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Staying within policy
I met with a group of Lotus customers yesterdayin Kansas City. One surprise to me was the answer to one of my usualquestions -- how many of you are using policies to manage your Domino environment? The answer -- none. Policesin Notes/Domino 6.x were a good first step. The problem, though, is that they weren't lockable -- users could,essentially, override policy settings pushed down to their Notes client. In Notes/Domino 7, policies are substantially improved. First,more user settings are configurable by policy, and second, they can belocked down to prevent user modification. In today's Show-and-Tell Thursday, my colleague Kathleen McGivney covershowto modify user settings such as location documents, preferences, and notes.inisettings via customized settings documents. With all the improvements in policies in ND7, hopefully tips suchas Kathleen's will help you make the best use of this TCO-reducing featurein your environment.
I met with a group of Lotus customers yesterday
in Kansas City. One surprise to me was the answer to one of my usual
questions -- how many of you are using policies to manage your Domino environment?
The answer -- none.
Polices in Notes/Domino 6.x were a good first step. The problem, though, is that they weren't lockable -- users could, essentially, override policy settings pushed down to their Notes client. In Notes/Domino 7, policies are substantially improved. First, more user settings are configurable by policy, and second, they can be locked down to prevent user modification.
In today's Show-and-Tell Thursday, my colleague Kathleen McGivney covers how to modify user settings such as location documents, preferences, and notes.ini settings via customized settings documents. With all the improvements in policies in ND7, hopefully tips such as Kathleen's will help you make the best use of this TCO-reducing feature in your environment.
Polices in Notes/Domino 6.x were a good first step. The problem, though, is that they weren't lockable -- users could, essentially, override policy settings pushed down to their Notes client. In Notes/Domino 7, policies are substantially improved. First, more user settings are configurable by policy, and second, they can be locked down to prevent user modification.
In today's Show-and-Tell Thursday, my colleague Kathleen McGivney covers how to modify user settings such as location documents, preferences, and notes.ini settings via customized settings documents. With all the improvements in policies in ND7, hopefully tips such as Kathleen's will help you make the best use of this TCO-reducing feature in your environment.
Originally by Ed Brill from Ed Brill on March 23, 2006, 12:19pm