Notes and Domino

Version 8.0

Quick Start Guide

This guide gets you started with a basic installation for Lotus Notes and Domino.

National Language Version: To obtain the Quick Start Guide in other languages, access the PDF files on the Quick Start CD.

Product Overview
The Lotus Domino server provides enterprise-grade collaboration capabilities that can be deployed as both a core e-mail and enterprise scheduling infrastructure, and as a custom application platform. Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino Designer, and Lotus Domino Administrator are clients that provide information management, messaging, collaboration, application development, and server administration capabilities that help organizations to work more productively, to communicate more effectively, and to better leverage collective knowledge.

Step 1: Access your software

If you download your product from Passport Advantage(R), follow the directions in these download documents: - For Domino, see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg24015324 - For Notes, see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg24015327
This product offering includes: Quick Start CD Domino server Domino Administrator client Domino Designer client Notes client For complete documentation, including installation instructions, see the IBM developerWorks(R) Lotus documentation page at www.lotus.com/doc

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Step 2: Evaluate your hardware and system configuration

See the detailed system requirements documents: - For Domino, see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27009484 - For Notes, see www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27009485

Step 3: Review the base architecture and the installation steps

Notes clients

Notes, Domino Administrator, and Domino Designer are deployed on client systems running against a Domino server:

Domino server Domino Designer client

Full transactions

Domino Administrator client

4 Step 4: Install a Domino server

These steps provide an overview of how to install and configure a Domino server. For complete installation instructions that address each of these procedures, see Lotus Domino 8 - Installing Domino Servers, and the Lotus Notes, Domino, and Domino Designer 8 Release Notes at www.lotus.com/doc. 1 Determine your companys server needs. Decide where to locate each server physically, taking into consideration local and wide-area networks and the function of each server. 2. Develop a hierarchical name scheme that includes organization and organizational unit names. 3. Decide whether you need more than one Domino domain. 4. Understand how server name format affects network name-to-address resolution for servers. Ensure that the DNS records for your company are the correct type for the server names. 5. Determine which server services to enable, and which certificate authority to use. 6. Install the Domino server on the server machine; install the Domino Administrator on the administrators machine. 7. Complete network-related server setup. 8. If the Domino server is offering Internet services, set up Internet site documents. There are some instances where Internet site documents are required. 9. Specify administration preferences. 10. Create additional certifier IDs to support the hierarchical name scheme, and set up recovery information for the certifier Ids. 11. Add the administrators ID to the recovery information for the certifier IDs and then distribute the certifier IDs, as necessary, to other administrators. 12. Register additional servers. 13. If you did not choose to do so during the first server setup, create a group in the Domino Directory for all administrators, and give this group Manager access to all databases on the first server. 14. (Optional) Install IBM DB2 running with a Domino 8 server. Required if you want to create and use DB2-enabled Notes databases. 15. (Optional) Install an IBM Lotus Sametime server. Required if you want awareness and chat in the Notes client. Note: If you have a version 7.5.1 Sametime server, you must install it to a Domino 7.x server. The Domino 8 installation kit includes a Domino 7.x server for this purpose. For more information, see the Sametime Information Center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/sametime/v7r5m1/topic/com.ibm.help.sametime.imlu.doc/ st_imlu_imintro_getstart_c.html. 16. (Optional) Install an Activities server on a WebSphere Application Server. Both are required if you want to use Activities from within the Notes client. 17. (Optional) Install an IBM WebSphere Portal server. Required if you want to use composite applications that contain portlets. 18. (Optional configuration) To use the Portal administrative user interface on the Portal server to administer both Domino and WebSphere Portal, configure Domino and Portal server federated administration. 19. (Optional) WebSphere Portal composite application support for Lotus Notes (install on the WebSphere Portal server). Required if you want to work with composite applications that contain portlets, or edit portlets using the Composite Application Editor. 20. Install and set up additional servers. These steps provide an overview of how to install and set up a Notes client. For complete installation instructions that address each of these procedures, see the Lotus Domino 8 Administrator Help at www.lotus.com/doc. 1. Install the client software. Each type of client has its own installation image 2. Connect to a Domino server. 3. Connect to an Internet mail server. 4. Connect to a newsgroup server. 5. Connect to a directory server for Internet address searching. 6. Connect to the Internet through a proxy server. 7. Set up a schedule for replicating (downloading) mail.

5 Step 5: Install a Notes client

More information

For more information, see the Notes and Domino page on developerWorks at www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/ products/notesdomino.

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