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Contents:
                                                                       
Overview of Notes and Domino Architecture
  Notes and Domino components
  Fundamental design principles
     Notes is multiplatform
     Notes must perform and scale well on all platforms
     Notes is designed for global use
     Client programs can run on servers, and vice versa
     The note is the basic data structure
     Later releases of Notes support databases created using earlier releases
     Fundamental support for security and groupware is built into all Notes software
     Notes uses its own databases to control many of its own activities
     Notes uses its own databases to implement domain-wide features
  Overview of Notes Object Services
     How NOS is organized
     The Extension Manager
     The Notes remote procedure call client
  The Notes database
     The database header and other internal structures
     The "note" in Notes
     Types of notes
        Data notes
        Administration notes
        Design-element notes
     Notes in hierarchy
     Overview of database replication
  Domains and directories
  Domain administration
  Overview of security
  Security issues
  Overview of messaging
  Client programs
  The Domino Server program
  Built-in server tasks
     Table of built-in server tasks
  Add-in server tasks
     Table of server tasks that maintain Notes applications
     Table of server tasks that manage server and administration activities
     Table of server tasks that manage mail, calendars, and scheduling
     Table of server tasks that manage protocols
     Table of server tasks that monitor server activity
  Programmability
  Developing, creating, and maintaining Notes applications
     Creating a template
     Creating a new database from a template
     Editing and viewing the database
     Revising and refreshing a design
  The Domino Designer
  How Notes/Domino process the built-in interpreted languages
  Web authoring tools
  Using toolkits, drivers, and connectors
     Supported application toolkits
     Supported database drivers
     Supported Lotus connectors
  CORBA support
  XML support
Notes Object Services
  Figure of NOS architecture
  NOS service groups
     Table of NOS service groups
     NOS portability layer services
        Notes language services in NOS
        On-disk structure services in NOS
        Operating system services in NOS
     NOS network services
     NOS database services
        Notes Storage Facility services in NOS
        High-level database services in NOS
           AdminReq services in NOS
           Agent services in NOS
           Calendar and scheduling services in NOS
           Composite-text services in NOS
           Folder services in NOS
           Full-text search services in NOS
           Log services in NOS
           Mail services in NOS
           Name services in NOS
           Notes Index Facility services in NOS
           View architecture
           Registration services in NOS
           Subform services in NOS
     Other NOS services
        Access control list services in NOS
        Add-in services in NOS
        Alarm services in NOS
        Distinguished name services in NOS
        Event services in NOS
        Extension Manager services in NOS
        ID table services in NOS
        Message queue services in NOS
        Text list services in NOS
        Time services in NOS
        Security services in NOS
The Notes Storage Facility
  Figure of NSF
     NSF API functions
     Unified Buffer Manager
     Open Database list
     Database Cache
     Directory Manager
     Recovery Manager and the Logger
  Database structures
     Major and minor version numbers
     Database class
     Database information buffer
     Database ID
     Database instance ID
     Database replication settings
     Database replication history
  Database notes
     Table of note types
     Identifiers for notes
     Layout of a note
     Physical storage of notes in a database
     Table of item types
     Layout of an item
Server Tasks
  Tasks that maintain Notes applications
  Tasks that manage server and administration activities
  Tasks that manage mail, calendars, and scheduling
  Tasks that manage protocols
  Overview of statistics and events
  Tasks that monitor server activity
Notes and the Web
  Types of Web servers
  The Domino Web server
  Domino Web server object model
  Domino Web server architecture
  How Domino processes a URL
Security
  The Notes/Domino security model
  Notes/Domino access control
     Restricting access to servers and ports
     Restricting access to databases
     Restricting access to files
     Restricting access to design elements
     Restricting access to workstation data
     Restricting access to documents
  Using access control features for security
  Notes/Domino authentication
  Notes ID files
     Example of Notes/Domino authentication
     Cross-certificates
  Internet client authentication
  Supported authentication methods for Internet protocols
     Basic name-and-password authentication
     Session-based name-and-password authentication
     Examples of name-and-password authentication
     SSL authentication
     Examples of SSL authentication
Directories
  The Domino Directory
  Directory catalogs
     The mobile directory catalog
     The server directory catalog
     How a directory catalog works
     Directory catalog configuration options
     Programmatic access to a directory catalog
  Directory assistance
  Directory assistance for secondary Domino Directories
     Web client authentication in a secondary Domino Directory
     LDAP searches in a secondary Domino Directory
     Notes addressing lookups in a secondary Domino Directory
  Directory assistance for LDAP directories
     Web client authentication using a remote LDAP directory
     ACL group verification using a remote LDAP directory
     LDAP client referrals to a remote LDAP directory
     Notes addressing lookups in a remote LDAP directory
  Comparison of directory catalogs and directory assistance
  The Domino LDAP service
     The LDAP schema
     LDAP service authentication and access control
     LDAP searches in secondary Domino Directories
     LDAP referrals to other directory servers
     LDAP service and authentication of clients that use a third-party server
     LDAP alternate language searches
     LDAP service statistics
     Other LDAP features Domino offers
  Directory search orders
     Name lookups in multiple directories for Web client authentication
     Group lookups in multiple directories for database access verification
     LDAP searches in multiple directories
     Notes mail addressing lookups in multiple directories
  Directory servers
  User and group synchronization between Domino and Windows NT
  Migrating users to Notes/Domino
     Migrating cc:Mail users
     Migrating Microsoft Mail Users
     Migrating Microsoft Exchange users
     Migrating Windows NT users
     Migrating users from an LDIF file
     Migrating users from Novell GroupWise
     Migrating users from the Netscape Messaging Server
The Administration Process
  Table of Administration Process scheduling attributes
Replicas and replication
  The Replicator server task and replication commands
  Replication controls
  Using the access control list in replication
  How replication works behind the scenes
  Preventing and resolving replication conflicts
  Clusters and replication
Domino clusters
  Cluster requirements
  Cluster components
     The Cluster Manager
     The Cluster Database Directory
     The Cluster Database Directory Manager
     The Cluster Administrator
     The Cluster Replicator
  Failover and workload balancing
     When failover occurs
     Causing failover to occur
     Example of failover
     Mail failover
  How calendars work in a cluster
  Limiting the workload of a server
  Managing database availability in a cluster
The Indexer
  The Updall task
  The Update task
  The Domino Directory and indexing
The Router
  How the Router works
     Router initialization
     Message routing
     Message transfer queues
     Message delivery
     Message cleanup
  Message state
  Message transfer threads
  Message transfer over SMTP
  Message delivery threads
  Controlling the Router task
  Daily housekeeping performed by the Router
  Failover in clustered mail servers
  Message-delivery retry algorithm
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