Migration Lotus Domino 6.5.1 to Lotus Domino 8.5 Concept
- before you start doing any thing make sure that all the important data in the production Domino servers are backed up and safe
- make sure that all the files with the extension ( .nsf) like names.nsf , (.id) like server.id and a file called ( notes.ini) are safe and backed up
- follow the following procedure
Considerations for mail servers (Upgrade Action Plan)
For many organizations, e-mail is considered a mission-critical application. For this reason, special attention should be given to the evaluation of your mail infrastructure.
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The flexibility and freedom provided by replication has been an unsurpassed benefit of using IBM Lotus Notes. Many organizations choose to leverage this powerful feature on a full-time basis and have configured their users to work with local replicas of their Notes databases, including mail databases.
In addition to the points discussed in this article, Lotus Notes/Domino added features that may make implementing local mail replicas even more enticing. This article discusses these additional enhancements and recommends ways to set up local mail replicas. Prior to explaining the local replica model and the technical details behind establishing the environment within your infrastructure, let’s look at an example of the applicability of the model.
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We’d just been told we had four months to test and implement a major Notes upgrade for 3,000 users. I’d read the first 50 pages of documentation and was hyperventilating as I tried to explain to Mark what we were up against.
The people on site were accustomed to opening their mail from any workstation that was handy. Further complicating things, some machines were configured to connect to the network with generic IDs, meaning some regular mail users had never logged into the network as themselves. And now Notes wanted a “one user, one workstation” mode. The nervous tic at my eye extended to meet one at the corner of my mouth, for a Texas-style hoe-down.
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When you upgrade a Domino server sometime the installation will fail with the error:
c:\lotus\domino\js32.dll error number -115
If you have tools to determine what process is using that DLL, you may notice that the WINLOGON process is the one using the DLL. But you can’t really kill the WINLOGON process and expect your server to operate properly, and without killing the process, you can’t delete, move, or rename the JS32.DLL file.
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