Are you upgrading to Domino 8?
June 20 2008
I've been making the rounds lately talking to customers at the Lotusphere Comes to You events as well as the Notes/Domino 8 Upgrade Proof of Technology and I'm wondering - are any of you starting (or are in process) a Domino8 upgrade? Are you waiting for Domino 8.5 or going with the 8.01 release?
If you are getting started or would like more information, here are some good sites for you:
Upgrade Central
Domino Wiki
Notes/Domino 8 Deployment Guide
Also, some tidbits of information for you about the upgrade:
Did you know you can upgrade the client first? That's right! More than 90% of the new features in the Notes client are contained to the template and so don't require a Domino8 server. More than that...it's actually SUPPORTED during the upgrade!! Many of my clients are taking this route, as it will provide a huge amount of value very quickly. The 3 features that won't work are unprocessed meetings (ghosted meetings), message recall and the out of office enhancements.
You can do a spoke/hub type of upgrade instead of a hub/spoke. That's where you start with your mail servers instead of your hub. This is a good option if you are on 6.5, as a hub-first type of upgrade might require some additional planning in terms of resource reservations, etc. This option is actually outlined in the Deploying Notes/Domino8 redbook.
If all of your client desktops don't have enough memory, don't just install the basic code. For example - there are 2 "versions" of the installation code for the Notes client - Standard and Basic. The basic installation set does not have the Eclipse components and is a much smaller installation. One suggestion is to use the Standard install set for all workstations - even if they can't run the Eclipse components. Simply modify the desktop icon and add the "-sa" parameter after the notes.exe. This will open Notes in the "Basic" mode. Then, when the client gets upgraded, you don't have to install a whole new code set to get the Eclipse components.
Hope those help! Happy Upgrading!!
If you are getting started or would like more information, here are some good sites for you:
Upgrade Central
Domino Wiki
Notes/Domino 8 Deployment Guide
Also, some tidbits of information for you about the upgrade:
Did you know you can upgrade the client first? That's right! More than 90% of the new features in the Notes client are contained to the template and so don't require a Domino8 server. More than that...it's actually SUPPORTED during the upgrade!! Many of my clients are taking this route, as it will provide a huge amount of value very quickly. The 3 features that won't work are unprocessed meetings (ghosted meetings), message recall and the out of office enhancements.
You can do a spoke/hub type of upgrade instead of a hub/spoke. That's where you start with your mail servers instead of your hub. This is a good option if you are on 6.5, as a hub-first type of upgrade might require some additional planning in terms of resource reservations, etc. This option is actually outlined in the Deploying Notes/Domino8 redbook.
If all of your client desktops don't have enough memory, don't just install the basic code. For example - there are 2 "versions" of the installation code for the Notes client - Standard and Basic. The basic installation set does not have the Eclipse components and is a much smaller installation. One suggestion is to use the Standard install set for all workstations - even if they can't run the Eclipse components. Simply modify the desktop icon and add the "-sa" parameter after the notes.exe. This will open Notes in the "Basic" mode. Then, when the client gets upgraded, you don't have to install a whole new code set to get the Eclipse components.
Hope those help! Happy Upgrading!!
