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Domino Deployment Best Practices
The focus of this chapter is to outline lessons learned from existing deployments.
Efficiently managing your templates
An essential planning step for deploying Domino 8.5, as was the case for prior versions of IBM Lotus Notes
and Domino, is to review your template deployment and maintenance strategy.
Managing your templates is important because a lot of the new functionality in a new major release of
Domino is due to new design elements that are pushed from template to system databases.
Here are some of the more common methods of Domino template management:
• Centrally managing templates from one Domino server or a subset of servers
• Modifying the ACL to grant limited rights to the servers and potential users
• Modifying the template name inheritance, replica ID, and template file name
• Disabling the replication of all the templates
• Removing all templates from the Domino server and removing the nightly run of the design task
You should use one or more of the above methods to manage your templates. For more information about
template strategy, including details on how to create your own template package, reference the Lotus Notes
and Domino 7 Enterprise Upgrade Best Practices Redpaper at the following URL:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4120.html?Open
The method used to manage your templates depends on what you and your Domino administration team
have found to work in the past in your environment and how tightly you want to manage and protect your
templates in the future Note: If you have customized any of the pre-Domino 8.5 templates, such as the mail
template, make sure to thoroughly test your modifications on the new Domino 8.5 templates before
deploying the updated templates to your Notes mail files or database applications.
In order to take advantage of the new design features in Domino 8.5, we recommend making customizations
to the new Domino 8.5 templates, rather than using back-leveled templates.
As the Domino administrator, managing both the changes to and distribution of your templates needs to be
one of your principal concerns during the Domino upgrade process.
Efficiently Upgrading the On Disk Structure ODS
Compact is a highly resource intensive task, depending on the servers I/O performance, it can be benefitial
to run several compact tasks in parallel. To avoid those tasks conflicting with each other, its recommended
to create indirect files (*.IND).
Indirect files (*.IND) are nothing else than plain text files, containing the path + file name of the databases in
scope.
• Log on to the server’s console
• Use the following operating system command to output a list of NSF files into a plain text file.