WHAT'S NEW IN IBM LOTUS DOMINO 8.5?
Administration - new features
This topic describes the new administration features.
Support for pushing managed settings is now available using the
Custom Settings tab on the Domino desktop policy settings
. This enables you to push both Lotus-supplied and custom Domino policy, Eclipse preferences, and notes.ini settings during client install or upgrade, including deployment of Notes client features and plug-ins using widget deployment methods.
A new topic describing the process of
updating a deployed Notes feature and plug-in
has been added.
A new "
Use the "Bypass approval..." option on the Remove Roaming Profile dialog
is available for automating the removal of roaming databases whenever a user is downgraded from roaming to non-roaming.
The Notes user workspace can now participate in roaming.
Domino roaming
for the IBM® Lotus® Notes® standard configuration user is introduced in this release as are two new roaming-specific databases, a feeds subscription database and an Eclipse™ plug-in data and preferences database. A new type of roaming, file server roaming is also available in this release. A new Roaming policy settings document for upgrading a user to or downgrading a user from, file server roaming is also available. User files configured for roaming now appear in a single Roaming Applications folder on the Notes replicator page. A new Notes preference panel, Roaming, is now available for file server roaming-enabled users.
The Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)
evaluates server settings according to a growing catalog of best practices. All servers in a single domain can be evaluated together. DCT provides best practice analysis as well as worst practice disclosure, and helps reduce total cost of ownership by assisting you in identifying configuration problems. DCT looks at settings in the Domino Server documents, the NOTES.INI file, and advanced database properties.
Support for
Notes standard configuration installation and usage on the Apple® Mac OS® platform
is introduced in this release.
The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of performance enhancement in this release. Notes users are now prompted to authenticate (log in using their Notes password) before the Notes workbench appears on-screen. The new NOTES.INI setting for this sequence is "ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION" which has a default setting value of 1 enabling the new mode. Disabling the setting reverts to the old (pre-8.5) start-up mode. If the ENABLE_EARLY_AUTHENTICATION setting is disabled (0), the Roaming user functionality introduced in release 8.5 is not functional and performance enhancements gained in the reordered start-up sequence are not realized.
Description of how to use
a centrally managed Widgets catalog
and widgets to deploy stand-alone and third party Eclipse features and plug-ins to an existing Notes install are now documented in this guide. This method is now strongly suggested for deploying new features, and automatically provisioning feature updates, to users and supersedes the previously suggested Eclipse update manager (EUM) method, which required users to manually install and manually search for updates.
The Widgets and Live Text code has been moved from Notes (and the Notes install kit) to the IBM® Lotus® Expeditor® layer. User documentation has been moved to Notes client help.
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