User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic

configuration remains available.

Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only.

The IBM productivity tools support the English US OS locale only.

The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.

Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.

If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall the program using the instructions in the

"Uninstalling Notes on Windows" release note and reference the information in the "Cleaning a

previous Notes installation from your client" release note.

Procedure -- Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta for Windows

Read the considerations section above before starting Lotus Notes 8 installation.

Installation of Lotus Notes 8 on Windows is supported for single user or multi-user. For Windows, the

Lotus Notes client-only is available in the Notes.msi.w32 installation media kit. The Lotus Notes, Domino

Administrator and Domino Designer clients are available in the AllClient.msi.w32 installation media kit.

When installing Notes in a single user environment using the Windows Allclient kit, you can install or

upgrade the Domino Designer and Domino Administrator clients.

1. Shut down all applications.

2. If you have installed a previous Beta version of this Lotus Notes release, uninstall it before continuing.

See the "Uninstalling Notes on Windows" release note for details.

3. Obtain the Lotus Notes installation media kit.

For example, obtain the installation media kit CD or open a browser and navigate to the Lotus

Notes/Domino Web site at which the installation media kit resides.

4. Save the installation media kit to a local folder, for example to your C:\temp folder.

5. Navigate to the folder in which you saved the installation media kit.

6. Locate and run the setup.exe installation executable.

Note: If a user has the environment variables USERPROFILE, HOMEDRIVE, or HOMEPATH set to a

network share, you must use special command line parameters to ensure that all data directories are

installed locally, thus eliminating issues with network shares. You can check for these environment

variables by typing "SET" at a command prompt. If HOMEDRIVE is not set to C:, you must review this

instruction carefully. For example, if HOMEDRIVE=H: (where "H" may be a mapped network drive).

7. Read the Welcome screen and click Next.

8. Read and accept the license agreement terms and click Next.

9. Enter your user name and organization, choose the "Single-user Install" setting, and click Next.

10. Accept the default install directory or specify a different installation directory and click Next.

The default installation directories for a new single user install are as below:

Install directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes

Expeditor directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework

Notes data directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data

Workspace directory -- C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\data\workspace