USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Setting up Notes users
IBM® Lotus® Notes® users are people who use the Notes client to access IBM® Lotus® Domino™ servers and databases and have a Notes ID, a Person document, and, if they use Notes Mail, a mail file.

Before you register new Lotus Notes users, you may want to specify default settings that apply to all users you register. Default settings make user registration easy and fast and ensure that user settings are consistent.

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.

To define default settings, use any of these tasks:

1. Create a Registration Settings document to define default user registration settings.

2. Create a user Setup Settings document to populate the user's Location document and bookmarks. Setup settings include Internet browser and proxy settings, applet security settings, and desktop and user preferences.

3. Create a Desktop Settings document to make dynamic changes on user workstations.

4. Create a default workstation execution control list (ECL) to set up workstation security.

5. Specify default user registration settings in Administration Preferences.

6. Specify default user settings in the Register Person dialog box.

For more information on policies and settings documents, see Policies and Creating policies.

To set up Notes users, you can register them in Notes or migrate them from an external mail system or directory. Before you begin to add users, it is best to specify default settings that Notes applies during registration.

To add users, you register them and use the Lotus Domino server-based certification authority which issues the appropriate certificate or use the appropriate certifier ID and password, which generates a user ID and certificates that allow users appropriate system access. After registering Notes users, you need to prepare the installation files so users can install Notes on their workstations.

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