What's New in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.02 and 8s New in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.02 and 8.5 Nov 20, 2008 Presenters: Stephen Ng Greater China Group, Channel Leader, Lotus,

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What's New in IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.02 and 8.5

Nov 20, 2008

Presenters: Stephen NgGreater China Group, Channel Leader, Lotus, IBM Software Group

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Agenda

� New features in Lotus Domino 8.5

� New features in Lotus Notes 8.5



Goals of Domino 8.5

� Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through:– Simplifying Notes identity management

– Reducing storage costs

– Improving quality of service (QoS)

� while…

� Maintaining compatibility with existing applications and infrastructure



Domino 8.5: Simplify Notes identity management

� Notes ID files have been a key consideration in managing end-user costs and administrator workload

� However, they have also been the key to Notes/Domino’s highly secure reputation

� Two new (optional) features will reduce the visible impact of the ID file:

� Shared login– Notes users only need to remember a single password – their Windows password

– Addresses key customer concern regarding Notes end-user overhead

� Notes ID Vault– Reduce costs and improve turnaround time for lost IDs, forgotten passwords

– Provides the ability to automatically reset Notes passwords, recover lost/damaged IDs



� Centralized repository for storing, synchronizing and managing user ID files

� Use cases in 8.5:

� Provision new users to vault during user registration

� Notes IDs automatically captured during client authentication for existing users

� Help desk and/or programmatic password resets for Notes IDs

� Allow designated users/administrators to decrypt encrypted e-mail or other database contents

�Requires 8.5 client and server

What is the Notes ID Vault?



Password reset with ID vault

DominoID Vault

NotesDomino Notes IDNotes IDs

Helpdesk

Self service

password reset application



DominoDBs

Notes Shared Login in 8.5

� Windows authentication used in place of Notes user name/password– User signs on in Windows

– Windows generates encrypted key to unlock Notes ID

– No Notes password is required to start Notes

– No passwords to sync

� Unlocked Notes ID still manages Notes security from that PC

� Password changes are only required in Windows

NotesWindows

Domino

1. User enters Windows Password

2.Encrypted key unlocks

Notes ID

Notes ID



Key Differences

� Each copy of NSL enabled ID file is tied to a specific machine– Recommend use of NSL with ID vault for best experience

– Not compatible with storing ID files on file shares and used from multiple workstations without the ID vault or password mode

– Not compatible with roaming user if ID file roams (recommend using ID vault to roam instead of storing ID file in personal address book)

– Can create a password protected copy of ID file from User Security

� Notes password expiration does not apply– Password checking will not be used for NSL enabled IDs w/8.5 servers

– Password checking will check for older IDs

� Notes to Internet password synchronization setting does not apply

– Need alternative for “Windows to HTTPPassword” sync



Domino 8.5: Reduce storage costs� Storage costs consistently rate as one of the highest components of

Domino TCO

� New 8.5 features will help dramatically reduce disk usage, especially overlapping storage

� Domino Attachment and Object Storage (DAOS)– Allows for single instance storage for attachments/objects present in multiple mail

files/applications– Stored as files

– Allows for incremental backups– No single point of failure– Easy for administrators, no monitoring of file size

� Document compression– Allow compression of Notes documents (also in 8.0.1)

� Disk space savings of 35%– Significant cost reduction (storage, backup, etc.)



Space usage in a Notes database/application



Storage Reduction– DAOS

� Domino Attachment and Object Service

� Large Object Store for Domino– Content is stored outside of the Notes database.

– Consolidate the storage of attachments for all users of a Domino server

– Common content is stored only once. DAOS manages reference counts on the shared content.

– Access to DAOS objects is transparent to Domino server and applications

– DAOS is transparent to C-Api calls, Agents, Lotusscript



DAOS benefits

� Reduced disk space– Any given DAOS object exists only once on the server

– Sampling of two different mail servers within IBM had savings of 11-25%

– The more participating databases, the greater the sharing and savings opportunity

� Optimized mail routing of attachments

� Optimized object copying for any same server copy operations

� Compacting databases is faster– 2-7 times faster in our samples

� Backing up data is faster– The DAOS store can be incrementally backed up



The old way…

To: Bert, Ernie, & GaryAttachment: Info.doc

Ernie.NSF

Bert.NSF

Gary.nsf

Info.doc

Info.doc

Info.doc

Attachments sent to each user are stored separately in each user’s mail file.



The new way, using DAOS

To: Bert, Ernie, & GaryAttachment: Info.doc

Ernie.NSF

Bert.NSF

Gary.nsf

Info.doc

E:\Lotus\Domino\Data\DAOS

Small Ticket

Small Ticket

Small Ticket



Mail Routing Optimization

� Significantly fewer bytes pushed from Mail.box– Same attachment to multiple recipients on the same server

– Mail.box does not need to be expanded to hold “ephemeral” attachments

– When Mail.box is done routing the mail, it deletes its copy of the attachment effectively transferring the reference to the mail recipients.

