Re: upgrade

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Mark Robinson wrote:

> Thursday, 17 October 2002, you wrote:
>
> > We run notes version 5.08a and we want to upgrade to 5.10.
>
> > What is the right strategy:
>
> > Is it possible to upgrade the server as the first step and is
> > it possible
> > to run mixed versions of clients during upgrade phase of the
> > clients ? It's
> > not possible to make an upgrade on all workstations at the
> > same time -
> > except we make upgrade sessions on the weekend.
>
> I have just carried out 2 upgrades, one to 5.0.10 and one to
> 5.0.11.
> The servers were done first, leaving the clients on 5.0.6a. We
> encountered no problems on either site... The client upgrades
> were
> then done over the weeks following the server upgrade.
>
> I think the rule is that the server version must be >= client
> version

Hi Mark, Hi Bernd,

we are running ~2700 domino servers in 59 domains with 120.000
users. We are using server releases 4.6.4, 4.6.7, 5.0.8, 5.0.9,
5.0.10, Pre-Release2 and some other. The Clients are 4.5.2, 4.5.4,
4.5.5, 4.6.2, 4.6.7, 5.0.4, 5.0.8, 5.0.9, 5.0.10 and others.
Servers are on plattforms: W32, OS/2, AIX and some other Systems,
Clients we have on W32 and OS/2. (In a test laboratory we have
also domino on linux)

Between Notes-Clients and Domino-Servers there are no Conflicts by
using several client and server releases at the same time. But you
should check your databases' design (at first the mailbasket's and
domino-directory's design)
If there is something designed with a higher Release then your
server or client, you should get some problems.
There are a lot of new @-functions and lotus-script-properties &
-methods - this can cause problems on a release change.
If a periodic agent was designed by a higher release than the
server it is running on, this agent shouldn't work. If a database
was designed by a higher Release than the Client, on which this
database is being used, the user should also have trouble.

Updating first the servers and than the clients is ok - but don't
update any database-design before you'll have finished the update.
Make backups from previous data directories (*.nsf/*.ntf)

The domino-directory of the domain should be designed by least
domino-release, which is member of the domain.
The mailbasket should be designed by the least Client-release.


Example:

You can access databases that reside on a R4-Server by using a
R5-Client. If there are R5-Design-Elements, they wouldn't run on
the server.
You can access a database that resides on a R5-Server
with a R4-Client, if the Design was created on a R4-Client. This
database will have ODS41. That means it is a R5-Database-File, but
the design must be R4 for using it with R4-Clients.


The rule is:

1.) domino release must be >= highest designer release by which
databases were designed

2.) (user's) clienst releases must be >= highest designer release
by which databases were designed

-- 
Kind Regards,
Conrad Gliem.