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Comments on the ND7 Upgrade last US city

by Chris Miller at 10:20:44 AM on Monday, June 12th, 2006

I promised to blog last week from the conference and did not. Time flew and I kept saying, I will do it shortly. Plus, my posting announcing the conference didn't even post for some odd reason. I republished that 6/7 posting today and it worked.

So, attendance was great. The attendees were great. Now for the specs.

Very few running Domino 7 out of the group. A few test servers here and there, but no real production yet. Domino 5 was still running in a few shops. The session on Domino Domain Monitoring was well received as many had no investigated the abilities it had to offer. There was great interest in the Sametime 7.5 product, people were asking about what it would offer them. They were not pleased to hear that the integrated client would not see many of those features. Understandable since many run Sametime not just for the awareness, but the free chat services of the IMLU.

Side questions are the ones that interest me most. What I mean is questions that do not get asked in front of everyone, but are brought to us as presenters on the side when there is a break or lunch. I had a couple on SMTP, a couple on Nomad and a few on various issues/problems that are always unique to that persons environment. There was one I have to investigate and get back to them. Looking at Stats and DDM is there anyway to see diskspace on AIX and monitor it? Novell and Windows are covered in there.

I also pushed some people to forgo the upgrade from 6.5.x to 6.5.5 or so and go into Domino 7.0.1 instead. The upgrade is simple and straightforward, so why waste the time with the in-between point version that requires just as much of an outage?

P.S. Dinner was awesome the nights I was there. We went off the beaten path to Tufano's with Jon Raslowski of IBM. Excellent Italian food and they only take cash and checks, amazing in itself. Another night of dinner was spent at Star of Siam for Thai food. Hot, spicy and excellent. Close walking distance to the hotel we were in and we were lucky enough to get a seat the moment we walked in. I took pictures of Cirque Shanghai that we caught the second night they were there. The first was sold out to dignitaries and the such. Impressive acts (well we could stand to lose Marco Polo) and very affordable show. No reason to sit in the first few rows for the extra few dollars, as all seats are great in that outdoor amphitheater. From reading reviews and such, they made over 400 costumes for the performers across the different acts for the show.

Location: St. Louis, MO

1) Comments on the ND7 Upgrade last US city
Created by Richard Rodriguez at 6/12/2006 12:07:02 PM email |

Hi Chris, I’m glad I attended your seminar here in Chicago. I must admit I left the seminar knowing that the 7 upgrade would be very beneficial for my company and realize I have much to do to prepare for this project.

Thanks Again,

Richard Rodriguez

Lotus Notes Administrator

2) Comments on the ND7 Upgrade last US city
Created by iiq374 at 6/12/2006 2:44:40 PM email | website

I find it strange that so few are running 7.0 yet.

Surely people have realised by now what a huge difference each release has been over the previous one? I would never look back from 5 to 4, from 6 to 5 or even 6.5 to 6.0 --> Each time there has been a release out it has been installed in our test bed immediately and put through its paces.

There is also the advantage on the advantage on the client side that I and a couple of power users can usually test those against the old servers for a while anyway so we can frequently get the client upgrades done while still waiting for signoff on the server. Upgrading is one thing that Notes / Domino does so well why would you delay?

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