� This optimization is in addition to and complementary to the router optimizations for mail

� Compatible with existing databases and servers– For non-DAOS enabled databases, entire attachment is copied

– For pass-thru requests, entire attachment is copied



Lotus Domino 8.5 – DAOS FAQ Answers

•DAOS is local to the Domino server – not cross server

•DAOS requires transaction logging to be enabled on the Domino server and for participating databases

•DAOS requires a new database ODS version

•DAOS is API transparent

•DAOS objects count against quotas and are reported in the file size

•DAOS is completely different from and shares no code with SCOS!



Domino 8.5: Improve quality of service

� Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)– Ease the administrative tasks concerning misconfiguration that

can lead to costly performance and security issues

– Identify problems

– Suggest potential solutions

– Detect, analyze, and address potential problems before they’re ‘discovered’…

– Extends autonomic work introduced in Domino 6, 7, and 8

– Design partner reaction to this feature: Strong positive



Lotus Domino 8.5 – Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT)



Lotus Domino 8.5 – Further Reduction in I/O Rates

• Further reduction in I/O rates for operations and bytes moved over 8.0

�Document compression

�Per-database control for Update task

�Very large reduction in cost of Schedule and Design tasks

�Mail.Box-specific optimizations to minimize or avoid disk writes

�Large set of transaction log I/O rate reductions

�Better grouping of I/O on smaller set of database pages



Domino 8.5 –Performance Snapshot32 Bit Domino 8.5 Performance Status for N85Mail Wo rkload

Domino Workload Users Build Date CPU Disk Ops Disk kBytesAIX 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 4/4/2008 55.0% 954 16,270

32 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04062008 4/8/2008 48.0% 765 10,786-12.7% -19.8% -33.7%

Linux 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 3/20/2008 24.0% 1,080 14,94 832 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04092008 4/16/2008 21.0% 772 9,860

-12.5% -28.5% -34.0%Solaris 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 4/16/2008 34.0% 901 30,455

32 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04132008 4/21/2008 33.0% 704 13,391-2.9% -21.9% -56.0%

System i 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 4/21/2008 27.4% 1,473 23,56632 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04162008 4/21/2008 24.8% 1,105 16,796

-9.5% -25.0% -28.7%Win64 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 4/17/2008 18.1% 947 12,093

32 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04062008 4/13/2008 13.8% 760 8,524-23.8% -19.7% -29.5%

zLinux 32 Bit n8mail 4000 Release 8.0 4/2/2008 41.6% 928 12,20832 Bit n85mail 4000 V85_04072008 4/9/2008 47.6% 695 8,339

14.4% -25.1% -31.7%

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Agenda

� Notes 8.0.2 – feature list

� Notes 8.5 – feature list

� Which does my customer want?



Notes 8.0.2

� Microsoft Office 2007 Viewers– DOCX, PPTX, XLSX

� iPhone support– Real-time access to mail, calendar and

contact data through the browser on your iPhone.

– With a day at a glance view, see your day's events at a single glance of your calendar.

– Built on the Lotus DWA infrastructure to deliver an optimized viewing experience for iPhone users.

– Designed to provide quick access to your critical data while leveraging the rich user experience of the iPhone screen.

– Included with the Lotus DWA license at no additional charge



Lotus Notes 8.0.2

� Performance improvements– Notes 8.0.2, generally, starts up in half the time of Notes 8.0.1

– RAM recommendations remain

– RAM used is reduced



Notes 8.5

� General Functionality – Context menus have been streamlined for Mail, Contacts, and To Do views.



Notes 8.5

� General Functionality – Navigate Notes preference fields using the Tab key.

– Automatically compress images pasted into documents.

– Note that bitmap (.bmp) images that are imported into a Notes document are compressed; bitmap images that are pasted into a Notes document are converted to .gif or .jpg format.

– Choose "File -> Preferences -> Basic Notes Client Configuration", and then choose the appropriate setting under 'Additional options' (the setting is selected by default).



Notes 8.5

� General Functionality – Drag-and-drop has been enhanced.

– Drag-and-drop between rich text fields in Notes documents (Windows only), drag Sametime Contacts names or groups to Notes name fields and rich text fields, or drag names from external applications to Notes name fields.



Drag from Sametime

To the To: field



Notes 8.5

� General Functionality – Drag-and-drop text in the Notes Editor



Notes 8.5

� General functionality– Roaming User for Notes standard configuration is introduced in this release.

– A new Roaming policy settings document is introduced to support this functionality, as are two new roaming-specific databases (a Feeds subscription database and an EclipseTM plug-in data and preferences database). User files configured for roaming now appear in a single Roaming Applications folder on the Notes replicator page. A new Roaming preference panel is available for Notes users configured for file server-based roaming.



