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Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
Planning your Notes® client deployment
Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the HCL Notes® client.
Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Windows™
Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with HCL Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed, as can the HCL Domino® Administrator and Designer clients.
Windows™ Vista considerations for Notes® install, upgrade, and uninstall
When installing or uninstalling HCL Notes® on Vista with UAC ON, you must work as an administrative user.

Planning
Use this topic as an overview of planning task.
- Roadmap for deploying Domino® servers
  Use this as a tool when planning how to integrate HCL Domino® into your existing environment.
- Planning server-to-server connections
  Servers must connect to each other to exchange data, for example to replicate databases and exchange mail. You can create connections between servers across a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), by using a pass-through server (a server that acts as an intermediary server between a client and its destination), or over the Internet. Create a Server Connection document whenever you need to establish any new or additional server connections. You can modify this document when necessary.
- Planning directory services
  HCL Domino® provides a range of directory service features.
- Planning a mail routing topology
  HCL Domino® offers you considerable flexibility in configuring your mail system infrastructure, allowing you to use HCL Notes® routing, SMTP routing, or both, for internal and external messages.
- Planning a cluster
  When planning a cluster, it is important to consider the performance and ability of your hardware. The cluster must have enough CPU power, memory, and disk space to handle the cluster traffic and the number of databases and replicas required.
- Planning the TCP/IP network
  The default TCP/IP configuration for an HCL Domino® server is one IP address that is globally bound, meaning that the server listens for connections at the IP addresses of all NICs on the computer. Global binding works as long as the computer does not have more than one IP address offering a service over the same assigned TCP port.
- Messaging overview
  The HCL Domino® mail system has three basic components: Domino mail servers, Domino mail files, and mail clients. The Domino mail server is the backbone of an organization's messaging infrastructure, acting both as an Internet mail server and an HCL Notes® mail server. Domino provides standards-based Internet messaging through its support of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). At the same time, Domino supports Notes mail through the use of Notes routing protocols -- Notes remote procedure calls (NRPC) -- and the Notes rich text message format.
- Planning your Notes® client deployment
  Use the references listed here to plan for, install, upgrade to, and configure the HCL Notes® client.
  - Marvel Client Essentials Notes management solution
    The HCL Notes® management solution MarvelClient Essentials from panagenda is provided with Notes and enabled through Domino. Use MarvelClient Essentials to manage your Notes clients.
  - Servers and clients to install and order of installation
    Use this as a tool when installing servers and clients for HCL Notes® users.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Windows™
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with HCL Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed, as can the HCL Domino® Administrator and Designer clients.
    - Notes® installation directories for Windows™
      Recommended and default HCL Notes® installation and upgrade directories on a Microsoft™ Windows™ system are as follows.
    - Windows™ Vista considerations for Notes® install, upgrade, and uninstall
      When installing or uninstalling HCL Notes® on Vista with UAC ON, you must work as an administrative user.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Mac OS X
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with HCL Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional features can also be installed.
  - Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes® on Citrix
    Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with HCL Notes®, including traditional Notes functionality. Additional sidebar applications can also be installed.
- Planning security
  An important aspect of planning security for your Domino® environment is understanding the tasks and features involved with securing each type of resource.

Windows™ Vista considerations for Notes® install, upgrade, and uninstall

When installing or uninstalling HCL Notes® on Vista with UAC ON, you must work as an administrative user.

About this task

When installing or upgrading Notes® on a Windows™ Vista client, the UAC setting should be enabled (UAC ON) in the following situations:

Notes® single or multi-user install on Windows™ Vista on which there is currently no Notes® installation
Notes® upgrade from an existing Notes® install on Windows™ XP

Note: On Windows™ Vista, you cannot upgrade a Notes® installation on Windows™ Vista that was installed with UAC turned OFF to a installation that has UAC turned ON. You must first uninstall Notes®, set UAC ON, then run the Notes® installation program.

Use one of these two options to enable the UAC ON security setting.

Setting UAC On -- Option 1

About this task

This task uses the Run utility. If it is not visible by default, click Programs > Accessories.

Procedure

Click Start > Run and type MSCONFIG in the Run field to start the Microsoft™ Configuration Utility.
Provide your administrator user name and password if prompted.
Click the Tools tab.
Scroll down and click Enable UAC.

Note: The Enable UAC and Disable UAC options modify the Registry so that UAC will be either enabled or disabled upon your next client startup. Note that MSCONFIG requires that you have UAC authorization to run it and that Registry changes cannot be made without elevated privileges.
Click OK or Launch.
A command window appears. When the command is finished running, close the window.
Close MSCONFIG and restart the computer to enable new the UAC setting.

Setting UAC On -- Option 2

Procedure

Click Start > Control panel to open the Windows™ Vista Control Panel.
Click User Accounts.
Enable User Account Control.
Enable Use User Account Control (UAC).
Click OK and restart the computer to enable the UAC setting.