UPGRADING TO LOTUS NOTES 7 AND LOTUS DOMINO 7

Using IBM Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade
IBM Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade notifies users to update their Notes 6 and more recent clients to later releases. Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade uses policy and settings documents to help manage updates. You create policy documents in the Domino Directory to distribute standard settings and configurations across groups, departments, or entire organizations.

For more information about policies, see the topic Policies.

1. For more information about policies, see the book Administering the Domino System.

2. To use Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade, follow this procedure:

3. Create a database using the Smart Upgrade Kits template to host Notes client update kits.

4. Update the Configurations Settings document in the Domino Directory with a link to the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database.

5. Download an update kit, also known as an incremental installer, from the Lotus Developer Domain Web site (http://www.lotus.com/ldd/smartupgrade).

6. Create a Kit document in the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade database and attach a Notes client kit or All Client kit to the Kit document, or designate a shared network drive in the Kit document.

7. Create or modify a desktop policy settings document where you specify the updated release to deploy and the date on which the grace period for updating a Notes client ends.

8. Create or modify a master policy to assign users or groups to the desktop policy settings document.

9. Depending on the master policy created, edit Person documents to assign users to the master policy and/or set the Lotus Notes Smart Upgrade desktop policy settings document for one or more groups.

Note The Smart Upgrade Kits are available in global English only. In a non-English environment, the Notes Client Web Kit can be substituted for the Smart Upgrade Kit.

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