Sometimes when you upgrade your Domino environment you cannot see the new Policy Settings documents such as Roaming, Traveler etc., however they are available from the CreatePolicy Settings menu.

This article is to help administrators better troubleshoot and understand how policies flow in a Lotus Notes and Domino environment. The following attachments are to be used with the actions below. The flowcharts are created to help find the points of failure and what to do when running into a ...

Have you looked into Domino policies yet? If not, then you have not yet seen how powerful policies can be. Since there are many reasons to use a policy and a number of policy types you may wonder how you should get started with policies. This article introduces policies as well as providing an ...

How to set custom settings by Policy to change users locations settings. This wiki demonstrates how to change MailThreshold setting for all locations.

Laptop users will use a local replica of their email file and replicate when they reconnect to the server. With proper configuration replication takes place in the background and users never have to switch locations.

There are many ways to configure the Notes client preferences, but these preferences are critical to a smooth user experience.

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 introduced the ability to push administrative trust defaults during Notes install or upgrade using a new deploy.nsf in the Notes install kit. The release also added additional Domino policy controls for timestamping of features and plugins. This article seeks to ...

This post describes defaults and best practices for Domino administrators responsible for rolling out Widgets and Live Text in conjunction with available policies and preferences controls. We first discuss the defaults when not using policies and then present the recommended policy roll out based ...

Using message disclaimers in Domino Since the introduction of EU regulations on disclaiming email, the use of message disclaimers in Domino has become more prevalent in the EMEA region. Message disclaimers are notices (usually short text blocks) that are added to email messages. They are often ...

A new Custom Settings tab has been added to Domino desktop policy to simplify the task of pushing notes.ini or Eclipse preference settings to Notes users. See Pushing policy settings to the client for

Administrators can use Domino policy to control visibility of the Lotus Notes user's Open list -- as either an Open button or a visible left pane Open list -- in Notes. The Menus tab on the Domino desktop policy settings document contains the Open list/Launcher section, which contains two mutually ...

Watch the demonstration to see how you can create policy settings documents and a policy document for Lotus iNotes mobile users.

Overview This brief article will highlight the benefits of using the new Dynamic Group Policies (DGP) in Domino 8.5. It will do this by showing the issues an administrator would have to have dealt

Overview Policy precedence was explained In a previous Wiki article, Domino Policy Precedence Explained. But one aspect of Domino Policies was not covered, namely the How To Apply (HTA) feature. Whereas policy precedence determines how the settings from several policies are combined, the How To ...

Overview Domino policies provide a powerful way for an administrator to manage their enterprise. But when multiple policies apply to a given user, it can be confusing to understand how the effectiv

Overview In Domino 8.5 two new features were added that affect the policy space, Dynamic Polices and Home Server groups. While Home Server groups can be used independently from dynamic policies, they can be used together to make it even easier to manage user settings. In this example, Message ...

Domino Policies In the NotesDomino environment, policies are a powerful feature allowing an administrator to control many user settings at once.  They can be used to set purely administrative controls like enabling inbox maintenance.  Or they can be used to enforce company practices by enabling ...

Prior to Notes/Domino 8, the location documents contained a setting to control whether hyperlinks in the Notes client opened in an embedded browser or in an external browser (IE for example), and this

The Widgets and Live Text feature may have earlier been referred to as My Widgets. There are new Domino policy settings introduced in 8.0.1, and Notes plugin_customization.ini file settings, regarding control of Notes user access to the Widgets and Live Text functionality and central widget ...

For the Notes and Domino release 8.0 stream, including 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 and so on, the Widgets and Live Text documentation for the administrator, power user/app dev, and end user is in the Domino Admin

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 ...