Upgrade from 6.5 to 8.0 - advice please!

I will have to upgrade all of my servers from 6.5.6 to R8.0 in the coming months. After that, I’ll need to upgrade all desktops as well.

I know there are plenty of IBM classes on R8, but can anyone suggest which would be best (or what they’ve taken) so that I can be up to speed on the upgrade? I know nothing about the “Smart Upgrade” process at all, and I’ve only done incremental upgrades to the servers over the past few years.

Any direction would be appreciated! Thanks.

Subject: Upgrade from 6.5 to 8.0 - advice please!

This might be a useful place to start:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247506.pdf

It has a section on ‘Considerations for upgrading from Notes and Domino 6.5.x to 8’.