Lotus Domino Administrator 8.5 Help - Considerations for installing and deploying Notes on Windows

NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE

Considerations for installing and deploying Notes on Windows
Before installing IBM® Lotus® Notes® on a Microsoft® Windows® client, you should be familiar with the following information.

Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Notes, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional features such as IBM Lotus Symphony™, Connections, Sametime (integrated), and the Composite Application Editor can also be installed.

You can install Notes as single user or multi-user. Single user installation also allows you to install or upgrade IBM® Lotus® Domino® Designer and IBM® Lotus® Domino® Administrator clients.

Notes is available as an install kit. You can install Notes in graphical mode, silent mode, and by using Smart Upgrade.

For related upgrade information, see the Lotus Notes Support site, especially Tech Note titles containing the phrase "Upgrade Central: Planning your upgrade to Lotus Notes" and the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki.

The install kit for Notes install on a Windows client consists of the following items:

Installation program executable file (SETUP.EXE)
Zipped update site directory UPDATESITE.ZIP (contains features folder, plugins folder and SITE.XML file)
Deploy directory (contains the install manifest (INSTALL.XML) and PLUGIN_CUSTOMIZATION.INI)
SETUP.INI
Lotus Notes 8.x.msi

If a Notes release 6.5.x, 7.x, or 8.x is detected on the client, the installation program will upgrade it to the current Notes release. If you are running a version of Notes that was released prior to Notes 6.5, upgrade to at least Notes 6.5 before installing and upgrading to this Notes release.

If an existing version of Domino Designer or Domino Administrator is resident, you can choose to upgrade them using the Allclient installation kit. Note that multi-user does not support the Allclient installation program.

Windows Vista™ users: If you are installing or upgrading Notes on the Windows Vista platform, see the topic "Windows Vista: Considerations for Notes install and upgrade" for information about enabling and using the UAC ON setting.

The following information is useful when installing or upgrading to Notes on a Windows client.

When installing Notes you must be logged in as an administrative user or as a non-administrative user with elevated privileges. To install as a non-administrative user, an administrator should first run the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) and set install privileges to "Always Install Elevated" as below. Once these settings have been made, non-administrative users can then install, open, and use Notes.
From the Policy Group Editor [gpedit.msc] policy setting:
Notes installation on Windows® supports Windows XP and Windows Vista. For Windows Vista, the User Account Control (UAC) setting should be ON.
You can install Notes on Windows in a single user or multi-user environment.
If you plan to use Notes shared login, do not select "Client Single Logon Feature" during installation.
When installing Notes using the Windows Allclient kit, feature panel installation options are available for installing or upgrading the Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients.
For recommended memory, see the "Software requirements" section of the release notes or tech notes.
A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will stop you from continuing.
Shut down all applications before installing Notes.
If you have installed a Notes Beta version, uninstall it before installing this Notes version.
On Windows Vista, you cannot upgrade a Notes installation that was installed with UAC turned OFF to a Notes installation that has UAC turned ON. You must first uninstall, set UAC ON, then run the current Notes installer.
Shared network installation is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
Installation and use of Notes on a USB drive is not supported for Notes standard configuration.
Notes roaming user does not support switching a user ID, as noted in the user interface response and the Lotus Notes Support Site.
At initial release, Notes is available in US English only. Additional language kits are made available for Notes shortly after initial release. See the language kit topics in this guide.
The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.
Only one instance of Notes should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall Notes and reinstall. If uninstall is not successful, see "Cleaning a previous or partial Notes installation from your client."
The Notes installer does not support upgrade from single user to multi-user, however it is possible to perform such an upgrade using a manual technique. For information about upgrading from a single user to a multi-user Notes installation, see the "Upgrading from a single user to a multi-user Notes installation" topic in this guide.
Only one instance of Notes should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.
Once you click "Install" on the Notes installation panel, allow the installation to complete. Ending the Notes installation process prematurely can leave files in an unstable state, and may also leave empty folders and miscellaneous files on your system. If you experience problems installing Notes after exiting a Notes installation prior to its completion, see "Cleaning a previous or partial Notes installation from the client".