Specifications

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Operating system - Windows, Linux or Macintosh. In the Operating System field. Starting from
release the 85 Lotus Smart upgrade supports the Linux clients’ upgrade.
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Localization - select you a localised source client, for example if you want to upgrade the Finnish
clients to the Finnish 85 client, select Finnish. Or if you use an English client, select English.
• Release 6.5.4/6.05 or previous - select “Yes”, if a source version is lower than 6.5.4/6.05, or “No” if
the source version is newer. Before 6.5.4 there were no difference between full and client’s only
installations. Now you can upgrade single clients with the client’s only installation, and people who
use an administrator and the Designer with another installation.
Section “After Applying this kit, the client will run this version of the Lotus Notes”:
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Destination version - type a version here, exactly the same as in the Desktop Settings of a policy
document.
The Client’s software will lookup first such a policy document to which version it should upgrade, then it will
try to find the corresponding Upgrade kit in Smart Kit database, so it is very important.
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Restart the Lotus Notes after update: check it if you want the Notes to start after a client is
upgraded to a new version.
Section “Location of update kit”:
Location:
• On a shared network drive
• Attached to this note
• Shared network drive & attached kit
If you upgrade clients from the pre 8 release , it is better to supply a path to the network installation. You can
select a path to setup.exe or .msi file (in case you upgrade Windows clients. If you upgrade Linux/Macintosh
clients, select a full path to the Macintosh or Linux installations.
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“Optional arguments for the shared network drive kit” - you can supply the additional arguments to
install program here.
For example, if you choose, the .msi file, you can supply /qb! which means q-quite, b-a display progress bar,
!-a hide cancel button, you may find other options for the msiexec.exe in a link attached to this post.
Section “Optional message to end users (appears in update prompt):
• Message text - Any user’s text you wish to appear to users. You may put the estimated time that
this upgrade may take as well.
The Administration Tab
Section Administration:
• Allowed Users & Servers - An empty field means all users can see this kit. You may limit it to only
several users, they specify their names here.
Tip: Use the SmartUpgrade together with the Seamless Mail Upgrade, which will convert a mail file of a user
immediately after a client is upgraded to the Lotus Notes 8.5.