What are policies?
Policies allow greater control over the management of the end user's Lotus Notes client configuration settings. Using policies you can control a great many settings including the ability to:
- Define a common set of user preference settings for all users.
- Define a common set of user preference settings unique to certain groups.
- Automatically keep all user settings synchronized across the organization.
- Control Connection settings.
- Set and manage mail database size quotas.
- Define default database, catalog, and domain servers.
- Determine mail archive settings.
- Disable the ability for users to modify certain preference settings.
- Establish rules for managing unwanted mail (also known as "spam").
- Manage password duration and rules for creation.
If you're new to the concept of policies, this chapter will help orient you, and with a little hands-on experience, you'll find they are quite easy to set up and manage.
Policy Documents allow you to define a common set of configuration settings. Domino allows you to define one or more policy documents. Contained within each policy are a number of configuration settings that govern the user's Lotus Notes client environment settings. In other words, each policy contains a group of settings known as settings documents which goes into more detail in section two.
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How are policies implemented?
Part 1: What are policies?
