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IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Planning your Notes® client deployment
Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the IBM® Notes® client.
Servers and clients to install and order of installation
Use this as a tool when installing servers and clients for IBM® Notes® users.
Specifying the home portal account
To use features that require an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server, such as composite applications that contain portlets, IBM Notes® users need a Home Portal account. The Home Portal account is a unique account that specifies which WebSphere Portal server to connect to for features and composite applications that require a WebSphere Portal server. You can set up a Home Portal account for users using policy, and Notes users can create and edit the account using a preference panel.

IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation
Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
- What's new in IBM® Domino® 10?
  Learn about all of the new features for administrators in IBM® Domino® 10.
- Overview
  Welcome to IBM® Domino® Administrator Help.
- Installing
  Use this documentation to install the IBM® Domino® server and subsequently deploy the IBM Notes® client.
- Planning
  Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
  - Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
    Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate IBM® Domino® into your existing environment.
  - Planning server-to-server connections
    Servers must connect to each other to exchange data, for example to replicate databases and exchange mail. You can create connections between servers across a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), by using a pass-through server (a server that acts as an intermediary server between a client and its destination), or over the Internet. Create a Server Connection document whenever you need to establish any new or additional server connections. You can modify this document when necessary.
  - Planning directory services
    IBM® Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
  - Planning a mail routing topology
    IBM® Domino® offers you considerable flexibility in configuring your mail system infrastructure, allowing you to use IBM Notes® routing, SMTP routing, or both, for internal and external messages.
  - Planning a cluster
    When planning a cluster, it is important to consider the performance and ability of your hardware. The cluster must have enough CPU power, memory, and disk space to handle the cluster traffic and the number of databases and replicas required.
  - Planning the TCP/IP network
    The default TCP/IP configuration for an IBM® Domino® server is one IP address that is globally bound, meaning that the server listens for connections at the IP addresses of all NICs on the computer. Global binding works as long as the computer does not have more than one IP address offering a service over the same assigned TCP port.
  - Planning the NetBIOS network
    The IBM® Domino® network is compatible with NetBIOS, a set of IBM session-layer LAN services that has evolved into a standard interface that applications use to access transport-layer network protocols.
  - Messaging overview
    The IBM® Domino® mail system has three basic components: Domino mail servers, Domino mail files, and mail clients. The Domino mail server is the backbone of an organization's messaging infrastructure, acting both as an Internet mail server and an IBM Notes® mail server. Domino provides standards-based Internet messaging through its support of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). At the same time, Domino supports Notes mail through the use of Notes routing protocols -- Notes remote procedure calls (NRPC) -- and the Notes rich text message format.
  - Planning your Notes® client deployment
    Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the IBM® Notes® client.
    - Servers and clients to install and order of installation
      Use this as a tool when installing servers and clients for IBM® Notes® users.
      - Notes® pre-installation checklist
        Review this checklist before starting IBM® Notes® install or upgrade.
      - Specifying the home portal account
        To use features that require an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server, such as composite applications that contain portlets, IBM Notes® users need a Home Portal account. The Home Portal account is a unique account that specifies which WebSphere Portal server to connect to for features and composite applications that require a WebSphere Portal server. You can set up a Home Portal account for users using policy, and Notes users can create and edit the account using a preference panel.
    - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Windows™
      Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed, as can the IBM Domino® Administrator and Designer clients.
    - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Mac OS X
      Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional features can also be installed.
    - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Citrix
      Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with IBM® Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.
  - Planning security
    An important aspect of planning security for your Domino® environment is understanding the tasks and features involved with securing each type of resource.
- Configuring
  Use this information to configure an IBM® Domino® network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters. Also use this information to set up IBM iNotes® on a server using Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS).
- Securing
  This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.
- Administering
  This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring IBM Domino® servers and databases.
- Tuning
  Use this information to improve IBM® Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
- Troubleshooting
  This section describes how to find and solve problems with IBM® Domino® server and Administrator client.
- Glossary

Specifying the home portal account

To use features that require an IBM® WebSphere® Portal server, such as composite applications that contain portlets, IBM® Notes® users need a Home Portal account. The Home Portal account is a unique account that specifies which WebSphere® Portal server to connect to for features and composite applications that require a WebSphere® Portal server. You can set up a Home Portal account for users using policy, and Notes® users can create and edit the account using a preference panel.

After Notes® is installed and prior to using composite applications that contain portlets, or other features that require a WebSphere® Portal server, users need a Home Portal account. Home Portal account information is stored in the Contacts database.

Note: The standard portal URL format is http://host:port/wps/myportal where /wps is a standard portal context and /myportal is a standard personalized Home.

To specify a WebSphere® Portal server as the Home Portal account server for a Notes® user, you can set the following values using the IBM® Domino® Administrator client. These settings affect fields on the Notes® Home Portal Account preference page.

Administrators can use the Domino® Administrator client to complete the following fields on the Portal Server Basics tab for users who may, for example, need to access and use composite applications that contain portlets:

Home Portal Server -- Type the name of the Portal server that hosts Notes® user accounts.
Authentication URL -- Type the URL that Notes® users need to access in order to authenticate with the Portal server.
Authentication type -- Choose either J2EE-Form or HTTP for Web-based authentication.

These Domino® policy settings override Notes® account preferences and will create the account if it does not already exist.