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Pam Gilday
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Community articleControlling the sites from which a Notes user can install and update features
Added by Pam Gilday | Edited by IBM contributor Mary Jrolf on April 25, 2011 | Version 3
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For Notes 8.0.1 users that you've allowed to install and update external features using the Eclipse update manager, you can limit what sites they can get those features from using new functions exposed in the 801 Beta.

Notes and Domino 8.0.1 contains new policy settings for controlling user access to update sites and the documentation is pretty decent on the specifics. See the topics below in the Domino 8.0.1 Administrator Help information center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp.

Controlling feature install and update with update sites
Specifying available update sites (and its several task-based subtopics)

There is also great information in the developerWorks blogs, such as NSF based Update Sites.


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