Specifications

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For any system database, the following elements should be verified
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Replication must be enabled on each spoke server of the domain
• Replication of design elements must be possible from the administration server to all spoke
servers.
• ACL for the databases must be set accordingly to allow successful design replication
Domino Directory Design Upgrade
To upgrade the Domino directory you have to perform the following steps on the administration server of the
Domino directory of the domain:
• Make sure that no design elements of the Domino directory have set the property “Prohibit design
refresh or replace to modify”. If necessary disable this setting for all design elements before starting
the upgrade.
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Temporally disable the replication for the Domino directory (NAMES.NSF).
• To backup the current Domino Directory, stop the server and copy the Domino Directory database
to a place outside the Domino data directory.
Afterwards restart the server.
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Be sure, that the Domino directory template is stored on the server. If not, copy the template to the
data directory of the server.
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Attention if you are using the PUBNAMES.NTF template: The template is provided in the format of
R8.5 ODS and cannot be used to replace the design locally on an R8 server. You need to change
the ODS before copying the file.
• If your Domino Directory is full-text indexed, be sure to delete the full text index before starting your
upgrade (disable full text index in the database properties, do not just delete the full text index files
on the disk!)
• Upgrade:
• Stop the Domino server
• Use the local server client (“d:\notes\nlnotes.exe”) to start the design replace locally and wait for the
process to finish.
• Restart the server again after the design replace has been finished.
The design upgrade cannot be performed from a remote administrator client.
Because the server automatically starts rebuilding the views it leads to a network timeout after about 60%
completion (that is when the $ServerAccess view will be rebuilt and the client can not connect to the server
during that time).
• After start up, the server starts to rebuild all views. This step may be time-consuming, depending
on the size of the Domino directory. During that time you may not be able to access the server or
server access may be slow.
• Disable the setting “Inherit design from master template” in the database properties.
• Check that your server is working properly by accessing it with your client.
• If exist, edit + save any existing Domino Policy Setting document by using an R8.5 client.
Important: DO NOT use @Command([ToolsRefreshSelectedDocs]), nor any other kind of agent,
otherwise you will run into the issues described in IBM Technote #1299046
• Enable replication of the directory again and observe the replication to your other servers in the
domain. As view updates of the Domino directory will happen on all servers immediately after the
design changes have been replicated, the servers may not be accessible for some time until the
view updates have been finished.