Bruce's Blog

In the past, it was easy to move a Domino server to new hardware - just install the Domino server software on the new box, copy the data folder over and viola it worked.  Since I now have a Domino 8.5 server with transaction logging and DAOS turned on, is there anything special I need to know?  Do I just copy the transaction log folder and the DAOS folder over as well?  Do they need to be re-built from scratch?  Any one who's done this and is willing to share the secrets, I would appreciate it.

Currently, we have a SameTime 6.5.1 server running on top of Domino 6.5.2 on Windows 2000.  All my other servers are Domino8.5HF1 running on Windows 2003 SP2.  We currently only use the IM function.  With the certificate expiration issue this past weekend, we've decided to look into upgrading our Sametime environment.  It looks like I have a server I can use for this (it's previous function has been retired).  My question is, should I install SameTime 8.02 on top of Domino 8.02 now or wait for SameTime 8.5 so it can run on top of Domino 8.5?  How long is it going to be before SameTime 8.5 arrives?

I've read a few post on how to hide a single user from being visible in the Domino Directory.  Has anyone come up with a way to hide everyone from a single user?  We have a new business we are looking to get into.  We will have a "sales force" (they aren't our employees, they're agents or brokers or something) that need to have a company email address for our business.  Would like to have them in our existing Domino domain (so I don't have to set something new up).  They are going to be INotes only users.  We're running V8.5 on the servers.  It's almost like we have a wholly owned subsidiary where we're going to be running their infrastructure, but don't want them fully integrated into ours.

Any ideas would be appreciated!