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Administer all Lotus Connections features
You can administer and edit the properties that define configuration settings which apply across all Lotus Connections or that effect a subset of Lotus Connections features, such as the formatting of the navigation bar and footer, or securing feature content.
This section describes tasks you can perform to make changes to multiple features or to all the features at once. In addition to these common properties, there are some properties that apply to individual features only. For more information on feature-specific properties, see the individual feature sections of this documentation.
- Change common configuration property values
Configuration settings control how and when various common operations take place. You can edit the settings to change how Lotus Connections behaves.- Common configuration properties
Find out which common Lotus Connections configuration properties you can edit to change the behavior of Lotus Connections.- Apply common configuration property changes
After you have edited the configuration properties that are common to all Lotus Connections features, check the changed configuration files in, and restart the servers to apply the changes.- Disabling a feature
You might decide to stop a feature temporarily for maintenance or if, for example, you are deploying the product and this feature is not yet ready for use.- Removing a person's or a group's access
If one or more people leave the company, you can prevent them from being able to access the features by removing that user or group from the LDAP- Manage stored credentials
Lotus Connections does not create nor store user names and passwords. Instead, is uses the user credentials that already exist in your LDAP Lotus Connections does not store administrative user IDs and passwords either. It does, however, create and store references to existing administrative user credentials. You can make changes to those references.- Roles
Describes the roles defined for Lotus Connections users on WebSphere Application Server.- Synchronize IDs between LDAP and the feature databases
If you need to update the unique IDs that identify the people who are using the Lotus Connections features, after an LDAP change, for example, you can do so. Each feature provides one or more administrative commands that you can use to synchronize the unique member IDs in the feature databases with those in the LDAP- Enable Lotus Connections service extensions
Edit configuration property settings to enable IBM Lotus Connections service extensions.- Maintaining feature databases
Backup the feature databases and any associated content stores on a regular schedule using the methods documented by the vendor from whom you purchased the database and file system that you are using.- Collect metrics
Find out whether people are using the Lotus Connections features and which features are most popular.- Configure notifications
If you did not create a mail session on the WebSphere Application Server during the initial installation, you can configure it afterwards to enable support for e-mail notifications in the Lotus Connections features.- Hiding e-mail addresses
Run a script provided with the product to configure Lotus Connections to prevent e-mail addresses from being displayed in the product and protect the privacy of your users.- Exposing e-mail addresses
If you configured Lotus Connections to prevent e-mail addresses from being displayed, and later decide that you want to allow e-mail addresses to be exposed in the product, perform this procedure.- Enable users to set a language preference
By default, the IBM Lotus Connections user interface (UI) is displayed in the language identified in the locale settings of the Web browser being used. You can set it up to allow users to explicitly select the language in which the product is displayed.- Add Sametime awareness to Lotus Connections
If you have Sametime 8.0.1 or later and the Profiles feature deployed, you can enable presence awareness in Lotus Connections.