Smart upgrade run as does not work for the 8.5 -> 8.5.1 Multi User client

After a week of trying, we can confirm that SURUNAS does not work when you attempt to upgrade from 8.5 to 8.51 Multiuser.

You get multiple error messages and it appears the only work-around is to give users Local Administrator access prior to performing a normal Smart Upgrade. Power user access is not enough, it must be Local Administrator access. This can be done with a Group Policy Object in AD.

Please note that this information relates to attempting to upgrade a 8.5 multi-user client to 8.5.1 multi-user. If you have different clients your milage will vary.

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Anybody ever got Smart Upgrade Run As Utility to work.

We have been trying for a while to get this utility to work so that non-power users can upgrade their client but it appears to be broken.

It seems like a lot of people are having problems . We are at a point now that we are convinced it does not work. We can only get as far as:

Has anyone out there ever got this too work ?

Kind regards,

Adam

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Is Notes 8.51 the World's most modern ICE client ?

Now that the GFC is lifting, a number of organisations I know are undertaking "Modernisation Projects".

This typically involves looking a Windows 7, and more often than not, installing Exchange and Outlook.

But it got me thinking, Is Outlook 2007 really more modern than Notes 8.5.1 ? Is it? I think not. There might be a couple of things it does better, but overall, and above all, it remains an email client. Notes is much, much more.

So "Is Notes 8.51 the World's most modern ICE client" ? If it is, maybe it should be marketed that way.

Centrelink finally retires Smartsuite

For the last 15 odd years,Centrelink (the Australian Commonwealth Services Delivery Agency) has been using Lotus Smartsuite. 26,000 copies install across the organisation.

This month they change over to Microsoft Office 2007.

I think the fact that the product has been able to survive this long in the organisation show what an amazing job the software engineers and programmers did when they developed it. The product hasn't changed for ten years, yet the features it offers and the integration it has with Notes are still very advanced. To those developers, I salute you!

When Al Zollar put a sword through Smartsuite's development 10 years ago he canned an awesome product and handed the market to Microsoft for a large number of years.

In Janurary of this year Centrelink deployed Notes 8.02 with the Symphony productivity editors, so I guess Centrelink staff will soon have two World Class office productivity solutions to create documents and develop presentations. Lucky them..

RIP Smartsuite.

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