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Domino System Administration (Landmark)
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by Rob Kirkland
Sales Rank: 230956
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Discount: 40 %
List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 880 pages
Publisher: Sams; 1 edition November 27, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1562059483
ISBN-13: 978-1562059484
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.1 x 1.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product 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 run such a system, you'll benefit from 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 emphasizes 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 manifests itself sometimes in some explicitly stated procedures, but more often in prose and tables that take into account the variations among individual instances of Notes and Domino. He is also careful to highlight differences among versions, and is always quick to point out strategies for minimizing 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 Lotus certification. --David Wall
Topics covered: Installation and operation of Lotus Notes and Domino 5 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.
Book 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.
Customer Reviews & Comments
The author demonstrates great expertise in Domino System Administration. In addition to advising which choices to make when Domino provides options, he noted many discrepancies between Lotus documentation and the feature set and functionality of R5 as delivered. The book is based upon Domino 5.0 and Kirkland advises when Lotus has promised to resolve specific problems in future releases. He offers a few work arounds and notes when we just have to wait for an update. Rob Kirkland admits that he struggled with meeting deadlines to finish this book and he brought in several of his friends to write 7 of the 20 chapters in the book. Perhaps being late explains why this book has so many problems with formatting, punctuation, missing words, words that don't fit the context, and mislabeled concepts. I would estimate there are over 300 of these incidents in the book. Most of them are minor but occasionally I found a situation like this, two different features are explained and they are both labeled with the same name. As the reader, you must decide from your understanding which one is which. This material is not meant as an introduction for beginners but I found these glitches challenging at times and imagine it could throw even experienced Notes Administrators. The writing was clear enough but the organization of the book was such that you frequently had to leave your understanding of a concept open for quite a long time until an explanation was completed in a later chapter. For example, partitioning a server is discussed early but only at the end is the concept explained. Many times early chapters referred to later chapters for a fuller discussion of features. By the time you get to the end the material is covered pretty well but it is clear to me this book needed another draft. The book is a great candidate for a second edition. Not only could the organization of the material be revisited, the wording and formatting problems could be fixed and the issues resolved by Lotus in the latest updates to R5 could be covered. I look forward to consulting this book again and again in the field. Despite the problems it is full of wise advice and it is clear that Kirkland understands production environments. One of my favorite aspects of the book is the step by step method of being walked through setting up a new server or adding a new server or deleting a server. The impact of making various changes in terms of performance, reliability, and availability is consistently discussed. I thought the coverage of mail services and routing was particularly strong and the coverage of web server features somewhat weak.
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