Danish Hussain

When configuring lotus notes content source with sharepoint server you will noticed that search results return urls for lotus notes document. These URL transfer controls to lotus notes web access so that user can access his search email and look at its content. There are few scenarios when user will not like to use webaccess and would like to open searched emails in lotus clients. 1 - Intranet Environment when all users accessing sites have lotus client installed. 2 - Company policy to restrict web access to all users. Following are step for configuring sharepoint to display Lotus notes document URLs to Lotus notes client instead of lotus notes web access. 1. Goto shared service provider. 2. click search settings. 3. click server name mapping. 4. Add new mapping with following details a. Address in index : http://[Lotus server name] b. Address in search result : notes://[Lotus server name] Please notes that lotus notes client will be required on all end user machine for openi...

Sending alerts to users are much easier and administrator can assign active directory user for dispatching emails. Please note that share point uses email address from user’s profile for dispatching emails. Therefore alert cannot be configured for user if email address is not associated in active directory account. Coming back to original points sending alerts to groups can be of two types. 1. Sending alert to AD Group 2. Sending alert to Share point Group For sending email to AD Group you need to make sure two things. 1. Group needs to be “email enabled security group”. As distribution lists are not supported in share point 2. You need to explicitly add group in permission setting in list/Document Library etc There is one limitation is that you cannot edit group and can only delete/recreate alert from Site Action->Site Setting ->User Alert (Site Administration) option For Sending email to Share point Group There is no out of box support for sending email alerts to share point gr...