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Browse All TopicsI need to upgrade 200+ workstations, from Lotus Notes 6 & 7, to 8.0.2. Currently, all of our Lotus Notes clients have their '\notes\data' folder (which contains the mailbox ID file, email data files, etc.) stored on each users' own home network drive (G:\). Of course, the program files are stored locally, on 'C:\'.
I need to deploy the new Lotus Notes 8.0.2 client to each user workstation. I can do this just fine. However my department will have to manually go into each workstation, and modifiy the notes.ini file, in the local 'notes' folder, to point to 'g:\notes\data'.
I need a way to deploy this upgrade, and have it work for the user, unattended. I'm not much on scripting, but I figure there must be a way to autonomously modify that 'notes.ini' file, to point to 'g:\notes\data', after the installation has been completed.
I have included the contents of a notes.ini file, under 'code' (checkout line 9). Thanks, in advance, for your help. Please let me know if I need to provide additional information.
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Read this, it discusses Smart Upgrade:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.co
Hi there paydfody,,,
I understood from your question that you want to avoid visiting each user and make the upgrade on his/her workstation .
>>>>I need a way to deploy this upgrade, and have it work for the user, unattended<<<
However, as far as I know that with Lotus Notes 8.x there is another ,nice supported way you can let the users access their emails with out even visiting them and this is an IE based one called ( iNotes Domino Web Access) .So, all what the user has to do is to click his/her IE , type his user ID and password (internet password ) and he can check his emails as he/she used to do with the Lotus notes client and no need any more for the userIDs ..... if you are interested in going for this way refer to this :
http://publib.boulder.ibm.
It is a very handy ....
Best Wishes
akhafaf - iNotes or DWA depending upon version is very good for a web based email client.... but it is a bit like suggsting someone uses googlemail or hotmail instead of all their Corporate Outlook and applications. Many people don't understand Notes (manly the idiotic companies that replace it with Outlook, Sharepoint, SAP, SQL and a huge development team...) but it is SO much moe than just mail.
Changing an INI file is fairly easy.... but storing the whole data directory on a network drive is very wasteful f resources and potentially dodgy as you are putting things like your cache.dsk files on a network drive. I have seen this done before (for instance in a company above who is "replacing" Notes with the other stuff...) and also used related methods myself in the past in the days of R4/5: http://www.dragon-it.co.uk
There shouldn't really be a lot you need in the local directory any more and would suggest lookng at the roaming capabilites if you want people to be able to logon on different machines.
That said if you are happy with how it is working go ahead and use some string replacement to change the INI file.
Steve
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by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2009-08-26 at 16:22:41ID: 25193297
I think I never had to modify the notes.ini file when I installed Note using the standard setup program. So how are you planning to execute the upgrade? Do you intend to use Smart Upgrade?