Specifications

Lotus Redbooks Wiki – IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 Deployment Guide

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Stop SMTP mail routing by issuing the following console command

>tell SMTP quit

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Verify that all server mail box files (mail.box, mail1.box .. mailn.box) are empty and any existing

mail as been routed properly by issuing the following console command:

> tell router show queue

If there are still messages in one of the mailboxes, you may route them manually.

• If running Domino as a service on Windows, change the startup type to manual and restart the

operating system to clean up shared memory elements.

Note: If the Domino server task is not shutting down completely run the following operating system

command from the Domino data directory:

> d:\notes\nfixup “dummydb.nsf”

The NSF file used as an argument does not need to exist. It is just a dummy parameter. The recovery

manager will then flush all parts of the transaction log, which are still in memory, to disk.

• Disable any cron jobs on UNIX platforms that automatically restart Dominos and clean up shared

memory segments.

• Move the following files to a temporary directory outside of your current Domino Data directory.

• busytime.nsf (or clubusy.nsf)

*.ntf

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To enforce to create a new log file, it’s recommended to move the file LOG.NSF to another

directory (e.g. “Old_R8”) and rename it to LOG_R8.NSF

If this file is stored in a subdirectory of the Domino data directory it can be accessed later with a

Notes client if necessary.

• Install the Lotus Domino R8.5 Server Code

Note: Use the 32 Bit or 64 Bit version according to your requirements.

After the Server Software has been installed, continue with…

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(Optional) Cnvert to new On-Disk-Structure (ODS) 51. For a detailed description of how to enable

the new ODS please refer to chapter ý4.6.5

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Start the domino server and check if it is starting without any errors.

• Install customized templates and continue with enabling additional features.

Lotus Domino Server Software Installation

This section details the steps required to perform the actual Domino 8.5 code installation.

IBM Lotus provides several different installation types, including full, silent, and express installations. For the

purposes of this wiki, we focus on the full setup installation, which we performed on the Windows 2003

operating system in our ITSO lab environment.

For details on the silent and express installations or other operating systems installations, see the Lotus

Domino Administrator 8.5 help documentation.