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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide
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1. Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and SOA
What is an SOA?
The characteristics of an SOA
Perspectives on SOAs
Why SOAs now?
The SOA lifecycle
The Model phase
The Assemble phase
The Deploy phase
The Manage phase
How Lotus Notes 8.5.3 works with SOAs
Composite applications
Lotus Notes (version 8 and 8.5.3) and web services
Lotus Notes 8.5.x and open technologies
OASIS/ODF
Eclipse
Summary
2. Overview of New Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Client Features
Lotus Notes 8.0
User interface enhancements
Open list menu
Toolbars
Unified preferences
Windows management and tabs
Group document tabs
Advanced menus
Offline applications
Search center
Mail features
Action bar
Horizontal and vertical preview panes
Mail threads
Conversations view
Mail header options
Inline spell checking
Document selection
Recent collaborations
Message recall
Improved Out-of-Office functionality
Calendar features
View navigation
Action bar
All-day events
Managing new invitations from your Calendar view
Showing cancelled invitations in your calendar
Checking schedule
Locating free time for a subset of invitees
Contacts
Contact form
Business Card view
Recent Contacts view
Lotus Notes 8.5
User interface enhancements
Mail features
Calendar features
Calendar federation
Repair calendar
Contacts
Importing
Exporting
Forwarding
Key software changes
Notes Shared Login
Notebook
Lotus Notes 8.5.1
Mail features
Calendar features
Rich Text Editor
Replication and synchronization
Widgets and Live Text
General changes
Lotus Notes 8.5.2
Network optimization
Fail over/fail back
Serviceability
Mail features
Contacts
Calendar and to-do enhancements
Replication and synchronization
Managed Replica
Lotus Notes 8.5.3
Mail features
Sorting by Subject
Signature option
Search functionality
New mail notification
Type-ahead
Contacts
Calendar and to-do enhancements
iCal functionality
Countered Meetings
Auto-processing
Deployment enhancements
Single-user to multiuser migration tool
Widgets and Xpages
General changes
Embedded components
Exchange Migration Tool
LotusLive Notes
LotusLive Notes enhancements
Summary
3. Productivity Tools
Productivity tools integration with Lotus Notes 8.5.3
Symphony and Domino policies
Lotus Symphony Documents
Lotus Symphony Presentations
Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
Lotus Symphony 3.0
New features
Enhancements
Summary
4. Lotus Domino 8.5.3 Server Features
End user and messaging enhancements
Message recall
"Out-of-Office" messages
Enhanced support for the mail thread feature
Automated inbox cleanup
Reverse-path setting for forwarded messages
Rejecting ambiguous names and denying mail to groups
Administration enhancements
The end user renaming process
The Administration Process (AdminP)
The AdminP statistics
Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM)
Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)
WebSphere Services probe
LDAP search reporting
The Common Actions quick access feature
The By Database view
Performance enhancements
Streaming cluster replication
New ODS
Design note compression
On-demand collation
Managing simple searches effectively
Domino Directory and security enhancements
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
DirLint Directory Tool
Authentication through Directory Assistance
Directory Assistance LDAP Configuration Wizards
People view by Lotus Notes version
Internet password lockout
Enhanced local database encryption
Certifier Key Rollover
Single Sign-On (SSO) for LTPAToken2
Certificate revocation checking through the Online Certificate Status Protocol
Enhanced integration with IBM servers and tools
IBM WebSphere Portal integration wizard
IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console integration
Lotus Domino 8.5.3 new server enhancements
8.5.3 generic error clarification
8.5.3 error collection enhancements
8.5.3 replication enhancements
8.5.3 AdminP enhancements
Summary
5. Deployment Enhancements in Notes/Domino 8.5.3
Client provisioning
Server-managed provisioning
Smart Upgrade
Eclipse-based provisioning
Policies
The How to apply this setting feature
Activities policy settings document
Productivity tools settings document
Desktop policy settings document (and setup policy settings document)
Replication settings through the desktop and setup policy documents
Security policy settings document
Lotus Domino 8.5 and 8.5.3 policies
Dynamic policy settings
Roaming policy settings
Enabling provider IDs for the Widgets policy
Machine-specific policies
iNotes policies
Mail quota support in Lite mode
Database redirect
Redirecting when databases are moved
Redirecting when databases are deleted
Pushing trusted certificates to Notes clients
Summary
6. Domino 8.5.3 Enhancements
Domino Attachment and Object Service
Advantages of DAOS
Setting up DAOS
Document Body Compression
