Creating corporate welcome pages with Lotus Notes

Being able to create corporate welcome pages is an attractive feature of Lotus Notes. The idea is that you can create a "homepage" for Notes users, which everyone sees when they log on each morning. If you want to introduce a new feature to the company homepage, you can do so once, from a central location, and that new feature is pushed out to all users. This results is all Notes users in your organization sharing a common start screen, with bookmarks and display panes that you have chosen as standard. The creating corporate welcome pages feature also allows you to set up department welcome pages, with different groups of Lotus Notes users seeing different welcome pages, but all controlled centrally.

I recently tested this feature and can

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report that it does work as advertised, with a few caveats.

In spite of this last problem, I found the entire feature to be genuinely useful. I encourage Notes/Domino organizations to consider it as a company (or per-department) standard.

For full information, see Domino Administrator 6 Help / Contents / User and Server Configuration / Policies.

Chuck Connell is president of CHC-3 Consulting, which helps organizations with all aspects of Domino and Notes.

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