Smart Upgrade should have received more than a go look at the administration help link. The 8.5.1 book appears to go into some of these topics in a little more detail but still not as much as a junior admin would need. Names.nsf updates, templates, Traveler updates (and subsequent notes.ini and internet site documents which may need editing) among other basic issues receive little or no discussion. Unfortunately, we get little around the actual upgrading process itself.While in general Domino upgrades go smoothly for experienced admins, there are countless issues to be discussed and the authors touch on some of these but without practical instruction leaving the reader to go look up more details. Overall, an excellent guide to What's new in the 8.5.x stream and how they interact with the client and server from an admin, developer and user perspective. Given 2 out of the 3 authors are from ISSL, the IBM Global Services Lotus arm, we get the benefits of an outline or workflow to follow when setting up the project to do the upgrades. The 2 chapters dedicated to upgrading (Chapter 7) and co-existence among releases (Chapter 8) are a very high level overview. Chapter 10 is about the integration with other IBM products and Chapter 11 is solely about the DCT. In fact that is the 1st 6 chapters alone as well as Chapter 9 on development topics. The book goes into a reasonable explanation of the changes in the 8.5. My feeling is the second half of that statement is the truth. And additionally could be read by management looking for a high level understanding of the new options. The back cover says this book was written for power users, admins and developers looking to upgrade to 8.5.3. Two of the three of these gentlemen previously published the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 The Upgrader's Guide as well.
The book follows the usual Packt logic and formats which have proven to be pretty good from my experience as an author with them and a reader/reviewer. It was written by some IBMers named Tim Speed, Scott O'Keefe and Barry Rosen. I have been an author for them and reviewer in the past, just for full disclosure.
Packt asked me to review this book, they sent me a soft cover copy.
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