Re: When do policies go into effect?

Jerry, for new users, the policy will effectively begin at the first 
authentication in the Notes Client. This is always the case for policies.

One gotcha is that if you change the settings document and save it, you 
will also want to open the policy document, edit it, and then save it. 
There's a field on the policy doc that the client checks for last change 
time that has to be updated via saving it before the client will apply the 
new policy. This is my understanding of how it all works. Sometimes the 
policy will even work without closing the Notes Client and opening it back 
up. After I first set up a mail setting document, I never ran the adminp 
option and it worked.

Cliffs Notes - policy should take effect at next Notes authentication to 
the policy server.

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
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domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
02/02/2006 11:03:16 AM:

> I'm looking into using Domino7 to create a company wide policy to manage 

> desktop, security and mail policy settings.
> 
> My question is this: After I assign the company wide policy to all my 
> users, when does it go into effect? *IMMED? At next user authentication? 

> Or after adminp runs? Or.....when?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I tested a mail policy settings document to 
> employ an email disclaimer and  assigned it to a test user. The 
> documentation I followed said that I had to issue a 'tell adminp process 

> mailpolicy' command which I did, and the disclaimer was applied (to a 
> R5.11 client no less!). I then went ahead and assigned the same policy 
to 
> all my users using the group assign policy tool. I was surprised that it 

> went into effect without having to re-issue the 'tell adminp process 
> mailpolicy'.
> 
> So I'm wondering, if for newly registered users, will the mail policy go 

> into effect automatically? Or will I still need to issue 'tell adminp 
> process mailpolicy'?
> 
> And consequently, when will my company wide policy (which will include 
> desktop settings, security settings and this mail policy settings 
document 
> to provide the disclaimer,) take effect?
> 
> Regards, Jerry
> 
> Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
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