If your organization is upgrading to Domino and Notes 8.0.1, there are a number of new features and enhancements to existing functionality . Many of them are listed below, along with links to relevant product documentation, as well as other technical content resources, such as developerWorks articles, tech notes, Wikis, and more.
If you know of other resources that have helped you with product updates, please leave a comment for this Wiki article, and thank you!
New in Notes and Domino 8.0 - overview
What's new in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8
What's new in IBM Lotus Notes 8 client
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Notes All Client for Win XP & Vista
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Domino Server Win 2003
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Composite Application support
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Domino 64 Bit Win 2003
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Notes Client Linux
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New features in Notes and Domino 8.0 - highlights
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Domino and Portal server federated administration
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You can administer an IBM Lotus Domino 8.0 server and an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server 6.0 or 6.0.0.1 from the Portal server administration user interface (UI) on the same Portal server.
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Out of Office service type
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Specify an Out of Office service type according to whether a server cluster is comprised of IBM Lotus Domino 8 servers, pre-Domino 8 servers, or a combination of both. There are two Out of Office service types, Service and Agent. Use the Out of Office Service for clusters comprised of Domino 8 servers; use the Out of Office Agent for clusters that contain any pre-Domino 8 servers. A mixed cluster of Domino 8 servers and pre-Domino 8 servers requires an Out of Office service type of Agent.
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Notes client installation uses an Eclipse-style install manifest and update site to control feature installation.
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Lotus Notes client installation continues to be available using an executable or binary, Smart Upgrade, or scripted install but Notes now sits atop the Lotus Expeditor architecture, based on Eclipse, and enables additional extension of both supplied and custom features.
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Composite applications incorporate components - such as views, framesets, documents, and other design elements - from multiple applications into a single, role-based work environment. NSF-based composite applications can be hosted on Domino servers, built using Lotus Notes applications, and accessed using Lotus Notes 8.
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The message recall feature provides IBM Lotus Notes client users with the ability to recall mail messages after they are sent. This feature is useful when a Lotus Notes client user has accidentally clicked Send and then needs to retract the message in order to complete or modify the message content.
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Domino supports 4096-bit keys for certificate authorities, and 2048-bit keys for end entities.
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The Domino server supports the new format of SSO token, LtpaToken2, which was introduced in the IBM WebSphere Server release 5.1.1. Support for the new token improves security for SSO deployments.
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New features in Notes and Domino 8.0.1
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Support for Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, a US federal standard for certification of cryptographic libraries.
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Deploying FIPS140-2 certified ID and document encryption
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Enables end users to see and act on automatically recognized Live Text in their Notes documents, including mail, using widgets created specifically for their use.
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Provides two-way, over-the-air synchronization between Domino® servers and Windows® Mobile handheld devices. Lotus Notes® Traveler synchronizes e-mail, calendar, to-do, address book, and journal data in real time.
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Additional technical content resources
Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.x
What new features in Notes 8 require a Domino 8 server or mail template?
Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.0
Related Wiki articles
Browser setting via desktop policy: Notes/Domino 8.0.1
Link
Additional technical content resources
Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.x
Technotes
What new features in Notes 8 require a Domino 8 server or mail template?
Silent install
Deploying a new mail template in a mixed-release environment
ref=http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/04829798788.html> . Directory Assistance LDAP configuration wizard You can use this wizard as a guide to create successful and efficient Directory Assistance LDAP configuration documents. See the topic Creating a Directory Assistance document for a remote LDAP directory.
Messaging
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The message recall feature provides IBM Lotus Notes client users with the ability to recall mail messages after they are sent. This feature is useful when a Lotus Notes client user has accidentally clicked Send and then needs to retract the message in order to complete or modify the message content.
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Security
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Certificate authority key rollover
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Administrators can assign a new set of public and private keys to a Domino certificate authority (CA).
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Domino supports 4096-bit keys for certificate authorities, and 2048-bit keys for end entities.
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The Domino server supports the new format of SSO token, LtpaToken2, which was introduced in the IBM WebSphere Server release 5.1.1. Support for the new token improves security for SSO deployments.
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Server
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Update the design of enabled agents without disabling the agent
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In pre-Domino 8 releases, when a design update for enabled agents occurred, the agents were disabled and stopped running. This occurred because there was no mechanism to update the agent's design and retain the original signature of the agent. In Domino 8, design update can update many enabled agents without disabling the agent.
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Domino-Portal Integration (DPI) Wizard
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Use the Domino-Portal Integration (DPI) Wizard to configure a WebSphere Portal server to work with your Domino-based infrastructure. You can use the DPI Wizard with the Domino 7.0 server, or more recent servers. The DPI Wizard eliminates many of the manual Domino and WebSphere Portal configuration steps required to run the Domino and Extended Products Portlets, Common Mail and Common Calendar.
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Server Commands
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The DB2 access authname command tells you what DB2 user name will be used to execute queries for a specific user and if that user is using the default query view user or a specific mapped name managed using the Domino administrator.
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New DB2 group server commands:
- DB2 Group Runstats
- DB2 Group Runidxstats
- DB2 Group Size
- DB2 Group Summary
- DB2 Group Tables
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Use the DB2 Group command to obtain information and to manipulate DB2 groups. A group is a DB2 storage container that can hold one or more Notes databases.
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Runs a DB2 connection test. Creates a DB2 connection using the same user as the Domino server and then disconnects.
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Forces the internal Domino time to be set to the operating system time. Set SystemTime is typically used to correct or prevent incorrect system time changes.
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Enhancement to the statistics collected including new per-process virtual memory statistics and new disk I/O statistics. The enhancements apply to Microsoft Windows platforms only.
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Monitors the performance of physical and virtual memory. Show Stat vm displays a list of virtual memory usage statistics for all server processes.
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Runs the Inbox Maintenance agent.
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tell adminp process restart
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The server command "tell adminp server restart" processes and updates administration process requests of each schedule type as appropriate by simulating a restart of the administration process.
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The server command "tell router o" lists all databases that have an active Out of Office service.
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Web Server
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HTMLOptions capability allows Web application developers to specify form and field-specific options to control the Web engine's HTML generation.
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Improving performance for upload of file attachments
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To reduce the amount of memory needed to handle file attachment uploads, the NOTES.INI variable DominoMultiPartPostBufferSize can be used to control the size of the memory buffer that processes multi-part form data.
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What's new in 8.0.1
Support for Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, a US federal standard for certification of cryptographic libraries.
My Widget boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/topic/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/D_OF_FILE_ATTACHMENTS_4581.html>.
What's new in 8.0.1
Support for Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, a US federal standard for certification of cryptographic libraries.
My Widgets
Knowledge Collection: Upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.x
64-bit platform
FAQ: Support for IBM Lotus Domino on 64-bit Operating Systems
Silent install
Mail recall
Using the Message Recall feature in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8
Out-of-office
Deploying a new mail template in a mixed-release environment
Composite apps Wiki
Technotes
What new features in Notes 8 require a Domino 8 server or mail template?
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