#IBM NOTES UPDATE INSTALL#
Regardless of whether you are running a webkit install or installing as part of a script, your first step in the install process (after removing old plugins through the Windows add/remove programs) is to run NICE on the program files only: Thus, the Admin client, for example, can easily be added to a user who may have a multi-user Notes client and the user’s Notes settings won’t be lost. However, this is all made much easier now with the availability of the NICE (Notes Install Cleanup Executable) client, which allows you to clean up previous installations and put a new installation in its place but retain the data and settings of the old client. You should identify who needs this Admin and/or Designer clients before roll out, which is different to before when they were simply add-on programs to the Notes client.
This is an important distinction to make when rolling out client installs. The Admin and Designer clients can only be installed in single-user mode. Additionally, the multi-user install is the recommended way to install Notes at present. The benefit of the multi-user install allows for Windows user account data protection security on the IBM data directory. If you choose the multi-user install, then the data directory will be created under the C:\Users\UserName\IBM\Data path. Choose the single-user install when you are sure that all clients will be used by one user only and if the data directory will be in a specific place on the directory path, e.g., C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\Data. The Notes client can be set as a single-user or as a multi-user install. For the longest time, I have considered the Admin and Designer clients as simply an add-on to the Notes client, but with the advent of the Windows multi-user functionality and the support of that for the Notes client, I now understand that they are truly separate “products” so to speak.
#IBM NOTES UPDATE UPGRADE#
One thing that became clear on this upgrade project was that the IBM installation team regards the Notes client as a different product than that of the IBM Domino Administration and IBM Domino Designer clients. The article below shares lessons learned from recent project upgrading a large-scale environment from IBM Notes 8.5.2 to IBM Notes 9 including the configurable Discover Page already mentioned, key differences in installing the IBM Domino Administration and IBM Domino Designer clients, and recommended Notes.ini settings for Notes 9 and the Notes Browser Plugin. In particular, the ability to configure the Discover Page (the new V9 home page) with a HTML-like company front end delivers the sort of configurability that has been long-promised with the Eclipse-based client.
For the longest time, IBM has promised this type of configurability in the client and with this version, they have delivered. The new IBM Notes 9 Social Edition client is much more modern looking and has even more potential for customization to suit the needs for your company than previous versions. By Guest Contributor, Andy Higgins, IMCollaboration
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