Notes Auto Update
You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of HCL Notes or HCL Client Application Access (HCAA). Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy updates automatically.
Customizing Notes installation
As an administrator, you can customize the Notes install and upgrade process for your users to install just the features that they need. For example, you can customize the install kit using MSI tuner capabilities and you can also customize the install kit to add or remove Eclipse-based features.
Specifying custom data directories for multi-user install or upgrade
You can configure Notes custom data directories during Notes multi-user install or upgrade on Windows™ or Citrix XenApp.
Understanding the Notes single user to multi-user migration assistant tool
The single-user to multi-user migration tool converts a Notes single-user installation to a multi-user installation.
Using the Notes Install Cleanup Utility (NICE) tool
You can use the supplied Notes Install Cleanup Executable (NICE) tool to clean up a failed install, failed uninstall, or failed upgrade. You can also use the tool to uninstall an existing version of Notes, and clean up extraneous files, before performing an upgrade installation. The tool is available for Notes on supported Windows platforms only, and must be run by an administrator.
Automating a customized or default Notes deployment using silent install
You can use a silent install to deploy a default or customized Notes release to users without user intervention. This enables centralized Notes install or upgrade deployment to many users without requiring user intervention.
Installing and upgrading Notes in a single user environment
You can install Notes on Microsoft™ Windows or Citrix platforms in a single user environment using either the Notes-only or the Notes Allclient installer.
Installing and upgrading Notes multi-user
Installing Notes in a multi-user user environment enables multiple users to sequentially log in to the same machine and use the same Notes install directory with their own Notes data directory.
Installing a non-English version of Notes
Notes is available for install and upgrade in multiple languages.
Adding or removing installed Notes features within a release
Optionally add new features, or remove installed features, by rerunning the Notes installation executable within the same release.
Managing client plug-in deployment
While you can customize your client installer to add new or remove supplied features and plug-ins when you install or upgrade your clients, you can also provision (install and automatically update) stand-alone or third party features and plug-ins to your existing Notes or Lotus® Expeditor run-time using a combination of Domino policy or Eclipse preferences, a widget resident in a widgets catalog on an HTTP or Domino server, and a Eclipse update site (with signed features and plugin .jar files) optionally resident in a centrally managed NSF-based update site.
Uninstalling Notes
While it is not necessary to uninstall Notes to upgrade to a new release, you should uninstall a Beta release before upgrading.