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FB: Backing up Freebusy before an upgrade - Duplicate(Unpublished)
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FB: Backing up Freebusy before an upgrade - Duplicate(Unpublished)
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Backing up your Freebusy setup before an upgrade

Solution

It is always Best Practice when upgrading to a new version of any software to take a backup of the existing settings. This will allow you to restore the software back to a known state without doing a system restore. In addition you are able to document the settings for future reference.

Upgrading Binary Tree Freebusy.
The upgrade should not take very long and should preserve most settings using the connections.config and web.config files. Please keep in mind that the installation must also be run on the Domino COEX server. Although this part of the installation is not time critical it should be done as soon as possible after upgrading the IIS server.
Tasks to perform on the IIS server

1. Backup Binary Tree Folder under Program Files.
2. Check that the Default Application Pool is set to support 32bit.
3. Check Default Web Site bindings.
4. Check Autodiscover connection strings.
5. Check Autodiscover Application Settings.
6. Check BTAvailability connection strings.
7. Check BTAvailability Application Settings.
8. Check BTRouter connection strings.
9. Check BTRouter Application Settings.
10. Make a copy of the connections.config and web.config files for Autodiscover, BTAvailability and BTRouter.
11. Document the account used in the BTCOEX_DEFAULT_FB_ACCESS_ACCOUNT setting in the Notes.ini file.
12. Ensure the BTCOEX_FOREIGN_WS_URL parameter is known prior to the upgrade (the fully qualified hostname please refer to the Comprehensive User Guide for further questions
13. Validate the account used by the setFBcred utility credentials are known (if running O365) (defined by the EWS-username within Application Setting-BTAvailability virtual directory in IIS

1. Back-up Binary Tree Folder under Program Files

This is a simple File System copy.

2. Check the Default Application Pool to support 32bit. Application Pools.

The DefaultAppPool should always have Enable 32-Bit Applications set to true.

3. Check Default Web Site bindings.

It is important that the site is bound to SSL as Microsoft Exchange and O365 requires a SSL connection.

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4. Check Autodiscover connection strings.

Autodiscover(BTAD) – Handles the initial request from Outlook and passes it to the BTRouter.

$Machine generated alternative text: W1211SD8 View Help Start Page Sites Default Web Site Filter: Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager Autodiscover /Autodiscover Home Go • e Show All Group by. A rea W1211SD8 (CORP5\Administrator) Application Pools Sites Default Web Site aspnet_client Autodiscover 9 8TAvaiIabiIit,' 8TRouter 9 Rpc RpcWithCert Ready ASP.NET Authorizat... .NET Users SMTP E-mail Authentic... Redirect Compilation Application Settings Compression Respon... .NET Error Pages Connection Strings Default Document Logging Globalization Machine Key Directory Browsing MIME Types .NET Roles Providers Failed Request Tra... Output Caching .NET Trust Levels Session State Handler Mappings Request Filtering Explore Edit Permissions... Basic Settings... View Vitual Directories Manage Application Browse Application Browse (http) Browse (https) Advanced Settings... Help (6) .NET Profile Pages and Controls Error Pages Modules SSL Settings Features View Content View$

These are the typical settings for Autodiscover.
- Name - domino.corp5.cmtsandbox.com
- Custom - https://autodiscover.domino.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/BTRouter/Exchange.asmx
These are the typical settings for Autodiscover.
- EAD - https://w28ehub13.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml
5. Check Autodiscover Application Settings.

Best Practice is to create subdirectories under C:\Log for Autodiscover, BT Availability and BT Router. To ensue logs are created consider leaving LogAllRequests to True for a few days to ensure the logs are created.

The Autodiscover log will contain requests from Microsoft Exchange or O365.

6. Check BTAvailability connection strings.

BTAvailability(BTAS) – Services the free/busy requests from Domino to Exchange.

These are the typical settings for BTAvailability.
- EWS - https://w28ehub13.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
7. Check BTAvailability Application Settings.

Best Practice is to create subdirectories under C:\Log for Autodiscover, BT Availability and BT Router. To ensue logs are created consider leaving LogAllRequests to True for a few days to ensure the logs are created.

8. Check BTRouter connection strings.

BTRouter(BTAR) – Services the freebusy requests from the Windows Coexistence server to Domino.
- BTAS-NOTES - https://w12dom9coex.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/BTAvailability
- EWS - https://w28ehub13.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
9. Check BTRouter Application Settings.
- map:@domino.corp5.cmtsandbox.com - corp5.cmtsandbox.com
10. Make a copy of the connections.config and web.config files for Autodiscover, BTAvailability and BTRouter.

