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IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration

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IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration

Overview of this book

When the IT strategy calls for maximizing the value of social software for building effective teams, neither social networking nor team collaboration is sufficient on its own. Lotus Quickr Team Collaboration software delivers the promise of social software; but ensuring that a business's social networking site is compliant can be daunting. This book will help you ensure effective and efficient team collaboration by building a solid social infrastructure with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5. The book will familiarize system administrators with all the information they need to install, upgrade, and manage IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5. You will also learn to leverage social software principles to foster diverse teams in an interconnected world. This book will help you break virtual boundaries and remove the impediments to the development of high-performance teams through the use of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5. This practical book starts off by providing you with a clear, detailed walkthrough of key concepts including collaboration beyond document management, and adopting social collaboration in an enterprise. We then examine the product architecture of Lotus Quickr services and provide a walkthrough of deployment aspects of Lotus Quickr to provide a scalable environment through clustering. We cover some of the basic tools used to set up and manage the IBM Lotus Quickr server along with unique methods for upgrading to the latest 8.5 version. We provide you with an in-depth look at the concepts of Lotus Quickr Connectors deployment, management, and a new capability around Windows-based single sign-on to solve a variety of problems. By the end of this book, you will be able to build a well-executed social collaboration platform that delivers the productivity edge needed to succeed in the digitally interconnected business world of today.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Upgrading IBM Lotus Domino


Once the base level is there, do you need to upgrade Domino to the latest version that runs Quickr 8.5 (http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27009740)? Before you start upgrading your Domino server, we should step back a minute and review some key items that should be considered:

  1. 1. Your 'Corporate Names' and 'Address Book', contained in the names.nsf file should be the priority, always. If you are already at the latest version of Domino then, there is no need to worry. However, if you are on an older version and are therefore using an older template for your names.nsf, you need to plan for the upgrade across all of your servers.

  2. 2. You should check the On-Disk Structure or ODS version that your Domino files are running and bring all important databases, such as names.nsf and any existing places, to the latest version which is 51(as of 8.5). A small change to many, but not upgrading decreases your servers performance.

  3. 3. If you have used LDAP integration...