I am adding a new server to a very old Domino network where the only existing server is a Domino R5 server.
I need to upgrade the design of the Domino Directory, but only on new server for now, because users will be migrated from the old server to the new one not at the same time, so I need a couple of months of coexistence.
So I arranged connection documents so that NAB is only pushed from old to new. Then I replaced design of names.nsf with Domino 9 pubnames.ntf template on the new server.
The result is that the design seems to be partially replaced: trying to add policy settings for Traveler, I see that the “Add setting” action button in Policies/Settings view does not show many items, like “Connections”, “IBM Traveler”, “Roaming”, “Symphony”.
So looking at the code (when MS Exchange admins will be able to look at the source code…) I can see that there are Extended Settings that are loaded from a view ($PoliciesExt), and the relevant documents are present in the pubnames.ntf templates.
So it seems that to upgrade Domino Directory Design it is not enough to replace design. I tried to look around if there is some custom action to launch that takes care for copying the needed documents, but found nothing.
I’m going to manually copy those documents in ($PoliciesExt), but I expect that in the future I’ll have new problems.
Anyone who knows what has to be done to correctly upgrade the NAB design to the last version?
Trying to remember so far back to r6 upgrade. Take a look at the roles in the template and make sure the id you are looking at the nab with is all the roles. The might be a action to add the new roles if not do them manually.
I would make the new 9.0 Server the Administration Server of the Domino Directory…
As you can see below I have Demily/Iris as my Admin Server
On Admin Server of Domino Directory with 9.0.1 installed
Shutdown Domino Server
Make sure following 9.0.1 templates are installed
pubnames.ntf, events4.ntf, admin4.ntf, log.ntf, mailbox.ntf, da.ntf
Modify following notes.ini
ServerSetup=1
TemplateSetup=1
SERVER_UPGRADE_NO_DIRECTORY_REDESIGN=0 or not present
Restart Domino Server
The one time Domino Server Setup should run and upgrade all System Databases appropriately including the Domino Directory.
The Domino Server Setup should properly add the “Data” Notes you are missing… It’s rare that data notes are added to a design change and when this does happen, unfortunately you do
need to make sure Domino Server Setup is run on the Domino Administration Server to pick up these data notes.
It’s ok for you to be cautious and keep the design from replicating back to your R5 Domino Server, but I’m not aware of any reason why that should not work
just fine…