In order to install Lotus Notes 8 in the organisation, we plan to use both LAN and CDs. People will come to a short course, bringing their laptop with them, and while the users gets their info about the new version, we install it for them right away.
Installing 8.0.2 is pretty straight forward, but we discovered an error in the install point of the existing Notes 7 client which forces us to do a few tricks with the registry before we start to install the new version. The issue is caused by a reference in the registry to a CD drive where the notes7 source files was supposed to be stored. The install program will search for this directory during the upgrade process in order to uninstall notes 7, and since it can't find anything the process stops.
We will have to fix that with the help of a "negative" .REG file, which will remove all the Notes 7 stuff from the registry. Likewise, since we do not have the option to uninstall Notes 7 the normal way, we will have to do the file clean-up manually.
The rest of the stuff is pretty straightforward:
The .EXE file containing the 8.0.2 client was unpacked to a directory using WinZip
We made a few changes to the /deploy/extras/presetfeeds.opml in order to distribute a few extra RSS feeds
Made a copy of the original .MSI file, and the /deploy/install.xml file, but decided not to alter anything. The default configuration was what we wanted anyway.
And finally, here's the batch file:
@echo off
TITLE INSTALL LOTUS NOTES 8.x CLIENTS
SET SOURCEDIR=\INSTALL\NOTES\NOTES.802
SET MSIFILE=nd802.msi REM SET CORRECT DRIVE LETTER.
REM THIS ROUTINE MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO USE THIS ON CD AS WELL
FOR %%i IN (F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z C D E) DO IF EXIST %%i:%SOURCEDIR%\%MSIFILE% SET CDROM=%%i:
SET NOTES7=NONE %CDROM% CD %SOURCEDIR%
IF NOT EXIST %SOURCEDIR%\%MSIFILE% GOTO :ERRORTRAPPING
REM ======== CHECK IF NOTES IS PRESENT =============
IF EXIST C:\LOTUS\NOTES\NOTES.EXE SET NOTESCLIENT=TRUE REM ======== CHECK IF NOTES7 IS PRESENT =============
IF EXIST C:\Lotus\notes\JVM\JAVADOCS.ZIP SET NOTES7=YES REM ======= CHECK IF LOTUS FILES ARE PRESENT
REM ======= IF NOTES.INI IS PLACED IN PROGRAM DIR, MOVE IT TO DATADIR
IF EXIST C:\LOTUS\NOTES\NOTES.INI COPY C:\LOTUS\NOTES\NOTES.INI C:\LOTUS\NOTES\DATA\NOTES.INI REM ==== IF CLIENT IS PRESENT, COPY NECESSARY FILES FOR KILLING CLIENT PROCESSES (BEFORE INSTALLING)WE COPY THEM EVEN IF THE NSD.EXE ALREADY IS THERE
IF "%NOTES7%" EQU "YES" COPY %CDROM%%SOURCEDIR%\UTIL\*.* C:\LOTUS\NOTES IF NOT EXIST C:\LOTUS\NOTES\NSD.EXE GOTO :VIDERE
REM ===== STOP ALL CURRENT NOTES PROCESSES C:
CD C:\LOTUS\NOTES\DATA
..\NSD.EXE -kill
REM ==== DELETE FAULTY REGISTRY VALUES CAUSED BY ZENWORKS INSTALL IF "%NOTES7%" EQU "YES" REGEDIT -s %CDROM%%SOURCEDIR%\UTIL\ND8INST1.REG REM ==== DELETE ALL FILES IN PROGDIR
CD C:\LOTUS\NOTES
DEL /Q c:\lotus\notes\*.* DEL /Q c:\lotus\notes\data\names.nt* IF EXIST C:\LOTUS\NOTES\JVM\JAVADOCS.ZIP DELETE /Y C:\LOTUS\NOTES\JVM\JAVADOCS.ZIP :VIDERE
Lotus Notes 8.5.2 beta for Ubuntu runs smoothly
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 1:47p Bjorn Thomassen I just installed the 8.5.2 beta for Linux. No tweaking necessary - it just works :-) The speed isn't so bad either, if someone told me that this was the final release I might have beleived them.br /br /Thanks, IBM. My little Linux laptop have suddenly changed status from useful toy to useful tool.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8160637836969059443-3258482419235867835?l=slemfisk.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: ibm
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Interesting bug
Sun, May 9th 2010 6:44p Bjorn Thomassen As stated in a href="http://slemfisk.blogspot.com/2010/04/wmd-gone-wild.html"WMD gone wild/a, WM 6.5 is officially not supported by Lotus Traveler 8.5.1, but it's still possible to install it at your own risk :)br /Here's a brand new malfunction that seems completely unexplainable: When I create a new message on the ver 6.5 WMD, and try to locate a contact beginning with 'K', the Lotus Traveler client crashes. All other characters seem to work. Anybody else seen this?div class="blogger-post-foot [read] Keywords: lotus
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Exit LSBG 2010
Thu, May 6th 2010 5:44p Bjorn Thomassen The Norwegian Lotus User Group's conference is over. The Farris Bad is a classy "Spa Hotel" in the small town Larvik, with nice rooms, tasty (and expensive) food and a wonderful sea view. The 115 attendees got two days packed with technical geeky stuff, presented by Lotus pros like Mary Beth Raven and Ron Sebastian, and by amateurs like myself among others.br /br /My presentation of Panagenda MarvelClient did not go so well. Even though I had tested the 3-machine demo configuration over and over [read] Keywords: admin
