting and troubleshooting calendaring and scheduling

• setting calendar preferences
• using alarms
• creating repeating calendar entries
• adding holidays to the calendar
• troubleshooting the resource reservations database
• troubleshooting group scheduling
• checking the group calendar
• replicating free time

Database Management

• Types of databases
• Creating New Databases on Server
• Replacing design of existing databases
• Important databases in notes

Troubleshooting Database

Course Duration

32 hours (Only Weekends)

Course Fee

INR 8000.00

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