Do You Use Domino Policies?
October 17 2008
So I have a question for you.
I believe it was back in Notes/Domino R6 that we introduced policies. But, I know most of my clients didn't really "leverage" them until the R7 timeframe - if at all. As we move forward with ND8 and then with ND8.5, the Lotus developers have done even more with making things available via policies.
So...a little background on policies:
A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings documents. Each of these policy settings documents defines a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. Once a policy is in place, you can easily change a setting, and it will automatically apply to those users to whom the policy is assigned. You can use policies to help with things like
So, policies can really help make your administrative life much, much easier and can help you control a significant portion of your environment. So let me ask you a couple questions...
I promise a quid pro quo as well on this! If you have questions, I will do everything I can to answer them and hopefully we can help get you to embrace policies in your organization!
I believe it was back in Notes/Domino R6 that we introduced policies. But, I know most of my clients didn't really "leverage" them until the R7 timeframe - if at all. As we move forward with ND8 and then with ND8.5, the Lotus developers have done even more with making things available via policies.
So...a little background on policies:
A policy is a document that identifies a collection of individual policy settings documents. Each of these policy settings documents defines a set of defaults that apply to the users and groups to which the policy is assigned. Once a policy is in place, you can easily change a setting, and it will automatically apply to those users to whom the policy is assigned. You can use policies to help with things like
- Registration
- Desktop settings
- Lotus Traveler
- Lotus Symphony
- Roaming
- Security
- and much, much more!
So, policies can really help make your administrative life much, much easier and can help you control a significant portion of your environment. So let me ask you a couple questions...
- Do you use policies in your organization today?
- If so, how do you have them implemented? Is it by OU? By groups of users? Or just one big policy?
- What do you leverage policies for?
- What would you like to see done with policies?
- What questions do you have about policies and/or how they work?
I promise a quid pro quo as well on this! If you have questions, I will do everything I can to answer them and hopefully we can help get you to embrace policies in your organization!
