Contents
1 What’s new in the Lotus Notes 8.5 client................................................................... 3
1.1 General..................................................................................................................... 3
1.1.1 Streamlined context menus............................................................................... 3
1.1.2 Drag and drop in Notes documents................................................................... 3
1.1.3 Compress inline images.................................................................................... 4
1.2 Mail.......................................................................................................................... 4
1.2.1 Type-ahead address options include multiple email addresses......................... 4
1.2.2 Folder column in mail All Documents view..................................................... 5
1.3 Calendar................................................................................................................... 5
1.3.1 Adding an iCalendar feed to your Notes calendar............................................ 5
1.3.2 Adding Notes TeamRoom calendar entries to your Notes calendar................. 5
1.3.3 Adding a public Google calendar's entries to your Notes calendar.................. 6
1.3.4 Horizontal scroll bar for calendar views........................................................... 6
1.4 Contacts..................................................................................................................... 6
1.4.1 Forward contacts as a vCard............................................................................. 6
1.4.2 Import and export contact files......................................................................... 7
1.4.3 Lotus Sametime Contacts ................................................................................. 7
1.5 Security ..................................................................................................................... 7
1.5.1 Help if you forget your password ..................................................................... 7
1.5.2 Option to eliminate Notes password prompts................................................... 7
1.6 Other features............................................................................................................ 8
1.6.1 Notes applications............................................................................................. 8
1.6.2 Activities........................................................................................................... 8
1.6.3 Lotus Connections integration.......................................................................... 8
2 What’s new in Lotus Domino 8.5 server.................................................................. 10
2.1 Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS)................................................. 10
2.2 Document compression.......................................................................................... 12
2.2.1 Actual results after enabling document compression ..................................... 13
2.3 Security features...................................................................................................... 14
2.3.1 Notes ID vault................................................................................................. 14
2.3.2 Notes shared log-in ......................................................................................... 14
2.4 Disk I/O reduction.................................................................................................. 15
2.5 Lotus iNotes Dynamic policy assignment ............................................................. 15
2.6 Auto-populated groups........................................................................................... 16
2.7 Router optimization ............................................................................................... 16
2.8 GNU zip (gzip) files............................................................................................... 17
2.9 Domino Configuration Tuner ................................................................................ 17
3 Lotus iNotes.............................................................................................................. 20
3.1 What’s new in full mode........................................................................................ 20
3.2 What’s new in lite mode ........................................................................................ 21
3.3 Introducing the new ultralite mode........................................................................ 21
3.4 Support for mail policy settings............................................................................. 22
4 Resources.................................................................................................................. 22
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