In place upgradation from 9.0.1 to 9.0.3

[MontoN]

Dear All,

Is below mentioned POA is good for EV for Domino ugradation from 9.0.1 to 9.0.3.

Sr. No.	Activity
1	Backup the Vault data
2	Backup the enterprise Vault installation folder
3	Run the Deployment scanner
4	Set VSA account datbase owner
5	Allow all MSMQ queues to empty
6	Disable archiving and expiry schedules
7	Log on to EV server as Vault service account
8	Stop Enterprise Vault services and all other services
9	Stop any other services or applications that use Enterprise Vault e.g. EV admin console
10	Close all runnning applications on servers e.g. Computer management, Windows services etc.
11	Shutdown Domino server and Notes client.
12	After ensuring that all relevent services and appliactions are down, please install EV 9.0.3
13	Work through the installation to upgrade the enterprise vault components.
14	Restart the server and wait till installer will complete the upgrade.
15	Upgrade the Directory database by starting Directory service.
16	Start storage service and upgrade the storage database.
17	Backup the upgarded EV databases
18	Start all the Enterprise Vault services.
19	Stop all the Enterprise Vault services and all other services and applications.
20	Backup Lotus Domino and Lotus notes installation folders
21	Upgrade Lotus Domino server and notes to version 8.5.2 FP2
22	Restart the server
23	Start all the Enterprise Vault services.
24	Start the Domino server.
25	Install the Evinstall.nsf to upgrade EV mail template and Web forms

[GertjanA]

Hi,

When you have disabled archiving, create a backup of the EV-databases. (step 6a, or 8a)

8 stop and disable EV admin service (stops other services too)

17 backup ALL ev databases again.

As remark, why do you not upgrade to 9.05? This is the latest SP available, and has more fixes and updates.

[MontoN]

There are some other plans in managements mind and hence there are upgrading it to 9.0.3.

Thanks you very much for your reply, Sir.

[MontoN]

Sir,

Is this the right POA, after adding your points!

Sr. No.	Activity
1	Backup the Vault data
2	Backup the enterprise Vault installation folder
3	Run the Deployment scanner
4	Set VSA account datbase owner
5	Allow all MSMQ queues to empty
6	Disable archiving and expiry schedules
7	Log on to EV server as Vault service account
8	Stop and disable Enterprise Vault services and all other services
9	Create a Backup of EV SQL databases
10	Stop any other services or applications that use Enterprise Vault e.g. EV admin console
11	Close all runnning applications on servers e.g. Computer management, Windows services etc.
12	Shutdown Domino server and Notes client.
13	After ensuring that all relevent services and appliactions are down, please install EV 9.0.3
14	Work through the installation to upgrade the enterprise vault components.
15	Restart the server and wait till installer will complete the upgrade.
16	Upgrade the Directory database by starting Directory service.
17	Start storage service and upgrade the storage database.
18	Backup all EV SQL databases
19	Start all the Enterprise Vault services.

[Aziz_K]

Domino archiving does not use MSMQ, so you don't need to worry about step 5.  You will also need to perform step 20 through 25 from your original POA.

[MontoN]

Thank you very much!