Uh Clem's Admin World

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".