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You can specify extended administration servers to process Domino Directory administration requests for more than one administration server per Domino Directory. | See the topic Using an extended administration server in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The administration process supports secondary Domino Directories for maintaining user names and groups that you do not want to store in NAMES.NSF. | See the topic Administration Process support of secondary Domino Directories in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can access the Administration Request database by clicking Server - Analysis - Administration Requests. Available views are listed alphabetically. New buttons make managing requests easier. For example, use "Approve Selected Requests" to approve multiple selected requests at once. | See the topic Managing Administration Process requests in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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The Cluster Administrator is now a server thread. It automatically starts the Cluster Replicator and the Cluster Database Directory Manager. You no longer need to include CLREPL and CLDBDIR in the NOTES.INI ServerTasks setting. When you upgrade cluster servers to Domino 6, Domino removes CLREPL and CLDBDIR from the ServerTasks setting. | See the topic The cluster components in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
To run more than one Cluster Replicator, you can edit the Configurations Settings document or make an entry in the NOTES.INI file. | See the topic Using multiple Cluster Replicators in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The server availability index now gives you a more accurate indication of the availability of each server in a cluster. You should not use the NOTES.INI setting Server_Transinfo_Normalize on Domino 6 servers. | See the topic The server availability index in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can use the Domino 6 Server Monitor to monitor all servers in a cluster at the same time. | See the topic Monitoring all the servers in a cluster at the same time in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
By default, cluster replication now ignores database size quotas. This assures that replicas can be identical when users fail over. To make cluster replication obey database size quotas, you can edit the Configurations Settings document or make an entry in the NOTES.INI file. | See the topic Obeying database size quotas during cluster replication in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Many activities are cluster-aware or let you perform procedures on as many servers as you want at the same time. For example:
- When you register users, you can create replica mail files for them on multiple cluster servers.
- When you register users or upgrade users for roaming, you can create replicas of roaming files on multiple cluster servers.
- When you replicate databases, you can create replicas of as many databases as you want on as many cluster servers as you want all with one procedure.
- When you delete databases, you can delete replicas on other cluster servers.
- When you delete user names, you can delete all replicas of the users' mail files.
- When you move databases, you can move them to as many cluster servers as you want.
- When you move users' mail files from a cluster to a server that is not in a cluster, you can delete all replicas of the mail files from the cluster.
| See the following topics:
in the book Administering Domino Clusters or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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You can use a remote LDAP directory or a secondary Domino Directory to authenticate IMAP, POP3, and LDAP clients. Previously this capability was only available for Web (HTTP) client authentication. | See the topic Directory assistance and client authentication in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can specify secondary Domino Directories for maintaining user names and groups that you do not want to store in NAMES.NSF. | See the topic Administration Process support of secondary Domino Directories in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can store groups used in database ACLs in a secondary Domino Directory, in addition to a server's primary Domino Directory. Previously you could store such groups only in a remote LDAP directory only in addition to the primary Domino Directory. | See the topic Directory assistance and group lookups for database authorization in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Directory Assistance can now use cluster failover to fail over to an alternate replica of a Domino Directory. | See the topic Using Directory Assistance in a cluster in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You have more control over how a server uses a secondary Domino Directory configured in a directory assistance database. For example, you can disable the directory for LDAP use. Previously this control was available for only a remote LDAP directory/ | See the topic Directory assistance services in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Lotus Domino 6 can serve up directories through LDAP, NAMELookup, or both. | See the topic How directory assistance works in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The LDAP service schema now supports the following:
- LDAP RFCs 2252, 2256, 2798, 2247, 2739, 2079, and 1274
- True object class inheritance
- namingContext operational attribute defined in LDAP standard RFC 2251
- Automatic schema maintenance process
- Arbitrary distinguished names
| See the topic The Domino LDAP schema in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can use the LDAP Schema database template, SCHEMA.NSF, as a tool for maintaining and extending the schema. | See the topic Domino LDAP Schema database in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
