I’m writing this post to help some soul out there. There are lots of organizations that get themselves into multiple Domino point release upgrades and avoid upgrading the design of their NAB because it’s too much work, or they’ve forgotten the design changes they’ve made and don’t want to break anything, or too busy, or….

Our organization was in that state, and I’ve been working for the last 2 weeks to find the changes, customize a clean 6.5.6 template and roll it out. It’s actually been a pretty large chunk of work getting it right.

I found a big gotcha today when I tried to roll it out to my production environment.
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Posted by david, filed under Administration, Designer, NAB, Replication. Date: August 19, 2008, 6:10 pm | 2 Comments »

Today while setting up a replication connection between some busy hubs that provide webmail access, route outbound SMTP traffic, and replicate databases, plus are named as the home server for some databases – both clustered
…to a new remote server cluster in America that serves as a mail server, and soon to be webmail server.

I was trying to increase the efficiency of the replication between the busy hubs, the slow network connection, and the remote mail server, so that mailbox replication would be as fast as possible.

The current webmail server is located on the hubs for these remote mail servers (a trick through DNS and the webmail redirect).

Posted by david, filed under Cluster, Connection Docs, Replication, Tricks. Date: September 7, 2007, 8:16 am | No Comments »