When you upgrade your servers, you are likely to upgrade some or all of the standard templates: Domino Directory, Mail, Resource & Reservations, Discussion, and so on. There are three major steps you need to perform to ensure compatibility throughout your upgrade process:
1. Review code
2. Customize new templates
3. Recompile script libraries
These steps are logical and sensible, but easily overlooked in the hustle and bustle of upgrading servers, clients, and your own customized application code.
The first step is to know what code has changed between your old templates and the new (release 7) templates, and simply to test your client mix (as most customers will not upgrade every single client simultaneously) against these new features/templates. You can determine the code differences by running a utility that will break down all design changes. (See Appendix A for more information about tools.) After you determine what code has changed, you must perform...