Notes 8.5

� General functionality– When you hover over Live Text and the cursor appearance changes, you can

left-click the Live Text instance to start an action. If a default action has been assigned, the action runs. If no action has been defined as default, a panel of options appears.

– The right-click Live Text action available in Notes 8.0.1 has been replaced with a Live Text context menu which you can access by clicking on the hover icon which displays when you hover over any Live Text instance. Widgets and Live Text support on the Linux® and Mac OS platforms is introduced with this release.



Notes 8.5

� General functionality– Notes 8.5 adds support for installation and use on Macintosh OS.

– Notes 8.5 adds support for installation and use with Citrix® software.

– Support for 64 Bit

– The Notes basic configuration Allclient install kit is no longer available, however the Notes-only basic configuration install kit remains available.

– Customers looking to install or upgrade to the Domino Designer 8.5 or Domino Administrator 8.5 clients must use the Notes standard configuration Allclient install kit. This is applicable to the Windows client platform as there is no Notes basic configuration install kit for the Mac OS or Linux platforms.

– The Notes start-up sequence has been reordered as part of a performance enhancement in this release.



Notes 8.5

� Mail– Type-ahead includes all e-mail addresses stored in a user's contact entry To

select an alternate e-mail address, when you begin typing a name, select "Other E-mail Addresses" from the menu that appears. The more frequently-used addresses display at the top of the list.



Notes 8.5

� Mail– A new Folder column in the mail 'All Documents' view displays any mail folders

that a document is in.



Notes 8.5

� Calendar – Add Google CalendarTM entries, another Notes user's calendar, or an iCal®

feed.

– Updates entries each time the view is opened

– Check box to update

– Take offline adds entries to your Notes calendar

– For synchronization (e.g., Blackberry)

– 45 Days before and after current date



Notes 8.5

� Calendar – Horizontal scroll bar for Calendar views has been added.

– When all of the header information for calendar entries cannot be displayed completely for a day in a calendar view, the day displays a horizontal scroll bar. You can use a mouse or the keyboard left and right arrow keys to scroll with the bar, and display the rest of the header information for calendar entries.



Notes 8.5

� Contacts – To import external contacts to your Notes Contacts, from Contacts, choose "File -

> Import Contacts". If field remapping is required, it can be done first, or done inContacts after the import. To export your contacts, and to now filter which contacts and fields to export, from Contacts, choose "File -> Export -> Contacts".



Notes 8.5

� Contacts – Forward contacts as a vCard from Contacts. Select the contact(s) you want to

forward as a vCard and choose "Forward vCard".

– Add international sets of alphabet tabs. Choose the menu icon at the bottom of the tabs column, and then choose from Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, or Cyrillic.



Notes 8.5

� Notes Applications – New Notebook (formerly Personal Journal template). The Personal Journal

template has a new name, and a new look. When you install or upgrade to Notes 8.5, any new Notebook you create will use the new template (Notebook8.ntf). In addition, any existing journal template will be updated automatically if one of the following conditions are met.

– It is named journal.nsf

– It was created from the Default Home Page

– It was created manually using "File > Application > New" and was subsequently linked to your default Home page by using the "Set Journal" option.

Journals created this way but not linked to your default Home page will not be updated automatically. Use "File > Application > Replace Design" to update existing journal templates manually.



Notebook



Notes 8.5

� Notes Applications – More seamless failover in mail client and composite applications. Since version

8.0, the Notes client is itself an example of a composite application involving both Java and non-Java components. In the Notes client for this release, regardless of which part (component) of your mail client you are in, initiating an action when your mail server is down will cause that component to fail over to another server in the cluster.

– For example, if you are working in the Follow Up or Calendar miniview (an .NSF component of your mail application) and your mail server goes down, the miniview will fail over. Moreover, the failover of one component triggers all related components to fail over; in the previous example, the failover by the miniview triggers the Inbox to fail over as well.



Notes 8.5

� Sametime– Drag messages to add names to your Sametime Contacts list. You can drag a

Mail message to any personal group in your Sametime Contacts list and add all the members of the group to your list at one time. This can also be done with Calendar and To Do entries that have recipients (such as meetings or group To Do assignments), and with Contacts entries.



Notes 8.5

� Lotus Symphony– Performance enhancements

– .ODP and .PPT file format save, application start up, new document creation, spell checking in ODP and ODS, Presentation page painting, and an optimized sidebar refresh.

– Interoperability with other file formats

– Improved support for chart rendering, numbering and bulleting with Microsoft Office documents

– Support for opening and playing Microsoft PowerPoint .PPS file format

– Support for displaying Presentation table in OpenOffice.org

– Improved support for graphics and layouts in SmartSuite documents

– Function enhancements in three editors

– Support for the page slider function in Presentation

– Support for the validity list function in Spreadsheet



Notes 8.5

� Lotus Symphony– Improved support for the Table of Contents function in Documents

– Improved support for spell checking in Presentation template files

– Improved support for configurable default file types when creating new documents

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