There are additional LDAP service configuration settings available on the Configurations Settings document, some of which were previously controlled through the NOTES.INI file. The LDAP service detects changes to these settings automatically so that restarting the LDAP service is unnecessary. | See the topic Customizing the LDAP service configuration in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
A directory indexer created by the database indexer (Update task) keeps Domino Directory view indexes up-to-date. | See the topic Indexer tasks: Update and Updall in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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You can take directory catalog databases off-line. | See the topic Adding a directory catalog to a DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can encrypt a subscription. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can load customized subscriptions onto the DOLS Client Pre-Installer CD. | See the topic Reducing DOLS download time with the client installation CD in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Allow per-user shared subscription data" option enables a subscription to share files with other off-line subscriptions as long as the user has both files installed. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can deselect the "Full Text Index subscription after sync" and "Compact subscription after sync" options to prevent compaction and full-text indexing of DOLS subscriptions. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Push subscription settings\Push subscription settings to iNotes Sync Manager" option in the Off-line Subscription Configuration Profile document pushes settings off-line to users, so users no longer need to reinstall a subscription to update their settings. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Read only subscription setting\Make schedule read only" option in the Off-line Subscription Configuration Profile document prevents users from modifying the synchronization schedule settings. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Use passthru server to connect to destination server" option enables a subscription to use a passthru server to connect to the Domino server that hosts the subscription. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Use optional TCPIP address to connect to destination server" option provides an optional or secondary TCP/IP address configuration to access the Domino server hosting a subscription. | See the topic Configuring the DOLS subscription in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Always overwrite ID" option enables the Domino server to overwrite the user's off-line ID each time the user installs a subscription to keep IDs up-to-date and consistent. | See the topic Creating a DOLS Offline Security Policy document in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
DOLS supports the Lotus Notes multi-user and roaming user configuration. | See the topics Configuring the DOLS subscription and Creating a DOLS Offline Security Policy document in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Keyboard shortcuts are available for nearly every option in the Web Control and iNotes Sync Manager. | See the topic Web Control instructions for DOLS users in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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IMAP service support for NAMESPACE command enables IMAP mail users access to designated public mail folders and other users' mail files to which they have delegated access. | See the topic Configuring the IMAP service to allow shared access to mail files in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can run a report in the Mail Tracking Reports database with Author level access. Running reports in this database previously required Manager level access. | See the topic Tools for mail monitoring in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Shared mail has been enhanced with the following changes:
- You can configure multiple shared mail databases and directories.
- You can associate user mail with more than one shared mail database.
- There is a new Shared Mail tab on the Server document.
- Lotus Domino 6 automatically creates a shared mail database when you install the server.
| See Shared mail overview in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The "Verify that local domain recipients exist in the Domino Directory" option for the SMTP listener task ensures that each user specified in the RCPT command is found in a configured directory. | See the topic Restricting users from receiving Internet mail in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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Support for the IPv6 standard for TCP/IP networks replaces support for the IPv4 standard. | See the topic IPv6 and Lotus Domino in the book Administering the Domino System or Installing Domino Servers. Or see the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The Domino SNMP Agent is now installed with the Domino server and includes several enhancements:
- Configuration options are now set in the SNMP tab of the Server Configuration Settings document in the Domino Directory, not in the separate LSNMPCFG.NSF database.
- Partitioned servers are recognized automatically. The file LNSNMP.INI is used if it's available, but it is not required, except for partitioned server start functionality.
- Domino SNMP is available for the Linux platform if prerequisite SMUX protocol (RFC 1227) support is available, for example, by employing a properly configured UCD-SNMP or NET-SNMP Master SNMP Agent.
- The Domino MIB now contains comments that indicate which Domino statistic, if any, an object is derived from.
- Most queries for objects derived from statistics use the current value of the statistic, not a cached value.
- For efficiency, caching is still employed for the lnAllStatsTable and for table row discovery.
- Over 200 objects have been added to the Domino MIB.
- All known syntax errors have been corrected in the Domino MIB.
