I have a few questions that I have not been able to find anything on.
5.0.x to 6.0.x
I have an R5 environment with two clustered mail/application servers serving my clients. I then have a BlackBerry Server, a Web Server and a Domino.Doc Server.
BlackBerry server does not yet support ND6 and neither does Domino.doc. (I do think BlackBerry has a version that does support it, but we did not purchase the maint. as of their latest licensing change for financial reasons)
Can I upgrade certain servers in my environment to ND6 without upgrading the directory? (not upgrading my admin server first)
Does anyone know if the old BlackBerry Server will support mail servers on ND6 if I do not upgrade the BB server?
When is Domino.Doc going to be supported on ND6?
Subject: Upgrade and Mixed environment
I can answer this question: Can I upgrade certain servers in my environment to ND6 without upgrading the directory? (not upgrading my admin server first)
The answer here is no different from when R5 was released; but you can upgrade any server, as long as you plan carefully. If you upgrade one server to R6 then you would not want the domino directory on that server to be replicated to the non R6 servers. You can replicate the domino directory by content (the documents) but not the design. You need to tweak the ACL and replication settings but it is not impossible.
There are new types of documents in the R6 Domino directory which will not work in R5; therefore R5 will ignore them. The planning will be to make sure you are careful to not make a R6 change that impacts functionality in R5. As an example using internet sites instead of the domain/web server documents. That would be a bad thing.
You should be able to use R6 in an R5 environment on the previously stated conditions.
Email me if you have more specific questions with my answer. I have not really played with BlackBerry. I have to check Domino.Doc out though.
Subject: RE: Upgrade and Mixed environment
All,
Domino.Doc is supported under R6 and has been for over a month now. See the following link for the compatiblity matrix
http://lotus.com/products/domdoc.nsf/3ae9c4423b8a92848525653f00569913/e416286bcafabe8085256cd8005440af?OpenDocument
regards john marshall
http://swapcode.com <-domino.doc hints and tips
Subject: RE: Upgrade and Mixed environment
Joe, Just curious if you were aware of this statement:
While it is safe and recommended that you upgrade to the Domino 6 Directory design regardless of server release
This is from the LDD article “Lessons learned from the Notes/Domino 6 Early Deployment Program”, found at http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/today.nsf/62f62847467a8f78052568a80055b380/32bacd5091f5dd3b00256c3f003cd054?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,upgrade
I’d be curious to know if anyone else actually does this?:-jmw
Subject: RE: Upgrade and Mixed environment
I do know of this example or type of scenerio.This forum is very hard to answer a question of this nature in general because not a lot detail was given. It was not known what will the R6 server do or what does the server “about to be upgrade” does in that corporate environment.
The person asked about a mixed environment and it is possible, my answer was to say yes, but you have to be careful.
Careful? how so?
If the administrative server to the Domino Directory resides on a R5 server then rhetorical you need to ask will things break if I let a R6 server (in this mix environment) replicate changes (like design changes) back to R5? While it is possible, I doubt you want to do that. This question would be similar to can I work a production having software to back the data off to a tape system (or some other back up system). While you can do it, you may not want to.
Plus I don’t think people want to have a R5 address book replicate its design to a R6 server. Especially if a R6 server is going to need the new functionality.
The URL is good because it does mention it (but I think it could stress it more than a few references). Domino administrators need to account for how the domino directory’s design will operate in a mix environment. This would be same to email database design as well, etc.