Notes 8 installed and I'm down with it!
I installed Notes 8 this morning after installing Domino 8 on our production server and I'm liking it! I'm also running a customized version of the Notes 8 mail template (I refuse to call it "mail experience") and it's über cool! No issues with the installation or any existing applications so far. It has been smooth sailing.
I don't know what I was expecting performance wise as previous builds have been running in virtual machines but I have been very pleasantly surprised. The client is snappy and much faster than the beta builds. I'm leaning towards it actually being faster than my Notes 7.0.2 install. I installed the whole package incl. Designer, Administrator, CA editor, activities and productivity editors and all is running on my old IBM Thinkpad T41p.
Installing the client in the morning is tough as I gotta stay focused since there is also work to be dealt with. I wonder what that button does - more later... ;-)
IdoNotes episode 37: Message Recall
Just finished listening to IdoNotes episode 37 on the message recall feature in Notes 8. Listening to the episode I found it interesting that the functionality is able to distinguish between unread and read messages as it was my understanding that this information was kept in the bookmark.nsf database. It could simply be that the router relies on the fact that unread marks may be replicated as it the case for clustered servers. In any case it means that replication of unread marks must be enabled for mail databases for this functionality to be able to work on unread messages. Just a thought...
Domino 8 installed on production server
I just finished installing Domino 8 on our main production server and it is currently restarting. As expected I had no issues at all. No reconfiguration has been done so far - for now I'm simply making sure it is up alright and working properly. I'm really forward to getting my hands on it.
Next up is installing Notes 8 on my main production laptop.