Use this documentation to install the HCL Domino® server and subsequently deploy the HCL Notes®client.
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.
Understand the things to consider and actions to take before installing a new version of HCL Notes.
Follow these install best practices.
Welcome to the HCL Domino® 14.0 documentation.
Learn about all of the new features for administrators in HCL Domino® 14.
Welcome to HCL Domino® Administrator Help.
Perform a new or upgrade install of one or many Domino® servers.
AutoUpdate notifies you of the latest HCL Domino and Domino product family available on the Domino server, and allows you to download the software. You can also use it to distribute software to groups or selected Domino servers.
It’s important to review your security practices before upgrading, especially if you are upgrading from an old version.
Time spent doing a thorough evaluation of your environment prior to upgrading is time well spent. Capturing baselines of your existing server infrastructure allows you to compare how the upgraded environment is performing.
Depending on the size of your organization and the number of Domino servers involved, an organization upgrade schedule may range from a few hours to a few weeks or months.
Before upgrading a Domino server, review the upgrade considerations and choose the upgrade option to use.
Upgrade Domino AD Password Sync installations that use Domino 12.0 or 12.0.1 to Domino 12.0.2 or later in order to use the new "AD Password Sync" server install type available in 12.0.2 and later.
Domino includes MarvelClient Essentials by Panagenda.
Before the upgrade, take the opportunity to automate and standardize.
Before the upgrade, clean, tight and fix the current Notes client environment.
Multi-user installs are ideal for most Notes users. The exception is users who use Domino Designer or Domino Administrator, which are available for single-user installs only.
Use the standard client rather than the basic client unless hardware is inadequate.
Enable Notes users to roam so that settings and key Notes files (names.nsf, notes.ini, bookmarks, desktop, journal) stay synchronized across multiple clients.
If you don’t already, store Notes IDs in an ID vault.
Standardizing notes.ini settings across clients is recommended when possible by deploying the settings through policies.
Enable roaming user functionality to push notes.ini settings replicated after an upgrade. Then, you can delete user notes.ini settings locally and roaming functionality restores them upon next launch.
Uninstalling a prior version of Notes before upgrading is not required.
Customize Notes installation and setup so that users aren’t required to input information into the install and setup panels (other than passwords).
The following steps are typical ones to use to deploy a new version of Notes in your environment.
You can push an upgrade to Notes® clients using Notes Smart Upgrade and/or other third party mechanisms, such as 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.
Upgrading Notes to the latest maintenance release and Fix Pack is a better choice than applying hotfixes
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Use this information to configure your network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters.
This section describes security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and TLS.
This documentation provides information about the administration tools for HCL Domino.
Use this information to improve HCL Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.
This section describes how to find and solve problems with HCL Domino® server and Administrator client.
