UPGRADING TO LOTUS NOTES 6 AND LOTUS DOMINO 6

Preparing to upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 6
Before upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 6, be sure to read the Release Notes, available as a database (README.NSF) for downloading or viewing at http://www.lotus.com/ldd/doc. The Release Notes contain critical technical information, documentation, interoperability issues, and updates that were not available in time to be included in the rest of the documentation.

To prepare for upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 6, consider the following issues that affect upgrading.

Operating system changes

Lotus Notes 6 and the Domino 6 Administrator support the following operating systems:


Organizations running Microsoft Windows 3.1, IBM OS/2(R) Warp, or UNIX systems, which were supported by Lotus Notes 4.6, can continue to run Lotus Notes 4.6 or move to a Lotus Notes 6 supported platform.

Lotus Domino Designer 6 supports the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Professional.

Lotus Domino 6 supports the following operating systems:


Organizations running Lotus Domino on NetWare, which is supported by Lotus Domino 4.6, can continue to run Lotus Domino 4.6 or move to a Lotus Domino 6 supported platform.

Hardware requirements

Be sure to consult the Release Notes for hardware requirements for Lotus Notes/Domino 6. You may need to add capacity to servers or workstations to run Lotus Notes/Domino 6. In addition, features such as transaction logging have additional requirements such as separate drives.

Supported upgrade path

To upgrade to Lotus Notes/Domino 6, your Notes/Domino system should be running Domino 4.6 or later. Upgrade a Domino 4.6 system to the latest Maintenance Release (MR) 4.6.7a before upgrading to Lotus Notes/Domino 6.

If you have designs or templates created prior to Notes/Domino 4.6 in your organization, such as a Notes/Domino 4.5 Names and Address Book or Notes/Domino 4.5 mail files, you must upgrade these designs to at least Notes/Domino 4.6 before upgrading to Notes/Domino 6.

Note To replicate the Domino 6 Domino Directory to Domino 4.6 servers, you must upgrade Domino 4.6 servers to Domino 4.6.7a.

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