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In last month's tip, Where to store Notes IDs, I discussed the various places system administrators store Notes ID files. I received some interesting feedback from that column, including ideas about storage I had not considered. SearchDomino.com also conducted an online poll asking the same question, and nicely supplied me with the results of the poll. So this month I will comment on the feedback and poll results. (I will address storage of certifier IDs in a later tip.) Thanks to everyone who wrote to me with ideas about storage of Notes IDs and certifiers. Keep those cards and letters coming!

Chuck Connell is president of CHC-3 Consulting, which helps organizations with all aspects of Domino and Notes. CHC-3 allows companies to outsource their Domino administration needs via DominoAdministration.com and runs the popular security site DominoSecurity.org.

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There are a number of criticisms of keeping IDs on shared network drives. These administrators are not imp

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lying that the network drives are shared with everyone. Presumably a very small group is allowed to see the directory containing the IDs. Still, we could debate the relative security of network drives whether on a Windows server or other operating system.

-- Doug J.

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A thorny issue, this one. I'm involved in a mixed iNotes/full Notes 20,000 user environment, moving from multiple domains to a new, single domain. We use a combination of the following (each with their own limitations): It seems to me that (surprisingly) ID storage in the mail file profile document has the best future, if only Lotus does some real work to use this to manage the ID files. If they're sitting there in the mail file, and the server has access to them, surely they can be properly updated with certification and recovery authority changes fairly easily, and password synchronization should be easy!

More pressure on Lotus is needed -- ID management is a big part of TCO at the moment.

-- John K.

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