Notes 8.5: No Designer When Running in Basic Mode

Just a hint; i guess, Notes is working as designed.

I have Notes 8.5 Standard client with Designer and Administrator installed and added UseBasicMode=1 to notes.ini to start the client in Basic Mode. Then I opened my mailfile and clicked “View – Agents”.

This is, what I found in the statusbar:

Highlighting important information related to File Server Roaming in Notes and Domino 8.5

This document answers the following questions:

• What is File Server roaming?
• How does File server roaming differ from Domino server roaming?
• How does an administrator configure (“upgrade”) a user to roam using a file server?
• How does an administrator “downgrade” a user from file server roaming?

Domino 8.5 and Compact

After upgrading 2 production servers to Domino 8.5 yesterday, I found this entry on the console when running a compact -c on the users mail mailfiles.

I have seen this on several databases, but the amount of KB (  ~ + 11MB ) surprised me. Can someone explain this behaviour, pls?

All databases had ODS48 format with LZ1 compression and design and document compression enabled.