Is It Possible to Attach a User's ID File to Their Personal Address Book After Roaming Setup Completes?
Problem
Can a user's id be attached to their Personal Address Book after completing roaming setup?
Solution
It is possible to store a user's ID file in their Personal Address Book and replicate it for roaming purposes in the following two instances:
1. When a user is newly registered and designated as a roaming user, and
2. When a user is upgraded to a roaming user and the Notes Administrator selects the option "Store user's ID in personal address book" (NOTE: This option is not selected by default).
As part of the functionality of the Roaming User feature, the user's ID will be obtained locally from the first machine that completes the roaming setup, attached to that user's Personal Address Book, and then replicated to the user's designated roaming server. It is neither attached, nor supplied to be attached, to the user's Personal Address Book at the server.
Once the user has successfully roamed that client, the following will occur:
the user's ID is doubly encrypted and attached to their Personal Address Book
the user's "RoamingIDIsInNAB" field set to "1" on the user's Person document
the Roaming Tab on the Person document will reflect the user's id in their Roaming Profile information
additional information is stored within a profile note specific to roaming within their Personal Address Book.
The roaming features require the build-out of these elements in order for the feature and handling of the user's ID to work successfully. This would not happen if the Notes Administrator were to attempt to attach that user's ID to their Personal Address Book after the fact.
If the Notes Administrator needs to store the user's ID file after the user has completed the
roaming setup, the Notes Administrator must downgrade and then upgrade the user back to roaming and then select to store their id file at that time.
Currently, there are no plans to change this present functionality of the roaming user feature; however, an enhancement request has been submitted to Quality Engineering as SPR# KTOT5ZUSBT for a future release.
Supporting Information:
From Notes 6x Release Notes:
Administrator Client, Client
Need to downgrade and upgrade to change Roaming ID storage
To change the storage of a roaming user's user.id file, the user will need to be downgraded first. Then, when the user is upgraded to roaming, the user's ID storage option for roaming can be changed via the Roaming Upgrade tool. The option "Store user ID file in personal address book" can be turned on to store the ID in the Personal NAB, or turned off to require the user to carry their ID on diskette.