NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE


Configuring custom data directories for multi-user install or upgrade on Windows or Citrix
You can configure an IBM® Lotus® Notes® custom data directories during Notes multi-user install or upgrade on Windows or Citrix.

The Notes installer and the Notes program itself determine the data directories in a multi-user install; there are two data directories -- one for shared files and one for user files.

The purpose of this command line feature is to allow the administrator installing a multi-user client to specify where the common data (templates, and so on) and where each subsequent user's personal data (contacts, bookmarks, notes.ini, and so on) will reside. In a normal multi-user install, these paths are under C:\Documents and Settings, and until this Notes and Domino release 8.5.1 enhancement there was no option to change that.

Using these command line options, you can uniquely specify the shared and user-specific data directories on the Notes install command line using MSI properties or in an MSI transform.

Note On Citrix, this command line can be used to upgrade from Notes single user to Notes multi-user. However, to upgrade from single user to multi-user on Windows, see the "Upgrading a Notes single user install to multi-user" topic in this guide.

Citrix platform information is available at the Lotus Note Support site and the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki.

The command line options for specifying a custom data directory for multi-user install or upgrade are as follows:


To configure a Notes custom data directory during multi-user install or upgrade, use the following command line in conjunction with your Notes install kit.

setup.exe /v "SETMULTIUSER=1 MULTIUSERBASEDIR=C:\LocalAppDataUsers\!USERNAME!
MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR=C:\LocalAppDataCommon"

The shared notes.ini file is created in the directory specified by MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR and a user-specific copy of the notes.ini file is created in the directory specified by MULTIUSERBASEDIR. The expanded notes.ini path is written to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry.

Upgrading to a new release or moving data directory content within a release

If your existing Notes install was deployed as described in "Steps for installing Lotus Notes 8 on a Citrix Presentation server" at Lotus Notes Support you can move existing user data directories within a Notes 8.5.1 release or greater or upgrade to Notes 8.5.1 or greater, specifying custom data directories.

This procedure creates a Lotus\Notes\Data subdirectory in the Documents and Settings directory and copies all data files from Documents and Settings\!USERNAME!\notes\data to the new folders. A path of Lotus\Notes\Data is appended to the MULTIUSERBASEDIR path and used as the user's private data directory. To reuse a data directory from a previous installation, that data path must end in Lotus\Notes\Data.

Note You must remove the existing multi-user NOTES.INI location from the registry if new custom data directories are to be used (for example HKCU\Software\Lotus\Notes\NotesIniPath\notes.ini). You must also move the data directory content from the original data directories to the new custom data directories.

1. Uninstall Notes but do not delete user data, data directories, and so on.

2. Remove the existing multi-user NOTES.INI location from the registry.

3. Run the following command.


4. Modify Registry settings as follows: 5. Move the contents of your previous Notes data directories into those of the new install.

6. Start Notes and log in as prompted. All Notes user data is available.

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