Upgrading Domino mailbox archiving

This section describes how to upgrade Domino mailbox archiving.

To upgrade Domino mailbox archiving

  1. Use the Domino Administrator to sign the Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0 - Domino Installer (EVInstall.nsf) with the ID of the user that will be used to run it.

  2. Do the following on the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway, in the order listed:

    • Ensure that you have the correct Notes client and hotfixes required.

    • Run EVInstall.nsf.

    • In the application page, select the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway and a target Domino mail server.

    • Select Modify Domino Web Access Forms Files.

    • If you intend to make Vault Cache available to users, select Install Vault Cache.

    • Click Install Symantec Enterprise Vault 9.0 database design templates to start the process.

      The application takes several minutes to create the new Enterprise Vault templates.

    • On the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway and the Domino mail server where the database design templates were created, run the Designer task to update the Enterprise Vault design templates with design elements inherited from their corresponding master templates.

      To run the Designer task, enter the appropriate command in the server console, as follows:

      On a Domino 8.5 Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway

      No action required.

      On a Domino 8.0.x Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway

      No action required.

      On a Domino 8.0.x mail server

      No action required.

      On a Domino 7.0 Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway

      load design -f EVDG_DWA7.ntf

      On a Domino 7.0 mail server

      load design -f EV_DWA7.ntf

      On a Domino 6.5.x mail server

      load design -f EV_iNotes6.ntf

  3. Deploy the templates created on the Domino mail server to each of the target Domino mail servers that has the same Domino Server version. For example, if you ran EVInstall.nsf against a Domino Server 7.0.2 target server, deploy the templates to all Domino Server 7.0.2 mail servers.

    Deploy the templates by creating replicas of the Enterprise Vault mail templates and running Load Design on each mail server.

    (It is important that you copy the templates created on the Domino mail server and not those created on the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway.)

  4. If you have other target mail servers with different Domino Server versions (for example, 7.0.3), do the following until you have deployed the templates to all mail server targets:

    • Run EVInstall.nsf on the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway again.

    • In the application page, clear the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway selection.

    • Select a target Domino mail server.

    • If you require DWA, select Modify Domino Web Access Forms Files.

    • If you intend to make Vault Cache available to users, select Install Vault Cache.

    • Click Install Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0 database design templates to start the process.

  5. Deploy the templates and run Load Design as before, on each mail server.

    Note that this command updates all databases on the server. It may be quicker to restrict the scope of the command so that it updates just those databases that need changing. In this case, use the Load Design -I or -d or -f switches to update all Enterprise Vault mail databases that have had any of the following templates applied to them:

    • ev_dwa*.ntf

    • ev_iNotes*.ntf

    • ev_Mail*.ntf

    See the Domino help for more information about Load Design switches.

  6. If necessary, upgrade Notes 7 on Enterprise Vault servers to Notes 8.0 or Notes 8.5.

    If you have upgraded from a version of Enterprise Vault earlier than 8.0 SP2, the retention folder functionality may affect the permissions that the archiving task requires. The minimum permissions that are required depend on which version of Notes is installed on the Enterprise Vault server on which the archiving task runs.

    The simplest way to provide the required permissions is to install Notes 8 on each Enterprise Vault server that runs a Domino archiving task. If you do not want to install Notes 8, you may need to change the permissions on all mail files.

    See the section 'Granting the Domino archiving user access to mail files' in Installing and Configuring.

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