Year: 2010
Author: Barry Rosen, Bennie Gibson, Brad Schauf
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 1847199283
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 336

Upgrade your system and embrace the exciting new features of the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 platform
Upgrade to the latest version of Lotus Notes and Domino
Understand the new features and put them to work in your business
Thoroughly covers Domino Attachment Object Service (DAOS), Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) and iNotes
Explore other useful Lotus products, such as Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and IBM WebSphere Portal Packed with expert tips and useful screenshots
With Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1, IBM has once again provided business users with an intuitive, fully integrated platform to enhance each user's experience with business communications, while reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increasing Return on Investment (ROI). You can create and share information effectively to make quick business decisions and streamline the way they work. It is no longer just an email tool, but a means of extending business communications to a new level. In order to utilize all the powerful features of the new release, you need to upgrade your existing system to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1.
Written by senior architects and specialists of IBM Software Services for Lotus, this book will be your guide and enable you to quickly upgrade your existing system and leverage the full capabilities of Lotus Notes 8.5.1. The authors explore the enhanced productivity tools available with this release by integrating word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets into a seamless unit with your messaging and collaboration solution.
The book starts with an overview of Lotus Notes and Domino, including all the exciting features in the new version. You will learn to utilize the efficient productivity tools that are shipped with Lotus Notes client, and discover the updates in Domino server. You will learn the specific steps needed to upgrade to Lotus Notes 8.5.1 with detailed explanations so that you can upgrade from any previous Lotus Notes and Domino release.
Additional focus emphasizes the enhanced features available in 8.5.1 from a Domino perspective to reduce the overall costs of managing and deploying the Domino infrastructure. The Domino environment has been enhanced to leverage new technologies to increase performance, reduce storage costs, and provide a robust environment to surface information via the web browser or the rich client. Integration with other Lotus and IBM products - including Lotus Quickr, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Sametime - is covered later in the book. These products are all converging to become the next generation of people productivity solutions.
This book shows you how to delve into the world of SOA, as the authors demonstrate how Lotus Notes can be part of a SOA strategy that can accelerate business integration and generate value. You will realize the value of your investment in Lotus Notes 8.5.1 when you learn to leverage the full capabilities of Lotus Notes 8.5.1 and quickly move from your existing technology base to this new feature-rich platform.
What you will learn from this book
- Explore the new features in Domino Designer 8.5.1 that help build business and collaboration applications quickly
- Get to grips with features including security, mail, calendar, and contacts
- Get solutions to issues that you may encounter during the upgrading process
- Quickly examine coexistence issues involved in running Notes/Domino in a mixed environment and solve them efficiently
- Discover add-on products such as Lotus QuickPlace/Quickr and Lotus Sametime for a typical Notes/Domino infrastructure
- Review iNotes updates and explore its new features in full mode
- Integrate Lotus Domino 8.5.1 with IBM servers and tools
- Save disk space by managing attachments on a per server basis using Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS)
- Integrate Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) with Lotus Notes 8.5.1
- Roll out your new deployment with ease by using enhancements, dynamic settings, and the Database redirect policies of Notes/Domino 8.5.1

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