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Serdar Basegmez
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XPages problems after 8.5.2 upgrade!
Last week, I posted about the fastest upgrade of my life. Murphy's law worked again... "A working program is one that has only unobserved bugs ."
Now there are two serious problems with XPages applications that were designed for 8.5.1...
Fixed causeless server crashes: Some tips for admins
For a couple of weeks, a server in my customer's remote location were crashing intermittently. We couldn't find any specific reason, but we did fix it. How?
I'd like to summarize this incident, in order to give some tips and tricks for non-experienced domino administrators about what one can do in these situations...
Old fashion document selection....
Beginning with Lotus Notes 8 version, the new document selection method is very annoying for many users. As you 'noticed', we cannot select documents by 'checking' them anymore. I didn't notice before but a nice tip published in Lotus Notes 8.x Tips blog suggests how to bring back old-fashioned selection mark.
Using XPages or not! HTTPJVMMaxHeapSize is very important!
Last week, IBM released an important technote...
System Admins may play with the memory usage of JVM, especially those dealing with limited memory issues. Moreover, as of release 8.5.2, JVM heap size will be decreased by default. It is better to have precautions before upgrade.
Chain Smart Upgrade for Series of Upgrades
We prefer using smart upgrade during our large deployments. I would like to summarize some issues with the mechanism in this little post. I would be happy if you also share your experiences.
DAOS may not be efficient sometimes
Always saying that we will have disk space savings around 30% using DAOS. But in some specific cases, the feature causes remarkable extra disk usage.
About a month ago, we have implemented DAOS for a customer with 6-7 servers. Yesterday, we have been surprised analyzing some servers to see how much space gained by DAOS feature.
ID Vault Upload/Download Problems
ID Vault is one of the most important features introduced in release 8.5. It provides remarkable opportunities to solve some annoying problems of system administrators.
Administrators who implement ID Vault feature, mostly deals with ID Download/Upload issues. Therefore I have decided to create this post to share my experiences about these issues. Since ID Vault is a very new feature, there are lots of problems specific to notes and domino version. As you read the rest of the post, you will notice that getting the latest version of the client and server software (8.5.1 FP1) is a very good idea.