Lotus Notes Info Required

[rees_A]

I've seen from an earlier thread, that some of you have used or are using Lotus Notes. The group I work for are currently in the process of rolling notes out across Europe and I have a few questions on it that I would be grateful if you could answer. -

1 - I have a number of automated mail sending routines through MS Access, SQL server, VB VB.NET. If we use outlook as the client for notes, will all of these applications still function or will I need to make changes?

2 - If I initially have access to notes via the WEB interface, am I correct in assuming that none of the automated mail sending routines will work?

3 - This is probably and easy one but - If the notes server is in a domain that is not my primary login domain and I'm not a trusted user within the Notes domain, how will I get authenticated to access my mailbox?

I really appreciate any help on the above and any other info that you may have on migrating from MS Exchange to Notes.

Thanks,

Alan

 

[Shude]

1 - I have a number of automated mail sending routines through MS Access, SQL server, VB VB.NET. If we use outlook as the client for notes, will all of these applications still function or will I need to make changes?

Do the applications run from outlook or from the exchange server? If you expect the domino server to do the work then you will have to develop a custom app for it, if all the processing is outlook then it just sends mail etc I imagine it would work fine.

2 - If I initially have access to notes via the WEB interface, am I correct in assuming that none of the automated mail sending routines will work?

The web interface is like hotmail, although it has some java bits in it the functionality will never be the same as the full notes client.

3 - This is probably and easy one but - If the notes server is in a domain that is not my primary login domain and I'm not a trusted user within the Notes domain, how will I get authenticated to access my mailbox?

The Domino server knows nothing of MS domains (AFAIK). What do you mean by "trusted user"? You're either a notes user or you're not, if you're not then you won't get anywhere.

I should add that I have no experience (yet) of either migrating from exchange to notes/domino or using outlook within a notes/domino environment.

 

[rees_A]

The Domino server knows nothing of MS domains (AFAIK). What do you mean by "trusted user"? You're either a notes user or you're not, if you're not then you won't get anywhere.
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From what I've seen and understand, the notes application will be running on a MS Windows 2003 server, this server will be in a windows domain, will I need to authenticate to access the notes server on that domain(MY domain will be different to the one the notes server is on)

What I mean is, I currently login to a windows domain, if I then set outlook up to connect to my notes mail account, how will it authenticate me to allow access to mail? On Exchange, you have to select an NT account that has permission to open the mailbox, how does notes handle this?

 

[Shude]

From what I've seen and understand, the notes application will be running on a MS Windows 2003 server, this server will be in a windows domain, will I need to authenticate to access the notes server on that domain(MY domain will be different to the one the notes server is on)

What I mean is, I currently login to a windows domain, if I then set outlook up to connect to my notes mail account, how will it authenticate me to allow access to mail? On Exchange, you have to select an NT account that has permission to open the mailbox, how does notes handle this?

Notes/Domino isn't interested in NT domains, it handles it's own security. I just discussed this with a colleague and he says there is a new Outlook module for Domino which tidies up some of the older problems, you authenticate with the Domino server by (probably) shortname and password, worst-case it's the whole fully-qualified notes name and a password.

 

[rees_A]

Thanks for the info Shude, most helpful as always. I still have loads of questions about notes but I'll look on the web for answers as you've answered my main q's..

Cheers

Alan

 

[Kinky]

Alan,

The best place on the web for your answers are the Notes/Domino 6/7 forum on http://notes.net

K