USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION
Note All of the settings available in the setup policy settings document are also included in the desktop policy settings document. You can now use just one document -- the desktop policy settings document -- to establish the desktop policy settings as well as many of the setup policy settings. When you use the desktop policy setting document to establish a setting to be applied at setup, choose the accompanying option "Set Initial Value." If you have setup policy settings documents that you created with previous releases of IBM® Lotus® Domino®, you can continue to use those same documents. We strongly suggest, however, that going forward you use the updated desktop policy settings document to define both your desktop policy settings and your setup policy settings.
To use a desktop policy settings document to add to or update the user’s desktop workspace, change the setting in the desktop policy settings document. Other changes you can make to the user's desktop workspace include setting up a default home page, customizing the welcome page, enabling use of various Widgets and Live Text features and catalog access, customizing the My Work Welcome page, upgrading the mail template, enabling automatic diagnostic data collection for client crashes, specifying how and when Smart Upgrade runs to upgrade the Notes client, and configuring a Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports database. If you are updating from a previous version of Domino, you can use a desktop policy settings document to define the settings used when converting previous mail file templates to a more recent mail template. Based on the settings that you enter, an agent can automatically be run to upgrade the user's mail folders the first time the user opens their mail file after the client has been upgraded.
Use the desktop policy settings document to modify user Location documents, and to populate the dialing rules for dial-up connections that simplify server connections.
The default replication schedule, normal or high-priority, is now controlled by settings you specify in the desktop policy settings document. The settings are on the Preferences - Replication tab.
You also use a desktop policy settings document to manage and update bookmarks. You can specify whether a user's Notes Client will open with the Open button displaying or with a list of "docked" bookmarks displaying. The Open button is used to open the bookmarks bar. The Notes Client user would then click the Open button to display the bookmarks bar. If you choose to "dock" the bookmark bar, the bookmarks automatically display on a left pane when the Notes Client is opened.
You can specify mail file quota indicator settings on the Mail tab of the desktop policy settings document. The mail file quota indicator settings designate whether a mail quota indicator is displayed on the Notes client, and if it is displayed, the automatic update interval for the mail quota in minutes and whether the mail quota is refreshed when the cursor hovers over the mail quota indicator.
You can also set user preferences, usually set by Notes users. When setting user preferences, you can specify how these values are applied, that is, whether the user can change a setting, whether the user-specified setting is save, as well as other options. The settings you can choose from are Do not change, Set initial value, Set value whenever modified, and Set value and prevent changes.
The desktop policy settings document includes a Notes Application Plug In section on the Basics tab. Use these settings to specify whether instant messaging services are provided by IBM Lotus Sametime. You also specify whether instant messaging name resolution (converting Notes names to Internet names) is performed by the Domino Directory.
Note This Note applies to the Notes client, Basic configuration only. An important user preference about which administrators should be aware is the option to "Use canonical name for instant messaging status lookup." Enabling this setting for users lets them display online awareness for names when your IBM Lotus Sametime server is configured to look up Notes canonical hierarchical names, for example, CN=John Smith/OU=Sales/O=Acme instead of Notes abbreviated hierarchical names, for example, John Smith/Sales/Acme. The feature described here is available only if your company has an IBM Lotus Sametime server, and only for Microsoft® Windows® versions of IBM® Lotus® Notes®. Enable this setting in Preferences - Instant Messaging. \
Window Management settings
On the Preferences - Window Management tab, the setting "Display sidebar" controls whether the sidebar displays on the Notes Client user's desktop. If "Display sidebar" is set to No, and How to Apply is set to "Set value and prevent changes," the sidebar does not display, the View menu on the Notes client does not display any sidebar options, and the Hide Panel settings on the Window Management tab do apply.
The setting "Show the My Widgets panel" on the Widgets tab enables and disables the widgets feature. The "Hide my Widgets panel" on the Window Management tab has an affect only if the "Show the My Widgets panel" on the Widgets tab is set to Yes. If the setting "Show the My Widgets panel" is set to No, then the widgets feature is disabled and the "Hide my Widgets panel" setting on the Window Management tab has no affect on whether widgets display on the sidebar.
Note Desktop policy settings are not supported by IBM® Lotus® iNotes™.
To create Desktop settings
1. Make sure that you have Editor access to the Domino Directory and one of these roles:
3. Click "Add Settings," and then choose Desktop.
4. On the Basics tab, complete these fields:
Note You cannot use the IBM® Lotus® Domino® Web Administrator to create links.
7. If you are using the Notes Application Plug-in, complete these fields to set up instant messaging:
(Optional) Enter the name of the current template you are using.
Tip To find the build version, use Help - About Domino Administrator.
13. Under Menus, complete these fields:
Open button - To set the Open button to display when a user opens the Notes Client. The Open button opens a list of user bookmarks when the user opens the Notes client.
