NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Obtaining a tuner and creating a transform file
You can use a tuner program to customize some aspects of IBM® Lotus® Notes® end-user installation. Creating a transform file requires a third-party tool such as the InstallShield™ Tuner OEM Edition. You can use a tuner to create a transform file for customizing certain aspects of the Notes installation process, such as adding resources or changing defaults. You can also use transform files to set up shared and customized installations.

The InstallShield Tuner for Notes is available for download from IBM Passport Advantage.

Additional information about the tuner is available by searching on the term combination "Installshield Tuner" + "Notes" at the Lotus Notes Support site, Lotus Notes and Domino wiki, and using various search engines and sites.

Use this procedure to create a transform file using the supplied tuner. Users can then apply the transform file when installing Notes.

Create a transform file

1. Invoke the InstallShield Tuner program and browse to the .ITW configuration file.

Note The .ITW configuration file is located in the Notes install kit directory structure in the same location as the Notes install SETUP.EXE file. Use the .ITW file with the Notes installation executable that you want to configure.

2. Click Create a new transform file.

3. In the Select an MSI file field for the Microsoft® Windows® Installer Package option, select the .MSI file (for example, Lotus Notes 8.5.MSI).

4. In the New project name and location field for the Microsoft Windows Installer Transform option, enter the custom transform name. Save the file to the same path on which the install kit resides.

5. Click Create.

6. Make any other desired modifications to the default settings provided.

7. Click Save.

After creating the transform file, you apply the transform file to the installation process. The installation process then uses the values that you set in the transform file in place of default values.

Add custom files to a transform

To add custom files to a client installation, create a transform file.

1. Copy the custom files to the install kit directory or place them in a directory of the install kit directory, for example <PathToInstallKit>\AllClient\CopyFiles\custom.nsf.

2. Create a transform using InstallShield for Notes. Click Open System Configuration - Files and Folders view.

3. Browse and locate the source directory in the top pane, which is the directory from which you are copying the custom files.

4. In the bottom pane, select the destination directory, for example, ProgramFiles\Lotus\notes\Data.

5. Drag and drop the custom file from the source directory to the destination directory.

Applying NOTES.INI settings during silent install

1. Open the InstallShield Tuner for IBM® Lotus® Notes®.

2. From the System Configuration section, click the IniFiles item in the System Configuration section.

3. In the center pane, right click Destination Computer and then choose Show Folder - Program Files Folder.

4. Expand the Program Files Folder directory to access the Lotus\Notes folder

5. Right click the Notes folder and then choose the option, New Inifile.

6. Locate the default Notes .INI file, INIFILE1.INI, that was created in the Notes folder. Rename this file with the name NOTES.INI.

7. Locate the default section, NewSection1, that was created for the NOTES.INI file. Rename the default section with the name Notes.

8. Select the Notes section and then modify these values that are located in the right-most pane of the tuner:

9. Locate the Additional Tools section, and then click the Direct Editor item in the Additional Tools section.

10. In the center pane, select the Component table, and then scroll down the component list until you locate CST_COMPONENT.

11. Change the value in the Directory_ column from NOTES to the new value VDIR_INI.

12. In the center pane, select the table, IniFile, and then scroll down the component list until you locate CST_INIFILE.

13. Change the value in the DirProperty column from NOTES to the new value VDIR_INI.

14. Make other modifications if necessary.

15. Click Save.

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