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Lotus says don’t upgrade from 6.5.4.to 8 ??


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After numerous cities with the ND8 Upgrade Seminar, where we show how to do numerous things, including upgrading your Domino Directory, in a supported fashion, before the domain is totally finished.  Well one of our wise attendees was following the directions as they have done before, and received some disturbing news from Lotus support:

Having a R8 directory on a 6.5.4 server is not supported.  Problems that can occur are corruption, data loss and performance issues.

What data loss? What performance? What corruption?  We can find no technote, article, posting or nothing that resembles this statement from Lotus Support.

I am upgrading servers and domains like crazy and have not seen a hint of this issue anywhere.  Anyone?