Enabling the current Location setting to roam for new Notes® client setup
When roaming users set up new HCL Notes® clients, you can enable them to use the current Location documents from their other Notes® clients automatically.
Before you begin
About this task
- Setting up new Notes® clients.
- Setting up existing multi-user Notes® clients when the data directory content has been deleted.
Procedure
- Using the Notes® or Administrator client, open the Domino® Directory (NAMES.NSF) on the Domino® server.
- Click the People & Groups tab and open the Settings view.
- Open an existing Desktop Setting document in edit mode. Or, to create a new one, click Add Settings and select Desktop Settings.
- Click the Custom Settings tab. (If you don't see the tab, click the arrow in the document.)
- Click Notes.ini.
- Click Edit List.
- In the Item field, enter ROAM_LOCATION_AT_CONFIG.
- In the Value field, enter 1.
- To make this setting takes precedence if the same setting is specified elsewhere, select Enforce.
- Click Add/Modify Value.
- Click OK and Save & Exit.
- If you haven't already done so, create a policy and assign the Desktop Settings document to it.
Results
The following steps occur:
- A user logs in to a Notes® client that is already set up and selects an online Location document to use. (Offline Location documents don't roam.)
- When the updated policy is pushed from the server to the client, the ROAM_LOCATION_AT_CONFIG=1 setting is added to the local NOTES.INI file and roaming profile in names.nsf.
- The updated names.nsf file replicates from the client to the roaming server.
- When the user sets up a new Notes® client and starts the client for the first time, names.nsf is downloaded from the roaming server to the client.
- ROAM_LOCATION_AT_CONFIG=1 is detected in the roaming profile document.
- When the user logs on, the previously used current Location document is used automatically. This step occurs only after the first login. For subsequent logins, the user selects a Location document.