There are some known issues with Custom Welcome Page deployment that should be fixed soon. Please be sure to review the release notes database, which tries to outline known issues across the product.
Below are some general Policy-related excerpts from release notes plus other current info:
- Policies are a Lotus Notes and Domino 6 feature only. An R5.0x Notes Client does not support any Policy functionality, even if the mail server is running Domino 6.
- When upgrading to the latest Domino 6 release, please replace the design of the Domino Directory so that it includes the most current template code.
- There are some field values from the Setup & Desktop Settings documents that will not display until the next session in Notes. These include most User Preference settings and may include Bookmarks and/or a Custom Welcome Page. If these settings don't display after an initial Client Setup or authentication with the mail server, try exiting and then re-launching the Notes Client. The settings should now display.
- It's possible a custom Welcome Page deployed via Desktop Settings will not display on the Notes Client if the user has performed a new Client Setup over a modem. This can be caused by slow connection speeds, network interruptions, etc.. This problem is specific to dialup connections.
- The 'Default Welcome Page' field in the Desktop Settings form of the Domino Directory may sometimes become blank. To correct this, put the Desktop Settings document in Edit mode, click the 'Corporate Welcome Pages database' link in the field above, and cycle through each custom Welcome Page to refresh the list. Save & Close the Desktop Settings document. Now, open the Desktop Settings document in Edit mode again and the 'Default Welcome Page' field will display the list of custom welcome pages available in the database.
- there was an issue around the time of R6.01 (has since been fixed) where the Custom Welcome Page would not display if the Desktop Settings document did not contain any database links in the fields on the 'Databases' tab. The workaround is to populate these fields.
- If the Notes Client requires a connection document to access the mail server, it's possible that no settings from the Desktop Policy will display on the Notes Client. This can occur if the Domino server name differs from its machine name or if the server is in a different network domain.
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