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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide

By : Tim Speed, Barry Max Rosen, Scott O'Keefe
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IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide

By: Tim Speed, Barry Max Rosen, Scott O'Keefe

Overview of this book

<p>IBM Lotus Domino software is a world class platform for critical business, collaboration, and messaging applications. With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications, while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increasing Return on Investment (ROI). You can create and share information effectively to make quick business decisions and streamline the way individuals and teams work. It is no longer just an email tool, but a means of extending business communications to a new level. In order to utilize all the powerful features of the new release, you need to upgrade your existing system to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3. <br /><br />Written by senior architects and specialists of IBM Software Services for Lotus, this book will enable you to quickly upgrade your existing system and leverage the full capabilities of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3. The authors explore the enhanced productivity tools available within this release and go through the new features of the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 suite and document the technical features in a descriptive way, with examples and useful screenshots.<br /><br />The book begins with an overview of the SOA characteristics of Lotus Notes and how it can help you assemble applications that can play a role in SOA. The book then moves on to the features and changes in Lotus Notes Client 8.5.3, before providing an overview of productivity tools: IBM Lotus Documents, IBM Lotus Presentations, and IBM Lotus Spreadsheets. The book then dives into topics such as Lotus and Domino 8.5.3 server features, deployment enhancements in Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, Domino 8.5.3 enhancements and upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, amongst other topics. This book is your complete guide to the most powerful new features and changes in the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3 release.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3: Upgrader's Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Lotus Notes 8.5


Starting in Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Notes is supported on the Macintosh workstation.

While most of the enhancements in Lotus Notes 8.5 are on the server side, this section will examine the new features in the Lotus Notes 8.5 client. The five areas that will be covered are as follows:

  • User interface enhancements

  • Mail features

  • Calendar features

  • Contacts

  • Key software changes

User interface enhancements

The first thing you will notice when logging into Lotus Notes 8.5 is that the start up sequence has changed. One big change that was made to launch the client faster is to load soffice.exe when Symphony is launched, rather than when the Lotus Notes client is launched. The soffice.exe file is the Symphony productivity editor's executable.

Note

There may be certain situations where you need to revert back to the pre-8.5 startup sequence. In these cases you can use the ini parameter ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION=0 to do so.

Context menus have been updated in Lotus Notes 8.5. They are now streamlined...