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Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
Configuring users and servers
Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
User registration
You need to register users before they can install Notes® on their computers.
Registering non-Notes Internet users
Use the Domino® Administrator to create non-Notes, Internet-only users. Internet-only users do not have Notes® IDs or certified public keys. The procedure for creating a non-Notes, Internet-only user requires the use of the User Registration interface as well as many of the security features such as the Certificate Requests database and the Domino server-based CA.

Configuring
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
- Configuring a network
  This section presents the planning concepts and setup procedures necessary for a successful HCL Domino® deployment over a network. It provides information on network protocols from a Domino perspective but does not attempt to provide general network information.
- Configuring users and servers
  Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.
  - Understanding the Server document
    The Server document is set up when you register a server. It contains many of the settings that define how your server operates.
  - Policies
    Use Domino® policy settings to control how users work with Notes®. A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings. Policy settings documents define a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. You can change policy settings and they will be automatically applied to the assigned users and groups.
  - Defining default settings for Notes® user registration
    Before you register new Notes® users, you can specify default settings that apply to all users. Default settings simplify user registration and ensure user settings consistency. You can define many default settings, such as what mail server users have or what certifier ID to use for user registration. You can also specify a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to protect data from unauthorized workstation access.
    - User registration
      You need to register users before they can install Notes® on their computers.
      - Customizing user registration
        You can define specific options to customize how HCL Domino® registers users. If you choose to use a certifier ID and password instead of the Domino server-based certification authority (CA), Domino uses the certifier ID specified in Administration Preferences; or if there is none, it uses the ID specified in the CertifierIDFile setting in the NOTES.INI file.
      - User registration methods
        The method you use to register users depends on a number of issues, including whether you have defined default settings, whether you want to assign users more advanced options (such as alternate names), whether you need to import users from a foreign mail system or directory, and whether your user settings are in a text file.
      - Using default settings when registering users
        When you use default settings, the user registration process is fast and easy. The settings you define as Registration preferences remain from session to session. All other default settings return to Notes® defaults each time you begin a new registration session.
      - Using Basic Notes® user registration with the Domino® Administrator
        Perform Basic user registration to assign users basic settings, such as a name and password, and to add users to existing groups. If you want to assign advanced and/or specific settings to a user, such as giving users alternate names, use Advanced user registration.
      - Using Advanced Notes® user registration with the Domino® Administrator
        Advanced registration offers all the settings included in Basic registration and also allows you to change default settings and apply advanced settings to users.
      - Registering users from a text file
        When registering users from a text file, you can import them through the Import Text File button on the Register Person dialog box, which places users as entries in the User Registration Queue and allows you to modify user settings individually.
      - Adding an alternate language and name to a user ID
        The alternate naming feature allows you to assign two names to a user: a primary name and alternate name. The primary name is internationally recognizable; the alternate name is recognizable in the user's own native language.
      - Registering non-Notes Internet users
        Use the Domino® Administrator to create non-Notes, Internet-only users. Internet-only users do not have Notes® IDs or certified public keys. The procedure for creating a non-Notes, Internet-only user requires the use of the User Registration interface as well as many of the security features such as the Certificate Requests database and the Domino server-based CA.
      - Understanding the Person document
        The Person document describes a Notes® or non-Notes user in the Domino® Directory.
    - Understanding roaming users
      Users who access Notes® from more than one Notes client can access their customized settings and personal information automatically from any Notes client in the domain by becoming roaming users.
    - Custom welcome page deployment
      For a consistent, custom appearance across a company or organization, you can create custom welcome pages, and then deploy them to users through policies and desktop settings documents. They can be as simple as a background with a company logo, or sophisticated pages with multiple frames and many different types of content.
  - Using groups
    Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that have common traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access control lists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.
  - Replicas
    You can make a database available to users in different locations, on different networks, or in different time zones, by creating replicas of the database.
  - Calendars and scheduling
    The calendar and scheduling features allow users to check the free time of other users, schedule meetings with them, and reserve resources, such as conference rooms and equipment.
  - Editing the notes.ini file
    The Domino and Notes notes.ini files contain the settings required for the server and client to operate correctly. If you modify or add settings in a notes.ini file, do so cautiously and never edit the file directly with a text editor.
  - Configuring directory services
    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.
  - Configuring messaging
    This section provides an overview of messaging and describes how to set up mail routing, how to set up and customize mail servers, and how to track mail.
  - Configuring iNotes®
    HCL iNotes® provides HCL Notes® users with browser-based access to Notes mail and to Notes calendar and scheduling features. Administrators specify mail policy and security policy settings as well as notes.ini file settings to complete the full implementation of HCL iNotes.
  - Configuring Web servers
    This section describes how to set up the HCL Domino® Web server, and the Domino Web Navigator.
  - Setting up a cluster
    Setting up a cluster includes the tasks of creating and verifying that it is working correctly, and then setting up user access, mail, replications, size quotas, directory assistance, roaming, web navigation, and use of a private LAN in the cluster.
  - Configuring Widgets and Live Text
    Widgets and Live Text enables end users to see and act on Live Text in supported documents, including HCL Notes® mail, using XML extensions (widgets) created specifically for their use.
  - Domain Search
    Notes® client and Web users can use Domain Search to search an entire Domino® domain for database documents, files, and attachments that match a search query.

Registering non-Notes Internet users

Use the Domino® Administrator to create non-Notes, Internet-only users. Internet-only users do not have Notes® IDs or certified public keys. The procedure for creating a non-Notes, Internet-only user requires the use of the User Registration interface as well as many of the security features such as the Certificate Requests database and the Domino® server-based CA.

About this task

During this procedure, the user must open the Certificate Requests database to accept the certificate authority in their browser and request a client certificate. The user must be logged on to the workstation and browser that needs to establish the trust with the CA. After the request has been approved and processed, the user picks up the certificate, using the same browser on the same workstation used to make the request. The user then needs to export the certificate. The final step is importing the Internet certificate into the user's Person document.

Procedure

From the Domino® Administrator, click the People & Groups tab.
Select Domino Directories, and then click People.
From the Tools pane, click People > Register.
Complete the fields in the User Registration user interface, following the instructions in the topic Using Advanced Notes® user registration with the Domino® Administrator with these exceptions:
- On the Basics tab, in the Mail System field, do not select Notes® as the mail system. Choose an Internet-based mail system instead.
- On the Basics tab, do not select the check box Create a Notes ID for this person.
- On the Address panel, for users with a mail system of "Other Internet" enter a forwarding address. The forwarding address is the Internet address to which this user would like their email forwarded in the event they leave the company.
- On the ID Info panel, ensure that you do not select the check box Create a Notes ID for this person.
- The Roaming panel does not apply to Web-only users because roaming users are required to have Notes® IDs. Internet-only users do not have Notes® IDs.

What to do next

When registration is complete, add an Internet Certificate to the user's Person document by completing the procedure to obtain an Internet certificate for an Internet client in the topicInternet certificates for TLS and S/MIME