New at Domino!!

[paulpot]

I a new admin trying to accustom myself to Domino, Notes, D. Designer etc. All I am requesting for is guidance, advice, tips and anything else that you may have so as to help me become convesant with Domino and how it works. Thanks..

 

[no2exchange]

Only way for me to learn was dive straight into it. I hope you have a support contract with IBM. That proves to be exremely helpful in learning and troubleshooting. IF not I use

http://www.lotus.com.

Cluster your servers for failover. This way downtime is minimized during server crash. Disk space is a huge factor with email especially if you don't set quotas on your databases. Good luck.

 

[paulpot]

I do not really have a support contract as such. Basically what I am doing is practising by myself at home on my three interconnected pc's. I am running into problems here and there but through the forums I can be able to brush through and see the kind of answers that have been offered to people with similar problems.
The question I had regards to the certification part, which is easier to start with if at all any and how do yuo move up the chain through all the certs to become domino certified.

 

[no2exchange]

Certification is definitely a good foundation for you to start with. I got certified when I was moved to Domino administration and it definitely helped. The exams are nothing like Window's exam but they do require studying. If you took the courses then use the guides they gave you as studying material. I used my classroom books in addition to practice exams. If you study the books and then the practice exam's explanation of their answers you should pass with no problem. 3 exams to become lotus certifid professionl and 1 for lotus certified specialist.
clp is the way to go. domino setup at your house will be good to use as a study lab.

 

[ITboywonder]

I was new to Domino/Lotus about two years ago, and I learned best by:

1. Reading books about Domino. Good/Current books were hard to come by. The best one I found was Domino System Aministrtation by Rob Kirland. It was based on R5, but a lot of good basics and best practices

2. I setup a lab enviroment at home using a dummy domain name i registered to play around with while setting up a mail enviroment.

3.

http://www.searchdomino.com

was a decent source for researching. Not the greatest but it helped answer a few questions

4. The help docuements in Lotus Admin also were quite useful for me.

Anyways...
Good Luck to you
-Nate

 

[paulpot]

thakn you all for your wonderfull advice. Hope to play around with this and make something out of it. Thanks.

Paulpot.