Hi, I am planning to upgrade the Lotus Notes server from 8.0.2 to 8.5.
Can any one help what are the risks while upgrade.
And what are the thing we have to take care while upgradtion.
Regards
Pawan
Subject: 8.5.1 Upgrade Cookbook
We upgraded from 6.5 to 8.0.2 to 8.5.1 over the last 6 months and did not have any significant issues. That said I did quite a lot of background reading to prepare.
Fortunately the “Upgrade Cookbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1” has been published. I upgraded before this guide was published, but it contains much of the sage advice that I had previously read.
Link to Upgrade Cookbook:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/UC1_TableofContents.htm
Subject: Check this…
Can you describe a little bit better your environment? Cluster? Are you upgrading the clients too?
I’d recommend going to 8.5.1 like someone said. You are not going to found any particular problem. You might have to reboot at the end of the installation which is new for me.
If you have another server and it’s version 6, it0s really important to remove all the templates from the server (Or create a new ID but I don’t like to mess up with that) so they won’t replicate.
You need to upgrade your Admin Client and names first, as always. And at the end, run these maintenance tasks (All of these with the server offline):
fixup -j -f -l -v names.nsf
fixup -j -f -l -v admin4.nsf
compact -F -K -C -U names.nsf
compact -F -K -C -U admin4.nsf
updall -R names.nsf
updall -R -t $Users names.nsf
updall -R -t $Servers names.nsf
(Redundant but I do it anyway since it’s recommended)
and then a final fixup for all the databases. I like to do this with the server offline too so the new binaries could check the databases, otherwise it would likely be done by the server and it will take a long time. Keep in mind that if you have a lot of databases. Better safe than sorry.
I upgraded a lot of servers and so far no problems.
Subject: re: LN Server upgrade from 8.0.2 to 8.5
I am contimplating a similar move.
I’d recommend going with at least 8.5.1 – and, since 8.5.1 FP1 is due out in Jan 2010, I’d suggest waiting for that. 8.5.1 has a lot of fixes for 8.5–and 8.5.1FP1 has a lot more fixes. I’m hoping it is stable.