Use the Common PIM portlets with Domino

 

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When IBM Lotus Domino is the back-end mail system, the Common Personal Information Management (PIM) portlets use Lotus Collaborative Services, which can query the Lotus Domino LDAP directory to get the user's mail file and server and use single sign-on (SSO) to log the user into the mail server automatically.

These portlets, also known as Common Mail and Common Calendar, support displaying information stored within Notes mail databases located on a Lotus Domino server that has Lotus Domino XML services enabled.

The following topics describe how to configure the Lotus Domino environment to support the use of the Common PIM portlets.

  1. About automatic detection of mail files
    Messaging portlets are configured by default to detect a user's source mail file (a Notes database) based on the identity with which the user signs into the portal. The LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services, and Single Sign-On configuration for the portal site, are requirements to support this feature.

  2. Checklist of tasks: LDAP server for Lotus Collaborative Services
    A server that runs the LDAP service is a requirement to support automatic mail detection in the following portlets: Lotus Notes View, Domino Web Access, Common Mail and Common Calendar (when using a IBM Lotus Domino back-end server).

  3. Checklist of tasks: Lotus Domino messaging/application servers and portlets
    IBM Lotus Domino servers that contain source Notes databases are required for all the portlets that allow users to display and work with Notes mail databases (for example, Lotus Notes View, Common Mail, Domino Web Access) or Notes applications (for example, Lotus Notes View, Domino Document Manager, or the Lotus QuickPlace portlets). Our portal site may include one or many such messaging/application servers.

  4. Setting up the Common PIM portlets and Lotus Domino to work together
    To prepare a IBM Lotus Domino server to work with the Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets, make sure that some required settings exist on the server.

  5. Enabling SSL connections to a Domino server
    To configure the Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets to work over SSL, you use the IBM Key Management Utility (ikeyman) supplied by IBM WAS to exchange the IBM Lotus Domino SSL certificate with the WAS trust key stores.

  6. Enabling a third-party authentication server to work with Lotus Domino
    If IBM Lotus Domino is the back-end system and the WebSphere Portal installation is configured for single sign-on through a third-party authentication system such as Computer Associates eTrust SiteMinder, add Common PIM portlet parameters to identify and pass third-party cookies, request headers, or both to the Lotus Domino server.

  7. Enabling Group Calendar in Common Calendar
    Group Calendars allow users to see when other users are free or busy. Enabling the Group Calendar feature involves some configuration of both the IBM Lotus Domino server and Common Calendar portlet on WebSphere Portal, and may require portlet users to set a preference in their Lotus Notes mail databases.

 

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Messaging: the Common PIM portlets

 

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Use the Common PIM portlets with Exchange

 

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