USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Creating a setup policy settings document
Note All of the settings available in the setup policy settings document are now also included in the desktop policy settings document. You can now use just one document -- the desktop policy settings document -- to establish the desktop policy settings as well as many of the setup policy settings. When you use the desktop policy setting document to establish a setting to be applied at setup, choose the accompanying option "Set Initial Value." If you have setup policy settings documents that you created with previous releases of IBM® Lotus® Domino™, you can continue to use those same documents. We strongly suggest, however, that going forward you use the new, updated desktop policy settings document to define both your desktop policy settings and your setup policy settings.

For more information about using the Set initial value option, see the topic Controlling individual desktop and mail policy settings.

Use a setup policy settings document to define the default look and content of the user workspace, to modify user Location documents, and to create Connection documents for dial-up connections that simplify server connections. Setup policy settings are applied only once, during user setup. To maintain these settings, specify the same settings in a desktop policy settings document. If a change is made to any policy setting, the desktop policy settings will reinforce the setup settings the next time users authenticate with their home server.

Among the settings you can specify are the user preferences. These are preferences that IBM® Lotus® Notes® users can usually specify for their desktop environment. If you set these preferences in a policy and then reinforce them using desktop policy settings, Notes users will be able to change their preferences, but the change will be only temporary.

Before you create a setup policy settings document, set up the Domino system for any or all of the following:


Note Setup policy settings are not supported by IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Web Access.

To create setup policy settings

1. Make sure that you have Editor access to the Domino Directory and one of these roles:

2. From the Domino Administrator, select the People & Groups tab, and then open the Settings view.

3. Click "Add Settings," and then choose Setup.

4. On the Basics tab, complete these fields.
FieldAction
NameEnter a name that identifies the users (and, if you are a service provider, the hosted organization) that use these settings.
DescriptionEnter a description of the settings.
Catalog/Domain Search serverChoose the name of the server used for domain searches.
Directory serverEnter the name of the server whose Domino Directory you want users to use.
IBM Lotus Instant Messaging serverEnter the name of the server used to connect to IBM Lotus Instant Messaging.
Local mailfileChoose this option to create a local copy of the user’s mail file.
Internet browserChoose the Internet browser used from this location.
5. On the Databases tab, complete one or more of these fields to add databases to the user’s workspace:

6. On the Dial-up Connections tab, enter information about the default passthru and other remote servers.

7. On the Accounts tab, enter the default account information for Internet servers.

8. On the Name Servers tab, enter the names and addresses of secondary TCP/IP and NDS Notes name servers.

9. On the Proxies tab, enter the default proxies to assign to users.

10. On the Mail tab, choose the format to use for messages to Internet addresses.

11. On the Preferences tab, choose user preferences.

12. Save the document.

For information on user preferences, see Lotus Notes Help.

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