User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

Lotus Notes, Domino Designer

Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta on Windows - single user

This release note contains the IBM Lotus Notes 8 Beta installation instructions for the Web client

download for Windows, available at the Lotus Notes 8 Beta Downloads Web page.

Mail, calendar, and contact features are installed with Lotus Notes 8 Beta, including traditional Lotus

Notes basic functionality. Additional features such as the IBM Lotus Productivity Tools, Activities, and the

Composite Application Editor can also be installed.

Lotus Notes 8 is available as an install media kit. Lotus Notes 8 can be installed in graphical mode or

silent mode.

You can install using the Notes-only kit or the Allclient kit. The Allclient kit includes IBM Lotus Domino

Designer and IBM Lotus Domino Administrator. The install media kit consists of the following items:

installation program executable file (setup.exe)

zipped updateSite directory (contains Eclipse features folder, plugins folder and site.xml)

deploy directory (contains the Eclipse install manifest install.xml and plugin

customization.ini)

setup.ini

Lotus Notes 8.0.msi

If a Lotus Notes release 6.5.x or 7.x is detected on the client, the installation program will upgrade it to the

current Lotus Notes release. If you are running a version of Lotus Notes that was released prior to Notes

6.5, upgrade to at least Lotus Notes 6.5 before installing and upgrading to this Lotus Notes release.

If an existing version of IBM Lotus Domino Designer or IBM Lotus Domino Administrator is resident, you

can choose to upgrade them using the Allclient installation media kit.

Note that multi-user does not support the Allclient installation program.

Considerations before installing -- Read this first

The following information is useful when installing or upgrading Lotus Notes 8 on a Microsoft Windows

client.

Note: See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware

and software.

When installing Lotus Notes 8 for single user, you must be logged in as an administrative user or

as a non-administrative user with elevated privileges.

Lotus Notes 8 installation on Windows supports Windows XP, and Vista Aero.

You can install Lotus Notes 8 on Windows in a single user or multi-user environment.

When installing Lotus Notes 8 using the Windows Allclient kit, feature panel installation options

are available for installing or upgrading the Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients.

While a minimum of 512MB of memory is required, 1GB or more of memory is recommended.

See the "Software requirements" section of the release notes for details.

A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs

additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the

footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will

stop you from continuing.

Shut down all applications before installing Lotus Notes 8.

If you have installed a previous Beta version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before installing Lotus

Notes 8. Upgrade from a Beta version of this release is not supported.

Smart Upgrade is not supported in Lotus Notes 8 Beta.

Shared network install is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Shared network install of Lotus Notes 8

basic configuration remains available.