Lotus Nut

Prior to Domino 8.5, if you wanted to enforce custom notes.ini settings or location preferences you would have to modify the design of the Desktop Policy settings form to include $Pref or $LocAll fields, respectively. I know a lot of people who have shied away from doing this because they weren't "developers" and did not want to go into Designer and modify the Directory. With Domino 8.5 this has been made much simpler.

Just open the Desktop Policy settings form and go to the "Custom Settings" tab. This gives you the following:


From here, you can click "Edit list" to get the following dialog:


You can then add, modify, or remove the Notes.ini, Locations, and Managed settings.

"What is a 'Managed setting'?", you may ask. It is a setting that controls Eclipse plugin configurations. Here is some further information on Managed Settings. If you want to enforce Notes SSO with Sametime, you would have a setting that looks like this:


Thanks IBM - this is much simpler. Now, could we have lists in the value boxes with possible settings names? :)

At the official IBM Domino Blog, Andrea Waugh-Metzger has asked for feedback on how you use (or don't use) Domino Policies. Here are the questions that you should go answer:

So, policies can really help make your administrative life much, much easier and can help you control a significant portion of your environment.  So let me ask you a couple questions...

1. Do you use policies in your organization today?
2. If so, how do you have them implemented?  Is it by OU?  By groups of users?  Or just one big policy?
3. What do you leverage policies for?
4. What would you like to see done with policies?
5. What questions do you have about policies and/or how they work?

I know that I've seen Domino Policies severely underused by most companies. So, do you use policies?