Praise and Dings for Lotus
I just started upgrading our servers to Domino 7 (and Sametime 7) and they have all gone off without a hitch. Super-easy and in place with no real prep necessary. This is great and all, and a stark contrast to what I went through while
So, while I applaud Lotus for a great upgrade, I have to ding them for one thing. WHERE is the “Upgrading to Domino 7” Redbook? It’s still not out, and that should have been available before the damn product was even released in my opinion. I was fine because I’ve been running Dom 7 (in production) since beta 3, so I know the ins and outs already, but not everyone has that luxury. I just find it weird that the redbook that people have followed like a bible on upgrades doesn’t exist right now.
Anyone know why?
EDIT: Ed just posted that it is now finally available. Only about 3 months after launch? 🙂 Thanks for the tip Bruce.
November 15, 2005 @ 6:03 pm
Any tips you can post? I know there’s no ODS upgrade, so that’s nice.
I believe they are in process of writing the book, hopefully it will be available for ‘sphere.
November 16, 2005 @ 2:30 pm
Really, I haven’t seen any “gotchas” really. For the install it was like this:
Run the EXE
Agree to the EULA
Choose your server type
Let it install
Done
That’s really IT. Now, the only things that I can think of are the following:
For one, when it’s doing the install it says “Uninstalling Previous Version.” Don’t let that make you nervous, it’s normal.
When it’s over, you need to start the server via the link, it will ask you if you want to make it a Windows Service, and if you want to have it start every time Windows starts. So basically, it strips your old preference for that and you have to set it again.
Those were the only things that seemed wierd to me.
I also started by upgrading my hub and the new address book replicated to all my 6.5.X servers without issue…
So, in all, a painless process, at least for me.
Take Care,
Grey
November 16, 2005 @ 4:51 pm
Lookie lookie what Eddie posted:
http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notesdomino-7-upgrade-guide-now-available?opendocument
November 16, 2005 @ 6:52 pm
it’s nine weeks after launch. Honestly, we wanted to wait until the product was -done- to make sure the information was accurate. There were some other issues but the ultimate goal was to be timely and thorough — and I think we got both of those right.
November 17, 2005 @ 9:13 am
Well…gold code date on the About screen shows as August 18th, which would have made it two days shy of three months… We’re just going from different start dates…
Now I think the guide is done well, but for us early adopters it would have been really nice to have it a tad earlier.
-Grey
November 17, 2005 @ 10:15 am
I’ve upgrade 2 partitioned servers from 6.5.x to 7 and the only issue I found that was a problem was that the ini files were stripped of the confiugration to seperate the IP addresses for the individual servers in the partition. I had to manually re-add this info so all the servers would run correctly. These are the following type of lines :
TCPIP-servername=TCP, 0, 15, 0
TCPIP-servername_TCPIPADDRESS=0,1.2.3.4
Ports=TCPIP-servername