An 851 rollout

This weekend, we completed our first 851
rollout.  5 Domino servers (2 in a cluster, a BES server and 2 others)
supporting many users.  851 client rollout tested and planned.  Smart
upgrade, policies, DAOS, IDVault, iNotes, Sametime integration and more.
 Here’s the kicker.

It all worked.  All of it.  Almost
without any issues.  851 definitely feels more solid, more reliable
and gives the business partners a hell of a lot more confidence in the
product then any previous 8.x build.

October 21, 2009 · Filed under Lotusnotes

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  1. Sean Murphy Said,

    October 21, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

    me next??? Emoticon Congrats on a job well done. Emoticon

  2. Mary Beth Raven Said,

    October 22, 2009 @ 12:34 am

    YAY! Thanks for letting us know.

  3. null Said,

    October 22, 2009 @ 10:39 am

    Hi Paul….

    I’m working for PwC these days.. trying to build a case for upgrading to 8.5.x instead of 8.0.2 as they are planning next spring. Any advise you can give me?

    Tom Berge

  4. Paul Mooney Said,

    October 22, 2009 @ 10:44 am

    Its a different Scale Tom. If it is a global upgrade there, you will need a year to pick your way though the entire upgrade process. 802 server is pretty good. 851 gives you the features from 85 but with more stability. So, do the features give a compelling reason? Hell, having a policy to synchronise contacts is a good enough reason.

  5. null Said,

    October 22, 2009 @ 11:23 am

    I know 8.0.2 server, it’s the client I don’t like!! Emoticon I’ll try to get an 8.5.1. server installed in our sandbox… keep in touch!

    Tom

  6. Paul Mooney Said,

    October 22, 2009 @ 11:29 am

    Just go 802 server and 851 client then. You get the stability and a serious amount of bug fixes. But massive companies are always gong to be behind the latest builds. Its the nature of their scale.

  7. Pierre Said,

    October 24, 2009 @ 9:34 pm

    Paul,

    BES 5 on 8.5.1 seems ok ? We are building it on 8.0.2 currently following the “official support” line.
    See you soon in our side of the world.

  8. Paul mooney Said,

    October 25, 2009 @ 12:31 pm

    Hi Pierre. Seems ok on two sites now although not officially supported as yet. In fact I put lotus traveler on the same box and it all worked (so far)

  9. Ben Rose Said,

    October 26, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

    All I can say is lucky you.

    Our 8.x roll-out is on hold once more as another show-stopped bug has surfaced, this time in the 8.5.1 client.

    Been trying to roll this out since 8.0 but the clients just aren’t like they used to be.

  10. Joe Rybacek Said,

    October 27, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

    What backup software did you use in that environment? Our current backup vendor is taking a long time to support Domino 8.x.

  11. Scott Said,

    October 28, 2009 @ 5:30 pm

    Any issues with inboxes repopulating old deleted/files emails after upgrading?

    Something I’m suffering with.

  12. Mark G Said,

    October 29, 2009 @ 4:49 pm

    I just did production/clustser last night and it’s is much faster, clients and server. Few things, Directory ACL padlocks just showed up from 7. Also Cell phone is now going off with “Failures” set from old event task set back in 6.5ish …Some 7.5 roamer clients have issues without exsisting “Roadming Data”.

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