WHAT'S NEW IN IBM LOTUS DOMINO 8.5?
Policies - new features
This topic describes new policies features.
Support for easily pushing Eclipse managed settings, notes.ini settings, and locations settings are now available using the Custom Settings tab on the
Domino desktop policy settings
page in conjunction with the server's Domino Directory (names.nsf). This enables you to push both Lotus-supplied and custom settings during client install or upgrade, including deployment of Notes features and plug-ins using widget deployment methods.
Ability to push trusted certificates to clients
-- You can create cross-certificates in the Domino Directory for Internet certifiers and Lotus Notes certifiers and then push the cross-certificates to the Contacts application on Lotus Notes clients. The cross-certificates are used to establish client trust of a certifier when accessing servers, reading encrypted S/MIME mail, or installing signed Lotus Notes client plugins. When you push cross certificates, users are not required to create the cross-certificates or retrieve them from the Domino Directory. You can also push Internet certifiers to clients and enable users to create cross-certificates themselves. There are two ways to push certificates to clients' Contacts: through customization of the Lotus Notes client installation media or through security policy settings.
Time stamping plug-in jar signatures -- You can now time-stamp plug-in jar signatures using the jarsigner tool provided by the Java™ SDK to ensure the long term validity of plug-in signatures. The Notes client uses a time stamp included with a plug-in jar signature to determine if the plug-in signing certificate was valid at the time of signing. If a plug-in signing certificate has expired but was valid at the time of signing, Notes accepts it so that users are not confronted with security prompts during plug-in installation or provisioning. You can use
security policy settings
control whether to also ignore expiration of the time stamping certificates themselves. By default, time stamping certificate expiration is ignored.
A new setting has been added to the
Mail policy settings document
to allow for detection of e-mail applications other than Notes. The first use of the detection functionality is to prevent data loss when exchanging calendar invitations among users of Notes calendars and users of other calendars such as Microsoft Outlook/Exchange.
Specify the
Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.5 server URL in a NOTES.INI setting
in the desktop policy settings document.
Specify customized mail quota warning text using a NOTES.INI file setting
in the desktop policy settings document. Use the notes.ini setting quotawarningtext=<value> to specify the URL or text that will be displayed when a Notes user's mail file size exceeds the mail quota threshold or the maximum mail quota size. In the NOTES.INI setting, you specify a URL or actual text that will display. You can place instructions for reducing the size of the user's mail file in the location accessible by the URL.
There are new policy settings for Lotus iNotes as well as general policy settings that Lotus iNotes now supports. For more information, see
Lotus iNotes -- new features
.
New Dynamic Policies
-- Dynamic policy assignment is a new option for assigning explicit policies that allows you to assign policy settings to individual users and groups just by specifying the appropriate user or group name in a policy document. You are able to “set it and forget it” as far as the policy goes. As the organization changes, you only need to update the Group document. If a user changes jobs or organizations, you do not need to determine which policies need updating. The updated group information is applied the next time the effective policy is calculated for any users in that group.
A new
Roaming policy settings document
has been added in support of the file server roaming and IBM® Lotus® Domino® server roaming functionality introduced in this release for the IBM® Lotus® Notes® 8.5 and greater standard configuration user. Notes standard configuration user roaming, and this policy page, are introduced in this release.
A new setting has been added to the "Enable provider IDs for widget addition" and "Restrict provider IDs for installation/execution"
Widgets policy page settings
to allow for widgets that deploy client plug-ins. The setting, "com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.prov.provider.ToolboxProvisioning" is also available for the equivalent Eclipse preference settings in the plugin_customization.ini file.
The desktop policy settings document contains additional 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. There are new "Hide" settings for several sidebar panels including Feeds, Day-At-A-Glance, Activities, Sametime Primary Contacts, and My Widgets. To review all of the new Window Management settings, see the topic
Creating a desktop policy settings document
.
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