Domino 12.0.2 provides the following enhancements related to administering.

Database management

Domino Restyle

With Domino Restyle, you can update a Notes application's UI elements with a color-coordinated, cleaner look and feel. With Restyle, only UI elements are updated; no code is modified. To access the Restyle option, select File -> Application -> Restyle for a selected application or workspace icon.

Note: Designer access to the application is required to use Restyle.

For more information, see https://help.hcltechsw.com/notes/12.0.2/client/restyle_applications.html in the HCL Notes documentation.

Domino now provides a native Windows VSS writer for snapshot backups for use with the Domino backup and restore. VSS writers are designed for application-aware VSS snapshots. For more information, see Snapshot backups with Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writer.

• With a new option to defer indexing, you can set full-text indexing without its starting automatically. See Creating and updating full-text indexes for single databases.
• Tika is upgraded to version 2.4.1, which corrects recent security issues for all platforms, and affords substantially greater reliability for Windows, Linux, and Aix. See Attachment full-text indexing with conversion filters.

When you upgrade a Notes client, databases in the data directory are now upgraded to the latest on-disk structure (ODS) file format. Upgrading to the latest ODS file format provides performance and other improvements. If you upgrade to Notes 12.0.2, all databases in the data directory are upgraded to ODS 55.
• Currently, the automatic ODS upgrade occurs on Notes clients only.
• The automatic upgrade supercedes any notes.ini settings configured to control ODS format.
• Although not recommended, you can use the notes.ini setting NSF_AlwaysUpdateODS=0 before you start the upgraded client to prevent the automatic ODS upgrade.

For more information, see Domino on-disk structure (ODS).

A new tab in the Server document, NIFNSF, allows you to configure moving database view indexes out of databases. Previously, you configured this feature through server notes.ini settings. The Domino server on which you enable the feature requires the Domino 12.0.2 pubnames.ntf design. For more information, see Moving view indexes out of databases

A new server task, DAOS Encryption Manager (daosencmgr), can be used to ensure DAOS objects on an HCL Domino server use a consistent encryption key and key strength. For more information, see Making DAOS object encryption keys consistent.

Smart Server Startup updates

Introduced in a previous drop, the feature called Smart Server Startup prevents users from connecting to a Domino server until it is fully up and ready to accept user requests. For example, if a server crashes, Smart Server Startup allows users to connect to it only after the server has fully recovered. For updated information, see Monitoring Smart Server Startup.

Information stored in the entitlement tracker database now includes the last date/time that a user authenticated with a tracked server and what protocol that user connected to the server with. See Entitlement tracking for an example.

Keymgmt Show command enhancement

You can now use the ALL argument with the keymgmt show nek command to show all named encryption keys in a server ID file.

keymgmt show nek ALL

For more information, see Keymgmt Show.

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