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Example of registering a hosted organization
In this example, Acme Printing, a small business, subscribes to messaging services and some transaction-processing services offered by xSP International, a Domino service provider.

To register Acme Printing as a hosted organization, the service provider administrator at xSP International answers these questions:

Does Acme Printing support DOLS users? Do they need Notes IDs? If Acme Printing supports DOLS or needs Notes IDs for any purpose, a Domino CA needs to be created for the hosted organization. If not, they can use certifier IDs and passwords. Acme Printing does support DOLS users.
Which mail protocol does Acme Printing use? If they use POP3 or IMAP, they need SMTP on the same server. Acme uses POP3, so they need SMTP.
Which registration settings are needed for the registration policy settings document for Acme Printing? The service provider administrator determines that Acme Printing needs the CA-related settings and POP3-related mail settings. Other default settings can also be used.
Does Acme Printing require storage locations in addition to the default storage locations? If the service provider administrator set up Acme Printing on a clustered server, they'll be able to use additional storage on servers in the cluster. On what server and directory will that storage be located?
Later, when an administrator is ready to register users for the hosted organization, they can determine whether they can simplify user registration by creating additional policy settings documents, such as desktop policy settings documents and security policy settings documents. An administrator can create these policy settings documents as he would for any Lotus Domino enterprise. User registration for Acme Printing employees is done by the service provider administrator instead of by an Acme Printing administrator using the Web Administrator.

The service provider administrator at the service provider site, does the following from the Domino Administrator:

1. Creates a Domino server-based CA for Acme Printing because they support DOLS. Each hosted organization that needs a server-based CA requires its own Domino CA because the CA cannot be shared across multiple hosted organizations.

2. Creates an explicit policy named AcmePolicy and an associated registration policy settings document.

3. Chooses Tools - Hosted Organization - Create to open the Register Hosted Organization interface.

4. The service provider administrator begins completing the required fields on each panel and enters information in these optional fields:

On the Basics panel, selects the option "Organization supports DOLS" and chooses the explicit policy named AcmePolicy.
On the Internet panel, enters an IP address in the HTTP Host/Address, SMTP Host/Address, POP3 Host/Address, and Directory Host/Address fields because Acme requires these for its Web site, for POP3 messaging with SMTP, and for LDAP services, respectively.
On the ID Info panel, chooses CA Enabled and chooses the CA Server on which the Acme CA was created because Acme supports DOLS users.
On the Storage panel, because Acme will be hosted on a clustered server at the service provider site he enters an additional physical storage location in "Physical Storage location for server name".

5. After entering information in the Register Hosted Organization interface, clicks the Register button.

6. Completes the Web Site document, the POP3 Site document, the SMTP Site document, and the LDAP Site document. While completing the Web Site document, the service provider administrator follows the instructions for enabling the correct DSAPI filter file name to support DOLS.

For more information on specifying the DSAPI filter file name in the Web Site document, see the topic To configure DOLS on a server that uses Web Site documents.

7. Completes the procedure to bind the hosted organization's IP address to the Network Interface Card on the xSP server because the IP Address configuration includes individual IP addresses for each hosted organization.

8. Checks the following views and directories to see the documents and files that have been created for the hosted organization, Acme Printing.

From the Domino Administrator, People & Groups tab, he clicks Certificates to verify that Acme Printing's certificate has been created. He also verifies that Acme Printing's certificate is cross-certified with xSP International's certificate, and that xSP International's certificate has been cross-certified with Acme Printing's certificate.
From the Domino Administrator, he opens the Domino Directory and chooses Servers - Domains to see the Global Domain document for the Acme Printing. On the Basics tab, the field "Local primary Internet domain" contains the primary Internet domain name by which the hosted organization is known. He also enters a secondary Internet domain name in the "Alternate Internet domain aliases" field by which Acme Printing can receive Internet mail.
Verifies that the hosted organization's data directory was created, as well as the hosted organization's mail directory. The service provider administrator also verifies that the ACL file, Acme Printing.acl was created and that the mail file for the hosted organization's administrator has been created.
From the Domino Administrator, he opens the Domino Directory and checks the Server - Internet Sites view. The service provider administrator sees that these documents exist for Acme: Web Site document, SMTP Site document, POP3 Site document and LDAP Site document. This view also contains a Global Web Settings document for xSP International and three Web Site Rule documents.
From the Domino Administrator, opens the Policy view and checks the explicit policy (AcmePolicy) and the associated registration policy settings document (Acme).

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