While I'm delighted with the concept that IBM has included a transcript of the August 27th Open Mic Call, "Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5," I am dismayed, for one thing, to see so many typos. I'm not trying to be trivial about it. Hey, I'm as much a pro at peppering in typos as the next guy. I shudder to think how many will be in this post by the time I ready to post it. My real concern is that some of the typos have the potential to cause some real confusion for someone that would typically rely on a technote of this nature. Furthermore, some of the answers could be subjectively qualified as less-than-ideal solutions to the questions posed.
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Again, I am not trying to knock anyone (call hosts, participants, or the transcriber) by writing this. I applaud your participation in taking a multi-faceted approach for dispersing relevant Domino support information. However, I think there has to be a better way to re-process the call's information so dispersed information that references the call is of "technote-worthy" quality.
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Q: Is Windows 2008 64-bit supported with Domino 8.6 FP1?
A: Yes, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are supported. Refer to Document #7013072, "Domino 8.5 - Detailed system requirements," for more information.
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What are the chances a noob might encounter this technote, scan through it just enough to see this "Q" and first part of the "A" and take this typo at face value? Man! I'm gonna have to wait until the first fixpack of 8.6 and 8.5.1 isn't even available, yet? Bummer. Let's make the "most" of our Windows 2008 64-bit box by going with Exchange 2007, instead. (Alright, if they really had that last thought, they deserve all that comes along with that decision.)
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Q: After an upgrade to 8.5, you're supposed to do an ODS (On-Disk Structure) upgrade but in our case, it ran for 18 hours and Best Practices says not to do it that way. What should we do?
A: Depending on the amount of data in the mail file, ODS compacting time varies. Creating a replica and running compact will give you a rough estimate of the time involved. Create sub-files to "hold" the mail files (such as 5 files to contain 40 files each for a total of 200 files) since this will compress the time involved. You can schedule this to run over a few weekends. Be sure to check the logs for errors.
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Huh? Create sub-files to "hold" the mail files (such as 5 files to contain 40 files each for a total of 200 files? What the heck does that mean? I think the intended recommendation is to create sub-folders to hold the mail files. Although that seems like a really tedious thing to do: move the mail files to 5 separate folders just so you can run compact -c "over a few weekends" to complete the ODS upgrades. You do want mail to continue to route to those boxes, don't you? Let's not go there, ok? Please, if you are even considering this, search Admin help for "compact and .ind".
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On more than a few occasions I've performed my civic duty and used the "Rate this page" section to record my 2 cents towards technote content quality improvement. But this one has me thinking the call content is better suited for a wiki format.
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Random thought o' the day: Watch Underworld (2003), Underworld: Evolution (2006) and the Matrix "Trilogy". Compare and contrast.
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