I have a Domino 7 server which I’m trying to upgrade to 8.5. This server has Domino Administrator installed and Lotus Quickr
I have used VMware convertor to take an image of the live box and running this in a vmware environment seperate to our live LAN. In the test environment I can verify domino is working correctly. I can test logging onto Domino admin start\stop tasks, access quickr places, test HTTP all OK.
I’ve run the various pre upgrade tasks such (fixup, compact, updall & ammend the the ini file for ods, remove corefiles (dlls) (remove server_session & server_max entrys from notes.ini)
When I run the domino server 8.5 upgrade domino server starts as expected. As soon as I upgrade the design the domino server seems to freeze (no cursor) and when I try and open Domino admin I get the message saying checking for server on last known address followed by remote server is no longer responding.
Any ideas? Suggestions?
Subject: A few thoughts
Running the Domino Administrator on the same machine as the Domino Server is an unsupported configuration unless they each have separate data directories but I don’t think that is your problem…
I would recommend replacing the design of the Domino Server Directory with the Domino Server Down…
Make sure names.nsf or whatever you are using for you primary Domino Directory is set to inherit from “StdR4PublicAddressBook”
Bring down the Domino Server
Run
(n)design.exe -f names.nsf
then let all view indexes that need rebuilding because of the design change occur by running
(n)updall.exe names.nsf
Once this is complete restart your Domino Server.
A few critical views are needed to access the server ($Users) and ($ServerAccess)… To have those rebuilding from Scratch while the Domino Server is up is not a good idea… It’s a one time full rebuild after the design change so you should be fine after that.
jpaganet@us.ibm.com
Subject: No Joy
Hi John,
Thanks for your reply. I tried replacing design whilst having the server down as suggested. However, It still seems to be doing the same as before.
It always seems to just fall over at the same point:
StartIConfig::ReadLTPAConfig( )
Quickplace::Successfully loaded Web SSO Configuration
EndIConfig::ReadLTPAConfig( )
Any ideas?
Subject: Fixed
OK I wasn’t aware that quickr 8.0 does not work on domino 8.5. Imediately upgrading to quickr 8.1 before starting the domino server again worked!
Thanks