February 6th, 2007
SNTT: How to generate a text file with mail file names plus using Policies to set Location Doc settings
Generating a text file listing mail file names
Would you like to quickly and easily generate a list if the mail files on your servers? It's just the kind of thing you might be needing about now - for use with your DST2007 agents. And its not hard at all. Use your old friend the convert server task. If you check your Admin Help guide, you'll see that one of the options for this utility is to run it on a list of files, and it gives you a way to generate that list. The same list can be used for the DST agents. Here's how to do it. Type this at your Domino server console:
load convert -l filename.txt
That's an "L", as in list. The file will be the format you need for the DST agents, and you can take that file and edit it to remove files, split it for running on different directories at different times, etc. If your system isn't Windows, simply name that file to whatever extension is appropriate for your system - it's a text file no matter what your OS is. You'll need to place that file somewhere your DST agents can see them when they run, but with this simple trick, you're in business.
Using a Desktop Policy to set notes.ini and Location parameters
And while you're looking for ways to implement items required for DST upgrades, look at this technote, recently edited to give you the exact steps needed to use policies to push down Location document settings - in this case the setting to ensure that Notes is using the Operating System Time Zone. Check it out.
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=475&uid=swg21196837
