NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE
You specify the location of the kit in the Smart Upgrade kit document when setting up Smart Upgrade for users. You can provide upgrade kits for upgrading just the IBM® Lotus® Notes® client or for upgrading all clients. When you attach kits to a Smart Upgrade kit document, attach only one kit per document.
You can download update kits as they become available from IBM® Lotus® developerWorks at the Smart Upgrade kits from Lotus downloads site.
Smart Upgrade kit recognition
Smart Upgrade contains the Smart Upgrade kit recognition feature. Smart Upgrade can determine whether to install a Notes client-only kit or an Allclients kit for each user. The installer sets the value of the InstallType= setting in the NOTES.INI file each time a Notes client or All client installation or upgrade is performed. Smart Upgrade compares the Install Type value in the Smart Upgrade kit document to the InstallType field in the NOTES.INI file and installs the update kit that matches the Install Type specified in the NOTES.INI file. Smart Upgrade recognition makes it easy to upgrade users who have more than one computer with different client install types, that is, a user can have one computer running Notes client only and another computer running All clients. You can use Smart Upgrade to upgrade both computers for this user.
Note IBM® Lotus® Domino® 6.5.5 clients and earlier can have only one Smart Upgrade kit per user, per source version. If you attempt to configure multiple source kits, that is, Notes client only and All clients for a release of Domino that is pre-Domino 6.5.5, an error message appears indicating that duplicate kits have been found for that user in the Smart Upgrade application and Smart Upgrade will fail.
Smart Upgrade recognition upgrades one install type, for example, Notes client only to a newer release of the same install type. You cannot use Smart Upgrade to install a Notes client only install and then use it later to perform an All clients install for the same user on the same computer. If you want to change install types, you must manually upgrade the client to the desired install type.
If you are using a Macintosh operating system, the Install Type field is not modifiable and is set to Notes client only.
The following values can be used with the NOTES.INI setting InstallType=
Adding the update kit
1. In the Domino Administrator client, open the Smart Upgrade application.
2. Click New Kit to create a kit document.
3. On the Basics tab, complete the following fields:
Note To find the current Notes client release number, check the About Notes document. To open the document, choose Help - About Notes.
The Install Type field only appears if this box is not selected.
If you are using policies, the value of this field must match the value in the Deploy Versions field of the desktop policy settings document.
*/OrgUnit/Organization/CountryCode
Note When you enter a value in this field, also add LocalDomainServers to this field because this is a "Readers" field. If LocalDomainServers is not included in the entries in this field, the kit will not replicate to other Domino servers in the domain.
6. If you are using policies, create a desktop policy to deploy the update.
Expression rules for use with the Smart Upgrade kit document
Domino compares the release number of the user's Notes client to the release number specified in the Source Version field of the kit document in the Smart Upgrade application. You can use any of the expression rules shown in the table below, when entering the release number in the Source Version field of the kit document.
Note Use the expression rules in this table only in the Source version field of the Smart Upgrade kit document.
Domino compares the release number of the user's Notes client to the release number specified in the Source Version field of the kit document in the Smart Upgrade application. You can use any of the expression rules shown in the table below when entering the release number in the Source version field of the kit document.
Each matching pattern in the following string matches the source version string:
"Build V604_10072003NP"
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