Issues in Notes and Domino 8.0.1
If you have or are thinking about upgrading to Notes/Domino 8.0.1, please be sure you are familiar with the following issues:
1. Policy settings that you have not configured start applying to users. The safe approach here is to assume that this will impact you and update your directory template code according to the instructions in the Technote linked on the right.
2. You see odd replication behavior after upgrading to 8.0.1, usually manifesting as documents appearing both in the Inbox and in folders to which they were moved. We are tracking several issues with the new Streaming Cluster Replication (SCR) feature. As with the above issue, assume that this will impact you and implement the notes.ini parameter documented in the Technote linked on the right. This feature will be off by default in 8.0.2 and will not be re-enabled until we have a better handle on the situation.
3. The Domino server time may creep ahead of the OS time. This issue is being tracked in SPR DBRH7FRQ6R, and a Technote is forthcoming. There is no current workaround short of restarting the server, but debugging efforts are ongoing.
4. Users are not prompted when their certificates are about to expire. This issue has been fixed in 8.0.2, and hot fixes are available for 8.0.1. Please refer to the linked Technote for more information.
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The Technote for issue #4 is in draft mode and not publicly accessible at this time. The bug is tracked under SPR AALZ7E9QX5.
Chad, glad to see you posting here - welcome!!
We have run into the SCR issue with some clients. It's very strange
the first time you hear about docs reappearing in folders. We have
been recommending this be disabled in upgrades as well.
Looking forward to your blogging!
Other than the SCR issue, documents not appearing in folders is generally caused by mismatched system clocks. ND keeps track of which documents belong to which folders using folder objects that contain chronological entries of insertions and deletions. In the typical Inbox-to-folder example, the note could be delivered on a machine with the correct time and then moved to a folder on a machine that is set behind the real time. Following replication in that scenario, ND will think the operation to add the note to the Inbox occurred most recently, causing it to appear in the Inbox.
@4 - Thanks. Now that I think about it, there was also some time creep happening on these servers as well. But disabling SCR seemed to fix this for us.
@4 - Interesting. We've saw some data this week that seemed to link the time creep issue to clustering and were talking this morning about disabling SCR for the time creep issues to see if that made a difference. Given your results, that's now an even more powerful suspicion.
Thanks for posting very timely. Training a new admin and going crazy trying to figure out #4. Eagerly anticipating 8.0.2.
Elijah