If you are a Domino Administrator in any size company you already have a range of skills that make you an expert administrator across many platforms and technologies. In this session Gab explains how to apply those skills and that knowledge to take your career wherever you want to go.

1. GABRIELLA DAVIS - ENGAGE UG
AD05. Where Do You Go From Here ?
ADOMINOADMIN’SADVENTURES

2. LET’SGETTHISOUTOFTHEWAY

3. BEINGADOMINOADMINIWORKWITHALOTOFTECHNOLOGIES
SODOYOU

4. DOMINOCAREERS
The skills you have that many admins don’t
How to move your career forwards using what you already know
Choosing where to focus
Think about the skills you use every day and how they can be utilised
ORHOWTOEARNMOREBYBARELYTRYING

5. HORIZONTAL
EXPAND YOUR CAREER TO ENCOMPASS NEW TECHNOLOGIES

6. TECHNOLOGY SKILLS-ANYMAILSYSTEM

7. - passing mail between servers
- MX routing
- DNS importance and behaviour
- cluster and failover routing
- the relationship between threads, resources and network performance
- the di
ff
erence between delivery and transfer threads
- how threads handle load and take resources
- TLS / SMTP routing inbound and outbound
- securing ports
- working with certi
fi
cates
-
fi
rewall rules
MAILROUTING

8. - Proprietary mail formats
- MIME behaviour and how it can be controlled by server settings
MAILFORMATS

9. - Inbox sizes, mailbox sizes, archiving, multiple folders
- Searching
- Online vs o
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ine this morning f
MAILBOXBEHAVIOUR

10. - Understanding how directories are used by servers
- lookup vs trusted
- LDAP con
fi
guration, behaviour and searches
- User identities and security
- Multiple directories consolidated together
DIRECTORIES

11. TECHNOLOGYSKILLS-ENTERPRISEDATABASES

12. - Domino gives you an understanding of both no SQL and SQL structure
- Traveler uses SQL structure as does Connections
- no SQL (Domino, MongoDB etc) documents, views, unstructured and exible
- SQL records, structured, de
fi
ning records and tables
- data storage of di
ff
erent data types and management of rich text
DATABASESTRUCTURE

13. - database sizing and impact on performance
- database maintenance and defragmentation
- search indexes and SQL queries
- table rebuilds
- backups
DATABASEMAINTENANCE

14. - Database synchronisation
- which sync options are available for the technology
- what needs to be synced
- scheduling for synchronisation
- impact of user activity on sychronisation
REPLICATION

15. - Servers instances
- Server versions and upgrades
- Admin roles and access
- Location or isolation of servers
- Network topology
DESIGN&DEPLOYMENT

16. - What monitoring is available
- Daily, Weekly , Monthly maintenance tasks
- QoS metrics
- Monitoring plan and review
MONITORING

17. TECHNOLOGYSKILLS-SECURITY

18. - Database security levels, what is needed
- The impact of multiple security assignments
- Priority of di
ff
erent identities (group vs user)
GRANULARSECURITYFORDATABASES

19. - Document level security
- Field level security
- Field visibility based on document status (hide / when)
- Encryption - the use of secret keys
USERANDDOCUMENTSECURITY

20. - Understanding the concept of encryption and how keys work
- database encryption and secret keys
- How encrypting data impacts user access as well as server activity
- DAOS NLOs
- Server to server replication
- Creating and managing encryption keys
- generating key requests, applying keys
- Encrypting entire databases vs documents vs elds
- Encryption and backups
- backing up and restoring encrypted data
- virus scanning of encrypted data
DATAENCRYPTION

21. - Access Levels and what they can do
- Administration vs Edit vs Author vs Depositor
- Designing user access by understanding what is needed and what is available
- Access through di
ff
erent clients
- Identifying who is accessing a database or trying to access
- Locking out accounts
USERACCESS

22. TECHNOLOGYSKILLS-MOBILEDEVICES

23. - Phone and Tablet app deployment
- Mobile security settings
- managed via Traveler device settings
- Mobile Device Management tools
- understanding how to push applications
- Risks and limitations of deploying applications to personal devices
DEPLOYINGMOBILEAPPLICATIONS

24. - Device settings and options
- Understanding iOS and iPadOS native mail and calendar applications
- Con
fi
guring VPN connections
- Operating system updates
USERSUPPORTONMOBILEDEVICES

25. - What are available
- Deciding what features are needed
- Choosing an MDM solution
- Installing, con
fi
guring , managing, supporting an MDM
MOBILEDEVICEMANAGEMENTTOOLS

26. - Scaling resources
- understanding server requirements
- what services will the server need
- what else runs on that server
- how is disk attached and monitored
- setting performance alerts at an OS level
OSRESOURCES

27. - How to do a database search
- using operators, constructing queries
- How to search the operating system for
fi
les
- searching by modi
fi
ed date and by size
- Finding large temporary
fi
les on the
fi
le system via the OS
FINDINGFILES/MANAGINGDISKSPACE

28. - Evaluating the impact of an OS patch
- Preparing for a patch
- having a plan and a rollback
- Will an operation system upgrade be supported by all applications on the server?
- will there be any other dependencies that will be needed or lost
UPGRADINGANDPATCHINGOS

29. - Working with and understanding containers
- Working with container management
- Working with container orchestration
CONTAINERDEPLOYMENTANDSUPPORT

30. VERTICAL
MOVING UP INTO LEADERSHIP OR MANAGEMENT ROLES

31. MANAGEMENTSKILLS

32. - Reviewing upgrades
- The impact of backup and virus scanning software
- Being aware of upcoming technology, how it might bene t
- Beta testing
PLANNING

33. - Working with larger operational teams
- Training helpdesk
- Reporting to departments and management
- Prioritising needs and issues
- Communicating to users
TEAMLEAD

34. - When should a deployment happen
- Planning for minimal user and system impact
- Deployment plans with rollback criteria
- Presenting plans to non tech teams
- Planned staged rollouts
- Minimising downtime and loss of service
PROJECTMANAGEMENT

35. CHECKLISTAPPENDICES

41. QUESTIONS?
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