Groups are lists of users, groups, and servers that havecommon traits. They are useful for mailing lists and access controllists. Using groups can simplify administration tasks.

For example, if you create a group calledTerminations thatlists all former employees, you can enter the Terminations group namein theNot access server field in theServerAccess section of theSecurity tabon each Server document. When an employee leaves the company, youadd the employee's name to the Terminations group and then force replicationof theDomino® Directory toprevent the employee from having access to all servers in the domain.Using a Terminations group saves you the time and effort of manuallyadding individual employee names to each Server document when employeesleave the company.

To create a group, you create a Group document in theDomino® Directory. You can add registered usersto the group as you create the Group document and you can add newusers to a group as you register them. There is no limit to the numberof names that you can add to a group. However, the total number ofcharacters used for names in the group cannot exceed 32KB. To keepgroups manageable, split a large list of users into two or more groups.

By default, theDomino® Directorycontains two groups: LocalDomainServers and OtherDomainServers. LocalDomainServersincludes all servers in the current domain.Domino® automatically adds servers that youregister in the current domain to the LocalDomainServers group. OtherDomainServersincludes all servers that are not in the current domain. For example,OtherDomainServers might include the names of servers in other companieswith which your company communicates. If you set up a connection toa server in another company or domain, add the server name to theOtherDomainServers group.

A third group, LocalDomainAdmins, might reside in theDomino® Directory if theAdd LocalDomainAdminsgroup to all databases and templates check box was selectedduring first server setup for a domain. The LocalDomainAdmins groupcontains names of the domain administrators.

Each group must have an owner -- usually an administrator or databasemanager.