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Wikipedia “Lotus Connections is often described as the leading product in enterprise social software market”

A while ago I posted my steps to upgrade DB2 from fix pack 4
to fix pack level 5. As this is an requirement for installing the
Lotus Connections 2.0.1 update.

Finally found some time to upgrade the Lotus Connections setup
at our company. I needed some more planning because our Connections
environment is used more and more by my colleagues at e-office.
What of course is a good cause, away from the Notes databases
up to Lotus Connections .

In my post for upgrading DB2 to fix pack level 5, I assumed that in case
of an upgrade you had to use the full install package of LC 2.0.1  ( C1L0ZML ).

But after reading the post from Luis Benitez about upgrading to LC 2.0.1
I found out that you will have to use other software packages in case
of an upgrade.

- C1L12ML
- Fix LC 2.0.1 + LotusConnectionsUpdateInstaller 2.0.1 + latest iFixes for 2.0.1

Check the PDF doc. for how I got my hands on this software.

Here is the PDF with the steps I took to upgrade our Connections setup
from LC 2.0 fixpack 1 to LC 2.0.1 + all required iFixes for LC 2.0.1.

upgrade-lc-201-linux

One important note for the upgraders is that the upgrade will
overwrite a number of your files in the LotusConnections-Config directory.

Below are the files that changed in my upgrade situation, they
will need some re-configuring after the upgrade.

FILE notification-config.xml
// Overwrites the e-mail addresses configured on whose be halve
// notification mails are sent
FILE profiles-config.xml
// Thing configured like additional profile fields, Sametime awareness,
// first name search are overwritten. Also things like edited labels in
// the property files are overwritten during the update process.
FILE LotusConnections-config.xml
// This files seems to be left intact, all of my entered URLS where kept.

After the Lotus Connections upgrade to level 2.0.1 the Global Search function
of the Homepage finally works ok.

Here are some handy scheduling lines to use in Global Search for doing a
index on every part of Connections.

They are configured to do an index every 15 min. between 7 AM and 8 PM.

<WAS_HOME>\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\<name>Node01Cell\LotusConnections-config\

FILE homepage-config.xml
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexActivities” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”activities”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexBlogs” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”blogs”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexCommunities” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”communities”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexDogear” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”dogear”/>
</task>
<task interval=”0 1/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI” name=”IndexProfiles” startby=”0 5/15 7-20 ? * MON-FRI”>
<connectionsService name=”profiles”/>
</task>

FILE

I just edited this file by hand, works fine for me. The InfoCenter is giving you some lines how to achieve this with the wsadmin script. But at the end the result is the same.

In both cases don’t forget to restart the Homepage was server.

A couple of days ago IBM released Lotus Connections 2.0.1.

The package is released as a full install and a update in one.

So you can use this package to upgrade your current LC 2.0 install our to do a fresh install from scratch.

Most important for the people already aware with Connections and waiting
to press that update button for this 2.0.1 upgrade is the question what has changed!

Luis Benitez has summed op some issues that have been fixed and new things that have been added

http://www.lbenitez.com/2008/11/lotus-connections-v201-is-here.html

Mitch Cohen also did some posting about the new 2.0.1 release, he is mentioning
one of the new features, QuickR integration.

For now this feature will only work with the quickR J2EE version, integration with the Domino QuickR version will come at a later point in time.

http://www.curiousmitch.com/CuriousMitch/mitch2.nsf/d6plinks/MCON-7KWRGK

IBM already updated their info center with all the facts about installing and upgrading LC 2.0.1.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ltscnnct/v2r0/index.jsp

Here is the download document for 2.0.1.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24020963

Below the URL with the system requirements for Lotus Connections 2.0.1, one of the reqs that has changed ( and for what I have read the only thing ) is that your DB2 setup should be up to fixpack level 5.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27013762

Below are the steps that I took to upgrade our current DB2 9 fp 4 setup to level 5.

install-db2-9-fp5-linux