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Progress report - Upgrading Notes & DWA clients from 7.x to 8.0.2.

Chris Mobley  |    |  Tags:  upgrade  |  Comments (3)
I am now 60% complete on my client roll out.  This is a one month project to upgrade all users from their 7.x  Notes & DWA to 8.0.2.  The mix is about 1/3 full client and 2/3 DWA clients with under 1000 users in 16 cities.  I must say my rollout is going quite smoothly (knock on wood).

For the DWA upgrades it is a simple convert task that is scheduled on the server to run overnight.  I feed it a file that has a list of the mail files to be converted.  For the full clients I am using the upgrade by email feature built into the Domino directory.  I simply point them to the upgrade image on their local file server.  

I decided to roll out the 8.0.2 standard client using the notes.ini setting "enable_early_authentication=0" instead of the 8.0.2 CCH1.  There was no way to get users from 7.x to 8.0.2CCH1 in one step.

Issues So Far
The full client has had very few issues.  The biggest issue is slowness on laptops with only 512mb RAM, which we plan to address through various means.  Also when the new mail file design is replicated locally, the user may get some errors if they are accessing their local mail file while the design is replicating.

The DWA issues have been mostly about Sametime IM issues.  This is mainly due to the fact that by default DWA users will get the DWA Contact List which has very few IM features, and some bugs.   Instead I have switched the DWA users to use the Sametime Connect for Browsers, which is more stable and has more features (like group chat).   This setting is in the server config doc under the DWA tab in the "Instant Messaging" and disable "Prefer DWA8 Contact List".

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1 Scott Hooks      Permalink That is a good idea about the Sametime Connect for Browsers, but (in case anyone gets the idea to follow your lead), #1: I think that would require Sametime licenses for the users rather than the free entitlement that comes with DWA8, and #2: STC for Browsers has been discontinued.

Not trying to rain on any parades - I just want to share what I can.

P.S. Love your blog. Keep writing!

2 Chris Mobley      Permalink @1 - I actually have a PMR open asking about these very issues. I was guessing that #1 was the case. I didn't know about #2. Does anyone know whey STC for Browsers is being discontinued? If that's the case then they better get the DWA8 Contact List option fixed, and with more functionality. I'll post another blog about the bugs I've encountered so far in the DWA8 Contact List.

3 Barbara Skedel      Permalink For your full client upgrades, did you by chance use the Smartupgrade feature of Domino? I'm having some difficulties getting it to work with a transforms file. Its not recognizing the transforms file at all. I'm calling into Lotus support about it but was just curious if you ever used this feature.


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