Domino System Administration

What can I say? I have been working with Lotus Notes since R4.6. I have always found the Lotus documentation very ambiguous. As a consultant, I have to keep up with the latest versions, so we have been using R5 for about 1 year. I purchased ALL of the Lotus Yellow Books for Admin and Development and still find it hard to get the answers I am looking for. I am preparing some training material for one of our clients and thought I would try this book out rather than sending our clients to the $1,300 per course / per student Sys Admin training. I am ONLY on Chapter 3 of this book (Server install)and already I can say that THIS BOOK ROCKS!. It has answered some questions even I have always had (i.e. page 64 explains how to move a server into an OU if an organization decides to use OU's - I have never seen this in any of the Lotus books). I hope the publisher keeps printing this book because I am recommending it as THE TRAINING GUIDE for all future clients that need to know how to administer a Lotus Domino server! This book is a MUST buy, and beginners to Notes will find this book an INVALUABLE learning Aid. EMIS Technologies, Inc. (http://www.emistech.com)

This book is simply the best book on the market that specializes on Domino Administration for R5. The book is written in a reader-friendly style and covers deeply technical information in an informative, yet approachable style. It gives not only the technical facts, but the pragmatic advice that comes from years of experience. While the Lotus reference materials may give you choices of A, B, or C, this book recommends a specific choice and gives you the advantages and consequences of your choices. This type of advice is invaluable when it comes to making decisions about how to configure your system.I've recommended this book to many of my clients and they are all pleased that they invested in it. Get this book.

This is a fantastic Domino Admin book. Mine weighs in at 858 pages, but there is no fluff here that you will find in other books. Each chapter gets down to business quickly. He deals with everything you'll have to deal with if you have Domino 5; Replication, Mail Routing, Modem Communications, Agents, Setup Profiles, etc. It's all here. I always suggest to people if they are trying to learn all about a specific topic like Domino they should read at least 2 books to cover all the bases. Look no futher, you've found one of them. I also bought Special Edition Using Lotus Notes and Domino 5 but this book was much better (and much cheaper). If you joined a course to teach you all this you'd pay thousands of dollars. Save your money. Build yourself a second computer with the money you save not taking a course, download the server and clients off Notes.net, load NT or Windows 2000 on it and go through each chapter and play with your test server. You'll learn more than you would in most courses, and you'll have a second computer.

After finding things in this book that I couldn't find in the Lotus yellow books or the IBM red books, this book is the first book I look at when trying to fix a problem with Domino Server or Notes client. Of course this is the ONLY 3rd party book dedicated to R5 System Administration, but it fits well into the position

This has to be the definitive guide for R5 administrators. Everything is in there, and he describes what each topic is, then generates a steop by step on how to go about performing it. Its my bible for R5 admin.