If you're reading this book, you're probably already familiar with Lotus Notes and the Domino server. You know about the powerful productivity features offered by this product and you know how much your company relies on it to communicate, collaborate, and manage its collective store of corporate knowledge. This book is intended to show you the new features of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3. These incredible products keep evolving and growing with each release. This exciting new release will help your end users with new features; but it will also help the administrator with new management features. This book has been written by Notes/Domino "insiders". Collectively, we possess decades of Notes/Domino experience; we've been with the product since Notes 1.0, and since then have worked directly with customers to help them with their Notes/Domino upgrade and deployment issues.
This practical tutorial walks through the new features of the Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3 suite and documents technical features in a descriptive way, with examples and useful screenshots. The book also discusses likely problems you might face while upgrading, and shows you how to get the most out of the exciting new features.
This book will help you understand the new features in Notes client user interface, Domino 8.5.3, and the concepts of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how Lotus Notes 8.5.3 fits into SOA.
Chapter 1, Lotus Notes 8.5.3 and SOA, gives a high-level understanding of SOA, what it is, its value, and its characteristics. You will also learn how Lotus Notes 8.5.3 includes many of the characteristics of SOA components, and how it can help you assemble applications that can play a role in an SOA.
Chapter 2, Overview of New Lotus Notes 8.5.3 Client Features, includes a deeper dive into the new Lotus Notes 8.5.3 components and some of the new LotusLive features that have been included in this release (actually, the LotusLive features were included in 8.5.2)
Chapter 3, Productivity Tools, provides an overview of three productivity tools—Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Presentations, and Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets. You will see how these tools are integrated with Notes 8.5.3, and how they can now be controlled by Domino policy documents.
Chapter 4, Lotus Domino 8.5.3 Server Features, reviews the major new and enhanced feature areas in Domino Server 8.5.3. This includes end user and messaging enhancements, administrator enhancements, performance enhancements, directory and security enhancements, and better integration with other IBM technologies.
In Chapter 5, Deployment Enhancements in Notes/Domino 8.5.3, we examine important Notes/Domino 8.5.3 features that can make rolling out your new deployment significantly easier. We discuss client provisioning, including Eclipse-based client and server provisioning functionality. We also look at policy enhancements and the new database redirect feature.
Chapter 6, Domino 8.5.3 Enhancements, looks at Domino 8.5.3 core features such as Domino Attachment and Object Service, or DAOS, ID Vault, Notes Shared Login, and auto-populated groups. We also cover iNotes up to 8.5.3. The differences and similarities between web and full Lotus Notes clients are reviewed.
Chapter 7, Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.3, is divided into two main sections. The first takes a look at the Notes/Domino upgrade process in general, discussing concepts and steps that should be considered whenever you upgrade to any major release of Notes/Domino. The second section covers upgrade issues that are specific to Notes/Domino 8.5.3.
In Chapter 8, Coexistence between Notes/Domino Releases, we examine coexistence issues involved with running Notes/Domino 8.5.3 in a mixed environment with one or more previous releases. Also provides a discussion of Domino 8.5.3 server coexistence, including features such as Domino Directory, ODS, Domino Web Access, DDM, and ID files. LotusLive Notes hybrid requirements are also discussed.
In Chapter 9, New features in Notes/Domino 8.5.3 Development, we review some of the major new features and enhancements that affect Notes/Domino 8.5.3 application development. These include enhancements related to composite applications, Domino Designer 8.5.3, formula language and LotusScript, Lotus Component Designer, Web 2.0, and Lotus Expeditor.
Chapter 10, Integration with Other Lotus/IBM Products, discusses add-on products for a typical Notes/Domino infrastructure. The specific products covered in this chapter are the most common that you might encounter, including Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Connections. Also, this chapter includes a short introduction to some of the IBM learning tools.
Chapter 11, Domino Configuration Tuner, gives you a special treat. Several years ago IBM released a tool known as Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT). When this tool was first released, it only included a small set of "testing" rules and server checks. The DCT tool is now a full enterprise tool that will help you analyze your Domino server environment.
Some familiarity is needed with Lotus Notes and Domino. This book will cover the advances from Lotus Notes and Domino release 8 through 8.5.3. Basic knowledge of messaging and collaboration technologies is helpful.
This book is for Lotus Notes power users, administrators, and developers working with any version of Lotus Notes/Domino, who want to upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 8.5.3. Additionally, it can be leveraged by management to gain a high-level understanding of the new features and capabilities offered within the products.
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