This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus® Domino®, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of server maintenance and NSDs.

Domino has incorporate several new technologies to save storage space like techniques to manage attachments, use of compression techniques, etc. There are techniques to reduce I/O, routing optimization methods to reduce latency and ensure faster mail delivery, etc. Several enhancements have also been done in group policy management to ease administration, and there are features to recover lost user ids and passwords.

. . . Just as Domino introduced features to save disk space, Exchange 2010 has added archiving, retention, and discovery features. In these, every user gets a personal archive folder, which is directly associated with the user's mailbox. Users can directly drag and drop email from their primary mailbox to this folder. This keeps their primary mailbox light, thereby helping improve performance. The process of moving emails to archives folder can also be automated through policies, to make it easier for users to manage their mailboxes.

1. Provide guidance on Best Practices for Domino Web Development, with emphasis on the new XPages design element. This wiki introduces the key new features of XPages and discusses how and why these features are meaningful within the context of Domino Web Development.
2. Provide hands-on tutorials and sample code, which give you the opportunity to work with XPages and to understand the improvements in Domino 8.5 Web application development. As a foundation application for each of the tutorials, we begin with a well known Lotus Notes and Domino application--the Document Library Template.

Email servers have evolved considerably over the years. From being basic solutions that send/receive emails, they've become full-fledged platforms that enable unified communication in an enterprise, allow social networking, and even enable workflow automation. What this obviously means is that an enterprise doesn't choose a simple mail server anymore. It chooses the platform and then selects components that cater to its specific business requirements.

IBM Domino/Notes and Microsoft Exchange are the two dominant players in this space, which are now in their 2010 and 8.5 versions respectively. If you're already using one of them, then you need to decide whether or not to upgrade to its newer version or migrate to the other one.