Lotus Notes Shared Login
ID Vault
Auto-populated groups
GNU Zip
Performance enhancements
iNotes and Quickr integration
iNotes and Notes client similarities
User Interface
Preferences
The All Documents and Sent views
Sidebar
iNotes and Notes client differences
Switching
Re-ordering tabs
Calendar overlay
iNotes modes—features that are the same
Preferences
The right-click menu
Domino Web Access console
Calendar
iNotes modes—features that are different
iNotes 8.5.1 new features
New user interface enhancements
ID Vault synchronization with iNotes
iNotes INI settings
Other features
iNotes 8.5.2—new features
Mail
Calendar
Other features
iNotes 8.5.3—new features
Mail
Calendar
Contacts
Supported browsers
Quickr integration
The future road map (Project Vulcan)
Summary
7. Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3
The Lotus Notes and Domino upgrade process
Vision and direction
High-level architecture analysis
Use cases
Requirements
Agreements
Final target architecture
Creating the design and upgrade plans
Creating a test plan
Testing
Creating upgrade process documents and plans
Executing logistics plans and schedules
Creating pilots
Updating and final change
Transformation Management
The Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 upgrade process
Reviewing the current infrastructure (The health check)
The upgrade process
Systemic normalization
Upgrade the Domino Administrator clients
Upgrade the Domino Directory
Upgrade the administration server
Carefully evaluate your administration server
Upgrade utility servers
Upgrade hub servers
Upgrade spoke/messaging servers
Upgrade specialized servers
Upgrade the application servers
Upgrade Notes clients
Implement new Lotus Domino 8.5.3 features
Upgrade applications
Special feature upgrade considerations
A use case document example
Summary
8. Coexistence between Notes/Domino Releases
Notes client coexistence
Basic Notes 8.5.3 client
Standard Notes 8.5.3 client
Calendaring and scheduling
Calendar delegation
Domino server coexistence
Domino Directory
On-Disk Structure (ODS)
Administration Requests and events databases
Rooms and Resource Reservations database
Domino Domain Monitoring
Policies
Message recall
Cluster coexistence
Out-of-Office
Domino Web Access
ID files
LotusLive hybrid
Supported Server Versions
Summary
9. New Features in Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Development
Composite applications
Application design
Programming
Properties
Actions
Wires
New Lotus Domino Designer 8.0 client features
Composite applications support
Property Broker Editor
Composite Application Editor
Web Service Consumers
View enhancements
New column number format
Extending columns to use available window width
Deferring index creation until first use
Show default items in the right-mouse menu
Form enhancements
Agent enhancements
Formula language and LotusScript additions
Formula language additions
LotusScript additions
New Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 client features
Domino Designer on Eclipse
The new Eclipse-based GUI
XPages
Improvements to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) support
Enhancements to HTML generation
JavaScript controls
New methods related to ID Vault—ResetUserPassword
Changes to web services
What's ahead?
New Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.1 client features
XPages updates
New Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.2 client features
Lotus Domino Designer enhancements
Lotus Domino Designer Eclipse framework enhancements
New Lotus Domino Designer 8.5.3 client features
Lotus Domino Designer enhancements
Lotus Component Designer
Migration tool
Help and enhanced welcome page
Accessibility
Composite application support
Controls and pages
Data connections
Scripting
Deployment
New Web 2.0 features
RSS and ATOM
Blog template
AJAX support
Lotus Expeditor
Summary
10. Integration with Other Lotus/IBM Products
Lotus Quickr
Quickr with services for Domino
Installing and configuring Lotus Domino Server
Installing Lotus Quickr
Configuring Multi-server Single Sign-on (MSSO) authentication
Base requirements for MSSO
Configuring Quickr Domino Server settings
Directory integration
Application development
Quickr with services for WebSphere Portal
Installing Lotus Quickr services
Integrating Sametime for Quickr WebSphere Portal
Lotus Quickr Connectors
Lotus Sametime
Installing Lotus Sametime
Directory integration
Application integration
Lotus Connections
IBM Learning Widget
IBM Multimedia Library
New integration features in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3
Domino Designer moves to Eclipse
XPages
Themes in XPages
Components based on XPages
Composite Application Editor
Drag-and-drop enhancements
Summary
11. Domino Configuration Tuner
Obtaining and setting up the DCT
Navigating and using DCT
Run New Scan
View Results
Checking for Updates
Preferences
Help
Life cycle and participation
Usage patterns and practices
Troubleshooting
Summary
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