USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Controlling individual desktop and mail policy settings using the How to apply setting
The desktop policy settings document and the mail policy settings document contain a How to apply setting that enables you to uniformly control how and when users can modify the individual field values in these documents and when the field values cannot be modified by end users. The How to apply feature provides a central location, the policy settings document, from which you can set, and optionally, lock down policy settings. This feature is especially useful for implementing company procedures and increasing security. The How to apply setting is available in the desktop policy settings document and the mail policy settings document.

IBM® Lotus® Domino™ uses dynamic configuration to deploy all policy settings except the mail policy settings. When end-users authenticate with their home servers, information stored in the policy settings documents is deployed (pushed down) to the end-users. The mail policy settings document is deployed by the Administration Process, not by dynamic configuration.

If one or more fields on the desktop policy settings document is set to Do not change or Set initial value, those policy settings are not overwritten when changes are made due to dynamic configuration or the Administration Process. If a field cannot be modified by end users, the policy is deployed using the settings designated by the administrator who set up the policy settings document.

The How to apply setting offers the following options:

You can change the How to apply setting that you assign to a field at any time by opening the policy settings document and choosing a different How to apply option.

The existing inheritance and enforcement properties also apply to settings that have the How to apply feature. If the field is marked Inherit, the How to apply setting is also inherited. If the field is marked Enforce, the How to apply setting is also enforced.

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