Specifications

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

Post upgrade checklist

Once Lotus Domino has been installed, the following steps should be performed prior to starting the Domino

8.5 servers for the first time:

• Verify your template management, as discussed in Domino Server Deployment Best Practices.

Replace the out-of-the-box templates and remove unused templates, as necessary.

• Edit the server Notes.ini file, per the recommendations above.

• Perform compact –c , fixup on the system databases names.nsf and admin4.nsf

Note : To upgrade these files to the latest ODS, make sure if the Create_R85_Databases=1

variable was added to the notes.ini a copy style compact was issued on names.nsf or admin4.nsf,

the ODS is upgraded to ODS 51. For more information on upgrading all databases to the new

ODS, please refer the ODS Upgrade section below.

• Rebuild view of names.nsf offline, using the updall -R command.

If working with a large names.nsf, it is ideal to replace the names.nsf database with a replica that

already has the new Domino 8.5 design with updated views.

• If you have upgraded the Domino Directory design already make sure the variable

“Server_Upgrade_No_Directory_ReDesign=1” has been added to your Notes.ini prior to starting

your server after the Domino 8.5 upgrade. If not present you will be prompted to upgrade the

design of your Domino directory. As with prior releases of the Domino server, after starting the

server for the first time on Domino 8.5, the design of many of the system databases is automatically

upgraded as well, including events4.nsf and ddm.nsf.

• For Windows servers, reset your Domino server as a Windows service.

For UNIX servers, re-enable any cron jobs that automatically restart Domino.