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Domino 8.5 and dynamic groups!


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Woo hoo, yet another awesome change for 8.5 to make administrative overhead even less.

  • The auto-populated groups feature uses pre-defined criteria to automatically determine and update group membership.  Use the auto-populated groups feature to apply policies to users and groups based on their home servers
I know admins get tired of maintaining groups over and over.  Having them self populate based on my own criteria will save loads of time and frustration as groups can change constantly. Oh did I mention that this affects policies in a great way:
Dynamic policy assignment is a new option for assigning explicit policies that allows administrators to assign policy settings to individual users and groups simply by specifying the appropriate user or group name in a policy document.  As the organization changes, only the Group document needs to be updated.  For example, if a user changes jobs or organizations, you do not need to determine which policies need updating; the updated group information is applied the next time the effective policy is calculated for any users in that group.