USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Using Basic Notes user registration with the Domino Administrator
Perform Basic user registration to assign users basic settings, such as a name and password, and to add users to existing groups. To make registration fast and easy, Basic registration uses default values for all other user settings. If you have selected the Advanced option, you are using Advanced user registration, not Basic user registration.

For more information on Advanced user registration, see Using Advanced user registration.

If you want to assign advanced and/or specific settings to a user -- such as giving users alternate names -- use Advanced user registration.

Note To modify user settings after you add the user to the User Registration Queue, select the user from the queue and then make your changes. To modify certain settings for multiple users at once, select the names in the queue and then make changes.

Naming conventions

When adding users, user names can consist of uppercase and lowercase alpha characters (A - Z), numbers (0 - 9), and the ampersand (&), dash (-), dot (.), space ( ) , and underscore (_).

Hosted Environments

If you are working in a hosted environment, when registering users, ensure that you are using a certifier that was created for the hosted organization into which you are registering the users. This applies regardless of whether you are using a certifier and password or the server-based CA.

To use Basic registration with the Domino Administrator

1. Make sure you have the following before you begin registration using the IBM® Lotus® Domino™ Administrator:

2. From the Domino Administrator click the People & Groups tab.

3. From the Servers pane, choose the server to work from.

4. Select Domino Directories, and then click People.

5. From the Tools pane, click People - Register. Enter the password for the certifier that you are currently using.


6. Click Registration Server and then select the server that registers all new users, or accept the default, and then click OK. If you have not defined a registration server in Administration Preferences, the server is one of these by default: 7. Enter a first name, middle name (if necessary), and last name. The user's Short name and Internet address are automatically generated. To change the Short name or Internet address, click the appropriate space and enter the new text.

8. Enter the password for the user ID. Criteria for this password is based on the level set in the Password Quality Scale in the Password Options dialog box. The default level is 8. The password you specify must correspond with the password quality that you select in "Password Options."

For more information on password quality, see The password quality scale.

9. (Optional) To assign a policy to this user, select one from the Explicit policy list.

For more information on policies, see Using policies.

10. (Optional) Click the Policy Synopsis button to see an overview of this user's effective policies.

11. (Optional) To enable roaming capability for this user, click the "Enable roaming for this person" check box.

12. Click the green check mark. The user name appears in the Registration status view (the user registration queue). Or click the red X to clear all fields and start over.

13. Click Register, and then click OK.

To add the user to a group during user registration

You can add a user to a group during user registration.

1. Click Advanced, and then click Groups.

2. Choose the group to which you are adding the user, and click Add.

3. Continue the registration process as usual.

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