$Machine generated alternative text: W1211SD8 View Help Start Page Sites Default Web Site Filter: Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager Autodiscover /Autodiscover Home Go • e Show All Group by. A rea W1211SD8 (CORP5\Administrator) JO Application Pools Sites Default Web Site aspnet_client - Autodiscover 9 8TAvaiIabiIlt,' 9 8TRouter RpcWithCert Ready ASP.NET Authorizat... .NET Users SMTP E-mail Authentic... Redirect Compilation Application Settings Compression Respon... .NET Error Pages Connection Strings Default Document Logging Globalization Machine Key Directory Browsing MIME Types .NET Roles Providers Failed Request Tra... Output Caching .NET Trust Levels Session State Handler Mappings Request Filtering Explore Edit Permissions... Basic Settings... View Vitual Directories Manage Application Browse Application Browse (http) Browse (https) Advanced Settings... Help (6) .NET Profile Pages and Controls Error Pages Modules SSL Settings Features View Content View$

$Machine generated alternative text: •\Program Files\Binary Tree\CMT for Coexistence\Autodiscov Home Share View Moue 0 New item Easy access Copy g items Copy path Paste Paste shortcut Clipboard Copy Delete Organize Rename New folder Binary Tree Open • Edit Properties Open Select all Select none Invert selection Select 't This pc Downloads Pictures Videos Floppy Disk Drive (A:) Local Disk 8gInfo inetpub log PerfLogs Program Files Binary Tree CMT for Coexistence A utodiscove r Local Disk Program Files Name CMT for Coexistence Autodiscover Date modified 4/5/2018 11:25 AM 4/5/2018 10:13 AM 4/5/2018 10:13 AM 4/5/2018 10:13 AM 11/28/2018 10:34 4/5/2018 10:13 AM 4/5/2018 AM 4/5/2018 10:13 AM 11/28/2018 Search Autodiscover Type File folder ASMX File XML Document XSL Stylesheet CONFIG File XSL Stylesheet CONFIG File CONFIG File CONFIG File Size A utodiscover .asmx A utodiscover x m Auto discover .xsl connections.con lg Redirect.xsl We b 2007 nfig Web. 2010 .config Web.config g items (Disk free space: 25.8 68) 218 KB Computer$

C:\Program Files\Binary Tree\CMT for Coexistence\Autodiscover
C:\Program Files\Binary Tree\CMT for Coexistence\AvailabilityService
C:\Program Files\Binary Tree\CMT for Coexistence\AvailabilityRouter

11. Document the account used in the BTCOEX_DEFAULT_FB_ACCESS_ACCOUNT setting in the Notes.ini file.

BTCOEX_DEFAULT_FB_ACCESS_ACCOUNT=tom.cruise@corp5.cmtsandbox.com

12. Ensure the BTCOEX_FOREIGN_WS_URL parameter is known prior to the upgrade

BTCOEX_FOREIGN_WS_URL=http://autodiscover.domino.corp5.cmtsandbox.com/BTAvailability/Availability.asmx

$Machine generated alternative text: BTChe ckRe en t BTCOEX FOREIGN WS cons . cmtsandbox.com/BTAvaiIabiIitv/AvaiIabiIitv.asm_x BTCOEX LOGFILE=IBM TECHNICAL SUPPORT\OUTPUT . LOG BTCOEX WS NAME=BTAvai1abi1ity$

13. Validate the account used by the setFBcred utility credentials are known (if running O365) (defined by the EWS-username within Application Setting-BTAvailability virtual directory in IIS

C:\Program Files\Binary Tree\CMT for Coexistence\AvailabilityService\bin

For Exchange environments.

$Machine generated alternative text: Set EWS Credentials 8TAvaiIabiIty A_nodiscover BTRouter BinaryTree IIS Apps AvailabiltyService Autodiscovar AvailabiltyRouter https://w12dom%oex Corp E EWS URL Success https://w28ehub 13 Corp 5 cmtsandb0kcom/EWS/&change asmx C V rogram files\Binary Tree\CMT for config Ioa Success! C XProgram Files\Binary Trae\CMT for CoaxjstanceVvaiIabiIityService\web config loaded$

For O365 Environments.

Binary Tree Support

Btfreebusy, Freebusy, BTAD, BTAS, BTAR, Autodiscovery, Btavailability, BTRouter