In Notes 6.0 and 6.5.0, a bug was introduced that caused the mail file to open very slowly when users were moved to new hierarchical certifiers. Well the typical fix for this have been to simply to sign the database with either the user's id if they have Manager access, or to use the Server's ID and sign it with the that.
Well in 7.0.2, this bug was reintroduced. I have two clients who have had this problem appear again. Well the tell told fix of signing didn't fix it. One of the clients called Lotus who told them to upgrade the client. Well this week, I'm in Malaysia, and found that this customer too had the same issue. They took a different approach when they encountered this with problem. The simply upgraded the folder design. So I started digging into how to do this and found the answer in the Admin client.
In this migration, we are renaming users, the servers that they are on, and then moving the server to the new domain. So what I came up with was the use of the -u switch one the load convert command. As I finish the rename the process, I issue a load convert -u mail\usermailfile.nsf and it works.
Much easier way to do this than visit hundreds if thousands of workstations to update the client. Not to mention cheaper too.
Perry Hiltz April 24 2008 06:55:26 AM