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Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.
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).
Configuring directory services
This section describes how to plan, set up, and use IBM® Domino® directory services.
Directory catalogs
A directory catalog is an optional directory database that typically contains information aggregated from multiple Domino® directories. Clients and servers can use a directory catalog to look up mail addresses and other information about the people, groups, mail-in databases, and resources throughout an organization, regardless of the number of Domino domains and Domino Directories the organization uses.
Planning issues specific to extended directory catalogs
Consider the issues in the related topics when planning an extended directory catalog.
Extended directory catalogs and directory assistance
Unless you integrate an extended directory catalog into a server's primary Domino® Directory, a server must use directory assistance to look up information in an extended directory catalog, and to determine whether to use an extended directory catalog for client authentication and/or group lookups for database authorization.

Extended directory catalogs and directory assistance

Unless you integrate an extended directory catalog into a server's primary Domino® Directory, a server must use directory assistance to look up information in an extended directory catalog, and to determine whether to use an extended directory catalog for client authentication and/or group lookups for database authorization.

About this task

After you create a Directory Assistance document for an extended directory catalog in a directory assistance database, to optimize look up performance, remove any Directory Assistance documents for the individual Domino directories aggregated into the directory catalog.

Make sure to aggregate all the fields that need to be searched because once servers search an extended directory catalog they cannot use directory assistance to access the source Domino Directories directly to retrieve field values that are not aggregated.

You can set up a server to use more than one extended directory catalog by creating a Directory Assistance document for each one.