Upgrading client workstations: a necessary phase in an evolving Lotus Notes environment

The requirements users have for their client environment change constantly, resulting inevitably in the upgrade of their most popular applications. Lotus Notes 8.0 and 8.5.x have redefined the meaning of collaborative working with a new, richly intuitive and contextual interface.
But the version increments of Lotus Notes clients also entrain a series of problems, of which the difficulty is proportional to the number of workstations.
These problems are in part related to constraints specific to previous versions of the Lotus Notes client:

Increased minimum hardware requirements (CPU, memory, disk space)

A large (500Mb) installation/upgrade package which needs be deployed to each workstation
Added to these constraints, are all those which stem from changing a collaborative application critical to the business and its employees.
 

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This control is achieved through:
An accurate estimation of the workload: this in itself implies a precise knowledge of the configuration of each workstation in the IT estate, and its capacity (or lack of capacity) to receive the new version and any patches.  The administration team must also be able to separate the estate into according to the properties of the workstations.
A rapid deployment of the new package: to all workstations which correspond to a minimum standard for the new version. 
Identification and management of risks: notably the impact to the network of the download of the update files.
The Quality of Service and availability of the messaging system 
The standardisation of client configurations
The automation and industrialisation of the tasks
Centralised monitoring and management of all steps of the project

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