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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

Chapter 5. Deployment Enhancements in Notes/Domino 8.5.3

The deployment and management of Lotus Notes/Domino has traditionally been divided between the Domino administration staff and the desktop management team. In previous releases, the deployment of Lotus Notes was a completely standalone process, and Domino administrators relied on the desktop team to deploy the client. Lotus Domino then introduced a feature called Smart Upgrade to assist with the management and deployment of new Lotus Notes client releases. This concept of server-based management of the client was significantly enhanced with the introduction of policies and enhancements to Smart Upgrade.

The task of managing the Lotus Notes client through Lotus Domino has been significantly enhanced in Lotus Notes/Domino 8, 8.5, and 8.5.3. With the introduction of the Eclipse client platform for Lotus Notes, the Domino server becomes a provisioning tool. Advancements in policies and the introduction of the database redirect feature...