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Lotus Notes Upgrade from Versions 6 & 7 to 8.0.2

Asked by: paydfody

I 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.

[Notes]
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KeyFilename=dford.id
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Answers

 

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?

 

by: sjef_bosmanPosted on 2009-08-26 at 16:24:49ID: 25193309

Read this, it discusses Smart Upgrade:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4180.html

 

by: akhafafPosted on 2009-08-27 at 04:30:25ID: 25196698

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.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/H_CUSTOMIZING_INOTES_WEB_ACCESS_FOR_USERS2.html

It is a very handy ....

Best Wishes

 

by: paydfodyPosted on 2009-08-27 at 08:07:47ID: 25199092

Smart Upgrade...is not so smart. It does not provide a way to modify the notes.ini file change the data path. And, the current version on IBM's site, does not work with 8.0.2.

 

by: SysExpertPosted on 2009-08-27 at 09:23:24ID: 25199995

Then write a batch script to change the notes.ini as a part install operation or part of a login script for your domain.

Plenty of examples in the MSDOS and VBscript TAs on how to change a text file via batch file.

I hope this helps !

 

by: SysExpertPosted on 2009-08-27 at 09:25:56ID: 25200021

 

by: dragon-itPosted on 2009-08-28 at 00:12:47ID: 25205521

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/links/notes_on_w2kts.htm by redirecting the individual items.

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

 

by: rrabiePosted on 2009-09-02 at 05:36:46ID: 25240290

Why don't you change the actual setup files to have g:\notes\data as the directory for the data folder.

You can uuse the install shield tuner program available and customize the install to your liking. Then run it in silent mode and use smartupgrade.

 

by: paydfodyPosted on 2009-09-07 at 13:17:24ID: 31620972

After gathering additional information, regarding this project, and the way Lotus notes is installed on our workstations, I decided to take a different approach. Thank you for your time. I did get some valuable information here.

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