USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Using policies to assign NOTES.INI or Location document settings to Notes client users
You can use a desktop policy settings document to add or set NOTES.INI variables for IBM® Lotus® Notes® client users. This is an easy way to assign NOTES.INI variables to all Notes client users, or to a specific subset of Notes client users, at one time. You can also use desktop policy settings documents to set field values in Location documents for users.

To use a policy to assign a NOTES.INI value to Notes client users, use the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Designer to add a new field to the desktop policy settings document. The new field must be named $PrefVariableName, where VariableName is the name of the NOTES.INI variable you want to set. In the new field on the desktop policy settings document, enter the value you want assigned to that NOTES.INI variable. That is the value that is set in the NOTES.INI for the assigned Notes users.

For example, assume that you want to use a policy settings document to add a font size setting of 5 to your NOTES.INI file. To change the font setting, do the following:

1. From the Domino Designer, open the desktop policy settings document form.

2. Create a new field named $PrefDisplay_font_adjustment.

3. Assign a value of 5 to the field $PrefDisplay_font_adjustment.

4. Save and exit.

To set a Location document setting using a policy document, add a new field to the desktop policy settings document. The new field must be named LocAllVariableName, where VariableName is the name of the fields you are setting in the Location documents. In the new field on the policy settings document, enter the value you want assigned to that Location document field. That is the value that is then assigned to all of the users' Location documents.

These new values are set on the assigned users' clients the next time they authenticate with their home server.

Note Some settings require that the Notes client be restarted in order for the settings to take affect.

For more information about adding the new field to desktop policy settings document, see the Domino Designer documentation.

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