Installing
Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
- Installing and upgrading Domino® servers
  Perform a new or upgrade install of one or many Domino® servers.
- Installing and upgrading Notes® clients
  - Notes® Auto Update
    You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of HCL Notes®. Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy Notes updates automatically.
    - Configuring AUT servers
      To configure Domino servers to be AUT servers, configure SSL on the servers and then create a Configuration document for the AUT servers.
    - Using the AUT Catalog to upload new Notes versions
      When a new version of HCL Notes® s available that you want to deploy, you use the AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf) to upload its install executable file to AUT servers.
    - Use Desktop Settings to enable Notes clients to install updates
      After you've used the AUT Catalog to deploy a new install executable file on the AUT servers, use the Client Upgrade > AUT tab in Desktop Settings policy to specify on which users' Notes clients the package is installed.
  - Customizing Notes® installation
    As an administrator, you can customize the Notes® install and upgrade process for your users to install just the features that they need. For example, you can customize the install kit using MSI tuner capabilities and you can also customize the install kit to add or remove Eclipse-based features.
  - Specifying custom data directories for multi-user install or upgrade
    You can configure Notes® custom data directories during Notes multi-user install or upgrade on Windows™ or Citrix XenApp.
  - Understanding the Notes® single user to multi-user migration assistant tool
    The single-user to multi-user migration tool converts a Notes® single-user installation to a multi-user installation.
  - Using the Notes® Install Cleanup Utility (NICE) tool
    You can use the supplied Notes® Install Cleanup Executable (NICE) tool to clean up a failed install, failed uninstall, or failed upgrade. You can also use the tool to uninstall an existing version of Notes, and clean up extraneous files, before performing an upgrade installation. The tool is available for Notes on supported Windows™ platforms only, and must be run by an administrator.
  - Automating a customized or default Notes® deployment using silent install
    You can use a silent install to deploy a default or customized Notes® release to users without user intervention. This enables centralized Notes install or upgrade deployment to many users without requiring user intervention.
  - Installing and upgrading Notes® in a single user environment
    You can install Notes® on Microsoft™ Windows™ or Citrix platforms in a single user environment using either the Notes-only or the Notes Allclient installer.
  - Installing and upgrading Notes® multi-user
    Installing Notes® in a multi-user user environment enables multiple users to sequentially log in to the same machine and use the same Notes install directory with their own Notes data directory.
  - Installing a non-English version of Notes®
    Notes® is available for install and upgrade in multiple languages.
  - Adding or removing installed Notes® features within a release
    Optionally add new features, or remove installed features, by rerunning the Notes® installation executable within the same release.
  - Managing client plug-in deployment
    While you can customize your client installer to add new or remove supplied features and plug-ins when you install or upgrade your clients, you can also provision (install and automatically update) stand-alone or third party features and plug-ins to your existing Notes® or Lotus® Expeditor run-time using a combination of Domino® policy or Eclipse preferences, a widget resident in a widgets catalog on an HTTP or Domino server, and a Eclipse update site (with signed features and plugin .jar files) optionally resident in a centrally managed NSF-based update site.
  - Uninstalling Notes®
    While it is not necessary to uninstall Notes® to upgrade to a new release, you should uninstall a Beta release before upgrading.
- Upgrading
  Use this documentation to upgrade the existing Domino® server and subsequently upgrade the Notes® client to a new release. You can also upgrade additional clients such as Domino Administrator and Domino Designer clients and additional features and plug-ins such as the embedded HCL Sametime® client.

Notes® Auto Update

You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of HCL Notes®. Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy Notes® updates automatically.

New Notes® install packages are uploaded and distributed to AUT-enabled Domino® servers through an AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf). Notes® clients that are enabled through Desktop Settings policy regularly poll the servers to check for new packages to download and install.

The configuration components of AUT servers are:

A Domino® directory group that you create for the AUT servers.
A server Configuration document that you create in which you specify the DNS name that Notes® clients use to connect to AUT servers for install updates. Saving this document automatically generates a Web Site document and a Web SSO configuration document for the AUT server or servers.
An AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf), created and replicated to AUT servers automatically. The catalog is used to upload new Notes® install packages to AUT servers and to define version upgrade paths.
Desktop Settings policies (Client Upgrade > AUT tab) that you create to assign users to particular Notes® versions to upgrade to.

AUT requirements are:

AUT servers must run least Domino® 10.0.1 and must be in the same Domino® domain.
AUT servers require a Domino® 10.0.1 or later version of the Domino® directory design (pubnames.ntf).
Round-robin DNS used for distributing client update requests to multiple AUT servers in a Domino® domain.
Install kits downloaded from the web site (web kits) can be deployed. Install kits on CD-ROM are not supported.
Notes® clients to be upgraded must be in the same Domino® domain as the AUT servers.
Notes® 10.0.1 or later clients on Windows™ can be upgraded.
Notes® Mac and iOS platforms are not currently supported for upgrades.
Downgrading to prior client versions is not supported.
Server upgrades are not supported.