INSTALLING
You can configure Notes® custom data directories during Notes multi-user install or upgrade on Windows™ or Citrix XenApp.
About this task
The Notes installer and the Notes program itself determine the data directories in a multi-user install; there are two data directories -- one for shared files and one for user files.
This command line feature allows the administrator installing a multi-user Notes client to specify where the common data (templates, and so on) and where each subsequent user's personal data (contacts, bookmarks, notes.ini, and so on) will reside. In a normal multi-user install, these paths are under C:\Documents and Settings.
Using these command line options, you can uniquely specify the shared and user-specific data directories on the Notes install command line using MSI properties or in an MSI transform.
Note: Issues exist when using customized data directories in conjunction with Windows Roaming User. See the related topics.
The command line options for specifying a custom data directory for multi-user install or upgrade are as follows:
This specifies the root location of user data files and corresponds to DataPath in the registry.
This supports environment variable expansion. For example, use the!USERNAME! variable to designate a user-specific location.
The! character is used instead of the more commonly used &character.
This specifies the root location of the shared data files (for example, templates) and corresponds to CommonDataPath in the registry.
This also supports environment variable expansion.
Note: CommonDataPath is a new registry key created for this feature and will not exist if the feature is not in use.
This specifies installation in for Citrix for a 32 bit or 64 bit Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server.
setup.exe /v"SETMULTIUSER=1 MULTIUSERBASEDIR=C:\LocalAppDataUsers\!USERNAME!MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR=C:\LocalAppDataCommon"
The shared notes.ini file is created in the directory specified by MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR and a user-specific copy of the notes.ini file is created in the directory specified by MULTIUSERBASEDIR. The expanded notes.ini path is written to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry.
Note: To enable verbose logging in conjunction with the command line install, use the following example as reference:
setup /v"/l*v %TEMP%\verbose.log SETMULTIUSER=1 MULTIUSERBASEDIR=Z:\ MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR=\"C:\Documents and Settings\all users\""
The client automatically appendsHCL\Notes\Data\ to the end of the value specified for MULTIUSERBASEDIR; in this example Z:\HCL\Notes\data is the actual MULTIUSERBASEDIR path.
If installing on a Citrix system, the additional CITRIX=1 property must also be used.
setup.exe /v "SETMULTIUSER=1 CITRIX=1 MULTIUSERBASEDIR=C:\LocalAppDataUsers\!USERNAME!MULTIUSERCOMMONDIR=C:\LocalAppDataCommon"
Parent topic: Installing and upgrading Notes clients
Upgrading to a new release or moving data directory content within a release
This procedure creates a HCL\Notes\Data subdirectory in the Documents and Settings directory and copies all data files from Documents and Settings\!USERNAME!\notes\data to the new folders. A path ofHCL\Notes\Data is appended to the MULTIUSERBASEDIR path and used as the user's private data directory. To reuse a data directory from a previous installation, that data path must end in HCL\Notes\Data.
Note: You must remove the existing multi-user NOTES.INI location from the registry if new custom data directories are to be used (for exampleHKCU\Software\HCL\Notes\NotesIniPath\notes.ini). You must also move the data directory content from the original data directories to the new custom data directories.
Procedure
1. Uninstall Notes but do not delete user data, data directories, and so on.
2. Remove the existing multi-user NOTES.INI location from the registry.
3. Run the following command:
6. Start Notes and log in as prompted. All Notes user data is available.
Related concepts Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes on Windows Considerations for installing and upgrading Notes on Citrix
Related tasks Installing and upgrading Notes on Windows for multi-user Installing and upgrading Notes on Citrix for multi-user