Domino 8 Administration: 2: Building the Infrastructure

Course Overview

In this course, you will install and configure a basic infrastructure with a single domain using an existing deployment plan. Students will also set up replication and mail routing in the single-domain environment.

Audience

The target audience for this course is system administrators new to Lotus Domino who are responsible for:

• Initial installation and setup of a basic Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes 8 infrastructure.
• Set up of Domino Mail servers in the corporate intranet and extranet (i.e. Internet) environment.

Skills Gained

Upon completing the course, you should be able to:

• Install and set up the first Lotus Domino server and administrator
• Set up servers in the Lotus Domino domain
• Add Lotus Notes workstations to the Lotus Domino domain
• Set up the administration environment
• Set up the replication schedule to synchronize Lotus Domino system databases in the domain
• Configure intranet Lotus Domino mail routing
• Configure internet mail routing
• Enable message controls
• Enable server and messaging monitoring
• Troubleshoot common mail setup problems

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for this course include completion of :

• IBM Lotus Domino 8 System Administration Operating Fundamentals (D8750)
• or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience

Course Outline

• Installing and setting up the first Lotus Domino server and Administrator.
• Configuring internet mail routing
• Enabling SMTP routing
• Configuring basic and advanced settings for SMTP routing
• Restricting mail flow to and from the Internet
• Enabling message controls
• Controlling mail delivery
• Setting mail restrictions
• Creating whitelist and blacklist filters
• Implementing message disclaimers
• Enhancing transfer performance
• Enabling mail journalling
• Understanding how mail rules are executed
• Creating mail rules
• Stopping the processing of mail rules
• Using the blacklist tag and whitelist tag mail rule conditions
• Establishing mail quotas
• Archiving mail using policies
• Controlling Inbox size
• Enabling server and messaging monitoring
• Testing mail routing
• Enabling message tracking
• Monitoring mail delivery and mail statistics
• Enabling message recall
• Troubleshooting common mail setup problems
• Testing mail connections
• Restarting the Router
• Forcing mail to route
• Managing dead and undelivered mail