• There is a new Domino LDAP Schema database created from the template SCHEMA.NTF. This database replaces the Domino 5 LDAP Schema database created from the template SCHEMA50.NTF. A new process called the schema daemon, spawned by the LDAP service, creates the new Schema database on the administration server for the Domino Directory. The schema daemon replicates the databases to all Lotus Domino 6 servers in a domain that run the LDAP service, ensuring a consistent schema throughout a domain. In this release, the Schema database is also a tool you can use to extend the schema.

  If you upgrade a Domino 5 server that runs the LDAP service to Lotus Domino 6, the installation program deletes the Domino 5 SCHEMA50.NTF template, and the LDAP service deletes the Domino 5 SCHEMA50.NSF database. To retain these files, rename them before you upgrade.

  Note If you previously extended the schema in Domino 5 using the Domino Designer, you will not lose your changes. The schema changes appear in the new SCHEMA.NSF database.

• The first time Domino loads the LDAP service on the administration server of the Domino domain, Domino creates a new Domino LDAP Schema database. While Domino creates the schema documents and builds the views in this database, certain schema elements such as object classes, attribute types, or syntaxes may be unavailable. To avoid potential problems, allow at least 15 minutes after the LDAP service starts for Domino to finish creating all default schema documents before you extend the schema.

  Note The delay that occurs while Domino creates the schema documents and builds the database views occurs only once when Domino loads the LDAP service for the first time.

• In Lotus Domino 5, the LDAP service converted a search base of country ("c=xx") to root ("") by default. This conversion accommodates releases of Microsoft Outlook Express earlier than 5.5, which supply a default country search base when users do not specify a search base. In Lotus Domino 5, you can use the NOTES.INI setting LDAP_CountryCheck=1 to prevent the LDAP service from making this conversion.

  By default, the Domino 6 LDAP service does not convert a search base of country to root. Use the NOTES.INI setting LDAPPre55Outlook=1 to revert to the Domino 5 LDAP service behavior of converting a search base of country to root to accommodate releases of Microsoft Outlook Express earlier than 5.5. The LDAP_CountryCheck setting is obsolete in Lotus Domino 6.

See Also

Domino LDAP Schema database