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Installing
Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
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.
Upgrading Notes® clients
You can push an upgrade to Notes® clients using Notes Smart Upgrade or other third party mechanism, Smart Upgrade Run-As wizard (SURUNAS), or Upgrade-by-mail. You can also upgrade Notes clients using the Notes installation executable either silently (command line) or using the installer's graphical user interface. The supplied installation executable is used for an initial install or an upgrade install.
Using Notes® Smart Upgrade
HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade is a administrative tool for pushing Notes client upgrades to users. Smart Upgrade notifies users to upgrade their Notes clients by a stated date and simplifies the upgrade process by essentially performing the upgrade the task with little or no user intervention.
Understanding the Smart Upgrade timer
This topic explains the behavior of the Smart Upgrade timer.
Using Smart Upgrade server failover
HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade with server failover is available in a clustered server environment.

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
- 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.
  - Upgrading Domino® servers
    Upgrading a Domino® server refers to installing a new release of Domino software.
  - Upgrading Notes® clients
    You can push an upgrade to Notes® clients using Notes Smart Upgrade or other third party mechanism, Smart Upgrade Run-As wizard (SURUNAS), or Upgrade-by-mail. You can also upgrade Notes clients using the Notes installation executable either silently (command line) or using the installer's graphical user interface. The supplied installation executable is used for an initial install or an upgrade install.
    - Backing up and restoring Notes® client files
      Domino® administrators should periodically back up Notes® applications and files for users.
    - Upgrading from Notes® single user to Notes® multi-user
      While it is not possible to upgrade from a Notes® single user installation to a Notes multi-user installation during an upgrade install, you can use the supplied Notes® single user to multi-user migration assistant tool to migrate an existing single user installation to a multi-user installation within the same release and then run the upgrade install.
    - Using Notes® Smart Upgrade
      HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade is a administrative tool for pushing Notes client upgrades to users. Smart Upgrade notifies users to upgrade their Notes clients by a stated date and simplifies the upgrade process by essentially performing the upgrade the task with little or no user intervention.
      - Understanding the Smart Upgrade timer
        This topic explains the behavior of the Smart Upgrade timer.
        Using Smart Upgrade server failover
        HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade with server failover is available in a clustered server environment.
        Specifying an Allclient or Notes-only kit for Smart Upgrade
        Smart Upgrade contains the Smart Upgrade kit recognition feature. For Windows™, Smart Upgrade can determine whether to install a Notes® client-only kit or an Allclients kit for each user. The Allclient kit is only available for a single user install, not a multi-user install.
      - Creating a Smart Upgrade application
        Use the Smart Upgrade kits template (smupgrade.ntf) to create the Notes® Smart Upgrade application that will store the upgrade kits.
      - Creating the Smart Upgrade application link and controlling concurrent downloads
        In the Domino® Directory, the Configuration Settings document contains a Smart Upgrade Database Link field in which you paste the link to the Smart Upgrade application.
      - Adding upgrade kits to the Smart Upgrade application
        After downloading a Notes® install kit, make the kit available to users by creating a kit document in the Smart Upgrade application and then either attaching the kit to the kit document or storing the kit in a directory on a shared network drive that users can access.
      - Creating and using a policy document for Notes® Smart Upgrade
        You can optionally use a desktop policy settings document to enable Notes® Smart Upgrade to function automatically, to deploy different releases of the Notes client to different groups of users, to upgrade Notes clients through several updates at one time, to automatically create and use a Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application, and to control when updates occur in order to preserve server performance.
      - Creating and using a Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application
        The Smart Upgrade Tracking Reports application stores Smart Upgrade tracking reports that contain status information for all Smart Upgrade attempts in a domain.
      - Maintaining Notes® Smart Upgrade
        After you have set up the HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade application and Smart Upgrade policy, perform the following tasks to maintain Smart Upgrade.
    - Using the Smart Upgrade Run-As wizard
      Use the Smart Upgrade Run-As wizard (SUSETRUNASWIZARD.EXE) to create an executable file (SURUNAS.EXE) that Notes® client users, running on Microsoft™ Windows™, can run to upgrade their Notes clients. SURUNAS is ideal for pushing Notes client upgrades to users who do not have administrator or elevated privileges.
    - Using Upgrade-by-mail
      Upgrade-by-mail sends an e-mail notification to users instructing them to upgrade their Notes® client and optionally, their mail file template. You can also use Upgrade-by-mail to notify users that their mail files have been migrated to Notes® mail.

Using Smart Upgrade server failover

HCL Notes® Smart Upgrade with server failover is available in a clustered server environment.

To use this feature, paste the link for the Smart Upgrade application into a Configuration Settings document on a clustered server. When the Notes® user logs in, the user’s home server's Configuration Settings document is checked to access the link to the Smart Upgrade application.

Smart Upgrade then checks that server for the link to the application. If the server containing the application is available, it uses it otherwise the upgrade process searches for a server within the cluster.

When a Notes® user receives the Smart Upgrade prompt and clicks OK to initiate the upgrade, the name of the server containing the Smart Upgrade application is written to the following NOTES.INI settings as follows:

SmartUpgradeDBpath=server_name!!database_file_name
SmartUpgradeReplicID=replica_ID