Building the IBM Lotus Domino 7 Infrastructure

Duration: 2 days

Profile

Students will install and configure a basic infrastructure with a single domain using an existing deployment plan. Students will also set up replication and mail routing in the single-domain environment.

The target audience for this course is system administrators new to Lotus Domino who are responsible for:

- Initial installation and setup of a basic Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 7 infrastructure.
- Set up of Domino Mail servers in the corporate intranet and extranet (i.e. Internet) environment.

Planning a basic Domino infrastructure
- Considering deployment scenarios

Installing and setting up the first Domino server and administrator
- Designing a hierarchical naming scheme
- Installing and setting up the first Domino server
- Installing and setting up the Domino Administrator client
- Creating a database to track Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes licenses

Setting up servers in the Domino domain, including:
- Creating additional certifiers for servers and users per an established naming scheme
- Creating server IDs per an established naming scheme

Adding Notes workstations to the Domino domain, including:
- Creating internal Domino user IDs per an established naming scheme
- Installing the Notes client software
- Setting up the Notes workstation
- Creating user groups
- Specifying desktop settings using policies
- Backing up ID files


Setting up the administration environment, including:
- Specifying administration preferences
- Allowing and restricting server access
- Allowing administrators access to the Domino Directory
- Recording server activity in the Domino Server Log file


Setting up the replication schedule to synchronize Domino system databases in the domain
- Designing a replication topology
- Creating a group for server replication
- Scheduling replication
- Monitoring replication

Configuring intranet Domino mail routing, including:
- Creating Domino Named Networks
- Routing mail between Domino Named Networks
- Scheduling mail routing


Configuring internet mail routing, including:
- Enabling SMTP routing
- Configuring basic and advanced settings for SMTP routing
- Restricting mail flow to and from the Internet


Enabling message controls, including:
- Controlling mail delivery
- Setting mail restrictions
- Creating whitelist and blacklist filters
- Implementing message disclaimers
- Enhancing transfer performance
- Enabling mail journalling
- Understanding how mail rules are executed
- Creating mail rules
- Stopping the processing of mail rules
- Using the blacklist tag and whitelist tag mail rule conditions
- Establishing mail quotas
- Archiving mail using policies


Enabling server and messaging monitoring, including:
- Testing mail routing
- Enabling message tracking
- Monitoring mail delivery
- Monitoring mail statistics


Troubleshooting common mail setup problems
- Testing mail connections
- Restarting the Router
- Forcing mail to route
- Managing dead and undelivered mail

Prerequisites
The prerequisites for this course include completion of the IBM Lotus Domino 7 System Administration Operating Fundamentals (N7D750) course or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.