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  2. Welcome
  3. Configuring

    Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.

  4. Configuring users and servers

    Topics in this section describe how to set up users and servers.

  5. Configuring directory services

    This section describes how to plan, set up, and use HCL Domino® directory services.

  6. Directory Sync

    Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.

  7. Configuring Directory Sync

    Complete the following steps to configure Directory Sync.

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  • HCL Domino 14.5 Documentation

    Welcome to the HCL Domino® 14.5 documentation.

  • What's new in Domino 14.5?

    Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 14.5.

  • Overview

    Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.

  • Installing

    Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.

  • Planning

    Use this topic as an overview of planning task.

  • 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.

      • Domino IQ

        Domino 14.5 adds support for running an AI inference engine in the Domino backend.

      • 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.

      • 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.

        • The Domino® Directory

          The Domino® Directory, which some previous releases referred to as the Public Address Book or Name and Address Book, is a database that Domino creates automatically on every server. The Domino Directory is a directory of information about users, servers, and groups, as well as custom entries you may add. Registering users and servers in a domain automatically creates corresponding Person documents and Server documents in the Domino Directory for the domain. These documents contain detailed information about each user and server.

        • The LDAP service

          Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard Internet protocol for searching and managing entries in a directory, where an entry has one or more attributes associated with a distinguished name. A distinguished name -- for example, cn=Phyllis Spera,ou=Sales,ou=East,o=Renovations -- is a name that identifies an entry within a directory tree.

        • LDAP schema

          A directory entry contains information about a particular entity, or object -- for example, a person or a group -- and is associated with a distinguished name. An LDAP schema is a set of rules that define what can be stored as entries in an LDAP directory. Each LDAP directory has a default schema, which organizations can customize, or "extend," by adding elements to it. The elements of a schema are attributes, syntaxes, and object classes. LDAP directory servers provide the ability to enforce the schema to ensure that directory changes made using LDAP operations conform to it.

        • ldapsearch utility

          Domino® and Notes® provide a command-line search utility, LDAPSEARCH.EXE, that you use to search entries in any LDAP directory. The ldapsearch utility connects to a directory server and returns results that match search criteria you specify. It is available on Domino server and Notes client platforms.

        • Directory assistance

          Directory assistance allows a server to look up information in a directory other than a local primary Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF).

        • Directory Sync

          Directory Sync allows you to sync people and group data from an external LDAP directory into the Domino® directory. Currently data from Active Directory can be synced.

          • Configuring Directory Sync

            Complete the following steps to configure Directory Sync.

          • Creating a Directory Assistance document enabled for Directory Sync

            The first step to configure Directory Sync is creating a Directory Sync-enabled Directory Assistance document in the directory assistance database.

          • Creating a Directory Sync Configuration document

            After you create a Directory Assistance document that is enabled for Directory Sync, create a Directory Sync Configuration document in the Domino® directory. You use this document to select Directory Sync configuration options and then to enable Directory Sync.

          • Active Directory password synchronization

            WARNING: This feature impacts your Active Directory domain controller configuration; proceed only with a working backup of your domain controller. See further details in this topic.

          • Renaming Domino® users when their names change in Active Directory

            When you use Directory Sync and the common name of a registered Domino® user changes in Active Directory, follow this procedure to change the name in the Domino directory Person document, too.

          • Registering Active Directory users in Domino®

            When you use Directory Sync, you can register Active Directory users in Domino® to create mail files and Notes® IDs for them.

          • Deleting users and groups

            When users or groups are deleted in Active Directory, they are also deleted in the Domino® directory when a full resync is done. One exception is that Active Directory users who are registered in Domino through user registration are not deleted from Domino.

          • Changing the Directory Sync configuration

            To change the Directory Sync configuration, disable Directory Sync, edit the Directory Sync Configuration document, and then enable Directory Sync again.

          • Resyncing all data

            You can resync all of the Active Directory data.

          • Monitoring Directory Sync

            Use the following methods to monitor Directory Sync, in addition to monitoring the output of Directory Sync (Dirsync) at the server console and in log.nsf.

        • 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.

        • Use an extended ACL to protect configuration document information

          An extended access control list (ACL) is an optional directory access-control feature available for a directory created from the PUBNAMES.NTF template -- a Domino® Directory or an extended directory catalog. An extended ACL is tied to the database ACL, and you access it through the Access Control List dialog box using a Notes® or Domino Administrator client.

      • 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 Verse

        HCL Verse 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 Verse.

      • 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.

  • Securing

    This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and TLS.

  • Administering

    This documentation provides information about the administration tools for HCL Domino.

  • Tuning

    Use this information to improve HCL Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.

  • Troubleshooting

    This section describes how to find and solve problems with HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.

  • Notices
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Configuring Directory Sync

Complete the following steps to configure Directory Sync.

Procedure

  1. Creating a Directory Assistance document enabled for Directory Sync.
  2. Creating a Directory Sync Configuration document
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