Docked as a bookmark bar - To set the "docked" list of user bookmarks as the default when the user opens the Notes client. The Notes Client user does not have to click Open to see their bookmarks.
Note This field appears only if you choose Yes in the field "Remove Smart Upgrade Tracking files after a specified number of days:"
Note that some policy settings contain a "How to apply this setting" column. For information on these options, see the "Using the How to apply settings" topics in this guide.
If this policy's "How to apply this setting" column is set to "Set value and prevent changes" the user will not be able to change the value on the Widgets preferences panel.
By default, this value is not set.
The default catalog name is TOOLBOX.NSF.
The categories listed in this policy cause the equivalent category names in the Widgets preferences panel to be selected and disabled; the end user cannot deselect them.
By default, this setting is enabled.
If this setting is enabled and its "How to apply this setting" column is set to "Set value and prevent changes" the user will not be able to change the "Show Widgets Toolbar and the My Widgets Sidebar panel" value on the Widgets preferences panel.
If this setting is disabled and its "How to apply this setting" column is set to "Set value and prevent changes" the Widgets preferences panel will not be visible to the user.
By default, this setting is disabled.
The Widgets and Live Text feature includes an extension point for widget providers. The supplied providers include Notes view, Feeds, Web page or service, and Google Gadget®.
If this setting is enabled, the user can only create or edit widgets of a certain type. The administrator can then specify which widget types (provider IDs) are available using the setting below.
Extension points are an Eclipse feature. They define new function points for the platform that other plug-ins can plug into. Eclipse provides many extension points with the core platform. The Widgets and Live Text feature also provides some extension points.
The Eclipse platform provides the following identifiers, and many others:
org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus, org.eclipse.ui.viewActions, org.eclipse.ui.views identifiers
Notes and Expeditor provide the following identifiers, and many others:
com.ibm.rcp.ui.shelfViews, com.ibm.rcp.textanalyzer2.Dictionaries, com.ibm.rcp.search.engines.searchEngines, com.ibm.rcp.search.ui.searchBarSets, com.ibm.rcp.content.contentTypes, com.ibm.rcp.annotation.regex.regexTypes
When you publish a widget to the catalog, you should assign widget categories to it.
A fifth type, prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning, which allows a widget to be used to deploy a client plug-in, is also available.
com.ibm.notes.toolbox.provider.NotesViewPalleteProvider
com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.web.provider.WebServicesPalleteProvider
com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.feeds.FeedPalleteProvider
com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.google.provider.internal.GooglePalleteProvider
com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning
The default is shown below:
com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.google.provider.internal.GooglePalleteProvider,com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.web.provider.WebServicesPalleteProvider,com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.feeds.FeedPalleteProvider,com.ibm.notes.toolbox.provider.NotesViewPalleteProvider,com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning
For example, if the policy setting "Restrict the addition of widgets to specific types" is set to "Enabled" and "Enable provider IDs for widget addition" is set to the value below, the user could only create Google Gadget widget types:
The available widget type/Provider ID entries are shown below and correlate to the Notes view, Web page or service, Feeds, and Google Gadget widget types.
Com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.google.provider.internal.GooglePalleteProvider
For example, if the policy setting "Restrict provider IDs for installation/execution" is set to "Enabled" and "Enable provider IDs for installation/execution" is set to the value below, the Notes client user can only install or provision Google Gadget widget types:
org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus,com.ibm.rcp.content.contentTypes,com.ibm.rcp.annotation.regex.regexTypes,com.ibm.rcp.ui.shelfViews,org.eclipse.ui.views,org.eclipse.ui.viewActions,com.ibm.rcp.textanalyzer2.Dictionaries,com.ibm.rcp.search.engines.searchEngines,com.ibm.rcp.search.ui.searchBarSets
For example, if the policy setting "Restrict extension point IDs for installation/execution" is Enabled and "Enable extension point IDs for installation/execution" is set to "com.ibm.rcp.content.contentTypes" then widgets containing regular expression recognizers (com.ibm.rcp.annotation.regex.regexTypes) would not be allowed to be installed/provisioned.
18. On the Accounts tab, enter the default account information for Internet servers.
19. On the Name Servers tab, enter the names and addresses of secondary TCP/IP, NDS and NetBIOS Notes name servers.
20. On the SSL tab, complete these fields:
Note This setting does not apply to Lotus Notes 8 Standard configuration.
Single Sign-On allows users to log on to more than one application with only one password, allows the Notes client to use the instant messaging server's multi-server authentication feature (assuming the instant messaging server is also configured for single sign-on).
33. On the Diagnostics tab, if you want to enable automatic diagnostic collection on clients, complete these fields:
For information about user preferences, see the embedded Lotus Notes Help in the Notes client.
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