Upgrade cookbook: Notes/Domino 8.5.1
November 17 2009
There are a number of important new resources around deploying Notes/Domino 8.5 available through the Notes/Domino wikis. Two in specific are welcome additions to the documentation available to help your upgrades and deployments
- Upgrade Cookbook: Upgrading to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 -- this resource was written directly by the development and support organizations and discusses the typical client/server/application upgrade approaches.
- Lotus Notes and Domino version 8.5 Deployment Guide -- this resource was written by a "redbooks" author team over the last several months. It goes into depth on new 8.5 features and architectural improvements, such as DAOS, 64-bit Domino servers, and XPages.
The two are both in wiki format and I expect to see them updated with new information over time.
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Rick | 11/18/2009 9:02:30 AM
@1 - I'll second that. Both seem to have lot's of useful info, but would be much easier to work with in .pdf form.
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John Lindsay http://www.florida-poolsidecottage.com | 11/18/2009 10:44:41 AM
@1, @2, Thirded. :-)
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Richard Fenwick | 11/18/2009 10:46:04 AM
Agree with @1, please provide PDF's, I miss printed Redbooks
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Chris Toohey http://www.dominoguru.com | 11/18/2009 2:10:34 PM
I, for one, welcome our new Wiki contributions!
1) A wiki is not a book, but rather a more fluid and user-friendly tool to help the reader learn large bursts of content based on their particular need or interest. This is done through the link-to-link-to-link "hopping" navigation that -- quite frankly -- you just can't match with printed works.
2) Wikis are a much faster method of getting information to the consumer. Consider this: if I'm writing a book, it goes through it's first draft, then to an editor, then back to me for revision, then back to the editor again for final proofing before publication (and that's best case scenario), before you can place your order and have it sent to you within 4-6 weeks. With a wiki, the same author can post their contribution to the wiki, where it can be edited not only by the editors but also by fellow subject matter experts, all while being available to you from the time the author clicked the "submit" button.
3) We're still in a "phase one" with contributions, but once we start seeing content such as audio and video contributions to the product wikis, it will be apparent as to why this method of information dissemination is considered by some as the preferred method.
Back on topic though:
@Ed, thanks for the info and the links!
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David H | 11/18/2009 2:26:07 PM
You can extend that even to the standard help databases. Once upon a time, you could view the help databases in a book format. You could also search the help database and when you found the document you were looking for and you wanted to read the rest of the chapter on that topic, no problem. Each document had fields identifying the section and chapter information where it could be found in the book format. (before R7 or R6, depending on which help database: admin, client, designer) Even better, you could just hold down the Ctrl key and click the book view. It would open that view with the focus on the same document and you could then see where it is in the book format to read the rest of the chapter. However, that keyboard shortcut no longer works in help either. It went the way of the Alt-Left Arrow and Alt-Right Arrow.
In the end, these two documents are quite helpful. I'm just trying to figure out how to take it to read on the bus ride home without a battery-powered device.
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Paul Thomas | 2/18/2010 11:54:02 AM
As a time limited administrator, I must admit I much prefer paper to get an overview of a subject. The Wikis are great and are the place to get into the detail. But you can't read much on a little Blackberry screen on a train home :-)
I've come across a new book written by IBM employees, but not under the IBM banner - 'IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1'
So far its been easy reading and a good high level overview of the new features since ND8. It's refreshing to see references to 3rd party products used with Domino. Should take me another week to finish so I'll post a review.
Ed:
I always find information like this so helpful, but I have an issue with the way these things are published. The wiki format is fine if one is grazing, but it's a real pain if you want to read "cover-to-cover." I understand that this format is cheaper to publish than the old hard-bound or on-disk. It would really be great if these were published in PDF, so that one could read them on a tablet, smart phone or print them out.