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these applications to fully understand their usage in your environment.
Template customization
When evaluating your environment, you should also consider any customizations that you have made to
templates. It is possible that customizations have been made to mail templates, directory templates, and
application templates that ship with Notes and Domino, such as teamroom and discussion. You need to
consider any customizations that have been made, and determine whether any customizations need to be
carried forward into the templates that ship with Notes and Domino 8.5.
If you do have template customizations, best practices suggest that you create a new custom template
based on the template that ships with the version of code you deploy. This may involve re-coding certain
changes to ensure full compatibility.
For more information about considerations for template management, see Domino Server Deployment Best
Practices