Novell Doc: GroupWise 7 Gateway for Lotus Notes Installation and Administration Guide - Enabling Directory Synchronization and Exchange

7.1 Enabling Directory Synchronization and Exchange

Directory synchronization and exchange enable the Notes Gateway to automatically exchange Address Book information between the GroupWise system and the Notes system.

Directory Exchange: Causes the gateway to perform a nightly exchange of the Notes public Address Book and GroupWise Address Book.
Directory Synchronization: Causes the gateway to update each Address Book as changes in Address Book information occur. If directory synchronization is not enabled, the Address Books are not updated until the nightly directory exchange occurs.

IMPORTANT:To ensure proper replication of names and addresses in both systems, use both directory synchronization and exchange.

Make sure the Notes system is set up to support directory synchronization and exchange, as described in Section 4.0, Configuring the Notes Side of the Notes Gateway.
If you have domains in your GroupWise system that contain users that you do not want to appear in the Notes version of the GroupWise Address Book, use the /blockdoms switch in the startup files (notes.cfg) to list the GroupWise domains that should not be included in the directory synchronization and exchange process.
In ConsoleOne®, browse to and select the domain where you installed the Notes Gateway, right-click the Notes Gateway object, then click Properties to display the gateway Identification page.
Click GroupWise > Optional Gateway Settings to display the Optional Gateway Settings page.
In the Directory Sync/Exchange field, select Both.
Click Apply to save the setting.
Click Required Parameters to display the Required Parameters page.
Make sure that the GroupWise Foreign Domain and Notes ID Password fields are filled in, as described in Section 5.2, Setting Required Parameters.

When you provided this information during the initial configuration before installation of the Notes Gateway software, the foreign (non-GroupWise) domain was created automatically when you first started the Notes Gateway. Under the non-GroupWise domain, an external post office was created for each Notes domain and given the same name as the corresponding Notes domain. However, no user information was transferred at that time.

Now that you have enabled directory exchange and synchronization, Notes users will be added to these external post offices as external GroupWise users.
Make sure that Outbound Conversion is set to None.
Click OK.

ConsoleOne passes the directory synchronization and exchange information to the Notes Gateway so that it can start transferring user information. The larger the Address Books are, the longer the process takes.
If you edited the notes.cfg file in Step 2, stop and then start the Notes Gateway so that it reads the updated startup file.

You can see the results of directory synchronization and exchange in the following locations:

Notes users appear in ConsoleOne because External Users objects are created in the External Post Office objects that represent Notes domains.
Notes users appear in the GroupWise Address Book because they have External User objects in the GroupWise system.
GroupWise users appear in a new Notes version of the GroupWise Address Book because the Notes Gateway creates the wpnames.nsf file in the \lotus\domino\data directory on the Notes/Domino server.

Notes Gateway Web Console: You can see whether directory synchronization and exchange are enabled on the Configuration page. You can turn directory synchronization and exchange on and off for the current gateway session on the Optional Gateway Settings page.