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Yesterday IBM released Notes / Domino 9.0 Social Edition in the first public beta.

The amount of information made available to the public is astounding and the quality of the release notes is just great.


At my company (
Factor-y S.r.l.), we're an IBM business partner, we were waiting for this new beta to to the right thing ... Upgrade.

Just a few hours after Paul Mooney
announced his upgrade we completed our.

We updated:

  • The mail production cluster to v. 9.0
  • A separate 9.0 server beta we used for testing
  • The traveler server
Now let's talk about the impacts ...

Full Text Search issues


We are on Linux 64 bit and we moved from Domino 32bit to the newly available Domino 64bit for linux.


If you're doing such a move be sure to delete all the Full Text directories on your server and re-create indexes. Otherwise you'll experience crashes in the libftgtr64.so library (which is the full text indexing library in domino).


Once you're done with this .. no issues or worries.


Domino 9 Social Edition and Connections Mail


I can confirm that after the upgrade Connections Mail (which we're using as part of Connection 4.0) is working with no visible problems.


Domino 9 Social Edition and Lotus Protector


We've deployed Lotus Protector to secure our mail communications. The Notes template integration is intact and works as usual opening up the blocked email list, the blacklist and whitelist views.


Domino 9 Social Edition and the new iOS ToDo App vs Android


I've downloaded and installed the new iOS ToDo App from the iTunes store. I can't get it to work against the Traveler 9.0 beta. I get the "server needs upgrade" message.

My colleague using Android has no issues using the Android client for Traveler and enabling the Todo App.




In general we got to upgrade all of our servers in a few ours. Everything went well and we're now in the process of getting more and more knowledge about the new features.


Next week we'll be working to enable:
  • Embedded Experiences
  • Integration with Connections 4.0 activity stream
  • Deploying the new SBT SDK
  • Create an SBT Applications using the new playground ... (I'm targeting a "basecamp" clone built with XPages and Connections 4.0 services)
Oh... well then we'll start integrating new stuff inside Portal .. we've not yet talked about XPages as iWidgets in WebSphere Portal and about Web Experience Factory + Domino... that's another story.



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Daniele Vistalli December 14th, 2012 18:06:10