Notes Domino 7

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IBM Lotus Domino 7 and IBM Lotus Notes 7 is now available

and Q:chi are ready and waiting to help you plan and deploy your upgrade or migration.



IBM Lotus® Domino® combines security-rich messaging, calendar and scheduling capabilities with a robust platform for collaborative applications on a wide variety of operating systems.

With Lotus Domino 7, IBM extends the reach of Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration solutions while continuing to leverage your IT and application investments. The new version offers capabilities to support more people with fewer servers, to simplify administration and to provide tighter integration with Web standards.


Here is a quick summary of the some of the great client enhancements in 7.0

Discover Folders, Calendar Filtering, Exiting Notes Warning, Open With... Edit With... , Calendar Cleanup, Recipient Message Marking, Signed/Encypted Indicators, Close All Window Tabs, Save Window State, Background View Indexing, AutoSave, Instant Messaging Integration all over the place, Enchanced WebConferencing integration on Calendar form, Notes embeded chats can be saved into mail file, Notes embeded chat shows timestamps, Notes embeded chat allows you to show only people online, Notes embeded chat allows you to send links (DB, view, doc), All Calendar View and New Categories, Mail Threads displayed in memo header, Prefered Rooms/Resources, No Subject Warnings on email, Sort By Subject, "Do not expand personal groups" delivery option, New mail rules (such as Blacklists and Whitelists, by form, stop processing action), Improved right-click mouse options (included developer being able to place actions there), MS Office Smarttag support, ....


However most of the improvements are Domino server based ...

Increased scalability and performance -- Metrics from the IBM development lab (using NotesBench workloads) and statistics from the Lotus Domino 7 beta program show significantly enhanced scalability and performance.

- IBM Lotus Domino 7 uses up to 25 percent less CPU resources than the Lotus Domino 6.5 server.
- Lotus Domino 7 software can support up to 80 percent more Lotus Notes users or up to 50 percent more Lotus Domino Web Access users on the same server hardware


New diagnostic tools and autonomic capabilities

- Lotus Domino domain monitoring -- presents a single, feature-oriented view through which administrators can see the status of multiple servers across one or more domains; presents probable causes, offers possible solutions and displays correlated events.
- Activity trends feature -- provides powerful, predictive analysis tools to help administrators predict growth and sizing requirements.
- Expanded policy-based administration -- policies can be extended to cover mail and calendar settings stored in user mail files; administrators have the option to lock down settings for users who do not need to take advantage of a customized Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino Web Access user experience.


Security and anti-spam enhancements

- Security APIs -- application programming interfaces for manipulating secure e-mail
- Option to use 1024 bit RSA encryption keys and 128 bit symmetric keys for Lotus Notes remote procedure call (RPC) protocol
- Improvements to Lotus Notes ID management
- Expanded anti-spam features, including use of Domain name system (DNS) whitelists containing public lists of acceptable sources


Expanded interoperability and integration

- Native support for Web services -- can help you easily extend and integrate your applications with J2EE and Microsoft® .NET environments—often with less time and effort and using existing skills.
- Enhanced support for open standards -- makes it easy to integrate Lotus Domino solutions with other members of the IBM Workplace family, including IBM Workplace products and IBM WebSphere® Portal software.
- Option to use IBM DB2® Universal Database® as an alternative to Lotus Notes storage facility (NSF) for data storage -- enables organizations to consolidate their data within a common DB2 store and then integrate it with other applications, including IBM Workplace applications. Using complementary enhancements to IBM Lotus Domino Designer application development tool (a separate product), developers can easily build new applications that blend collaborative services with relational data using Structured Query Language (SQL).


Enhanced support for Linux - Lotus Domino 7 server offers a new Linux™ technology-based Web administration client that runs on a Mozilla browser. This allows you to implement an end-to-end messaging and collaboration solution based on Linux, using Lotus Domino 7 server on Linux for Intel or zSeries, Lotus Domino Web Access 7 client on Mozilla or Firefox for Linux, and the new Linux administration client.


Enhanced software deployment tools

Enhancements to the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade feature help automate the installation and upgrade processes. Administrators are notified through a mail-in database whether the installation or upgrade was successful, delayed or unsuccessful. Other features include server cluster failover, which switches the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade function to another server if the first is unavailable; a governor feature, which limits the number of upgrades per hour; and reporting capabilities that detail which users have upgraded to which versions.


Improved management of rooms and resources

Lotus Domino 7 software continues to provide enterprise organizations with an effective way to manage conference rooms and meeting resources, such as audiovisual equipment. Improvements to the centralized rooms and resources database include:

- New Lotus Domino server task to eliminate over-bookings and increase efficiency and availability of rooms and resources.
- Simplified and streamlined templates to enhance the calendaring and scheduling user experience.
- Enhanced functionality that enables administrators to establish an end date for future reservations.
- Customizable reminder notices for weekly and/or daily meetings or events.


Details of what's new in IBM Domino 7

An IBM article explaining the improvements to the IBM Domino 7 server