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Basics of Administrating Notes/Domino 7

Hello Experts,

I started with a new company this week as their IS Administrator. One of the big challenges I am facing is that they are using Lotus Notes/Domino 7 and I have zero experience with it. I am from an Exchange background.
I have been searching for a good administrators manual for both the front-end Notes and the back-end Domino programs and have been unable to find anything.
So, my question is, can you please provide a link to such documentation? Beyond that, are there and good tips or suggestions for a guys coming from an Exchange setting to a Notes/Domino setting?

ANY information is appreciated!

Thanks!!!

SysExpert

1) IBM red Books are a good source of info.

2) The Admin Client Help file gives you an overview and specifics- You need to install the Admin client on your machine ( and this is needed to do proper administration of Notes ). It has guides and task lists.

ALso check the IBM site for best practices guides.

I hope this helps !

SysExpert

also

Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Enterprise Upgrade Best Practices
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4120.pdf

SysExpert

also

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/Lotus

for more books

Scott_McG

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Thanks SysExpert,

Those are pretty much what I found as well. I even called IBM and chatted with them online and no one seems to have a clue where the actual Administration Guide is. I find that rather odd. The Redbooks are a start and they provide some information, but I am really looking for the big, bad, huge admin guide that would normally be published along with a program like Domino. Exchange, for example, has one as does pretty much every other piece of software I have worked with.

A frustrating start to working with Lotus!

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Scott_McG

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I think I found what I was looking for! If you go here:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/domino/70x.html?S_TACT=105AGX28&S_CMP=DLMAIN

There is a link to the Lotus Domino Administrator Help which is, indeed, the full admin guide. It is almost 2000 pages long! I must have skipped it before because of the oddball title. I never heard of a Admin guide called "help" before.

The Help in the Admin program is useful, but, from what I saw, it was not a full manual like the one I found is.

Thanks for the input guys!