Upgrading from 6.x to 8 template question

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We are manually upgrading clients from Notes 6.x to 8 but we are having a minor issue with being able to do a “Replace Design” to upgrade the clients from template 6 to template 8 after a multi-user install.

Most of our clients are currently single user installs, but we are going to do multi-user installs of 8 on all of them

The steps we are taking are:

  1. copy the .id, bookmarks.nsf, and any other needed .nsfs to a backup location.

  2. Uninstall Notes 6.x using Add/Remove programs

  3. Delete the Notes\Data folder

  4. Install Notes 8 (multi-user version)

  5. Copy the .id and saved .nsfs in the new path for the Notes\Data folder

  6. Have the user sign-on

At this point the user should be able to open their inbox and go to the File-Application menu and see an option to “Replace Design”. The users are not seeing this option in the File-Application menu. Why not?

We are doing complete uninstalls of older versions just so we can have a clean install of the 8 client.

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Subject: Replace Design is an “Advanced” optoin

On clients where you don’t see the Replace Design option, first click View - Advanced Menus.

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Subject: Desktop Policy

Why not use a Desktop Policy to upgrade the template?

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Subject: Why Not Use a Desktop Policy?

Basically we don’t use them because of a lack of knowledge on how to use them correctly and efficiently