IBM Lotus Notes & Domino 8 Deployment Guide 0th Edition  (English, Paperback, Monson Philip)

In today's competitive and diverse marketplace, effective collaboration is a critical component of organizational success. Lotus® Notes® and Domino®, the premier IBM® collaboration platform, helps organizations improve collaboration, increase productivity, and streamline business processes. The Lotus Notes 8 interface is intuitive and easy to use, and the Lotus Domino 8 server is secure, flexible, and reliable. Together, Lotus Notes and Domino 8 can help your organization to:

• Increase employee effectiveness and creativity through integrated messaging, collaboration, and office productivity applications.
  
  
• Reduce overall cost of ownership by deploying integrated offering with office productivity suite included at no additional charge.
  
  
• Protect IT infrastructure with a layered security model that reaches from server to individual field in a document.
  
  
• Increase mobile and offline productivity from secure, reliable replication.
  
  
• Increase individual responsiveness through customizable interface.
  
  
• Reduce application development and deployment costs through quick creation application component mash ups.
  
  
• Minimize downtime with high availability and simplified administration tools.

This IBM Redbooks® publication provides you with information about the new enhancements and features of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 and provides guidelines or directions on how to implement or utilize these. It also provides you with an approach to planning and deploying Lotus Notes and Domino 8 in new and existing environments.

This publication is a valuable reference to all kinds of users. It will help CIOs, CTOs, administrators, developers, and users with:

• Understanding the capabilities and benefits of Notes and Domino 8
  
• Planning for the deployment of Notes and Domino 8
  
• Planning to leverage new features of Notes and Domino 8

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Planning the Notes andDomino 8 Deployment
Chapter 3. Deploying the Domino 8 server
Chapter 4. Deploying the Notes 8 client
Chapter 5. Coexistence: Domino/Domino and Domino/Microsoft Exchange
Chapter 6. Lotus Notes 8 client features
Chapter 7. Productivity tools
Chapter 8. Domino Web Access
Chapter 9. New administration features
Chapter 10. New concepts in administration: Eclipse, composite applications, and provisioning
Chapter 11. IBM WebSphere Portal integration
Chapter 12. New application development features
Appendix A. Considerations for upgrading from Notes and Domino 6.5.x to 8
Appendix B. Lotus Notes and Domino client feature comparison

About the Authors
Philip Monson is a Project Leader at the ITSO Lotus Center in Cambridge, MA. Phil has been with Lotus/IBM for 17 years, joining the company when the early versions of Notes were rolled out for internal use. He has served in management, technical, and consulting roles in the IT, Sales, and Development organizations.

Rishab Sharma is an IBM Accredited Senior IT Specialist (Lotus) with the IBM India Software Group team. He has been working with IBM India/SA for over six years and has worked closely with all major Lotus and WebSphere Portal customers in India. He has been a contributor or influencer for all major sales of Lotus Software in India. He has over 11 years of experience with Lotus Domino and Extended products. He specializes in deployments and administration of Lotus and WebSphere Portal technologies. He currently runs the Lotus Health Assessments workshops and also works with large Lotus customer deployments in India. He has presented at numerous road shows and participated all IBM India customer-facing events. He is a Certified System Administrator for Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal. Rishab holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He can be reached at rishabsharma@in.ibm.com.

Stacy Lieder is a Premium Support Manager working in the IBM Premium Support Program for Lotus Software. Stacy began her career in IT as a technical instructor, and has 12 years of experience with Notes and Domino, the last eight with IBM. In addition to holding an MSE in Engineering Management from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Texas A&M University, Stacy is a member of the IEEE Computer Society. Stacy authored the Notes and Domino 7 Reviewer's Guide in 2005.

Frank Nostrame is an IT Specialist with IBM Lotus Field Support Services, providing technical consultations, presentations, and general support for Lotus Premium Support customers. As a former project and technical lead supporting IBM Domino environment, Frank headed up Domino deployments, migrations, and automation projects, and has extensive experience in monitoring and early deployment of Lotus Domino products. Frank was also a member of the Domino Domain Monitoring IBM Redbooks team and holds a degree in Computer Science and Information Systems from Boston College.