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Upgrade Central: Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes / Domino 8.0
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Abstract
Lotus software announced the availability of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino version 8.0 in August 2007. This major release contains both defect fixes and new features.

Upgrade Central provides key resources for planning and deploying the next release of your Lotus software. For the latest information about all Lotus software, visit the Upgrade Central Web page at: http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/upgradecentral.
 
Content
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0 (including Domino Web Access) are now available to address issues and provide new features. The following document contains important resources to assist you with your upgrade to Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.
Information about the current status of new releases is available from the Notes/Domino status page. To effectively plan your investment in Lotus Notes and Domino without any breaks in support, please refer to the IBM Software Support Lifecycle page.

Table of contents

  1. Deciding to upgrade
  2. Obtaining the upgrade
  3. Installing the upgrade
  4. Post-upgrade



Deciding to upgrade


Visit the product marketing pages for Lotus Notes and Domino and Lotus Domino Web Access to review features, benefits and offering information, including:
Review articles and product information:
Review technical material:
Obtaining the upgrade


Passport Advantage subscribers have the following options:


New customers and customers with no maintenance agreement have these choices:
Installing the upgrade


The following information is available to assist with your Lotus Domino server installation:


NOTE:
If you are upgrading to Lotus Domino Server 8.0.x, please review the technote titled "Unexpected Desktop Policy settings pushed to clients after upgrade to Domino 8" (#1299046) prior to installation.

The following information is available to assist with your Lotus Notes client (including Domino Designer) installation:
Post-upgrade


The following resources are available for your assistance:

 
 
Cross Reference information
Segment Product Component Platform Version Edition
Messaging ApplicationsLotus NotesInstall/SetupLinux, Windows8.0
Messaging ApplicationsLotus Domino Web AccessNot ApplicableLinux, Windows8.0
Messaging ApplicationsLotus DominoLotus Domino DesignerWindows8.0
 
 

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Document information
 Product categories:
 Software
 Messaging Applications
 Advanced Messaging
 Lotus Domino
 Lotus Domino Server
 Operating system(s):
  AIX, Linux, Linux zSeries, Solaris, Windows 2003, i5/OS, z/OS
 Software version:
  8.0
 Reference #:
  1268146
 IBM Group:
 Software Group
 Modified date:
 2007-08-17

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