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Notes 8.5.1 and Ubuntu (*sigh*)
Fri, Apr 30th 2010 6:44p Bjorn Thomassen div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S9tT1lxA8sI/AAAAAAAAAyk/q0OuB_VoJvA/s1600/prerequisite.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="274" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S9tT1lxA8sI/AAAAAAAAAyk/q0OuB_VoJvA/s320/prerequisite.gif" width="320" //a/divbr /It was like this when ver. 8 arrived, then it was pretty easy for a period, now it's back to pain again.br /br /Why is [read] Keywords: lotus
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WMD gone wild
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 7:14p Bjorn Thomassen Worried colleague on the line: "iListen, I've got three instances of every contact on my phone!/i"br /-i I'll help you delete them manually/i, Inbsp;said, and started The Lotus Administrator.br /br /My colleague had just received a shiny new WMD phone (Windows Mobile Device, or, asnbsp;a well-known Irishnbsp;Lotus dude loves to say: Weapons of Mass Destruction) and had just finished the Lotus Traveler installation.br /br /"iUh, it's not three any more, it's six/i". My friend on the line sounds m [read] Keywords: lotus
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The app called No name
Fri, Apr 23rd 2010 7:20p Bjorn Thomassen No-one knows where it came from, how long it had been inside my computer, or what it actually did there.nbsp;I discovered it by accident, a small piece of software stranded inside my laptop, only visible from the "add or remove" section of the Win7 control panel. It didn't even have a name, no programmer had proudly announced it to be anythingnbsp;specialnbsp;, it wasnbsp;just one of those strange things that happens now and then when your life orbits around computers and software: An applicatio [read] Keywords: application
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iPhone on Traveler finally OK (D'Oh!)
Wed, Apr 21st 2010 5:20a Bjorn Thomassen The good thing about stopping to hit yourself witha href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S863lruv74I/AAAAAAAAAxk/LrPFppmym_8/s1600/doh.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 134px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462505256068837250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S863lruv74I/AAAAAAAAAxk/LrPFppmym_8/s200/doh.jpg" //a a hammer is that the pain will go away. Unlike the rest of the world we've been having a lot of troubl [read] Keywords: lotus
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Strange MIME message on login
Fri, Apr 16th 2010 7:17a Bjorn Thomassen This has happened twice this week. A user tries to log in, but is interrupted by this message: a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S8g9QtOQRmI/AAAAAAAAAxU/SBCzNS8piCY/s1600/mime.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 242px; HEIGHT: 119px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460681905413310050" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S8g9QtOQRmI/AAAAAAAAAxU/SBCzNS8piCY/s320/mime.jpg" //a divAfter that: Nothing. The client hangs. Must run NSD.EXE -kill in order to remove it from memo [read] Keywords: lotus
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Another reason for the Quickr 8.2 blank screen issue?
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 5:17a Bjorn Thomassen We upgraded to Quickr version 8.2 the other day and soon experienced the well documented "blank screen" issue, caused by a non-working Servlet Manager. Allthough we carried out every proposed corrective action, the problem just wouldn't go away.br /divIt took quite a few working hours before my colleagues came up with the sollution: An extra space character had sneaked in, in the Server URL path. (NAB - Servers - server - Internet Protocols - Domino Web Engine)/divdiv a href="http://4.bp.blogspo [read] Keywords: domino
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A few Lotus Notes images
Fri, Apr 9th 2010 7:14p Bjorn Thomassen It's always nice to play with Photoshop! Here's a few notes-related images I've made/modified, feel free to use them if you want:br /pa href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S7-tq0r3BQI/AAAAAAAAAxE/cziv7GYSOXU/s1600/NotesPOP.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 130px; HEIGHT: 123px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458272224605046018" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HM6e4aGKd2k/S7-tq0r3BQI/AAAAAAAAAxE/cziv7GYSOXU/s320/NotesPOP.jpg" //abr /"Notes pop!"br //pdiv /divdiva href="http://3. [read] Keywords: lotus
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