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This weekend, I’ve upgraded 30+ servers in 10 countries. It’s been an all weekend affair, and I spent a pretty good time organizing myself last week.

First, most of our servers were 6.5.6FP2, and we wanted to apply FP3, the DWA for Windows Vista java hotfix, and 6.5.6 FP3 HF29 which fixes the Out of Office agent (OOO is enabled even after user disables it).
We had 4 servers that were 6.5.4, 6.5.5, and 6.5.4FP2. These servers were the only servers that really gave me any problem.
I also wanted to upgrade TrendMicro OfficeScan from 2.6 to 3.0 (only about 4 servers needed this).

I only ran into a couple of gotchas. Here’s how I did it. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, I had quite a bit of fun writing and debugging a weekly maintenance script.

I use this on all of my normal servers, but today, fine tuning this for a partitioned Domino server became a little bit of a challenge.
Tailoring all of the command line input from each of the different commands took a little bit of research.

Thanks to for Jean-Yves Riverin’s FAQ article on NSD
Frequently asked question – How to analyze Notes/Domino NSDs?

I also found other bits on the input method for nserver.exe, ncompact.exe, and nfixup.exe on the Notes/Domino 6 and 7 forum: Read the rest of this entry »

When working on some new partitioned servers today, I saw this on the console of all three servers.

06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.
06/18/2008 04:41:03 PM Router: Connection from server NOTESVN1/DOMAIN not used; Server not found in Domino Directory.

I couldn’t quite figure it out because the 3 partitioned servers I was building/working on had nothing to do with this new cluster that another team member had just built for our Vietnam office. Read the rest of this entry »

I stumbled upon this today while looking for the notes.ini settings on specifying an IP address for a partitioned server (it’s been a long while).

Technote: 1090975
Title: Error “Unable to find path to server” with Notes or Domino on Windows 2000

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* In addition to these options, the NOTES.INI variable DNSServer may be used to override Windows 2000 system name server settings. This option is provided for those System Administrators who do not wish to edit their system’s registry. To specify the name servers to be used by Domino, add the following line to your server’s NOTES.INI file:

DNSServer=IP Address, IP Address

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Why you would want to override a local hosts file setting in Windows NT/2000/2003, I’m unsure. In a perfect world, of course you would always want to use DNS where possible. You would only place an entry in the local hosts file for specific cases, and that’s manual. Why would you want to override something that you’ve manually set.

Unless, what they are saying is that this will force Domino to use DNS every time instead of using the local computer name and/or local hosts file for lookups.
Example: DNSServer=192.168.7.1,192.168.7.2

I haven’t figured out how to put an ideajam into my wordpress blog yet, so here’s is just the link:

Manual replication to all servers in the domain