NOTES CLIENT INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE
Running a silent install provides users with default install options. To customize the silent install, you can use, individually or in combination, install manifest customization and a tuner transform file.
IBM® Lotus® Notes® installation uses an install manifest file (INSTALL.XML), supplied in the Notes installation kit as deploy\install.xml. This file and its contents can be customized to control which features are installed automatically, which features appear in the feature installation panel for user selection, and whether features are presented as enabled or disabled by default. Using a silent install, you can define which features in the install manifest are installed automatically, by setting the "required" attribute to "true" for each "installfeature" ID you want installed. Features in the install manifest that have their "required" attribute set to "true" are automatically installed.
Note Silent install uses settings in the Notes install manifest (install.xml) and also, for Windows and Citrix platforms, in the Notes MSI file.
You can silently install Notes and optionally the Composite Applications Editor, Lotus Symphony, Connections (Activities), embedded Sametime®, and (for single user install) Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients. Domino Designer and Domino Administrator, and as of Notes 8.5.1 Lotus Symphony require the additional step of using the tuner to create a transform that enables their install. This transform file must be included in the Notes install kit during install. For information see "Customizing Notes install using the tuner" and "Calling a transform file during Notes silent install."
Before you begin the silent installation, perform the following tasks: