Re: Client and server upgrade order - R8.0.1 upgrade

[GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

"What you refer to is the order I've always done it."

+1

This past Friday I went from R7 to R8.0.1. I installed the new notes 
client, admin client and designer on my pc Thursday so I had two business 
days to get familiar with it. Did the upgrade Friday at 7:30 pm. Took two 
hours to install on a 270. As of Monday morning the users don't detect 
anything different.

My current version of Scanmail 3.0 did not work. The version included 
patch 3 build 5316 which says it supports 8.0 (but I'm at 8.0.1 and I 
haven't had the chance to call them yet). I did un-install it and 
reinstall it and it did run the SM jobs but nothing in my mail boxes was 
getting released. SM had a lock on them for some reason so I had to 
un-install SM entirely to allow mail to go through. We also have a mail 
relay server which runs anti-virus checking too - so I'm not entirely 
without protection.

Although Saturday and Sunday I had two PMR's and 16.5 hours invested to 
get the server stable. Somehow, and this was first detected on 4/3, our 
domino directory has some corruption somewhere that caused (only twice 
with R7) domino to crash when updating the names.nsf FT index. But with 
8.0.1 it crashed every time it ran the hourly update of the FT index on 
names.nsf. We were finally able to remove the FTI and the server has been 
up now for 22 hours. 

Now the question becomes how can I fix the corruption so that I can resume 
FT indexing on names.nsf without risking server crashes.

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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