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Final DST comments before it happens


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So as I take the flight to Frankfurt for the (current) final city of the Real-Time Collaboration Seminar, I was reading emails that I had replicated before taking off.  I attempted to get a podcast out this week, but, for lack of better words, ran out of time.  The random issues we encountered at each site was time consuming and frustrating at times.

  • THE BIGGIE: We found that the .5 release of the agent had a 'bug' that the agent was processing faster than the document collection.  So this means it possibly could miss some documents while getting others, in the same mailfile.  This meant revisiting our heaviest calendar users again at the end of this week after the big changes on Apr 25th we performed.
  • We had certain resources never take the time changes while others did in the same resources.nsf database
  • We had appointments scattered across patched and unpatched machines like a great attempt at humor
  • We had users parent documents for repeating meetings acting funny when the children documents fell into the new time changes
  • Until the .7 release of the agent the script errors were causing us major headaches
  • We had a site apply the OS patches with the Domino servers running and never had restarted them.  Even through the DST patches we applied in Domino.  So they suddenly were in Baja, California for all their meetings.

This didn't sneak up on anyone, we all just waited till the last minute to start worrying.  Software vendors didn't roll patches  until Nov 2006 for the OS and February 2007 for some applications.  This put testing in a time crunch.  This falls back to careful planning, testing and implementations.

Have no fear, we will all live through it, alibi a little late or early for meetings.  So no harsh words for your administration team, I am sure they worked their butts off by the volume of emails and questions I received the past few weeks.  Not to mention that the DST podcast with Scott Vrusho of Lotus  is the 2nd largest download in the IdoNotes podcasts. (now don't mention it to Scott, he thought no one listened to it until he started getting emails and phone calls, LOL).  So buy them a lunch instead, most worked late into the nights.