Platform-specific steps are needed to configure the agent, even if it was previously installed and configured for Domino 4.6 or 5. | See the topic The Domino SNMP Agent in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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The new Domino Certificate Authority (CA) for processing Notes and Internet certificate requests separates the role of CA administrator from that of the registration authority administrator. | See the topic Domino server-based certification authority in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can dynamically deploy new or updated Administrator ECLs to client workstations. | See the topic Deploying and updating workstation ECLs in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Internet (HTTP) password restrictions for users configured in the Domino Directory allow you to:
- Set an expiration period on an Internet password
- Set a grace period for resetting Internet passwords
- Require users to change Internet passwords immediately
- Lockout Internet access for users requiring password
- Determine Internet password quality and length
| See the topic Password Options dialog box in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
SSL security settings for an Internet protocol are obtained from a Site document rather than a Server document. The Site document contains new options that control the Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), which do not appear in the Server document. | See the topic Internet Site documents in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
New rules for agent security appear in the Server Record in the Domino Directory. | See the topic Setting agent preferences for the Web Navigator in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The following security fields on the Security tab of the Server document, which previously applied only to Notes client access, now apply to all Internet protocols in addition to the Notes client:
- Only allow server access to users listed in the Directory
- Access server
- Not access server
| See the topic Setting up Notes user, Domino server, and Internet user access to a Domino server in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The key string <ECLOwner> added to the Administration ECL enables the current user to modify the ECL during client ECL refresh. | See the topic Administration ECL <ECLOwner> key in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The Domino Administrator client now logs the results of the Execution Security Alert (ESA) dialog boxes, ESA details, and ECL modifications in the client log (LOG.NSF) in Miscellaneous Events. | See the topic Collecting information for a new administration ECL in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can create Certification Revocation Lists (CRLs). | See the topic Domino server-based certification authority in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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You can monitor events on your system using Event Generators. | See the topic Event generators in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can define Event Handlers to log an event, to notify you when an event occurs, to forward an event for additional processing, or to prevent an event from being logged. | See the topic Event handlers in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can monitor platform statistics. Predefined statistics counters have been added to monitor networking, logical disk, memory, paging file, platform, process, and system statistics for all platforms. | See the topic Creating statistic profiles in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can create performance statistic profiles that you can monitor using charts to display the statistics in real time or historically. | See the topic Creating statistic profiles in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can set console text, color, and highlight attributes for both the remote server and local console, making it easier to read and interpret the system message and information that appears on your system. | See the topic Customizing the appearance of the Domino server console and Domino Administrator console in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The Domino Server Monitor includes server profiles that let you monitor a subset of servers and monitor only the tasks or processes specific to those servers. | See the topic Domino server monitor in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can change Web user names with the Domino Administrator. | See the topic Rename Selected Notes People dialog box in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can find server names, user names, and groups in a domain by making an administration request. | See the following topics:
in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
Enhanced server activity logging captures detailed information about Notes sessions, databases, passthru servers, and scheduled agent activities, as well as POP3, SMTP, HTTP, IMAP, and LDAP activity. | See the topic Activity logging in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
With transaction logging for views, you no longer have to rebuild views after a server crash. | See the topic View logging in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
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By default, cookie logging is enabled as part of the new HTTP server task on Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms. Data provided by cookie logging appears in the text logs. | See the topic The Domino Web server log (DOMLOG.NSF) in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
The HTTP response header is a new Web site rule type in the Domino Directory Server\Internet Sites view. This rule type adds an Expires header or custom header to HTTP responses that match specified URL patterns and response codes. | See the topic Web Site Rules document in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |
You can use single sign-on (SSO) for Web browsers to sign on to a Domino or WebSphere server once, then have access to any SSO-enabled Domino or WebSphere server in your domain without signing on again.
Additionally, SSO allows multiple Web SSO Configuration documents in a Domino Directory or domain. | See the topic Multi-server session-based name-and-password authentication for Web users (single sign-on) in the book Administering the Domino System or in the Domino Administrator 6 Help. |