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10 tips for running a Lotus Notes Domino 7 upgrade pilot


Andy Pedisich
08.31.2006
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It's going to happen. You're going to upgrade to Lotus Domino Release 7. Maybe you already did it. Either way, this information has value, now or for next time you perform a Notes/Domino upgrade.

For this tip, I'm going to stay very focused and concentrate on a particular part of your upgrade -- the Notes/Domino 7 upgrade pilot. This is the time when you put your first Notes/Domino Release 7 server into the production environment.

The pilot happens after you work out all the requirements, do all your design work, build your test servers and clients, and test everything eight ways to Sunday.

The pilot is the first real chance you have to prove to everyone that everything you've come up with is going to work; and, it's your last chance to fix anything that is broken.

You can find out more about hard-to-find server issues in a two-week pilot than you can in six weeks of testing. There is n


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othing quite like putting a new version into a production domain.

Here are 10 Notes/Domino R7 upgrade pilot dos and don'ts. I offer them with all due respect after having done many Notes/Domino server upgrades, from versions 2.1 to 7.

About the author: Andy Pedisich is President of Technotics, Inc. He has been working with Lotus Notes and Domino since Release 2. Technotics provides strategic consulting and training on collaborative infrastructure projects for customers throughout the world. You can contact Technotics through their Web site at www.technotics.com.

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