Product Description

Need a concise, practical explanation about the new features of Domino, and how to make some of the advanced stuff really work? You need answers and solutions from someone who's been in the trenches. You want information from someone like you, who has worked with the product for years, and understands what it is you need to know. Domino System Administration from New Riders is the answer-the first book on Domino that attacks the technology at the professional level, with practical, hands-on assistance to get Domino 5 running in your organization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #276441 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 880 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
A good administrator has both tactical (immediate problem-solving) and strategic (planning and architecture) skills that can keep a complex installation going while making systemic improvements wherever possible. In Domino System Administration, an experienced Lotus groupware administrator shares both kinds of knowledge. For this reason, this book is the defining work on administering Lotus Notes and Domino R5 systems. If you are involved in running such a system, you will benefit from the contents of this book.

Rob Kirkland goes light on straight documentation of features, which is a reasonable thing to do in a book aimed at people who already know their way around the Notes/Domino environment. Instead, he emphasises how aspects of the systems (such as SMTP mail routing and the Domino Directory) operate before explaining how the administrator should work with them. This approach sometimes manifests itself in the form of some explicitly stated procedures, but more often takes the form of prose and tables that take into account the variations that exist among individual instances of Notes and Domino. The author is careful to highlight differences among versions, and is always quick to point out strategies for minimising time spent on the repetitive aspects of the administrator's job. Kirkland's practical-minded text, loaded with details, will appeal to administrators as they solve problems on the job and study for a Lotus certification. --David Wall, Amazon.com

Topics covered: Installation and operation of Lotus Notes and Domino 5.0 systems. Extensive attention is devoted to setting up initial and subsequent servers, upgrading from Release 4.x, user registration, client setup, mail routing, replication, security, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services, databases, and Web services.

From the Back Cover

Need a concise, practical explanation about the new features of Domino, and how to make some of the advanced stuff really work? You need answers and solutions from someone who's been in the trenches. You want information from someone like you, who has worked with the product for years, and understands what it is you need to know. Domino System Administration from New Riders is the answer-the first book on Domino that attacks the technology at the professional level, with practical, hands-on assistance to get Domino 5 running in your organization.

About the Author
Rob Kirkland is an R3, R4, and R5 Certified Lotus Notes Instructor (CLI), certified in both system administration and application development. He is also a Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE) and a Microsoft Certified Product Specialist (MCPS) for Windows NT. Rob is an author, speaker, consultant, and trainer on Lotus Notes, whose books include- Professional Developer¿s Guide to Domino, Special Edition Using Lotus Notes and Domino 4.5, and Lotus Domino for AS/400.

Customer Reviews

Very comprehensive book about Notes administration
This is an excellent book about all aspects of Domino R5 system administration. It is ideal for both the new and experienced Domino system administrators and would be an ideal book to prepare for the R5 Certified Lotus Professional exams. For the beginner the book explains clearly all the important concepts of Lotus Notes / Domino. For the experienced administrator the author explains in detail how the new features in Domino R5 work.

The book covers three main areas:

1. Getting Ready for R5 and Installation In this section the author explains how to prepare for a Domino R5 installation then he explains how to setup both servers and workstations

2. Maintenence and Troubleshooting This section deals with setting up and maintaining the main components of a Domino system e.g. mail routing, replication, web services and Internet mail client support.

3. Server Optimization This section is for the Domino system administrator who want to maximise the performance of their servers. It deals with server monitoring, performance tunign and data availability.

In summary, this is an ideal book for any Domino R5 system administrator who wants to understand how Domino works.

Required reading for any wannabe Domino / Notes guru
Having spent lots of time and money reading other Domino admin books I was relieved, finally, to find a truly comprehensive guide to the intricacies of Lotus Domino.

If you have been thrown in the deep end of Domino admin this is your life preserver!

Excellent
This book is excellent and i would recommend it to anyone not just studying for the exam but for people who work with domino.I used this book for reference to topics i was studying and found it explained them in great detail and easy to understand-treat it like a bible!