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Notes/Domino Release 8 Upgrade Seminars Offered in October, November

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A series seminars focusing on best practices for upgrading to Lotus Notes Domino 8 will be presented this fall in three seminars to be held in as many cities across the country.

Among the topics discussed will be, how to–

  • Design a bulletproof upgrade plan to achieve a faster, smoother, more reliable upgrade to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.
  • Save time, money, and headaches with big improvements to SmartUpgrade and install packaging techniques that help ensure a smooth deployment.
  • Avoid unplanned downtime and disruptions to your business by following experts' step-by-step best practices for upgrading.
  • Bring together business and technical requirements to gain management support and secure the budget dollars you need to accomplish your goals.
  • Uncover the secrets to building a budget-saving test environment, launching a successful upgrade pilot, and rolling out the new client.
  • Wrap your arms around the new Eclipse framework and see how your applications can be enhanced, improved, extended, and utilized in new ways.
  • Get the facts you need to make the right decisions every step of the way and to implement the features that are best for your environment.
  • Take home a CD that includes slides for every session, tools, checklists, project plans, VIEW articles, and other key Notes and Domino 8 resources.


Dates and locations of the seminars are as follows:

  • Philadelphia: October 10–12
  • Las Vegas: October 29–31
  • Chicago: November 14–16


Cost of the seminar is $1,695, and discounts may apply, so check the Web site. Notes Domino Upgrade Seminar.

Speakers

This seminar is developed and personally delivered by three of the industry's most experienced administration experts. Capitalize on their planning and implementation experience with large-scale Notes/Domino upgrades for Fortune 500 and multinational clients.

Rob Axelrod
Vice President, Technotics
Rob is a technical architect for administration, security, application development, and infrastructure design for collaborative and messaging environments. He has been lead technical consultant in numerous migrations and transitions for Fortune 500 businesses and has managed a team that designed and maintained messaging systems supporting tens of thousands of users.

Andy Pedisich President, Technotics
Andy has been working in IT for 23 years. His corporate focus is strategic consulting for infrastructure and messaging/collaboration systems. Recent projects have included upgrades and migration from Wintel based Domino 6.5 to Linux based 7.0.2 and the implementation of customized solutions for server monitoring and automated cluster management. Andy has designed and implemented Notes upgrade projects for major corporations for every version since v2.1.

Chris Miller
Director of Messaging and Collaboration, Connectria
Chris Miller is the director of messaging and collaboration at Connectria (a three-time Lotus Award winner) in St. Louis, Missouri. A Domino CLI and PCLP in ND7, ND6, R5, R4 and Collaboration, and certified in IBM Lotus Workplace, Chris has been working with Domino administration since 1994. He is an advisory board member for LotusUserGroup.org and a frequent author and speaker at numerous conferences including Lotusphere and THE VIEW conferences, as well as an active blogger.

Advantages of Release 8's New On-Disk Structure

There's a new "On-Disk Structure" available with Notes and Domino 8, but many users have not yet heard much about it because it's not mandatory, says Andy Pedisich. The term On Disk Structure(ODS) describes the internal architecture of Notes databases. Each new release, except ND7, has included an update to the ODS to accommodate new features and functions. Upgrading a database to Domino 8's new ODS48 does not occur automatically when a database is compacted. You must first add this parameter to the NOTES.INI on the server or client:

Create_R8_Databases=1
After adding the parameter and restarting the server, every new database you create and every database you compact will be using the new ODS. Use the "copy style" compact command at the console to upgrade existing databases to the new ODS once you have added the parameter.

Load compact –c
Pre-Domino 8 servers will ignore this parameter, by the way. Having to add this parameter lets administrators decouple the ODS upgrade from the server upgrade, and to control when and how the new ODS will be implemented on servers and clients. It's always a good thing to be in control during an upgrade. Keep in mind that the ODS itself does not replicate from server to server. You have to add the parameter to every server that should be using the new ODS. On-Disk Structure gives users many new helpful features. One is design compression, which reduces the size of databases by compressing design elements by up to 60 percent.

For more information, contact Wellesley Information Services at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or THE VIEW, 990 Washington St, Suite 308S, Dedham, MA 02026. For sales and customer service, call 781-751-8755.

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