USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Setting up scheduling
How you set up scheduling depends on where users are located -- that is, in the same IBM® Lotus® Domino™ domain or in different Domino domains -- and whether users use alternate scheduling applications, such as Lotus Organizer and IBM OfficeVision.

For users in the same Domino domain

Scheduling is automatically set up for non-clustered and clustered Free Time databases. You need to create the Resource Reservations database so that users can search for and reserve resources.

For users in adjacent Domino domains

1. Make sure that you have set up Adjacent Domain documents in the Domino Directory to establish communication between the domains.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.

3. Choose the Domino Directory in the "Use Directory on" box.

4. Click Messaging - Domains, and then open each appropriate Adjacent Domain document.

5. Click the Calendar Information tab, complete this field, and save the document:
FieldEnter
Calendar server nameThe name of the server in the adjacent domain that accepts and processes all scheduling queries for that domain
6. Set up the Resource Reservations database if you want to allow users to search for and reserve resources.

For users in non-adjacent Domino domains

In order for two non-adjacent domains to do free-time lookups between each other, you need to define a Calendar server in an intermediate domain that is adjacent to both the querying and the target domains.

Note Free-time lookups require reasonable network response time and direct LAN connections from the intermediate domain to the two separate non-adjacent domains.

1. Make sure that you have set up Non-adjacent Domain documents in the Domino Directory to establish communication between the domains.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.

3. Choose the Domino Directory in the "Use Directory on" box.

4. Click Messaging - Domains, and then open each appropriate Non-adjacent Domain document.

5. Click the Calendar Information tab, complete this field, and save the document:
FieldEnter
Route requests through calendar serverThe name of a calendar server that is in a domain adjacent to both the querying and the target domains. This server accepts and forwards free time queries from the source to the target non-adjacent domain.
6. Set up the Resource Reservations database if you want to allow users to search for and reserve resources.

For users of Lotus Organizer or IBM OfficeVision

Lotus Domino scheduling works with both Lotus Organizer® and IBM OfficeVision®. If users want to keep their schedules in either program, set up scheduling to include them. You need to create a Foreign Domain document for each alternate scheduling application.

1. Make sure you already set up a Foreign Domain document in the Domino Directory for each alternate scheduling application.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab.

3. Choose the Domino Directory in the "Use Directory on" box.

4. Click Messaging - Domains, and then open each appropriate Foreign Domain document.

5. Click the Calendar Information tab, complete these fields, and save the document:
FieldEnter
Calendar server nameThe name of the server that is running the alternative scheduling program
Calendar systemChoose either Organizer or OfficeVision from the list
6. For IBM® Lotus® Notes® mail users who use a different scheduling application, enter the name of the foreign domain in the Calendar Domain field of each user’s Person document.

7. Set up the Resource Reservations database if you want to allow users to search for and reserve resources.

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